background scholars describe poor health literacy as a “silent epidemic,” which is challenging the functioning of healthcare systems all over the world. health literacy is mainly meant as an individual trait which concerns the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information in order to effectively navigate the health system. low health literate patients perceive poor self-ef...

background many dental problems such as tooth decay starts from childhood. in this regard, attitudes and beliefs of mothers about oral-dental health are important. the aim of this study was to determine the factors affecting oral-dental health in children of the mothers who referred to the qom health centers by using of the health belief model. materials and methods this is cross-sectional desc...

Researchers have identified four common co-occurring parental risk factors-substance abuse, mental illness, domestic violence, and child conduct problems-that lead to child maltreatment. The extent to which maltreatment prevention programs must directly address these risk factors to improve responsiveness to parenting programs or can directly focus on improving parenting skills, says Richard Ba...

Major Edward Stuart of the Rockfeller Commission for the prevention of tuberculosis in France, writes an instructive article on this subject in the International Journal of Public Health for March-April, 1921. He is dealing with the conditions prevailing in Servia, Slovakia and Roumania, which are in many respects similar to those found in India, With reference to the teaching of children he sa...

After World War II, Japan has imported food from other countries to solve malnutrition, and then dietitians provided nutrition education to people for effective food utilization. Flour and skimmed milk imported from the United State were distributed to the school lunch program. Dietitians were trained to encourage the people to adapt western style dietary habits. The western style dietary habit...

BACKGROUND Federal and state public health agencies in the United States are increasingly using digital advertising and social media to promote messages from broader multimedia campaigns. However, little evidence exists on population-level campaign awareness and relative cost efficiencies of digital advertising in the context of a comprehensive public health education campaign. OBJECTIVE Our ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem that can only be tackled successfully through strengthened international partnerships. A concerted political, scientific and media campaign has garnered support for the recent World Health Assembly resolution on antimicrobial resistance, mandating the WHO to develop a global action plan. This resolution has the 'One Health' approach at its core, emph...

1 Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, 3 Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre on Global Health Security, ChathamHouse, London, United Kingdom, 5 Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry, India, 6 South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland, 7 INSERM, Paris, France, 8 Department of Health, Pretor...

BACKGROUND In view of the high costs of mass-media campaigns, it is important to understand whether it is possible for a media campaign to have significant population effects over a short period of time. This paper explores this question specifically in reference to stigma and discrimination against people with mental health problems using the Time to Change Cambridge anti-stigma campaign as an...