Community Health Officer Post – Potential Concerns

The Health Officer

Drs. Overton and Denno have condensed in this book a large amount of useful information for the benefit of local health officers in the United States. It is somewhat startling to note that in some of the United States the health officer need not be a qualified medical man, while the authors deprecate the fact that these appointments are sometimes given laiway as political rewards. It is not sur...

Radiation and the Health Officer

One hundred and ten years ago Edwin Chadwick began service on the General Board of Health in England. The creation of this agency marked the most important socio-sanitary step of the early nineteenth century. Just as Chadwick set the pace for that period, so Professor Winslow, in the twentieth century, with public health problems even more interwoven with the fabric of society, rekindled this t...

Mountaintop Removal Mining: Digging Into Community Health Concerns

Assessing health concerns and barriers in a heterogeneous Latino community.

Introduction. Major health issues and barriers to health services for Latino immigrants were identified through community-based participatory research in Baltimore city. Methods. In collaboration with community partners, five focus groups were conducted among Latino adults from 10 countries and health service providers. Findings. Priorities across groups included chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS and ...

Environmentally induced epigenetic toxicity: potential public health concerns

Throughout our lives, epigenetic processes shape our development and enable us to adapt to a constantly changing environment. Identifying and understanding environmentally induced epigenetic change(s) that may lead to adverse outcomes is vital for protecting public health. This review, therefore, examines the present understanding of epigenetic mechanisms involved in the mammalian life cycle, e...