Key lessons learnt over the two decades since the implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) platform (1) have highlighted difficulties faced by regional governments and partners in engaging the private sector in the implementation of the platform. Currently, there has been a focus on training of health care providers only, while investment in supervision has been i...

OBJECTIVE To find a broad consensus on research priorities and strategies in the field of occupational health and safety in Italy. METHODS A two phase questionnaire survey was based on the Delphi technique previously described in other reports. 310 Occupational safety and health specialists (from universities and local health units) were given an open questionnaire (to identify three priority...

I n recent decades far-reaching national efforts to set priorities for research in the sector of occupational safety and health (OSH) have led to redefinitions and shifts in national policies and priorities, with wide-scale involvement of all concerned—public and social bodies, occupational health and safety experts, companies, trade unions, public and private insurance agencies. The benefit of...

BACKGROUND Individuals on probation experience economic disadvantage because their criminal records often prohibit gainful employment, which compromises their ability to access the basic components of wellbeing. Unemployment and underemployment have been studied as distinct phenomenon but no research has examined multiple determinants of health in aggregate or explored how these individuals pri...

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) demonstrates the international political will invested in combating the tobacco pandemic and a newfound prominence for tobacco control within the global health agenda. However, major difficulties exist in managing conflicts with foreign and trade policy priorities, and significant obstacles confront efforts to create synergies with developm...

How education and health are linked in developing countries and what educational activities produce change are quite uncertain. Questions for research on these concerns are noted, and it is suggested that prospective longitudinal studies, household surveys, and field observations might well be added to the more usual multivariate analyses of records. Analyses of educational program implementati...

IDRC is helping to develop the plan for Essential National Health Research (ENHR) for Mexico. Mexico strongly supports this approach to setting public health research priorities in developing countries. The conclusions of an extensive report led to the creation of the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED) which is made up of national committees entrusted to decide on subjects for ...

T h e Congress this year is memorable because it marks the incoming of its Lady President and those ladies who had gone before me were very prestigious women doctors who we:e the torch bearers of the Indian Psychiatric Society; it is memorable also because it is being held in Bombay which is hailed as the New York of India , beset with beauty, business and bustling activity. T h e intervening y...