T he purpose of this initiative is to define the critical research, education, service, and leadership roles of dental schools needed to ensure their ability to improve oral health. Although focused on U.S. dental schools, this is a worldwide agenda that seeks to address the recent Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health in America. The recognition that dental schools are a national resource ne...

T he unique geography of Maldives, along with high dependence on imports and expatriate manpower, has meant that health services come at substantially higher costs than other countries in the region. In response, the country has undertaken several reforms in recent years to tbe way in which health is financed. Two of these prominent measures include the creation of seven health service corporat...

Human resources for health are necessary to the delivery of health services; only by securing a sufficient, equitably distributed, adequately supported and well-performing health workforce can any health goals and targets set by national governments or the international community be met [1]. In spite of the recognition of this central role in attaining health outcomes, investments in human reso...

INTRODUCTION The single biggest barrier for countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to scale up the necessary health services for addressing the three health-related Millennium Development Goals and achieving Universal Health Coverage is the lack of an adequate and well-performing health workforce. This deficit needs to be addressed both by training more new health personnel and by improving the ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. The purpose of this study was to engage Nigerian MNCH policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy and practice interface and to assess ...

This report is made pursuant to Contract No. 240-83-0112 with the Health Resources and Services Administration. The amount charged to the Department of Health and Human Services for the work resulting in this report (inclusive of the amount submitted under the contract) is $8,081.90. The names of the persons employed or retained by the contractor, with managerial or professional responsibility ...

Organizational capacity building for health promotion (HP) is beneficial to the effective implementation of HP in organizational settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) Health Promoting Hospitals' (HPHs) initiative encourages hospitals to promote the health of their stakeholders by developing organizational capacity. This study analyzes an application case of one hospital of the HPH initi...

Ideally, health policies should be based on valid scientific evidence and such evidence requires health research. Health research is also an essential tool for achieving equity in health and development. Although the need to carry out health research is now well accepted, South Asian countries still lag behind and do not make any meaningful contributions to health research and development. This...

The paper by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, which follows directly, is one of a series of lectures sponsored by the Medical Student Council. The Lectureship, instituted early in 1974, was designed to bring outstanding teachers of medicine and leaders in public health to the Yale University School of Medicine. This program was organized entirely by medical students on behalf of the student body. The...

It was in November 1983, Prof. Wig and I, published an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry titled “A training approach to enhance the availability of mental health manpower in a developing country”(Srinivasa Murthy and Wig,1983). This article presented the case for involving the peripheral health workers in providing essential mental health care, as a way of addressing the problem of ...