Listening to patients: How understanding health information use can contribute to health literacy constructs

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

How to Evaluate Health Information Systems: Evaluation stages

The most important goal of health systems is improvement of quality, effectiveness and efficiency of health services. To achieve this goal, health care organizations should establish a proper structure for evaluating health information systems. Health information system evaluation is expected to identify the existing problems of the system through measuring specific indicators. The main objecti...

How can research on plants contribute to promoting human health?

One of the most pressing challenges for the next 50 years is to reduce the impact of chronic disease. Unhealthy eating is an increasing problem and underlies much of the increase in mortality from chronic diseases that is occurring worldwide. Diets rich in plant-based foods are strongly associated with reduced risks of major chronic diseases, but the constituents in plants that promote health h...

How can research contribute to better global health?

Research has promoted a number of innovations in global health. Vaccines have been developed against many infectious diseases, and this represents one of the most cost-effective interventions for better health. Vaccination eliminated smallpox and has almost eliminated poliomyelitis. The number of deaths from measles was reduced by 78 % in the period from 2000 to 2008 as a result of improved rou...