Rethinking Schools of Public Health

Mental health in schools and public health.

©2006 Association of Schools of Public Health Health policy and practice call for health and mental health parity and for a greater focus on universal interventions to promote, prevent, and intervene as early after problem onset as is feasible. Those in the public health field are uniquely positioned to help promote the mental health of young people and to reshape how the nation thinks about an...

Lessons from Lithuania: rethinking public health training.

Lithuania faces stark problems that are familiar to most countries in the former Soviet Union: high morbidity and mortality rates, pollution, an unstable economy, and rapid changes in the financing and organisation of health care. In this environment Moore and Dixon visited Kaunas Medical Academy to help identify how training in public health medicine could contribute towards improving the heal...

Ethics and schools of public health.

Formula grants to schools of public health.

As the dean of one school of public health and as the Past President and current Chairman of the Legislative Committee o f the Association of Schools of Public Health, I feel that I can speak from some experience about the federal assistance which regional schools of public health in this country require to continue the education of health personnel for the public. My Association includes all 1...

"Fat letters" in public schools: public health versus pride.

Recently, BMI screening in public schools has stirred sharp controversy with the emergence of letters sent home to parents indicating their child’s BMI percentile and weight category. In Massachusetts, these letters have been deemed, “fat letters,” and have appeared on late night comedy shows, newspapers, and televised news reports. Not only has screening come under harsh criticism, but the inc...