Ageing societies—new priority for public health research?

Research Synopses: Public Health and Healthy Ageing

The Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group of the HKU Faculty of Dentistry is committed to protecting and improving oral health for all people by performing and synthesising clinical, community-level, and educational research, and by applying public health sciences. Below is a selection of summaries of research findings published by the Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group, ...

Concussion research: a public health priority.

Head injury is a major public health concern due to the high incidence and the accompanying morbidity and mortality. In the USA, head injuries are a contributing factor to one third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths and result in 52 000 deaths, 275 000 hospitalisations and 1.4 million emergency department visits each year. While fully 75% of head injuries are classified as mild traumatic bra...

Priority setting in public health and health services research.

Models for strategic priority setting in public health and health services research typically lack coherence or omit key considerations. We propose a new model, the Seven 'I's, with seven components: innovation, identification, inequalities, incorporation, importance, influences, and interventions. It tests the 'relevance' of research, while 'excellence' will be evaluated using existing criteri...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Chronic kidney disease: a research and public health priority.

The growing global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) worldwide has been disregarded until recently by policy makers, major aid donors and academics. However, NCDs are the leading cause of death in the world [1–3]. In 2008, there were 57 million deaths globally, of which 63% were due to NCDs. These chronic diseases are the largest cause of death, led by cardiovascular disease (17 millio...