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Epidemiology, Public Health, and Public Policy
I left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more than 4 years ago to go to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). RWJF had gone through a time of substantial rethinking about its role in society and come to the conclusion that the focus should not be grant-making; it should be creating social change for health. This could just as easily be said about public health — creating...
متن کاملPublic Health Policy and Practice
Study objective: This study examined the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) on sexual risk behaviours of HIV infected injecting drug users (IDUs) included in the French MANIF 2000 cohort study. Design: Longitudinal analysis including baseline and last follow up characteristics using generalised estimating equations (GEE). Setting: Hospital departments for specialist AIDS c...
متن کاملPublic Health Policy and Practice
Study objective: To explore how the increased supply of coronary bypass operations and angioplasties from 1988 to 1996 influenced socioeconomic and gender equity in their use. Design: Register based linkage study; information on coronary procedures from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register in 1988 and 1996 was individually linked to national population censuses in 1970–1995 to obtain patient...
متن کاملAnthrax 2001: observations on the medical and public health response.
THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES ASPECTS of the medical and public health response to the 2001 anthrax attacks based on interviews with individuals who were directly involved in the response. It has been more than 18 months since B. anthracis spores were discovered in letters sent through the U.S. postal system. The specific purpose and perpetrator(s) of these attacks remain unknown. A total of 22 people...
متن کاملAnthrax: A disease of biowarfare and public health importance.
Bioterrorism has received a lot of attention in the first decade of this century. Biological agents are considered attractive weapons for bioterrorism as these are easy to obtain, comparatively inexpensive to produce and exhibit widespread fear and panic than the actual potential of physical damage. Bacillus anthracis (B. anthracis), the etiologic agent of anthrax is a Gram positive, spore form...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2006.102749