Scientific output on health systems, services and policies research and public health across European Region

Environmental public health systems and services research.

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

Public health services and systems research.

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...

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...

Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research

CONTEXT For three decades, experts have been stressing the importance of law to the effective operation of public health systems. Most recently, in a 2011 report, the Institute of Medicine recommended a review of state and local public health laws to ensure appropriate authority for public health agencies; adequate access to legal counsel for public health agencies; evaluations of the health ef...