The School of Community and Environmental Health offers graduate and certificate programs which lead to careers in health services research, public health, community health, health care administration, environmental health, and occupational safety. The Master of Science in community health offers practicing health care professionals the opportunity to complete their degrees in a distance format...

The School of Community and Environmental Health offers graduate and certificate programs which lead to careers in health services research, public health, community health, health care administration, environmental health, and occupational safety. The Master of Science in community health offers practicing health care professionals the opportunity to complete their degrees in a distance format...

Stricto Sensu Graduate Nursing Programs in Brazil experienced innovations and achievements in 2017, both in terms of process plan and product of evaluation. Pioneerism with the interval of evaluation extended from three to four years, and the record and collection of data of the Programs through an online Platform open to the community, conferring agility and transparency to the process, are so...

Latin America is at the forefront of global progress in smoke free workplaces. Comprehensive smoke free laws have been implemented in four countries, and in many cities, states and provinces. More than 130 million people in Latin America are now protected from secondhand tobacco smoke. Nevertheless, a survey of tobacco control advocates and governments in Latin America found several challenges ...

Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have passed laws implementing medical marijuana programs. The nineteen programs that were in operation as of October 2014 collectively had over one million participants. All states (including D.C.) with medical marijuana laws require physicians directly or indirectly to authorize the use of marijuana at their discretion, yet little is known about...

People of all ages are increasingly consuming larger portions of food. Governments worldwide are involved in the regulation of many aspects of the food supply; however, policies and programs related to serving sizes for children vary or are not clearly communicated. This paper reviews U.S. federal and state government recommendations, policies, and laws related to serving size for children and ...

background: hospitals have responsibility for responding to legitimate demands for release of health information while protecting the confidentiality of the patient health records. there have always been challenges concerning medical records confidentiality and their disclosure and release type in medical record departments. this study investigated and compared laws and policies of disclosure o...

iran's health system is expanding the disaster and emergency higher education programs over the country to enhance the capacity of human resources for effective and efficient disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. in this article we present an overview about the initiatives and progress of disaster and emergency health higher education in iran. following the bam earthquake, i...

Abstract It is considered that strategic thinking skills improve entrepreneurial competencies. In order to find out at what extent integrated into entrepreneurship education, the comparative study of master programs was made.