BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...

Healthcare management and public health have been significantly grown over decades. Based on report presented by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), healthcare spending will grow to about 19.8% of US GDP by 2020. Other countries have spent huge investment on health sector as well. Therefore, in order to improve public health services and with the aim of attaining better performance...

Virtually all health care operations, including public health, are undertaken only at a local or regional level. Large-scale infectious disease emergencies, such as SARS or pandemic influenza, will be recognized and managed at a local level. The creation of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) was an important step in strengthening public health capacity. However, we need adequate operatio...

Climate change is anticipated to have several adverse health impacts. Managing these risks to public health requires an iterative approach. As with many risk management strategies related to climate change, using modeling to project impacts, engaging a wide range of stakeholders, and regularly updating models and risk management plans with new information-hallmarks of adaptive management-are co...

Alternative course formats are gaining increasing attention in higher education. The literature provides a number of examples and studies of flipped classrooms in the medical sciences and liberal arts and sciences. However, fewer than five papers on flipped classes in graduate public health courses have been published, and none in health management. Because graduate public health education is c...

Public sector voluntary initiatives: the adoption of the environmental management system by public waste water treatment facilities in the United States Wan-Ling Huang, Eric W. Welch & Elizabeth A. Corley To cite this article: Wan-Ling Huang, Eric W. Welch & Elizabeth A. Corley (2014) Public sector voluntary initiatives: the adoption of the environmental management system by public waste water ...

The objective of this article is to discuss the threats to public health, by taking into consideration the arguments of Funtowicz et al. (1997, 1994) about issues related to the complexity and uncertainties of the studies, evaluation and management of the threats to public health that have been observed in the relationship between public health and the vulnerability of social groups. The prevai...

______________________________________ a Center for Evaluation Research & Surveys, Division of Health Economics National Institute of Public Health (INSP) / Mexican School of Public Health Av. Universidad 655, Cuernavaca, Mexico, CP 62508 b Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER) c School of Public Health, Health Policy & Management d Haas School of Business University of California,...