Interventions required in food system for better health outcome

Travel Medicine in Qatar: Strategic Action for Better Public Health Outcome

Food companies and nutrition for better health.

There is now broad acceptance that the future success of global health depends to a large extent upon sound nutrition and physical activity policies. Work with colleagues while at the WHO convinced me that such policies need to be developed and implemented in partnership with the corporate food sector if they are to achieve maximum impact. Soon after accepting my position at PepsiCo, Ricardo Ua...

Intra Sector Policy Interventions for Improvement of Iranian Health Financing System

Background and purpose: To determine an appropriate financial model for the health system of Iran, several studies have been conducted. But it seems that these studies were not comprehensive and further investigation is required. So to design a valid and enforceable mechanism, the study of policy interventions will be considered through consensus of all stakeholders. This investigation was done...

Minimal Stimulation In Vitro Fertilization: A Better Outcome

advantages of mild-stimulation have long been appreciated, while there was a called for more patient-friendly approach in ovarian stimulation around 20 years ago (1)...

Health 'care' interventions: making health inequalities worse, not better?

AIM The aim of this paper is to present a model, the 'Effect of the Professional Ego', which provides a psychodynamically informed analytical framework for examining professional practice in arenas where issues of inequalities need to be addressed. BACKGROUND There is a great deal of literature on the psychosocial aspects of inequalities in health care provision. However, the impact of intrap...