Applying a prevention framework to address homelessness as a population health issue.

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：:Vaccination is the best available way to prevent influenza infections and related complications. Little information is available on vaccination policy in the world's most populous country, China. In China, influenza vaccine is not included in the national immunization programme. Citizens seek the vaccine on their own....

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Zhang Y,Muscatello DJ,Wang Q,Yang P,Wu J,MacIntyre CR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Greece implemented the deepest austerity package in Europe during the Great Recession (from 2008), including reductions in severance pay and redundancy notice periods. To evaluate whether these measures worsened labour market participants' health status, we compared changes in self-reported health using two cohorts of...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Barlow P,Reeves A,McKee M,Stuckler D

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：:Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal neurological disease of cattle first recognized in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1986. Until recently, the UK government considered the chance of a human becoming infected with the BSE agent to be extremely remote. As a result of new developments, alarm...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Lanska DJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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

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：: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：:Schools of public health have a proud history of educating personnel for leadership roles in the field of practice. Such personnel have played key roles in developing public health. Over the years, however, the missions of the schools of public health have become blurred. To a significant degree, a focus on health car...

journal_title：Journal of public health policy

authors： Gordon LJ,McFarlane DR

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：: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：: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 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：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：: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：: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：: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