Choosing health.

abstract：:A study is in progress to document changes in selected public health departments over the past decade and to use those observations for proposing an assessment protocol that may be helpful in measuring progress toward achieving one of the Health Objectives for the Nation for the Year 2000. Objective no. 8.14 reads: "I...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Miller CA,Moore KS,Richards TB,Kotelchuck M,Kaluzny AD

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:Skin whitening is a big and booming industry in many developing countries. Its popularity owes mainly to post-colonial, internalized racism. This study examines whether government intervention is necessary and more efficient than market-driven approaches in addressing the health risks and harms associated with skin wh...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Mendoza RL

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Available industry guidelines and federal standards have failed to fully protect workers from chemical toxicity: none exist for most chemicals, many are biased toward what can easily be achieved, and many were developed long after health consequences became evident. Limitations of occupational air contaminant standard...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Lanska DJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Elected national representatives make decisions to fund health programmes, but may lack skills to interpret evidence on health-related topics. In 2011, we surveyed the 61 members of Botswana's Parliament about their use of epidemiological evidence, then provided two half-days of training about using evidence. We inclu...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Cockcroft A,Masisi M,Thabane L,Andersson N

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：: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：:We describe an economic framework, including demand- and supply-side factors, for approaching the analysis and planning of health system reform in South Africa, in order to avoid piecemeal debates. We argue that there is an urgent need to re-engineer the way health facilities are internally organized to achieve better...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Ruff B,Mzimba M,Hendrie S,Broomberg J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The international community holds high expectations for aid producing demonstrable results in the health sector, at the global and developing country levels. Yet, measuring the effectiveness of aid presents methodological challenges. Existing evaluation frameworks are not sufficiently geared toward learning whether an...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Paul E,Ireland M,Martini J,Zinnen V,Ronse I,Samaké S,Dujardin B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tanzania requires more health professionals equipped to tackle its serious health challenges. When it became an independent university in 2007, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) decided to transform its educational offerings to ensure its students practice competently and contribute to improvi...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Ngassapa OD,Kaaya EE,Fyfe MV,Lyamuya EF,Kakoko DC,Kayombo EJ,Kisenge RR,Loeser H,Mwakigonja AR,Outwater AH,Martin-Holland J,Mwambete KD,Kida I,Macfarlane SB

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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

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更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration of laboratory training into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) began in 2004 and has advanced the training of laboratory scientists worldwide on the basic principles of epidemiology, disease surveillance, and outbreak investigation. The laborat...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Rush T

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of housing and income assistance among vulnerable youth has not been well described in the literature, yet it is a crucial issue for public health. This study examines the prevalence and correlates of loss of income assistance as well as eviction among street-involved youth. We collected data from a prospective c...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Zivanovic R,Omura J,Wood E,Nguyen P,Kerr T,DeBeck K

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Excess weight in schoolchildren is a serious health problem in Mexico. In 2010, the government established General Guidelines for Dispensing or Distribution of Foods and Beverages at School Food Establishments (SFEs) in Elementary Schools with the objective of stopping the epidemic of overweight and obesity. This stud...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Jiménez-Aguilar A,Morales-Ruán MDC,López-Olmedo N,Théodore F,Moreno-Saracho J,Tolentino-Mayo L,Bonvecchio A,Hernández-Ávila M,Rivera JA,Shamah-Levy T

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：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：: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：:This commentary addresses the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Public Health Association's international program 'Strengthening of Public Health Associations' and its importance for the World Federation of Public Health Associations. Furthermore, it points out future challenges for public health associations throughou...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Hogstedt C,Pettersson B

更新日期：2011-08-01 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

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：:Assisting tobacco farmers to transition to non-tobacco alternatives is a key element of comprehensive tobacco control's end-game strategy and specifically required by the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC). We examine the historical relationship between tobacco manufacturer...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Jones AS,Austin WD,Beach RH,Altman DG

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：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