This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, reproducing them in their original form and adding a commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. The original paper is reproduced by permission of the British Medical Journal. Setting health priorities: the development

Summary. In earlier work, we showed that, for any given year, England’s secondary school league tables poorly predict schools ’ future performances.We generalize our prediction formula to calculate predictions based on multiple years of school league table data and show that this does very little

In this paper, we investigate how accurately the final league tables of domestic football leagues can be predicted, both before the start of the season and during the course of the season. To this end, we perform an extensive empirical evaluation that compares two flavors of the well

BACKGROUND: More andmore league tables are being published every day to rate the performance of health boards, hospitals and surgeons. However, they do not show the magnitude of uncertainty caused by natural variation. METHODS: We propose a new method to present league tables in which the ratings

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO) is a leading research centre, combining expertise in economics, geography and law. Our objective is to study the intersection between the public and private sectors of the economy, and in particular to understand the right way to organise and deliver public services. The Centre aims to develop research, contribute to the public debate and inform policy-making. CMPO, now an ESRC Research Centre was established in 1998 with two large grants from The Leverhulme Trust. In 2004 we were awarded ESRC Research Centre status, and CMPO now combines core funding from both the ESRC and the Trust.

the method of league table to rank the countries. Index Terms — Olympic ranking, medal table, sport.

We formulate performance assessment as a problem of causal analysis and outline an approach based on the missing data principle for its solu-tion. It is particularly relevant in the context of so-called league tables for educational, health-care and other public-service institutions. The pro

Abstract Do applicants to higher education rely on expert judgement about the quality of the course when applying? Using application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how league tables affect prospective students' application decisions. We use subject

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-called `IVF league tables'. The IVF community, including users, providers and regulatory bodies, need to recognize these factors and to develop a way forward for comparing clinics results on an equal and a valid basis. In this paper we discuss the factors that could affect the reported IVF results