The linkage of Baltimore's mental health and public health systems.

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：: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：: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：: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：:Traffic crashes and crime both impose significant economic and social burdens through injury and loss of life, as well as property damage and loss. Efforts to reduce crashes and crime often result in competing demands on limited public resources. Comparable and up-to-date cost data on crashes and crime contribute to i...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Streff FM,Molnar LJ,Cohen MA,Miller TR,Rossman SB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first meeting of the American Public Health Association in 1873, epidemiology and epidemiologists have been central to the activities of the organization. At that meeting, the most prominent American physician of the time, Austin Flint, presented a classic paper entitled "Relations of Water to the Propagatio...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Winkelstein W Jr

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The What's Working project described the initial impact of the United States' federally mandated Local Wellness Policy in rural, low-income elementary schools located in Colorado. Before and after the Local Wellness Policy mandate went into effect, a survey about school features related to nutrition and physical activ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Belansky ES,Cutforth N,Delong E,Ross C,Scarbro S,Gilbert L,Beatty B,Marshall JA

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Patent Medicine Vendors (PMVs) can play a critical role in increasing access to emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) in developing countries, but few studies have examined their knowledge and dispensing practices. Using cluster sampling, the authors selected and interviewed 97 PMVs (60.8 per cent female) in Oyo and Og...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Fayemi MM,Oduola OL,Ogbuji QC,Osinowo KA,Oyewo AE,Osiberu OM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two recent developments have redirected the course of Public Health in Europe - the Public Health Mandate of the European Commission and the conceptualization of a New Public Health. For the transition, countries in South Eastern Europe, particularly Serbia, provide support to essential public health reforms in four a...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Bjegovic V,Vukovic D,Terzic Z,Milicevic MS,Laaser UT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent reform of the health care system in Quebec can be viewed as the result of a continuous process that originated with the first reform launched in the early 70s. The reform focuses on three elements: decentralization, citizen participation, and outcome-centered management. The context in which the reform is b...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Pineault R,Lamarche PA,Champagne F,Contandriopoulos AP,Denis JL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaysia offers an instructive case study of health care changes in a rapidly developing country. The pace of improvements in life expectancy and maternal and child health has been even more rapid than that in the US in the 1st half of the 20th century. Life expectancy at birth increased from 57 years in 1957 to 69 ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Harlan WR,Harlan LC,Oii WL

更新日期：1984-12-01 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 tobacco industry faces challenges in the affluent world, but preys upon poor and populous countries, taking advantage of underdeveloped tobacco policies. One of the ways to address tobacco control globally is to create a tobacco litigation partnership between developed and developing countries. A global litigation...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Al-hamdani M

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:We describe how Israel effected new tuberculosis programs and policies beginning in the early 1990s. We explain how the epidemiology of the disease, particular events, and a small number of people influenced the creation of new policy. We believe that this story may be useful to other program managers and policymakers...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Weiler-Ravell D,Leventhal A,Berlowitz Y,Rishpon S,Chemtob D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Our research estimated the economic costs of possible cases of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) among redeployed coal workers from the Fuxin Mining Industry Group. The study cohort included 19,116 coal workers between 1965 and 2012. We estimated direct and indirect economic costs due to possible current and future C...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Han B,Liu H,Zhai G,Wang Q,Liang J,Zhang M,Cui K,Shen F,Yi H,Chen J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current practice of screening mammography in the United States has been the focus of numerous legislative and regulatory mandates at the state and federal levels, both in terms of increasing access to age-eligible women and elevating the quality of mammographic imaging. Several parameters have emerged as central t...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Fintor L,Alciati MH,Fischer R

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：: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：:This study determined differences in U.S. local health department (LHD) expenditures between 1989 and 1993 and examined the factors that were associated with those changes. Adjusted to constant 1993 dollars, nearly half (48%) of the studied LHDs experienced budget decreases and 52% experienced budget increases. The me...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Gerzoff RB,Gordon RL,Richards TB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minors' access to tobacco has become an important public health issue. Little is known, however, about the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior toward access among executives from businesses that sell tobacco. This study examined access from the perspective of corporate and regional headquarters of retail chain...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Altman DG,Linzer J,Kropp R,Descheemaeker N,Feighery E,Fortmann SP

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood obesity and chronic disease rates continue to climb, but policy and programme responses are mainly limited to education and awareness activities. These encourage individuals to make responsible lifestyle choices. Regulation and environmental change have a minor role, as they involve more intrusive roles for ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Purcell M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the effect of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) handbook--a home-based health record--on women's knowledge and behavior in the Jericho and Ramallah Governorates of Palestine. METHODS:This study uses a repeated, cross-sectional data set in which pre- and post-intervention situations are ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Hagiwara A,Ueyama M,Ramlawi A,Sawada Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Objective 8.14 of the U.S. Healthy People 2000 objectives calls for 90% of the population to be served by a local health department (LHD) which is effectively carrying out the core functions of public health (assessment, policy development, assurance). This study seeks to describe the structural and service ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Handler AS,Turnock BJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boating is a popular form of recreation in the United States. Unfortunately, many people drown due to boating-related accidents each year. Since many such drowning deaths are preventable through the use of personal flotation devices (PFDs), an observational study was conducted to quantify and evaluate the number and d...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Treser CD,Trusty MN,Yang PP

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How much could US policies have reduced the initial growth of the epidemic had we moved earlier to institute Harm Reduction drug policies such as needle exchange programs for injecting drug users? The US Centers for Disease Control estimates 50 000 HIV infections annually in the United States (156 per million populati...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Drucker E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STOA, the European Parliament's technology assessment body, and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies recently organised a workshop on the impacts of the economic crisis on European health systems. Evidence of the impact of the recent financial crisis on health outcomes is only just beginning to emer...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： McDaid D,Quaglio G,Correia de Campos A,Dario C,Van Woensel L,Karapiperis T,Reeves A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00