All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a database or retrieval system, or published, in any form or any way, electronically, mechanically, by print, photoprint, microfilm or any other means without prior written permission from the publisher. Foreword Epilepsy is responsible for high levels of suffering, affecting more than 50 million people worldwide, thu...

n the recent presidential campaign, Governor George W. Bush insisted he was not running for the job of federal superintendent of schools. Yet he regularly discussed education issues (like testing, or how and when to teach reading) that have not previously been within the scope of federal responsibility. Meanwhile,Vice-President Al Gore made no efforts to abjure intervention in state and local e...

Transfusion of platelets is commonly indicated in the inpatient oncology setting. These platelets are obtained either through apheresis from a single donor or pooled from the whole blood of several donors. The amount of transfused platelets, infection risk, incidence of alloimmunization, and increases in posttransfusion platelet count are similar for these two platelet products. Although single...

OBJECTIVE To track national population indices of recall and response among smokers and recent quitters to an ongoing national televised anti-smoking campaign in Australia. METHOD National cross sectional population telephone surveys of adults. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Unprompted recall of advertising; recognition of advertising; campaign attributed encouragement to quit or stay quit; unprompt...

BACKGROUND Lymphatic filariasis is targeted for elimination in India through mass drug administration (MDA) with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) combined with albendazole (ABZ). For the strategy to be effective, >65% of those living in endemic areas must be covered by and compliant to MDA. Post the MDA 2011 campaign in the endemic district of Odisha, we conducted a survey to assess: (i) the filariasis...

BACKGROUND Recently, a number of Global Health Initiatives (GHI) have been created to address single disease issues in low-income countries, such as poliomyelitis, trachoma, neonatal tetanus, etc.. Empirical evidence on the effects of such GHIs on local health systems remains scarce. This paper explores positive and negative effects of the Integrated Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Control Ini...

Public health is at a watershed moment. The world's health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly for public health graduate education that adequately prepares trainees to tackle emerging challenges a...

BACKGROUND The Italian Protective Maternity Legislation allows a woman to apply for early maternity leave from work during pregnancy if she is affected by health problems (option A) or if her working conditions are incompatible with pregnancy (option B). A community based health education program, implemented between 1995 to 1998 in North Eastern Italy, provided counseling (by a team of gynecol...

A videotaped program on schistosomiasis, coordinated with a wide range of other campaign activities, was shown at schools, clinics, and other gathering places in the rural Surinam district of Saramacca. The usual procedure was to have two showings, the first for teachers and the second for pupils in grades four through six. The children were then asked to answer simple questions about the disea...

we argue that the field of health policy and management (hpam) ought to confront the gap between theory, policy, and practice. although there are perennial efforts to reform healthcare systems, the conceptual barriers are considerable and reflect the theory-policy-practice gap. we highlight four dimensions of the gap: 1) the dominance of microeconomic thinking in health policy analysis and desi...