Editorial: Malpractice: a public health emergency.

Editorial: Periodontal Disease – A Public Health Problem

In 2010, the World Health Organization published an important report entitled " Equity, Social Determinants and Public Health Programmes " (1, 2) revealing that among priority public health conditions, oral health represents a global problem linked to inequalities in social circumstances (3). Periodontal disease, a chronic inflammatory disease resulting in progressive attachment and alveolar bo...

Crack in Brazil: a public health emergency.

Nunavut suicides a "public health emergency".

Nunavut’s government “shall immediately declare suicide a public health emergency,” and appoint a Cabinet minister responsible for suicide prevention, recommended a coroner’s jury in Iqaluit. The territorial government should appoint the new minister by its next sitting and add a secretariat with “the mandate and the resources to demonstrate the Government’s commitment to this crisis,” by April...

What is a public health "emergency"?

O March 27, 2014, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick declared the state’s opioid-addiction epidemic a public health emergency. The declaration empowered the Massachusetts public health commissioner to use emergency powers to expand access to naloxone, an opioid antagonist that can reverse overdoses; develop a plan to accelerate the mandatory use of prescription monitoring by physicians and ph...

Guest Editorial: Nuclear Power and Public Health

of concern about the health and environmental effects of burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil to produce electrical energy in recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in nuclear power stations as a " carbon-free " method of generating electricity. For example, an interdisciplinary study titled The Future of Nuclear Energy, released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...