Bridging The Gap: A Community Health Program Saved Lives, Then Closed Its Doors

Valuing “ Lives Saved ” vs . “ Life - Years Saved ”

There is long-standing debate whether to count “lives saved” or “life-years saved” when evaluating policies to reduce mortality risk. Historically, the two approaches have been applied in different domains. Environmental and transportation policies have often been evaluated using lives saved, while life-years saved has been the preferred metric in other areas of public health including medicine...

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program: Bridging the Information Gap

In January 2001 the Pew Environmental Health Commission called for the creation of a coordinated public health system to prevent disease in the United States by tracking and combating environmental health threats. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program to integrate three distinct components of hazard monitori...

ebola outbreak in west africa: bridging the gap between the public health authorities and the community

sir, the 2014 outbreak of ebola virus disease has beendeclared as an international public health emergencyand since inception, the disease has accounted for almost27,550 cases and 11,235 associated deaths till the endof june 2015 in the affected countries.[1] a wide rangeof factors like lack of preparedness,[2] weak public healthsystem,[3] ineffective diagnostic and case managementservices,[4] ...

A community fixture of health has closed its doors. Where does that leave area physicians and patients?

Overview of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)

This paper provides an overview of the historical development and current status of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST). The paper provides a general explanation of the modeling approach used in the model with links to web sites and other articles with more details. It also details the development process in developing both the model structure as well as the assumptions used in the model. The paper pro...