Hemoglobinopathies, in particular sickle cell disease, is the most prevalent group of genetically transmitted diseases in the Brazilian population and should thus be treated as a public health problem. Many of these patients frequently present with complications and require emergency care at the blood bank Coordinator in Rio de Janeiro. This study was developed with the aim of characterizing th...

concerns regarding the trans-pacific partnership (tpp) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. in the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Sandra Lins is the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium project coordinator at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich. She coordinates all data collection and quality improvement efforts related to percutaneous coronary interventions. Denise Guffey is the former manager of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Oakwood Hospital ...

Correspondence: Angela Brand, Director, Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Cluster of Genetics and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 5, 6229 ES Maastricht, The Netherlands. e-mail: [email protected] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ....

public health management is a pillar of public health practice. only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. with this in mind, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) has developed an innovative program called improving public health management for action (impact) which aims to address th...