in his insightful editorial, nir eyal explores the connections between nudging and shaming. one upshot of his argument is that we should question the principle of the least restrictive alternative in public health and health policy. in this commentary, i maintain that eyal’s argument undermines only a rather implausible version of the principle of the least restrictive alternative and i sketch ...

martin powell suggests that the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been announced so many times we are at risk of not noticing should it actually happen. he is right. if we ‘cry wolf’ too many times, we risk losing sight of what is important about the nhs and why.

further to our recently published findings, we have completed the analysis of our second year of prehospital data collection for the same service. we wish to expedite the availability of this data to clinicians, researchers and policy makers in the region. our 2015/2016 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (ohca) data displayed the following demographic results: 514 ohca resuscitation attempts were a...

public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. it is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. for this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...

background and purpose: the internet is a useful tool for developing a variety of learning experiences and as a source of information and as a means of facilitated communication between students and teachers. the aim of this research was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of the internet use among bachelors’ degree students in shahid beheshti school of health . method...

abstract background: fatigue and changes in sleep patterns are one of the impressive features in the first year after birth, which havenegative effects on work, family life, and social relationships. therefore, the objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between fatigue and stanford sleepiness with the general health of mothers in the postpartum period. materials and meth...

introduction: management is one of the most important factors for life, development, growth or death of any organizations including hospitals. the power is of one of the main concepts that by focusing on the fundamental and theoretical efforts considered as an important factor at all levels of management and human resources. managers who know the sources of power and are using them, have more e...

nearly three decades ago, the master of public health (mph) academic degree was introduced to tehran university of medical sciences' school of public health, tehran, iran. a new program for simultaneous education of medical, pharmaceutical and dental students was initiated in 2006. talented students had the opportunity to study mph simultaneously. there were some concerns about this kind of adm...

background: some congenital defects can be prevented in the pregestational stage. however, many health professionals are not prepared to provide counselling to couples regarding the same. objective: this study aimed to assess the performance of doctors and nurses from a primary health-care unit in florianopolis, brazil, in preventing birth defects in the preconception period based on the recomm...