Celebrating 10 years of the journal Health Economics, Policy and Law
In 2015, London School of Economics hosted a special event to mark the 10th anniversary of Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL).…
In 2015, London School of Economics hosted a special event to mark the 10th anniversary of Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL).…
Last week saw the launch of a new Prize – the Nine Dots Prize, the aim of which is to encourage creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues.…
Many people have been advised to take vitamin supplements to boost their immune systems. However, a recent study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that taking vitamin E supplements led to an increased risk of pneumonia for more than one in four older men (28%) who smoked and did not exercise.
A post from the new Cambridge Open Access title Global Sustainability Since the notion of Sustainable Development has become widespread with the publication of the UN Commission on Environment and Development in 1986, there has been the tension between the aspiration to develop on the one hand and to stay within ‘planetary boundaries’ on the other.…
Matt Delmont, Guest Editor of ‘Urban Sights: Urban History and Visual Culture,’ introduces this latest multimedia special issue from Urban History.…
At the rainy end of September, I found myself in Washington DC for the first time, strolling along the National Mall and tentatively approaching the White House.…
If there is one thing I have learned about teaching business and human rights for 20 years--most recently at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, California--and before that as a case writer at Harvard Business School, it is the importance of making the business case for human rights.
To celebrate Open Access Week, which starts today, we’re planning a series of posts. Despite the many years that OA has been with us, it’s still a somewhat confusing topic.…
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: 'BMI was found to be a consistent determinant related to misreporting of energy, protein and potassium intake using self-report and duplicate portion method.'
Prize backed by leading international thinkers including Diane Coyle, Simon Goldhill, David Runciman and Saskia Sassen A new prize launched today (Friday 21 October 2016) is offering US$100,000 to whoever can best answer the question ‘Are digital technologies making politics impossible?’…
By the mid 1990s, after ten years of development, we had working robotic milkers. Once it launched on farms we could turn to the question “How do we monitor cows when there are no humans?”
Blog post based on an article published in Journal of Demographic Economics. The dataset (Goujon et al. 2016) that we present in the article aims to fill one major gap: provide long time series of harmonized data on education stocks – the educational attainment of adult population — from 1970 to 2060, across 171 countries.…
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for October is from the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled 'Wholesome Nutrition: an example for a sustainable diet'.
In the Journal of Social Policy article “From National to Sub-National? Exploring the Territorial Dimension of Social Assistance in Italy“, Davide Vampa adds a new perspective to the study of social assistance policy in countries that have undergone processes of territorial decentralisation.…
The Applied Linguistics Reading Pack from Language Teaching has been a popular collection of articles since 2011, generating more than 30,000 downloads.…
The latest Parasitology Paper of the Month is “ Puzzling and ambivalent roles of malarial infections in cancer development and progression” by Eric Faure.…
By tracking Hillary Clinton's subtle linguistic behavior over time, Jennifer Jones' research shows how these forces manifest in Clinton's self-presentation. Jones' findings suggest that as the Democratic nominee transitioned from First Lady to U.S. Senator to Secretary of State, she spoke in an increasingly "masculine" way.
In a new study published in Public Health Nutrition, Dr. Rachel Golan and colleagues, from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, found that moderate wine consumption, in persons with controlled diabetes did not promote weight gain or abdominal adiposity.