Navigating the Blackcap ’ s changing migratory patterns
TL:DR – There is no evidence that Blackcaps that overwinter in the UK are “demigrating”, they all tend to leave by mid-April. That said, much of their migratory behaviour remains a mystery.
I’ve written about a warbler species we see here in the summer known as the Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla, several times on Sciencebase. Commonly, for many, many years, thousands in fact, Blackcaps that migrate to the UK in the summer have spent the northern winter in Iberia or North Africa. They migrate north to south and back again, year in, year out.
There is, however, a number of Blackcaps that tend to spend ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Offline and isolated: the impact of digital exclusion on access to healthcare for people seeking asylum in England
This report finds that people seeking asylum in England are at risk of missing out on basic healthcare services because they have limited access to the internet and digital tools. Using a peer research approach, where refugees who have been through the asylum process interviewed people seeking asylum, the report provides a detailed picture of the barriers to online healthcare services. It highlights several barriers, including the affordability of devices and mobile data, a lack of Wi-Fi in asylum accommodation, and a lack of confidence in using technology and navigating websites in English.ReportMore detail (Source: Healt...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 13, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
How primary care physicians experience telehealth: an international comparison
This report sets out the findings from the 2022 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians. It explores the uptake and impact of telehealth across ten countries (including the United Kingdom). The majority of primary care physicians in half of the surveyed countries see some patients in a typical week via telehealth, whether through video or audio. In more than half the countries most physicians believe telehealth has improved timeliness of care and enabled them to perform mental and behavioral health needs assessments.Report (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 11, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Source Type: blogs
The Economic Wisdom of Nigel Lawson
Ryan BourneFormer UK Conservative MPNigel Lawson passed away this week. As Margaret Thatcher ’s longest‐serving Chancellor of the Exchequer (1983–1989), Lawson’s legacy on economics is a complex one. While his policies in the late 1980s led to a boom and bust cycle, exacerbated by the mistaken decision to enter the European exchange rate mechanism, his overall impact was positively transformative, steering the country towards a smaller government, free ‐market economic policy.Lawson ’s ingenuity came to the fore in opposition, when he brokered an amendment with Labour rebels to the 1977 Fin...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
Analyzing the Consequences of Recent Youth Online Safety Proposals
Jennifer HuddlestonMany policymakers at both the state and federal levels have called for additional regulations to protect children ’s online privacy and improve online safety. While the desire to protect children is a well ‐intentioned motivation, these proposals have significant consequences, and in many cases may even diminish children’s online privacy. In a new policy brief out today, I discuss the potential impact of these proposals for all internet users, not just children.In general, these proposed online safety regulations tend to fall into three major categories:A total or near total ban o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jennifer Huddleston Source Type: blogs
Trump As Catalyst For Legal and Cultural Reform
BY MIKE MAGEE
Former President Donald Trump’s indictment this morning reinforces most Americans’ belief that “No man is above the law.” But few of us have taken the time to explore what that statement means when it comes to building a healthy nation, and why we believe it.
How do you create a healthy nation?
This is at once a very simple and a very complex question. It is at the heart of successful and failed nation building.
It applies equally to a self-assessment of our approach to rebuilding Germany and Japan as part of the Marshall Plan after WW II, and to our own struggl...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Common Law Donald Trump Indictment Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2022: results from the British Social Attitudes survey
The King's Fund -This year's survey, published with the Nuffield Trust, found that overall satisfaction with the NHS fell to 29 per cent - a seven percentage point decrease from 2021. This is the lowest level of satisfaction recorded since the survey began in 1983.ReportBlogThe King's Fund - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 29, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Social care Source Type: blogs
Did Marx Make Lenin, or Did Lenin Make Marx?
David BoazWas Karl Marx one of the towering intellectual figures of the 19th century? It certainly seems that way. His work iswidelyassigned in college courses,far more than for instance John Locke and Adam Smith, much less F. A. Hayek or Ludwig von Mises.But recently Phil Magness and Michael Makovi have advanced a different hypothesis: That Marx was a relatively minor figure in his own time, especially after the Marginal Revolution of the 1870s decisively refuted his economic analysis, and his reputation soared only after the Bolshevik Revolution — or the coup led by Vladimir Lenin — of 1917. See their academic pap...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 27: Deposit Insurance
ConclusionPart 27: Deposit Insurance_____________________[1] To this list we might add a fourth item, noted by Golembe in a subsequentinterview, to wit: that the deposit " insurance " provided for by the 1933 Banking Act wasn ' t really insurance at all. Unlike genuine insurance policies, it covers depositors for losses regardless of whether the losses were due to recklessness on their or their banks ' part. And unlike genuine insurance funds, the FDIC ' s insurance " fund " is an accounting fiction, the truth being that the " premiums " it collects from banks go into the federal government ' s general coffers. " The gover...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Defibrillators
We have been looking into this at church, thinking about whether we should buy a publicly accessible defibrillator. You may see the abbreviation CPAD (community publicly accessible defibrillator), or AED (automated external defibrillator).A defibrillator is an electrical device that administers an electric shock to the heart to restart it (in case of cardiac arrest) or to put it back into a regular rhythm (in case of arrhythmia). In case your organisation is doing the same, here is what we ' ve discovered so far. The Resuscitation Council and British Heart Foundation guidance recommends tha...
Source: Browsing - March 25, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: defibrillators Source Type: blogs
Red-green Carpet
TL:DR – It’s spring and at least one hibernating moth, the Red-green Carpet, has arrived in our garden so far this year
Lit up with my Heath trap again last night and despite the rain, but perhaps because it didn’t drop below 9 Celsius there was a small clutch of moths to ID and record this morning. Specifically, 2x Clouded Drab (new for the year), Common Quaker, Early Grey, 2x Hebrew Character, and a Red-green Carpet, also NFY.
Red-green Carpet, Chloroclysta siterata
The Red-green Carpet is usually on the wing in the Autumn, the males die, but the females can hibernate to lay eggs in the spring. To my e...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Alpine Swifts in the UK and Ireland
Back in 2019, we took a trip to Greece, the first in many years, we saw lots of wildlife, including Alpine Swift careening way above our heads in Athens.
The alpine swift is a medium-sized bird with a wingspan of around 540-600 mm. It has a dark-brown body with a slightly paler throat and underbelly. In flight, it is easily identified by its long, narrow wings and its distinctive white belly patch, which contrasts sharply with the dark body. It is a skilled and agile flier, capable of catching insects on the wing with great precision. Indeed, it rarely touches down, spending almost its whole life, once fledged on the wing,...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
British mothers in the early spring
TL:DR – Mothing is a simple, but educational and fascinating hobby. The data it accumulates can be useful scientifically.
I have lit up with a couple of different traps through the winter, but with generally disappointing results. There are not a lot of trees in our neighbourhood, which I suspect is the reason we don’t get a huge number of moths. That said, very few moth-ers see lots of moths in the gardens during the winter months.
15Watt Heath type, portable moth trap in place and ready for lighting up time
I put out my “spare” Heath trap last night. It is basically an ultraviolet fluorescent tub...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - March 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
Platinum Anniversary
As some readers know, for many years I maintained the Today in Iraq blog, during the U.S. occupation. The invasion of Iraq was an illegal war of aggression, and U.S. troops and mercenaries committed innumerable war crimes. The result was an indescribable catastrophe for Iraqis, with a conservative death toll estimate of 800,000 and most likely far higher, at least as many people injured, and entire cities destroyed. (Notably Fallujah and Mosul.) The consequences for the U.S. were not as dire, but $8 trillion wasted and immense damage to the nation ' s international standing, along with 4,400 military dead and 32,000 w...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 24: The RFC
George Selgin(In writing this series, I allowed myself to skip over some topics. But now that I ' m turning the series into a book, to be published by the University of Chicago Press, I have to close those gaps. The most important gap by far concerns the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Although the RFC was originally established by Herbert Hoover, the Roosevelt administration not only allowed it to survive but turned it into the largest and most powerful of all New Deal agencies. Hence a three-part essay, of which this is the first installment.)Hoover ' s New DealThere are few more successful examples in history ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
