Fear, embarrassment, and relief: the tuberculosis epidemic and public health.

Law, public health, and the diabetes epidemic.

The prevalence of new cases of diabetes continues to increase, and the health burden for those with diabetes remains high. This is attributable, in part, to low adoption of evidence-based interventions for diabetes prevention and control. Law is a critical tool for health improvement, yet assessments reported in this paper indicate that federal, state, and local laws give only partial support t...

The Ebola epidemic and translational public health.

Several weeks ago while preparing material for the next regular issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, I requested Dr. Skip Burkle to prepare a commentary from the global public health perspective on the current West African Ebola epidemic. As usual, Dr. Burkle provided a superb article that accompanies this editorial. Discussions of this among colleagues resulted in an outp...

examining the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and communication strategies by iranian efl learners

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fear of negative evaluation (fne) and communication strategies (css) among iranian efl learners. it was aimed to examine the differences in the use of communication strategies between speakers with high or low degree of fear of negative evaluation. the current study was a case study consisting of 10 english learners at...

The resurgent tuberculosis epidemic in the era of AIDS: reflections on public health, law, and society.

‘Diabetes and tuberculosis’ – a co-epidemic of public health importance in the developing world

With the rising epidemic of diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) already being a major infectious disease of the world, when put together, this coepidemic constitutes a threat to global public health. The situation is critical in countries like India which are facing the dual burden of non-communicable diseases and communicable diseases. This not only affects the national productivity, ...