The health information management (HIM) professional is strategically placed to manage information within the public health arena. As managers of information flow, HIM professionals utilize increasing levels of technology to link clinical settings, public health departments, research institutions, and consumers with health information. However, as technology increases the amount and accessibili...

The positive impact of the introduction labor protection standards (OH&S) in organization is recognized by governments, employers, and workers. However, knowledge its effective use small medium-sized enterprises still limited. This case study aims to provide a better understanding how implementation integrated management systems (IMS) affects improvement risk process field occupational safe...

Objective Aim To setup a nodal agency called the Centre for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP) dedicated towards public health surveillance during disasters in the state of Odisha, India. For better public health preparedness in disaster management the objectives of CPHP will be to: 1. To strengthen public health surveillance and preparedness for disaster management, through research, capacity b...

as an international legal instrument, the international health regulations (ihr) is internationally binding in 196 countries, especially in all the member states of the world health organization (who). the ihr aims to prevent, protect against, control, and respond to the international spread of disease and aims to cut out unnecessary interruptions to traffic and trade. to meet ihr requirements,...

a Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran b Department of Global Health and Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran c Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Ir...

This paper describes the management of public relations following an outbreak of multidrug resistant TB at a London hospital. Eight patients were involved, all of the secondary cases occurred in HIV seropositive patients, and three cases died. The paper describes how the the Incident Committee undertook to recall contacts of the cases for screening, inform the general practitioners of all of th...