DIVISION C COMMISSION 55: COMMUNICATING ASTRONOMY WITH THE PUBLIC

Communicating with the Public about Integrative Medicine

Objective B wave analysis in 55 patients with non-communicating and communicating hydrocephalus.

BACKGROUND B waves, slow and rhythmic oscillations in intracranial pressure (ICP), are claimed to be one of the best predictors of outcome after surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). OBJECT To determine the relation between the percentage of B waves and outcome in patients with hydrocephalus, and also the diurnal variation of B waves. METHODS ICP and patient behaviour were record...

Communicating with Public Health Organizations: Technical Solution

By working with experts throughout Europe, ECDC pools Europe’s health knowledge, so as to develop authoritative scientific opinions about the risks posed by current and emerging infectious diseases. Difficulties rose in the management of competent bodies’ lists and the information was duplicated several times across the organization. ECDC started implementing a CRM system to organize the inform...

Childhood leukaemia - communicating with a worried public

1. Introduction This presentation is a case-history of an attempt by a local health authority in the U.K. to deal with high levels of public anxiety about a cluster of childhood leukaemia in Northampton by a risk communication strategy. Usually, in similar circumstances of intense public demand and extensive adverse publicity, health authority's have responded by setting up, predictably inconcl...

Communicating public health messages.

Welcome to Issue 2 of Public Health Research & Practice, our new peerreviewed open-access quarterly journal for policy makers and practitioners (formerly the NSW Public Health Bulletin). Public health practitioners and researchers are often perplexed by how to best convey the value of prevention and the outcomes of their research and programs. The media seem more interested in a new ‘breakthrou...