Every day, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre­ vention (CDC) focuses the world’s attention on issues that deserve to be in the public health spotlight. Visitors to the CDC Web site know that this spotlighting is not only a metaphor but also a prominent physical feature on the agency’s Internet home page. Through its Spot­ light section, the CDC summarizes at a glance the most important thi...

introduction: hospitals like other organizations need to be evaluated continuously. this is of vital importance due to the critical role of the hospitals in the society. this study aimed to determine and compare the evaluation scores of hospitals affliated with tums with their performance. methods and materials: it is a cross - sectional study which was performed in 27 public and private hospit...

The Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (TFELTP) was established in 2008 as a partnership among the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, National Institute for Medical Research, and local and international partners. TFELTP was established to strengthen the capacity of MOHSW to conduct public health surveillanc...

The birth of the Bulletin The year 1990 was a landmark for public health in New South Wales (NSW). The Public Health Division at the then NSWDepartment of Health was in its infancy, having been formed at the end of 1989, and funding for a program to enhance public health in NSW led to the establishment of a network of Public Health Units and the NSW Public HealthOfficer Training Program. TheNSW...

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...

The Management Academy for Public Health is a management development program with the goals of helping public health managers learn to manage people, data, and finance, to think and plan like entrepreneurs, and to strengthen public health organizations. Managers enroll as teams and develop business plans in the Academy's extensive project-based learning component. Extensive internal and externa...

This notice with comment period interprets the term "Federal public benefit" as used in Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Pub. L. 104-193, and identifies the HHS programs that provide such benefits under this interpretation. According to section 401 if PRWORA, aliens who are not "qualified aliens" are not eligible for any "Federal ...

1 Professor & Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA. 2 Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts & Public Health Consultant, Boston, MA. 3 Associate Professor & Vice President for Community Collaborations, The New England College of Optometry/ / New England Eye Institute, Boston, MA. 4 Ophthalmology Resident, PGY2, University of Texas Medical Br...

background: osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a walking education program based on the health belief model (hbm) on osteoporosis among women.   material and methods in this quasi-experimental research design, 120 patients (60 experimental and 60 control),who were registered with the health centers in fasa ci...