background recognizing the importance of having a broad exploration of how cultural perspectives may shape thinking about ethical considerations, the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) funded four regional meetings in africa, asia, latin america, and the eastern mediterranean to explore these perspectives relevant to pandemic influenza preparedness and response. the meetings were ...

in this commentary, i argue that beyond a sophisticated supportive architecture to facilitate implementation of actions on the social determinants of health (sdoh) and health inequities, the health in all policies (hiap) project faces two main barriers: lack of awareness within policy networks on the social determinants of population health, and a tendency of health actors to neglect investing ...

background public health nursing system, which is an accepted universal model for improvement of the community health, has not yet attained its rightful status in iran. the present study was conducted to evaluate the perceptions of the pioneers of health care about the public health nursing and the roles that a public health nurse can play in iran’s health system. methods this is a qualitative ...

Norm Campbell, MD, is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology, and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. He was on the steering committee of and was a member of the Sodium Working Group of Health Canada, and is a member of the sodium subgroup of the Food Expert Advisory Committee of Health Canada. Kevin J. Willis, PhD, is Executive D...

Health-related data and research data are vital resources for clinical care, informed clinical choice, quality improvement, drug anddevice safety, effectiveness assessments, and scientific discovery. Suchdata are the reagents thatcanbeusedtoproduce informationtosupportpersonal choicesabouthealth care, systemchoices about optimizing medical and public health strategies, and policy choices about ...

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

This Report was put together by a working group consisting of: Simona Milio (Project Leader), London School of Economics and Political Science; Riccardo Lattanzi (Project Coordinator), New York University Langone Medical Center; Francesca Casadio, Art Institute of Chicago; Nicola Crosta, UN Capital Development Fund; Mario Raviglione, World Health Organization; Paul Ricci, École Polytechnique Fé...

1VID Specialized University, Institute of nursing and health, Box 124, Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway 2Department of surgery, Quality coordinator Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Diakonveien 12, 0370 Oslo, Norway 3Emerita assistant professor, VID Specialized University, Institute of nursing and health, Box 124, Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, Norway Journal of Urology and Nephrology Open Access Open Access Short Comm...

This study aimed to examine changes in physical education (PE) programs nationwide from 2006 to 2010 by analyzing the data reported in the Shape of the Nation published by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. Means and standard deviations for numeric variables in the reports were computed. For categorical variables, percentages were calculated. Data were analyzed using the...