a b s t r a c t mortality and morbidity from trauma continues to be a serious, ubiquitous public health problem. our short communication reports on the benefits of a dedicated lower limb trauma coordinator (lltc) to the trauma service of a busy inner-london plastics unit. this is based on a retrospective case-note based audit; performed 19 months prior to the introduction of the lltc and for 16...

This commentary discusses the interesting and surprising findings by Hagen and colleagues, focusing on the role of the public health coordinator as a Health in All Policies (HiAP) tool. The original article finds a negative association between the employment of public health coordinators in Norwegian municipalities and consideration of a fair distribution of social and economic resources betwee...

This final rule establishes a temporary certification program for the purposes of testing and certifying health information technology. This final rule is established under the authority granted to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (the National Coordinator) by section 3001(c)(5) of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), as added by the Health Information Technology for ...

*Corresponding author: Prof. Angela Brand, MD, PhD, MPH, Coordinator PHGEN, Institute for Public Health Genomics, Cluster of Genetics and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 40, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands, Phone: + 31-646705062, E-mail: [email protected] Angela Brand: Institute for Public Health Genomics ,...

Background Norway is internationally known today for its political and socio-economic prioritization of equity. The 2012 Public Health Act (PHA) aimed to further equity in the domain of health by addressing the social gradient in health. The PHA’s main policy measures were (1) delegation to the municipal level of responsibility for identifying and targeting underserved groups and (2) the imposi...

470  Public Health Reports / November–December 2014 / Volume 129 Acting Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, RADM, meets with Monique Bethell, PhD, a volunteer at Healing with CAARE, Inc., and Health Equity Coordinator, Community Transformation Grant for the North Carolina Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services (center); and Dr. Sharon Elliott-Bynum, Founder ...

the aim of this study is to map the chronological achievements of public health over the past 100 years in a small island state and to outline emerging themes. a retrospective analysis of data was conducted from the published population and vital statistics reports of the central statistical office for the period of 1953-2006, as well as all available published reports of the ministry of health...