Editorial No. 67

Erratum: Vol. 67, No. 4

Editorial: Why No Borders?

This editorial article argues for No Borders as a practical political project . We first critically examine borders as ideological, generating and reinforcing inequality . We consider some responses to injustices produced by borders: the call for “human rights”; attempts to make immigration controls more “humanitarian”; and trade unions’ organizing and campaigning with undocumented workers . Re...

Editorial: OJPHI Vol 4, No 3 (2012)

Welcome to the last issue of the 4th volume of the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. I am sure you are all aware that the National Library of Medicine has approved our application for indexing and archiving in PubMed Central. The next step is to deliver all past issues of the journal to NLM in the required XML DTD format. The NLM will provide links to other related biomedical informa...

Editorial OJPHI Vol 7, No 3 (2015)

This issue contains 5 original articles covering various topics in the application of data sciences to public health practice. These range from development of data visualization platforms to facilitate health workforce planning; the development of visualization methods for utilizing incomplete data for surveillance; development of agent-based model to explore the prevalence of gonococcal infect...

Editorial OJPHI Vol 8, No 3 (2016)

The current issue consists of interesting topics ranging from the design of visualizations for big health data; formulating an ontological framework for analyzing health policy; development of near real-time surveillance models using social media; asthma exacerbation risk predictions; deployment of analytics in community health centers; using Google reviews to assess the risk of elder abuse; th...