Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, 20–39 (2008) © 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20305 1 COM (97) 131. Promotion of road safety in the European Union 1997–2001. 2 The direct economic cost of world road crashes has be...

Siamak Sabour1,2* 1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR, Iran 2Safety Promotions and Injury Prevention Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR, Iran *Corresponding author: Siamak Sabour, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Health, Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention Res...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provides a barrier to market entry and use of unproven and unsafe products. For prescription drugs, the FDA approval process requires substantial evidence of efficacy and safety for specific clinical situations. Although approval is indication-specific, the FDA has a limited role once a drug is on the market. Recent draft guidelines covering manufacturers'...

Trauma represents a major burden of disease in South Africa. Children are disproportionately affected by trauma; rightly, childhood trauma can be referred to as 'the neglected childhood killer disease'. Unlike the field of infectious diseases, where vaccinations and prevention are the norm, paediatric trauma is usually ignored and prevention strategies are scarce. In this article, we review pae...

As the number and cost of new technologies grow, it is increasingly important that we develop sound policies for payment for those technologies while their clinical impacts are being defined. Such policies need to balance social interests in promotion of innovation, early access to promising technology, patient safety, control of health care costs, and return on investment. We present a rationa...

Anti-microbial drugs are widely employed for the treatment and cure of diseases in animals, promotion of animal growth, and feed efficiency. However, the scientific literature has indicated the possible presence of antimicrobial drug residues in animal-derived food, making it one of the key public concerns for food safety. Therefore, it is highly desirable to design fast and accurate methodolog...

BACKGROUND Swedish Healthcare Direct (SHD) receives 6 million calls yearly and aims at increased public sense of security and healthcare efficiency. Little is known about what SHD managers perceive as the primary goals of telephone nursing (TN) work and how the organisation matches goals of health promotion and equitable healthcare, so important in Swedish healthcare legislation. The aim of the...

The article discloses a system of guidelines establishing unified order of detection, identification of nanoparticles and nanomaterials, estimation of their safety, sanitary regulation, control and supervision in environmental objects and production of nanoindustry, evaluation and management of risk produced by nanoparticles and nanomaterials. Recent development of nanosafety system in Russian ...

In the drug promotion process, pharmaceutical companies make many claims about the efficacy, safety and ‘quality’ of the products. These claims should be clear, valid and justifiable. In scientific literature, each claim should be supported by evidence. Therefore, they are expected to provide evidence to support the claims made in DPM. The high quality references increase the authenti-city of t...

Members of the genus Burkholderia are versatile organisms that occupy a surprisingly wide range of ecological niches. These bacteria are exploited for biocontrol, bioremediation and plant growth promotion purposes, but safety issues regarding human infections, especially in cystic fibrosis patients, have not been solved. This minireview gives an overview of the taxonomic and ecological diversit...