The De Lamar Lectures. 1925-26. The Johns Hopkins University of Hygiene and Public Health

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality: The Case for Language Access

This paper aims to provide a description of the need for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for Limited English Proficient (LEP) patients, an identification of how the lack of CLAS for LEP patients can compromise patient safety and healthcare quality, and discuss barriers to the provision of CLAS.

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Socioeconomic position and major mental disorders.

1 Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 2 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland-Baltimore, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Mental Hygiene, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 4 Population and Family Health Science, Bloomberg Sch...

Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity

Among the many reasons that may limit the adoption of promising reform ideas, policy capacity is the least recognized. The concept itself is not widely understood. Although policy capacity is concerned with the gathering of information and the formulation of options for public action in the initial phases of policy consultation and development, it also touches on all stages of the policy proces...

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING MASTER'S EDUCATION PROGRAM IN IRAN AND JOHN HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING

Background & Aims: Educational programs are the main part of any educational system and the Community Health Nursing Period is a period of training for the most important and influential health professionals. To identify the strengths and weaknesses of the existing curriculum, this study was conducted to compare Community health Nursing Master's Education Program in Iran and John Hopkins School...