From global to local: Virtual environments for global-public health education

Global + local = glocal public health.

Global health is (local) public health.

Strengthening public health education and training to improve global health.

Public health training and education have existed for over a century,1 yet there is little systematic evidence on whether current approaches prepare graduates to improve health by developing, evaluating and implementing effective and equityoriented public health programmes. There are three reasons to document and debate this topic worldwide and disproportionately focus on lowand middle-income c...

Environmental Health: From Global to Local

Howard Frumkin has been a leader in expanding the definition of environmental health beyond the effects of toxic chemicals. His eloquence and breadth of understanding are evident in the introductory chapter to this textbook, as well as in his chapter “Nature Contact: a Health Benefit?” The book’s 36 chapters contain highly pertinent insights and information on environmental issues that go beyon...

From Local to Global Consistency* from Local to Global Consistency*

In reasoning tasks involving the maintenance of consistent databases (so called "constraint net­ works") it is customary to enforce local consistency conditions in order to simplify the construc­ tion of a globally coherent model of the data. In this paper we present a relationship between the sizes of the variables' domains and the level of local consistency sufficient to ensure global con­ si...