Ensuring Sustainable Development in Ghana: Public Health Security and Policy Concerns

Congenital toxoplasmosis: public health policy concerns.

Toxoplasmosis is caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and is most often a benign disease. Two populations are at risk of severe disease, immunocompromised such as HIV-infected patients and fetuses or children with toxoplasmosis transmitted from their mothers via placenta. Congenital toxoplasmosis is rare on average, less than one case per 1,000 pregnancies, since mother-to-child transmissio...

Ensuring public health neutrality.

n engl j med 368;12 nejm.org march 21, 2013 1073 be shot down and far more would crash because the Nigerian government’s shoot-to-kill order forced them to fly at night. The brazen targeting of Red Cross relief flights on civilian humanitarian missions was hard to imagine. In the minds of some people, however, these attacks were justified by another clear violation of humanitarian neutrality: o...

PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE Employment security and health

Objective: To study the relation of contractual and perceived employment security to employee health. Design: Cross sectional survey. Setting: Municipal sector employees in eight Finnish towns. Participants: 5981 employees with a permanent contract and 2786 employees with a non-permanent contract (2194 fixed term contract, 682 government subsidised contract). Outcome measures: Poor self rated h...

Iranian Population Policy and Aging: New Health Concerns

Sustainable Agriculture and Public Policy