Alcohol advertising and public health: an urgent call for action.

Call for urgent action on climate change.

Emerging issues in adolescent healthcare--an urgent call for action.

High incidence of latent tuberculous infection among South African health workers: an urgent call for action.

SETTING In South Africa, health care workers (HCWs) are at two-fold greater risk of acquiring tuberculosis (TB) disease than the general population. Few studies have evaluated the risk of incident tuberculous infection. OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence and risk factors for latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) among HCWs and to compare the results of the interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA...

Alcohol advertising and public health: systems perspectives versus narrow perspectives.

BACKGROUND Alcohol consumption is influenced by a complex causal system of interconnected psychological, behavioural, social, economic, legal and environmental factors. These factors are shaped by governments (eg, licensing laws and taxation), by consumers (eg, patterns of alcohol consumption drive demand) and by alcohol industry practices, such as advertising. The marketing and advertising of ...

Critical opportunities for public health law: a call for action.

Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to ch...