Public Health Interventions Then and Now - How They Will Shape the Future Health System in Sri Lanka

Electronic Health Records: Then, Now, and in the Future.

OBJECTIVES Describe the state of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in 1992 and their evolution by 2015 and where EHRs are expected to be in 25 years. Further to discuss the expectations for EHRs in 1992 and explore which of them were realized and what events accelerated or disrupted/derailed how EHRs evolved. METHODS Literature search based on "Electronic Health Record", "Medical Record", and ...

A shared vision for public health: then and now.

Mental health research trends in Sri Lanka.

OBJECTIVE To review the number of research publications in the field of mental health in Sri Lanka from 1900 to 2009. METHODS A search of all publications in psychiatry and mental health from Sri Lanka was conducted using Pubmed, all medical journals published in Sri Lanka and researchers. The identified papers were reviewed for their content and categorised as research in psychiatry and ment...

How soon is now? Public health and the BMJ.

In the BMJ on the eve of the Public Health Act 1875 medicine's parliamentary champion, Lyon Playfair, honoured the contribution of physicians to securing the public health, while bemoaning the thanklessness of their task. "Each new confidence is bestowed under protest and is yielded after much show of suspicion," he complained, assuring his readers that If you were to believe the speeches which...

Strengthen Canada's public health system now.