Effect of spoken language on primary care choice refugee health assessment program patients seen at Boston Medical Center

PURPOSE: There are approximately 21.3 million refugees worldwide. Connection to primary care is essential for these patients because of the potential for long-term and complex care that they require. Primary care and continuity of care also leads to better health outcomes. This study examined what effect primary language had on primary care choice by Refugee Health Assessment Program (RHAP) patients seen at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and whether patients who chose non-BMC primary care eventually returned to BMC. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted examining RHAP patients’ primary language, and whether those patients continued care at BMC or sought care elsewhere. RESULTS: Significant results were seen among subjects who identified Chinese, Haitian Creole, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese as their primary language. Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese speakers had greater odds of seeking care outside of BMC. Haitian Creole and Somali speakers had greater odds of seeking care at BMC compared to English speakers. 80% of subjects returned to BMC after seeking care elsewhere. CONCLUSIONS: Primary language does effect choice of primary care provider within the refugee population. Providers should use these results to encourage refugee patients less likely to seek care to connect with a primary care provider

Social Housing and Social Exclusion 2000-2011

By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and private renters on measures of income, employment, education, health, and housing and neighbourhood quality. However, by 2011, basic housing quality in social housing had overtaken that in home ownership, and slight reductions in social exclusion of social tenants in terms of income, employment, and neighbourhood quality at least disproved arguments of inevitable tenurial polarisation. There is evidence that housing and regeneration policies contributed to these changes, but the economy was also important, and population turnover is likely to have played a role. Finally, the gains of 2000-2011 may not be sustained.Social housing, social exclusion, inequality, worklessness, housing quality, neighbourhood quality, participation

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Building the Big Society

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The Aesthetic Uncanny: Staging Dorian Gray

This article discusses my theatrical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2008). Freud's concept of the uncanny (1919) was treated as a purely aesthetic phenomenon and related to late nineteenth century social and literary preoccupations such as Christianity, the supernatural and glamorous, criminal homosexuality. These considerations led to a conceptual ground plan that allowed for experiments during rehearsal in a form of theatrical shorthand

Probing lepton flavour (universality) violation at NA62 and future kaon experiments

Recent results from the LHC's first run have revealed intriguing departures from lepton flavour universality in the semi-leptonic decays of $B$-mesons. We discuss the complementary role that rare kaon decays can provide in testing new physics explanations of these flavour anomalies. In the framework of minimal flavour violation, we relate the chiral low-energy constants involved in $K\to\pi\ell\ell'$ and $K\to\ell\ell'$ (\ell = \mu \mbox{ or } e) with the new physics Wilson coefficients of the $b\to s$ effective Hamiltonian. We comment on the determination of these low-energy constants at NA62 and future kaon experiments, as well as the required improvements in sensitivity necessary to test the $B$-physics anomalies in the kaon sector.Comment: 6 pages, Presented at the International Conference on Kaon Physics 2016, 14-17 September 2016, Birmingham, U

Dark Matter: Connecting LHC searches to direct detection

In these proceedings we review the interplay between LHC searches for dark matter and direct detection experiments. For this purpose we consider two prime examples: the effective field theory (EFT) approach and the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). In the EFT scenario we show that for operators which do not enter directly direct detection at tree-level, but only via loop effects, LHC searches give complementary constraints. In the MSSM stop and Higgs exchange contribute to the direct detection amplitude. Therefore, LHC searches for supersymmetric particles and heavy Higgses place constraints on the same parameter space as direct detection.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for Moriond Gravitation 201