Lung Cancer Awareness Month—A Lot of Progress, But More Work Needs to Be Done

COPD and osteoporosis: a lot of work to be done.

Improving knowledge translation in Uganda: more needs to be done

INTRODUCTION Meeting the health-related Millennium Development Goals in Africa calls for better access to and higher utilisation of quality evidence. The mechanisms through which research evidence can effectively guide public health policy and implementation of health programmes are not fully understood. Challenges to the use of evidence to inform policy and practice include the lack of a commo...

Hepatitis A virus infection: progress made, more work to be done.

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Tobacco use among Australian dental hygiene students is declining, but more still needs to be done

While health care professionals have a responsibility to prevent and control the use of tobacco for improved health outcomes, it appears that some dental hygiene students continue to smoke. A survey of Australian dental hygiene students found that up to 16.3% smoke, although this prevalence rate decreased with each year of study. As future role models, it is essential that smoking cessation cou...

The contraceptive revolution: some excellent progress but work still to be done.

British Journal of General Practice January 2009 appropriate, are all factors that will not only improve outcomes for patients but also enhance job satisfaction for the health professionals who deliver the care. Now that responsibility for OOH care in the UK resides with primary care trusts, there are new and improved opportunities for better provision of safe and effective OOH care for patient...