INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING

International Public Health

Public health is a broad field that touches several different medical disciplines such as epidemiology, public health informatics, health statistics, environmental protection (ecology), sociology, health promotion, disease prevention and organization of health care for nosological groups of the population. In Europe and the world today is developed a fairly extensive network of scientific and p...

Dental Public Health Activities & Practices

Lack of access to dental care is a common problem for people with Medicaid, whether they are covered by traditional fee-for-service programs or by managed care. For people with developmental disabilities who are covered by Medicaid, access to dental care is even more restricted. This situation was recognized at a 1999 state dental summit in Pennsylvania and led to a recommendation that a specia...

International law and public health.

At the beginning of the 21st century there is widespread recognition that national and international health are inseparable. Societies are increasingly turning to innovative and diverse mechanisms of international health cooperation to gain control over the forces that are globalizing public health and related risk factors such as those outlined in this year’s World Health Report (1). Consequen...

Leprosy: International Public Health Policies and Public Health Eras

Public health policies continue to play important roles in national and international health reforms. However, the influence and legacies of the public health eras during which such policies are formulated remain largely underappreciated. The limited appreciation of this relationship may hinder consistent adoption of public health policies by nation-states, and encumber disinvestment from ineff...

Global themes in international public health.