2232 www.thelancet.com Vol 386 December 5, 2015 Between 1990 and 2013, mortality rates in southeast regions of England fell below those of 18 comparison countries, whereas mortality rates in Scotland and Northern Ireland remained higher than all comparison countries except the USA. This headline can be gleaned from today’s detailed report by Public Health England (PHE) and the Global Burden of ...

Over the past few years there has been growing interest in considering factors defined at multiple levels in public health research. Multilevel analysis has emerged as one analytical strategy that may partly address this need, by allowing the simultaneous examination of group-level and individual-level factors. This paper reviews the rationale for using multilevel analysis in public health rese...

Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regrets that an error of the journal short title appeared in volume 1 and 2.

baladieh as a new administration, has started its operation from the constitutional era, and in reza shah's reign continued its undertakings more seriously in the field of urban planning, cleaning, and supply needs of the citizens. part of the baladieh actions was in the field of public health. documents clearly indicate the baladieh's attempt to reorganize community's health sta...

Most patients with chronic disease are prescribed multiple medications, which are recorded in their personal health records. This is rich information for clinical public health researchers but also a challenge to analyse. This paper describes the method that was undertaken within the Public Health Research Data Management System (PHReDMS) to map medication data retrieved from individual patient...

I weigh the arguments for and against the patenting of functional DNA sequences including genes, and find the objections to be compelling. Is an outright ban on DNA patenting the right policy response? Not necessarily. Governments may wish to consider options ranging from patent law reforms to the creation of new rights. There are alternative ways to protect DNA sequences that industry may choo...

European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 23, No. 5, 722 The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckt102 Advance Access published on 18 July 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ....

In this text, we first propose a concept of public health research as a multidisciplinary endeavor whose aim is to identify the main determinants of people's health status, analyzed at the collective level. The public's health is thus envisioned as a socially determined reality, in which risk factors include biological phenomena as well as a given community's social and economic environment. Se...

BACKGROUND Since the genocide occurred in 1994, Rwanda has faced up to the challenge of rebuilding. Public health is a main field to understand this rebuilding. OBJECTIVES In this paper, the aim was to map the scientific research on public health in Rwanda after the genocide and to present the links between different financing systems. METHODS We used bibliographic analyses with Web of Scie...

BACKGROUND The paradigm of translational medicine that underpins frameworks such as the Cooksey report on the funding of health research does not adequately reflect the complex reality of the public health environment. We therefore outline a translational framework for public health research. DISCUSSION Our framework redefines the objective of translation from that of institutionalising effec...