OBJECTIVES To assess the number of epidemiologists and national epidemiology capacity, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists surveyed state health departments in 2001, 2004, and 2006. This article summarizes findings of the 2006 assessment, analyzes trends in epidemiology workforce, and examines statistical associations between the number of epidemiologists and measures of capaci...

There are many pathways to engaging in building primary health care (PHC) research capacity. These include students’ and residents’ projects, mentorship from colleagues engaged in research, and master’s and doctoral education. However, there are few graduate programs in Canada specifically in PHC research. An exemplary, one-of-a-kind tool for PHC research capacity building is Transdisciplinary ...

purpose the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a combined program including sprint repetitions and drop jump training in the same session on male handball players. methods twenty-two male handball players aged more than 20 years were assigned into 2 groups: experimental group (n=11) and control group (n=11). selection was based on variables “axis” and “lines”, goalkeepers were n...

In 2012, the World Health Assembly declared completion of polio eradication a public health emergency. However, wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission remains endemic in three countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan). In Nigeria, the National Stop Transmission of Polio (N-STOP) program, under the umbrella of the Nigerian Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP), has been dev...

This article accompanies Len Syme's "Historical Perspective: The social determinants of disease--some roots of the movement." It describes some of Len's role in the development of social epidemiology through mentoring investigators and influencing training programs. It also discusses some challenges for the field and ways to move forward.

we reported here tasks we accomplished to improve the 2D curve tracing algorithm: 1) Optimized individual steps in the tracing program with tools from the field of digital image processing; 2) Implemented training sets and evaluation conditions that teach the program to look for parameters that fit a wide variety of data quality. Keywordscurve tracing; kymograph; bilateral filter; local Ostu’s ...

Recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of increase in ability public health workforce to detect and respond threats. For timely implementation an adequate response mitigation measure, standardized sustainable capacity building programme for frontline is need hour. National Center Disease Control (NCDC), Ministry Health Family Welfare, partnership with U.S. Centers Prevention (C...

the aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of paaryaad training program on the development of motor skills of children aged between 6 and 8 who suffered from high function autism (hfa). for this purpose, 30 girls with hfa (mean age 7.1 ± 0.6 yr) were randomly selected from special schools of sanandaj city. then, according to the pretest scores, were assigned to control and exper...