Bringing Up-to-Date Public Health Research to Your Doorstep

Are your immunizations up to date?

Ethics in public health research: masters of marketing: bringing private sector skills to public health partnerships.

Skill in marketing is a scarce resource in public health, especially in developing countries. The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap set out to tap the consumer marketing skills of industry for national handwashing programs. Lessons learned from commercial marketers included how to (1) understand consumer motivation, (2) employ 1 single unifying idea, (3) plan for effec...

Is your skin-prep technique up-to-date?

AN EFFECTIVE skin preparation agent cleans away microbes, then continues to inhibit pathogen growth between dressing changes. For central venous access devices (CVADs), this has traditionally been accomplished with three alcohol swabsticks and three povidone-iodine swabsticks applied in concentric circles from the insertion site outward. But new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control a...

Stepping up to public health.

MIDWIFERY 2020 outlined several key messages around the public health (PH) role of the midwife. Their ‘unique contribution to public health is that they work with women... throughout pregnancy, birth... and into the first weeks of family life’, hence, they have a vital role to play in ‘improving health and social wellbeing for all women’ (Chief Nursing Officers of England, Northern Ireland, Sco...

Bringing a public health perspective to quality and patient safety.