Local health security funds or Community Health Fund are an innovation introduced to achieve greater local government involvement in Thailand’s Universal Coverage and is outcome of decentralizing power administrations serves as a fund for people communities. The fund’s budget subsidized by the National Security Office which contributes with condition that provides matching funding, but it also ...

Privacy legislation addresses concerns regarding the privacy of personal information; however, its interpretation by research ethics boards has resulted in significant challenges to the collection, management, use and disclosure of personal health information for multi-centre research studies. This paper describes the strategy used to develop the national Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry...

Objective The purpose of this project is to demonstrate progress in developing a scientific and practical approach for public health (PH) emergency preparedness and response informatics (EPRI) that supports the National Health Security Strategy and Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) objectives. PH emergency operations centers (EOC) contribute to health security objectives because they operati...

June 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e171 Two leaders in the global fi ght against HIV/AIDS—Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)—have recently argued that HIV represents an extraordinary national security threat [1,2]. Their intent has been to app...

taking into consideration the fact that convergence of the kurds and shiites on the national security and interests of the islamic republic of iran is a vital necessity, the exact knowledge of nature and category of such a coalition might assist the state security policymaking so that by a better understanding of such a strategy and by comprehension of sensitivity of this opportunity, the polic...

C. Fred Bergsten is the director of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was assistant secretary for international affairs of the US Treasury (1977–81) and assistant for international economic affairs at the National Security Council (1969–71). He was chairman of APEC’s Eminent Persons Group, which developed the initial blueprint for the organization’s trade policy st...

In a democratic system, there is discussion about who will be the "guardian of guards." For this, military made answerable to parliament and parliamentary oversight bodies are established make affairs transparent accountable civilian government. Democratic countries have adopted security policies in which government controls strategy priorities, were previously handled by military. A high-level...

India's poor performance on critical food and nutrition security indicators despite substantial economic prosperity has been widely documented. These failings not only hamper national progress, but also contribute significantly to the global undernourished population, particularly children. While the recently passed National Food Security Act 2013 adopts a life-cycle approach to expand coverage...