Public health needs GIScience (like now)

Strengthen Canada's public health system now.

Sharing public health data: necessary and now.

On May 20, 2010, after 15 years of research that cost US$40 million, Gibson and colleagues reported the creation of a synthetic bacterial cell at the J Craig Venter Institute (Rockville, MD, and San Diego, CA, USA) in Science. In this proof-of-principle study, the researchers used a computer to design a synthetic genome sequence that was based on the genome sequences of two laboratory strains o...

Status Epilepticus: Epidemiology and Public Health Needs

Status epilepticus (SE) is defined as a continuous clinical and/or electrographic seizure activity lasting five minutes or more or recurrent seizure activity without return to baseline. There is a paucity of epidemiological studies of SE, as most research is derived from small population studies. The overall incidence of SE is 9.9 to 41 per 100,000/year, with peaks in children and the elderly a...

Hurricane Katrina. Public health response--assessing needs.

Public health information needs in districts

Following the decentralization of health services in line with Primary Health Care declaration in Alma Ata in 1978, districts have gradually become a cornerstone of health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Though administrative systems vary, the majority of the over 4,000 districts in the region have a population between 200,000 and 400,000 people, and most have an administrative structure that re...