Public secrets in public health: Knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge

Scientific Knowledge, Controversy, and Public Decision-Making

"Between knowing and not knowing": public knowledge of the stolen generations.

Following the publication of the Bringing Them Home report in 1997, the Stolen Generations has emerged as one of the most emotional and hotly debated public issues in contemporary Australia. Personal stories of removal and loss have been recounted across the country like a tragic chorus and Australians have been exhorted to join in a national process of ‘remembering’ as a symbolic way of sharin...

Scientific output and impact in Public Health.

During the last decades the country has witnessed a noteworthy expansion and consolidation of graduate studies in Public Health. This expansion has been followed by the emergence of new research groups and lines of research, many of which deal fundamentally with the numerous challenges posed by public health at the regional level. Depending on a set of factors (research theme, methodological ap...

[Public health professionals and services: knowing, knowing what to do, and doing].

A las puertas de recuperar la democracia en los años 1970, los servicios de salud pública en nuestro paı́s estaban en una situación deplorable. Tras perder a sus lı́deres con la guerra, muchos forzados al exilio, se encontraron en una posición marginal, con estructuras anquilosadas, con profesionales reclutados sin formación y casi siempre estructuralmente pluriempleados. Pese a algunas personali...

Keeping Secrets with Public Communication

Given some deal of cards, it is possible to communicate your hand to another player without yet another player learning any of your cards. Every solution to this problem consists of a sequence of safe communications, an interesting new form of update. Certain unsafe communications turn out to be unsuccessful updates. Each communication can be about a set of alternative card deals only, and even...