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To report public health practitioners' perceptions of injury prevention in Changsha, China. We undertook a cross-sectional study at Changsha, Hunan, China. An anonymous self-reported survey was conducted to ascertain the proportion of respondents who answered negatively to questions about the value of injury prevention. Over 20% of respondents answered 'unpreventable' or 'don't know' to whether...

Overall, there are impacts of mass media on public health issues. However, whether the impacts are positive or negative, effective or ineffective, rely very much on a wise use of health communication tactics and a close collaboration with various parties including public health specialists, media gatekeepers as well as the target audiences etc. This paper attempts to discuss whether health comm...

CORRECTION After publication of this article [1] it came to our attention that the affiliation of Jun Chen and Hong-zhou Lu were incorrectly shown.Jun Chen's affiliation should have been given as Department of Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.Hong-zhou Lu should have been given as Department of Infectious Diseases, Shanghai Public He...

BACKGROUND China has the biggest population in the world, and has been experiencing the largest migration in history, and its rapid urbanization has profound and lasting impacts on local and national public health. Under these conditions, a systems understanding on the correlation among urbanization, environmental change and public health and to devise solutions at national, local and individua...

1 Institut Pasteur, Unité de Défense Innée et Inflammation, Paris, France 4 2 INSERM U874, Paris, France 5 3 Institut Pasteur, Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus ARN, Paris, France 6 4 School of public Health The University of Hong Kong, HongKong SAR, China 7 5 INSERM UMR-S1155, Paris, France 8 6 The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole, School of Public Health The University of Hong Kong, 9 HongKon...

International Food Policy Research Institute, Development Strategy and Governance Division, Washington, DC, USA, Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, NC, USA, University of California, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, San Francisco, CA, USA, The First Hospital of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Ca...

1MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2Nutritional Epidemiology Institute, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China 3Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany 4Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 5Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapor...

this research is a analytical- descriptive study. the aim of this study is determination attitude of health centers authorities in tehran about roles and activities of community health nurse. the research instrument was a questionnaire with 33 questions that was made by the researcher. the data was collected through visit to research units in health centers. the result of research showed that t...