Challenges to public health in the new millennium

Challenges to public health in the new millennium.

Of all the medical specialties, it is public health that by its very nature is most aVected by political, social and economic changes. Therefore the challenge to public health in the new millennium will be deciding how to adapt to the simultaneous changes in all these areas created by the forces of globalisation. Diseases will travel faster than every before, as will the information (and mislea...

Revisiting Public Health Challenges in the New Millennium

Positive Health of the communities could only be brought out through the interrelationship between conventional health sector and other development sectors. It was a dream that came true when World Health Organization (WHO) accepted Primary Health Care (PHC) as the major tool to achieve its proposed goal of Health For All (HFA) by 2000 A.D., but we could not succeed as expected. Now we have the...

Public health in the new millennium I: Technology.

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

New Challenges & Opportunities for Operations Practitioners in the New Millennium

The scope of Operations Management (OM) has changed significantly in the last several decades. Starting from Re-order Point (ROP) to Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM), OM has gone through a long way in terms of scope and techniques being used. JIT philosophy, lean production, and agile manufacturing have significantly changed the ways how we design and analyz...