“Food-Poisoning”—A Public Health Problem

Our Food: Packaging & Public Health

Neurocysticercosis a public health problem

Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic disease of the central nervous system that constitutes a public health problem in endemic regions. Here, we present a patient with epilepsy and cognitive impairment due to neurocysticercosis. A public health intervention could eradicate this disease in endemic regions such as Ecuador.

Hypertension – a Public Health Problem

Hypertension, considered a “silent murder”, is the largest social problem in developed countries and in a large number of developing countries. Despite of known efficacy and affectivity of various preventive and control measures, including the pharmacological ones, hypertension will continue, for decades, representing one of the largest health challenges and high cost disease for individuals an...

Composting: A Public Health Problem

Food and nutritional security and public health.

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(7):1464-1465, jul, 2008 Food and Nutritional Security has become an increasingly important area of public policy in Brazil. In the tumultuous process of constructing national values and practices, it has come to have a direct impact on the political and institutional make-up of various sectors of government and society. Until the 1990s, the main forms of f...