World class healthcare for London. Mind the gap! A briefing on equity of health and healthcare in the capital

This briefing provides an overview of equity of access to some of the essential elements of healthcare in the capital

Paleopathology of the commoners at Tell Amarna, Egypt, Akhenaten's capital city

The Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten initiated worship of a single god and established a new capital city (Tell Amarna) that was built and occupied only once from 1350-1330 BCE. This single short occupation offers a unique opportunity to study a short time period. The royal tombs have long been known and studied, but the location of graves for the common inhabitants has been an archaeological puzzle for more than 50 years. Recently four cemeteries have been located and the analysis of commingled bones from the South Tombs cemetery is presented here. The remains yield the following demographic profile: 53 adults with 19 females and 18 males; 14 juveniles between the ages of 5 and 17; and 3 infants. Arthritis and degenerative joint disease of the spine and joints indicates that DJD was not excessive. Only 2 to 8% of the adult population exhibits arthritis. There are 3 healed fractures of the arm (2 to 8% of the adult sample). There is 1 healed compressed fracture of the skull suggesting violence. The adult infection rate is between 2 and 8% with 3 healed and 1 active case of periostitis and no severe infections. Anemia is implicated by 23% of adult frontals exhibiting cribra orbitalia. Life for the common residents of Amarna appears to not have been as good as initially postulated.

Prácticas etnobotánicas e identidad cultural de las minorías étnicas de Yunnan

El trabajo de investigación aborda la evolución de las prácticas etnobotánicas (PEB) tradicionales, la evolución reciente de estas prácticas en un contexto de mutaciones en China en las últimas décadas y su valor como marcador de la identidad cultural (IC) de las minorías étnicas de la provincia China de Yunnan. Se trata de evaluar la realidad de la utilización, la preservación y la evolución de la etnomedicina en esta región y especialmente de las PEB, aclarar las relaciones que se pueden establecer entre la IC y las PEB y por lo tanto se estudian los nexos de unión entre las PEB y la IC de las minorías étnicas de Yunnan (MEY).

Atenció a la diversitat cultural : formació dels alumnes d'incorporació tardana

Una proposta que s'emmarca dins l'àmbit de l'ensenyament secundari i, en concret, en el col·lectiu d'alumnes d'incorporació tardana d'un centre amb la finalitat de conèixer i valorar l'atenció i les respostes educatives que reben aquests alumnes.