Public Health Policies: Go Local!

Public health preparedness laws and policies: where do we go after pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza?

Leprosy: International Public Health Policies and Public Health Eras

Public health policies continue to play important roles in national and international health reforms. However, the influence and legacies of the public health eras during which such policies are formulated remain largely underappreciated. The limited appreciation of this relationship may hinder consistent adoption of public health policies by nation-states, and encumber disinvestment from ineff...

Physician emigration, population health and public policies.

INTRODUCTION The consequences of poor access and quality of healthcare services in developing countries are widely recognised by international agencies such as WHO. Moreover, with the HIV/AIDS pandemic wreaking havoc in sub-Saharan Africa, availability of trained physicians is essential for providing antiretroviral treatment to large numbers of individuals. Owing to emigration of physicians and...

Public health policies and scientific evidence

DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082017ED4314 Patients are the same all over the world. Evidence is the same in the entire world. However, care policies are not the same. This is impossible to understand and unacceptable, since there is no different evidence for public and private care; it is not a matter of being capitalist or socialist, of presence or distribution of money; it is the fight against consum...

Agricultural policies, food and public health.

What and how much we eat and drink has a significant influence on our health. this is evident in the epidemic of obesity sweeping across developed and developing nations alike, bringing in its wake a range of diseases including diabetes, coronary heart disease and some cancers. one main cause of this is a change in diet that has directly affected our health and well-being. For more than a centu...