Author’s Affiliation: 1Professor and Head; 2Assistant Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences (ANIIMS), Port Blair; 3Associate Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, MGM Medical College & LSK Hospital, Kishanganj, Bihar, India; 4Statistician, Dept of Community Medicine, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Institute of Medical Sciences (ANIIMS), Port ...

THE Queen's University received a benefaction from Mrs. Carnwath and her family in 1955 to provide prizes in social and preventive medicine in memory of her husband, the late Dr. Thomas Carnwath. These awards originally took the form of a medal and book prize for the student gaining the highest place in the final part one examination in social and preventive medicine, a book prize for the stude...

China’s population is aging, and the tradition of family-centred care of the elderly has changed because of the social, political, and economic transformation of the country. Could government support for the elderly to “age in place” be the answer? Population ageing in China is a significant challenge for the Chinese government, the society and Chinese people. The dramatic process of population...

Mei-Hsing Chuang1,2, Yao-Min Hung2,3 and Pesus Chou2* 1Department of Community Medicine, Division of Family Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan 2Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan 3Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan *Corresponding author: Mei-Hsing Chuang, Taipei City H...

Jun Tayama, Ph.D. Center for Health and Community Medicine Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan Tatsuki Ichikawa, M.D. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Nagasaki University Hospital Nagasaki, Japan Katsuyuki Eguchi Institute of Tropical Medicine Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan Taro Yamamoto Institute of Tropical Medicine Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan Susumu Shirabe Center f...