Although strengthening health-care systems is receiving increased attention, strengthening public health systems and institutions could save far more lives at lower cost. Public health institutes monitor, implement, and oversee programmes to prevent disease. Life-saving and cost-saving programmes include immunisations, control of communicable diseases including diarrhoeal disease, reduction of ...

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purpose: to determine the general population’s knowledge and awareness about cataract, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy (dr) in tehran, the most populated and capital city of iran, in order to assess the need for health education programs. methods: this cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted during 2010 and a structured questionnaire was filled by 5 trained interviewers via tele...

biomedical l interventions and prevention strategies. It is an issue that has been a concern of public health officials for decades and has been addressed quite successfully from a national perspective. By eliminating two major sources of exposures—leaded gasoline and leaded paint—blood lead levels for the majority of Americans have dropped dramatically over the past two decades. Unfortunately,...

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women in the United States and other countries, making it a major public health concern. Despite significant scientific evidence about its known or suspected causes, research and prevention measures to identify and eliminate occupational and other environmental hazards and risk factors for breast cancer remain largely overlooked. As a result, haz...

The production of meat from sheep and goats in Australia occurs almost entirely at pasture in zones known as the semi-arid pastoral zone, the wheat-sheep zone (where sheep and crops form an agricultural rotation system) and the high rainfall zone. Each zone has particular factors which affect the human health hazards associated with sheep and goat meat and the opportunities for prevention. The ...

< “The illicit tobacco trade is regularly described as a critical public health issue because lower prices enable greater consumption and more damage to health and simultaneously decrease the money available for state-funded health care (Arnott et al., 2008; Lee & Collin, 2006 ). The public health significance of increased consumption of a substance with known health hazards is unarguable, but ...

The Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities drafted the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA or Model Act) at the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Model Act provides state actors with the powers they need to detect and contain bioterrorism or a naturally occurring disease outbreak. Legislative bills based on th...