Tobacco farmers and tobacco manufacturers: implications for tobacco control in tobacco-growing developing countries.

abstract：:During a stay in South Africa in 2002-2003, we learned that public sector nurses dealt with serious community and workplace impacts from the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and were reluctant to report occupational exposures to HIV or take a short-course of antiretroviral post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV infection. In May ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Zelnick J,O'Donnell M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study uses a series of nationally representative samples from China. We studied more than 4,000 households to explore factors associated with both the prevalence and the frequency of cigarette smoking over 13 years between 1991 and 2004. By introducing variables at both the individual and the community level, we ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Pan Z,Hu D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1996, after the full institution of the two-dose measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) regimen in Israel, rubella incidence has declined dramatically and has remained extremely low. Cyclical outbreaks ended; the two brief outbreaks that did occur were quickly contained; and epidemiological data indicate that...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Anis E,Grotto I,Moerman L,Kaliner E,Warshavsky B,Slater PE,Lev B

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ebola epidemic exemplifies the importance of social determinants of health: poverty and illiteracy, among others. ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Palomo AM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution to the problem of infant mortality in the U.S. is not medical but social, economic and environmental. In the U.S., 70% of infant mortality is neonatal, death in the 1st month of life, due to factors in pregnancy and delivery. The remainder of mortality is primarily related to socio-economic factors such...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Wagner MG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the impact of an antiretroviral therapy program on human resource utilization and service delivery in a rural hospital in Monze, Zambia, using qualitative data. We assess project impact on staff capacity utilization, service delivery, and community perception of care. Increased workload resulted in fatigue...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Adedimeji A,Malokota O,Manafa O

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor nutrition is a global pandemic with social, economic, and environmental causes and consequences. Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), only SDG2 explicitly mentions nutrition. Turning the aspirations of the SDGs into reality will require recognition that good nutrition ensured through sustainable agricu...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Baye K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing a database to compile all known, relevant information on the stability of pharmaceuticals in tropical environments would vastly increase access to this information, improving safety and reducing cost. Many studies have examined the stability of pharmaceuticals stored under conditions that exceed manufacture...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Evans A,Knehans A

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the perception of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea, we administered, from November 2014 to February 2015, a questionnaire to a convenience sample of 200 lay people in Conakry and a group of 8 physicians. We found widespread misconceptions among lay people, including that praying to God can protect a...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Kpanake L,Gossou K,Sorum PC,Mullet E

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Institute of Medicine's The Future of Public Health calls for a strengthening of linkages between public health and mental health, with a view to integrating the functions at the service delivery level. This paper details the history of the mental health/public health interface in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1977, men...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Collier MT,Lambropoulos AS,Williams-Glasser G,Baron ST,Birkmeyer J

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study documents all tobacco control proposals (bills) introduced in the United States into all 50 state legislatures from the start of 2010 through 2015 and assesses associations between tobacco-related strategies and tobacco product types with enactment of the bills into law. In total, members of state legislatu...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Kong AY,Robichaud MO,Ribisl KM,Kirkland JH,Golden SD

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the author's experiences and perceptions of the neoliberal triad of anti-health reforms--government budget cutting, deregulation, and privatization--which have been promulgated worldwide by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The causes of this phenomenon are analyzed, and specific ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Terris M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In transfusion medicine today, 'zero risk' has become a universal objective. Thus, we investigated whether the level of blood safety as defined by Lebanese legislation is satisfactory. Our work covered the period from September 2008 to June 2012. First, we studied each chapter in law and regulations, and compared them...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Haddad A,Bou Assi T,Ammar W,Baz E

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes an analysis of Danish policy on community noise during the last three decades seen in a public health perspective. Estimates made during this period of population exposures to noise from transport are presented, followed by data on population reactions to community noise. The analysis of the main...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Steensberg J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of air quality management and control, traffic-related air pollution has declined in Quito, Ecuador. We evaluated the effect of a city-wide 5-year air pollution control program on the occurrence of acute respiratory illness (ARI). We compared two studies conducted at the same location in Quito: in 2000, 2 year...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Estrella B,Sempértegui F,Franco OH,Cepeda M,Naumova EN

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palpable tension continues at the intersection of tobacco control and trade policy. Through consideration of four major tobacco control-related trade disputes, we suggest how to empower public health proponents in the face of entrenched economic policymaking norms. We argue that a more effective pro-tobacco control me...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Drope J,Lencucha R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have assessed early population-level impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programs for preventing cervical cancer. Through a case study in Hong Kong we examined stakeholder engagement and interactions to promote a universal HPV vaccination program using the Health Policy Triangle framework for stru...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Chen R,Wong E,Wu L,Zhu Y

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of hepatitis and drug use on nutritional problems in HIV infection have rarely been examined despite the importance of drug use in the global HIV pandemic. We examined the effects of HIV, hepatitis C, and drug use on serum micronutrients in 300 US Hispanic adults. Chronic hepatitis C infection was associat...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Forrester JE,Wang XD,Knox TA,Borek CG,Tang AM,Johnson EJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the realm of active living in urban neighborhoods in the United States, only a few studies have addressed the factors that promote or inhibit active living among residents in public housing. This paper examines the environmental and interpersonal factors associated with active living and health in public housin...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Roman CG,Knight CR,Chalfin A,Popkin SJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied patterns and levels of enforcement of the legal drinking age in the United States. Major findings include: (1) rates of enforcement of the legal drinking age are very low; (2) actions against outlets or adults providing alcohol to youth are particularly rare; (3) two of every thousand occasions of illegal d...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Wagenaar AC,Wolfson M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Universal access to medical services will not address all important health needs. Impending health care reform, guided by public health strategies, could achieve many previously unattainable health goals. However, such a public health role seems unlikely. Public health reaches beyond the current popular notion of prev...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Freeman P,Robbins A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few empirical studies have examined the relationships between differing regulatory approaches and patterns of gambling behaviors. This article reports on a correlational cross-cultural comparison of differences in the regulatory approaches and gambling behavior among general adult populations in France and Québec, Can...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Kairouz S,Paradis C,Nadeau L,Tovar ML,Pousset M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some supporters of electronic cigarettes have argued that they should be considered a form of harm reduction, analogous to that which has been successful with narcotics. In this viewpoint, we contend that this argument is based on highly selective use of the evidence, coupled with a fundamental misunderstanding of a c...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Moore M,McKee M,Daube M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Melkirch Model is an important effort to establish a common framework for sustainable programs to improve health. We briefly discuss the choice to focus health and the assumption that individual and population wellbeing are always compatible. Despite the inevitable difficulties in such an ambitious endeavor, the M...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Ozonoff D

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peanut allergy that affects 1.4-4.5% of North American children, has increased in prevalence in the past 20 years, is often diagnosed early in life, and outgrown in fewer than 20-32% of children by age 6. Recent self-reported data suggest that over 50% of peanut allergic individuals have had a severe reaction. Because...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Abrams EM,Greenhawt M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agriculture was one of the earliest industries in which occupational hazards were recognized, but it has been largely excluded from the mainstream of modern preventive medicine and occupational health efforts. This resulted from the heavy industry focus of occupational medicine, from the agrarian myth which stated tha...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Schenker MB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research examined the relative importance of two components of job stress--decision latitude and workload demand--on employee absenteeism. The analysis was based on confidential self-reported data from employees at two worksites, which were collected in three independent cross-sections beginning in 1995. The nega...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Zavala SK,French MT,Zarkin GA,Omachonu VK

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No formal system exists to review trade restrictions imposed during international public health emergencies rapidly. Failure to put one in place creates disincentives for surveillance and reporting, thereby undermining protection efforts. The 2003 SARS outbreak exposed weaknesses in global governance that caused uncoo...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Mackey TK,Liang BA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article empirically evaluates advocacy in low- and middle-income countries as a key tool for raising policy priority and securing high-level decision maker support in eye health. We used a unique data set based on a survey conducted by World Health Organization in 2011 on eye care and prevention of blindness in 8...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Morone P,Camacho Cuena E,Kocur I,Banatvala N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although China embraced the concept of essential medicines in 1979 and issued its first National Essential Medicines List in 1982, until recently China has lacked a comprehensive national essential drug policy. In its most recent health-care reform (2009-2012), the Chinese government explicitly proposed the establishm...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Guan X,Liang H,Xue Y,Shi L

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00