Animal medicine, human medicine and public health have been associated ever since sheep, goats, cattle, horses, dogs, cats and other animals were first domesticated to serve the needs of society. The more recent history of veterinary public health (VPH) in Europe has seen developments through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the beginning of modern conceptions of VPH. The recogniti...

Market- and legislation-driven health reforms are being implemented across the United States. Within this time of great change for health care delivery systems and medical schools lie opportunities to address the country's long-standing health inequities by using community needs assessments, health information technologies, and new models for care and payment. In this Commentary, the author, a ...

BACKGROUND Despite the large body of evidence suggesting that effective public health infrastructure is vital to improving the health status of populations, many universities in developing countries offer minimal opportunities for graduate training in public health. In Nepal, for example, only two institutions currently offer a graduate public health degree. Both institutions confer only a gene...

User charges in public health facilities are aimed at improving efficiency and quality of health services. In Africa, evidence about their effect on patient attendance and community health-seeking behaviour are mixed. This paper reports a study of the effect of user charges on revenue collection, quality of services and people's health-seeking behaviour in relation to malaria in Korogwe distric...

Frada Eskin in her contribution to the debate on the future role of public health medicine makes interesting points on the interrelationship between leadership, politics and public health. In particular, she laments that public health doctors have been too involved in ‘unnecessary detail’, as their job is to ‘create the vision’ so that ‘others can make it happen’. Although a firm believer in mu...

introduction: purchasing scientific journals take a large amount of university library budget. so choosing journals with a scientific validity that response to universities needs is so important. this article aims to have a survey on usage rate of isfahan university of medical sciences users on public, environmental and occupational health journals to confirm core journals via bradford scatteri...

OBJECTIVE This study compares pre- and posttest Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI-Self) scores for public health leaders who completed the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL) training program at least 2 years earlier; it seeks to identify factors contributing to changes in practices and overall leadership development for public health and environment leaders. ...

BACKGROUND In public health, interpersonal influence has been identified as an important factor in the spread of health information, and in understanding and changing health behaviors. However, little is known about influence in public health leadership. Influence is important in leadership settings, where public health professionals contribute to national policy and practice agendas. Drawing o...

Supervisors: Péter Gőcze, MD, PhD, D.Sc, UP-MS, Department of Obstetrics an Gynaecology István Kiss, MD, PhD, UP-MS, Department of Public Health Medicine Programme leaders: István Szabó, MD, PhD, D.Sc, UP-MS, Department of Obstetrics an Gynaecology István Ember, MD, PhD, D.Sc, UP-MS, Department of Public Health Medicine Head of the Doctoral School: Sámuel Komoly, MD, PhD, D.Sc, Clinical Medical...