Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to ch...

The Pan American Health Organization recently developed a practical guide for evaluating missed opportunities for vaccination among children aged <5 years. A missed opportunity occurs when an individual eligible for vaccination has contact with a health facility and does not receive a needed vaccine, despite having no contraindications. In this article, we discuss the strengths and limitations ...

Goal-striving stress refers to the discrepancy between aspirations and achievements, hard work and accomplishment, options and opportunities, and perhaps provides a pathway linking social structure and mental health. Although a number of scholars have speculated about the relationship between blocked opportunities and psychopathology, few studies have empirically examined associations between s...

This Steam System Survey Guide provides technical information for steam system operational personnel and plant energy managers on some of the major opportunities available to improve the energy efficiency and productivity of industrial steam systems. The guide covers five main areas of investigation: (1) profiling a steam system, (2) identifying steam properties for the steam system, (3) improv...

Book details Madhavan Guruprasad, Oakley Barbara, Kun Luis: Career Development in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, published by Springer, Series in Biomedical Engineering an official publication of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering 2008 [http://www.springer.com/engineering/bio medical+eng/book/978-0-387-76494-8]. ISBN 978-0-38776494-8; DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-76...

The early years of teaching are important for science teachers, but little is known about how teachers develop professionally in their years. This mixed methods study took a longitudinal view the teaching. Following 95 secondary over 5-year period, this examined beliefs, pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), and practices during after induction programming. It drew upon conceptual framework oppo...