Public health response to an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 2012.

Making Research Matter; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

We offer a UK-based commentary on the recent “Perspective” published in IJHPM by Thakkar and Sullivan. We are sympathetic to the authors’ call for increased funding for health service and policy research (HSPR). However, we point out that increasing that investment – in any of the three countries they compare: Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom– will ipso facto not necessarily lea...

The effect of a large Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Southwest Edinburgh on acute and critical care services.

OBJECTIVE The largest outbreak of Legionnaires Disease (LD) in the UK for a decade occurred in Edinburgh in June 2012. We describe the clinical and public health management of the outbreak. SETTING Three acute hospitals covering an urban area of ~480,000. METHODS Data were collected on confirmed and suspected cases and minutes of the Incident Management Team meetings were reviewed to identi...

The 2015 New York City Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak: A Case Study on a History-Making Outbreak

On July 17, 2015, the Bureau of Communicable Disease of the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) detected an abnormal number and distribution of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) cases in the South Bronx. This cluster of cases would eventually grow into the largest outbreak of LD in NYC history. The NYC DOHMH led the outbreak response, part of which included sampling num...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

Outbreak of legionnaires' disease in the United Kingdom. Vigilance must be eternal but balanced.