Depression: A Global Public Health Priority

Pain as a global public health priority

BACKGROUND Pain is an enormous problem globally. Estimates suggest that 20% of adults suffer from pain globally and 10% are newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year. Nevertheless, the problem of pain has primarily been regarded as a medical problem, and has been little addressed by the field of public health. DISCUSSION Despite the ubiquity of pain, whether acute, chronic or intermittent, ...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Preventing depression: a global priority.

DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS ERODE QUALITY OF LIFE, productivity in the workplace, and fulfillment of social and famil ia l roles . In today ’s knowledgeand service-driven economies, the population’s mental capital (ie, cognitive, emotional, and social skills resources required for role functioning) becomes both more valuable and more vulnerable to the effects of depression. Depressive disorders, sever...

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

global developments in priority setting in health

countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. this makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. there is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...