Public Health in Action

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of the two diseases, treatment of persons with dual disease and prevention of TB in persons with DM.5 For each of these challenges, the knowledge gaps are highlighted along with the research questions that need to be answered if care and control of the dual burden of disease are to be achieved. The second review article looks at existing and new technologies for screening and diagnosing type 2 ...

Understanding the Role of Public Administration in Implementing Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities

Many of the societal level factors that affect health – the ‘social determinants of health (SDH)’ – exist outside the health sector, across diverse portfolios of government, and other major institutions including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector. This has created growing interest in how to create and implement public policies which will drive better and fairer health...

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

Assessing Public Action in Europe: Health Policies

1. Introduction 2. The production of health: some empirical evidence 3. Social health inequality in Italy: dimension and peculiarities 3.1 Is health spending a measure of inequality across regions? 3.2 Health inequalities in Italy: some preliminary evidence 3.3 Health inequalities analysed from an unusual point of view: mountains versus the plain 4. Cancer and social inequalities: evidence from...

[Commentary. Atmospheric contamination and health: strategic action in public health].

Que la contaminación atmosférica causada por los humanos tiene efectos negativos en la salud de los propios humanos es un hecho conocido desde hace varias décadas. En los últimos 20 años, los resultados de muchas investigaciones han demostrado numerosas caracterı́sticas de dicha relación y han sentado las bases que demuestran que, en nuestros dı́as, la contaminación atmosférica continúa siendo un...