Better Communication for Better Public Health

Travel Medicine in Qatar: Strategic Action for Better Public Health Outcome

Public health ethics: informing better public health practice.

Public health ethics has emerged and grown as an independent discipline over the last decade. It involves using ethical theory and empirical analyses to determine and justify the right thing to do in public health. In this paper, we distinguish public health ethics from clinical ethics, research ethics, public health law and politics. We then discuss issues in public health ethics including: ho...

Challenges for Better thesis supervision

  Background: Conduction of thesis by the students is one of their major academic activities. Thesis quality and acquired experiences are highly dependent on the supervision. Our study is aimed at identifing the challenges in thesis supervision from both students and faculty members point of view.   Methods : This study was conducted using individual in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussi...

Better Communication for Tighter Cooperation

We propose a general scheme for the cooperation of different constraint solvers. A uniform interface for constraint solvers allows to formally specify information exchange between them and it enables the development of an open and very flexible combination mechanism. This mechanism allows the definition of a wide range of different cooperation strategies according to the current requirements su...

Pharmacogenomic technologies: a necessary "luxury" for better global public health?

BACKGROUND Pharmacogenomic technologies aim to redirect drug development to increase safety and efficacy of individual care. There is much hope that their implementation in the drug development process will help respond to population health needs, particularly in developing countries. However, there is also fear that novel pharmacogenomic drugs will remain too costly, be designed for the needs ...