Eric Brunner*, Mike Rayner, Margaret Thorogood, Barrie Margetts, Lee Hooper, Carolyn Summerbell, Elizabeth Dowler, Gillian Hewitt, Aileen Robertson and Martin Wiseman International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK: British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department...

Even in an era in which access to personal "cleanliness" and a public health infrastructure are readily available in developed countries, illnesses associated with day care centres and homes continue to be a problem. The inhabitants of less developed countries, on the other hand, must contend with an inadequate public health infrastructure, lack of education programmes, and economic limitations...

The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify specific information related to U.S. dental hygiene baccalaureate degree completion programs. Learning experiences, assessment methods, and baccalaureate institutional partnerships were assessed. Of the sixty dental hygiene programs that offer a degree completion program, the forty-two that met the inclusion criteria (including having operat...

1 Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2 Berkeley Media Studies Group, Public Health Institute, and School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, 3 City University New York School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA, 4 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, 5 MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Unive...

Paul Pronyk, Jennifer Schaefer, Marie-Andree Somers and Lori Heise 1 Centre for Global Health and Economic Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA 2 Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA 3 School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 4 Gender Violence and Health Center, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between self-reported sleep quality and sleep hygiene in Italian and American adolescents and to assess whether sleep-hygiene practices mediate the relationship between culture and sleep quality. METHODS Two nonprobability samples were collected from public schools in Rome, Italy, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Students complet...

Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that NLP can be used to impr...

diseases both in the Arctic and the tropics: joining the dots Birgitta Evengård* and Rainer Sauerborn Department of Clinical Microbiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, Institute of Public Health,...

Department of Hygiene and Human Ecology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac and Institute of Public Health Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, Center for Informatics and Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac and Institute of Public Health Kragujevac...