Building capacities of elected national representatives to interpret and to use evidence for health-related policy decisions: a case study from Botswana.

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：: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：: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：: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：:This paper examines targeted alcohol advertising in three ethnic communities: African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans in the U.S. We focus on the appropriation of cultural systems and the reinvention of them as commodities to consumers. We outline the specific strategies used in each ethnic community. For Afr...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Alaniz ML,Wilkes C

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes violence as a threat to sustainability. To serve as a context, we provide an overview of the Sustainable Development Goals as they relate to violence prevention by including a summary of key documents informing violence prevention efforts by the Wo...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Lee BX,Kjaerulf F,Turner S,Cohen L,Donnelly PD,Muggah R,Davis R,Realini A,Kieselbach B,MacGregor LS,Waller I,Gordon R,Moloney-Kitts M,Lee G,Gilligan J

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internet cigarette vendors (ICVs) advertise low prices for tobacco products, subverting public health policy efforts to curtail smoking by raising prices. Many online retailers in the United States claim affiliation with Native American tribes and share in tribal tax-free status. Sales of discounted cigarettes from bo...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Samuel KA,Ribisl KM,Williams RS

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Equatorial Guinea, the most prosperous country in Africa, still bears a large malaria burden. With massive wealth from oil reserves, and nearly half its population living in island ecotypes favourable for malaria control, only poor governance can explain continued parasite burden. By financially backing the country's ...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Shah NK

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Despite the Fukushima power plant accident (2011), development of next-generation nuclear reactors and rapid expansion of uranium mining in low-income countries are likely to improve prospects for the nuclear industry. Trends in the nuclear energy industry have given rise to new public health challenges. Driven by hig...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Sarkar A

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：: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：: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