Evolving a Health Department

A Reoprt from Department of Public Health and Social Medicine

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

Strategic Planning in the Occupational Health Department

Introduction: Universities play a key role in creating a knowledge-based society and its sustainable development. Strategic planning by strategically analyses internal and external environments of the organization, forecast its future, identifying its strategic direction, and strengthening organizational structures, processes, and outcomes, creates and sustains competitive advantages. This stud...

The Formation of a Self-Funded Global Health Fellowship within a Department of Family Medicine

Introduction: The need for global health training for early-career family medicine physicians is greater than the supply. This paper details the formation of a one-year, self-funded global health fellowship for early-career family medicine physicians. Methods: In August of 2012, the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine established a self...

Abuse of emergency department workers: an inherent career risk or a barometer of the evolving health care system?

Department of Mental Health

The department was first established as the 4th Department of Clinical Medicine and Nursing in the School of Health Care and Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine University of Tokyo in 1953. The department was renamed to the department of Mental Hygiene according to the reorganization of the School of Health Care and Nursing into the School of Health Sciences in 1965. In 1992, the department unde...