Health protection in times of economic crisis: challenges and opportunities for Europe.

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：: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：:We undertook a systematic review to identify and summarise studies on hardcore smoking and hardening to: determine the degree of variability in definitions of hardcore smoking and hardening; assess the evidence for claims that smokers are becoming increasingly hardened within the context of harm reduction as a policy ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Buchanan T,Magee CA,V See H,Kelly PJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavored alcoholic beverages (FABs) were first introduced into the alcohol market in the early I980s in the form of wine coolers. FABs are sweet, relatively low alcohol content beverages that are designed for "entry-level" drinkers. The alcohol industry has introduced new products and production methods to expand the ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Mosher JF,Johnsson D

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：: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：:An independent evaluation of the Affordable Medicine Facility for malaria (AMFm) pilot phase has hailed it as a success, but important limitations and unanswered questions remain. In 2012, the board of the Global Fund decided to integrate the AMFm into country grants by 2014. This means that countries now need to dete...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： von Schoen-Angerer T

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Increases in pediatric overweight and obesity throughout the European Union (EU) generate concern because of the many associated co-morbidities, psychosocial effects, and economic costs. A variety of policy approaches have been implemented, but counteracting weight gain has proven challenging. Do differences in public...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Suggs LS,McIntyre C

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：:Formal driver education/training programs exist in almost all jurisdictions around the world. They are generally accepted as an efficient and effective means for learning to drive, and, more importantly, for learning to drive safely, although empirical evidence for safety benefits is lacking. Recently, there has been ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Mayhew DR,Simpson HM,Williams AF,Ferguson SA

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:The history of class conflict in occupational health in the United States is illustrated by the current Pittston Company attack on coal miners' health benefits, the silicosis and asbestosis controversies, the corporate restrictions on state workers' compensation laws, and the unremitting management opposition to the f...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Kerr LE

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although for over 20 years the Field Epidemiology Training Programs (FETPs) have provided a model for building epidemiology capacity in Ministries of Health worldwide, the model does not address laboratory training and its integration with epidemiology. To overcome this, Kenya added a laboratory management component i...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Kariuki Njenga M,Traicoff D,Tetteh C,Likimani S,Oundo J,Breiman R,Nyamongo J,Burke H,Nsubuga P,White ME

更新日期：2008-07-01 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 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：:This paper presents a population health framework for homelessness prevention. Rooted in the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative, the framework includes strategies that affect social determinants of health that influence a broad range of health outcomes prevalent among the homeless. For each prevention level, we co...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Nicholas WC,Henwood BF

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco is not and does not have to be a high priority for all segments of organized labor, but public health advocates should continue to promote the issue and find segments which are open to collaborative efforts to protect workers' health. Even in those unions representing workers for whom smoking and ETS pose a lo...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors：

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhode Island Department of Health has undertaken a Breast Cancer Screening Program which incorporates assessment, policy development, and assurance functions, following the model proposed in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Public Health. With the community's help, projects have been implement...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Scott HD,DeBuono BA,Fulton JP,Smith RA,Feldman JP

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Over half of the people affected by leprosy worldwide are in India, many of whom are severely disabled when they present for care. Changes in policy and the integration of the leprosy programme with general health services has given rise to new challenges for the control of blinding eye disease in leprosy patients. Th...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Prasad NM,Prasad SR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The "hardening hypothesis" suggests that as smoking prevalence decreases, lighter smokers will quit first, leaving more "hardcore" smokers in the population. At a population level, however, the weight of evidence suggests that no hardening is occurring. By understanding the lessons from Geoffrey Rose's model of popula...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Chaiton MO,Cohen JE,Frank J

更新日期：2008-09-01 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