FROM MEASURING TO IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE

From Theory to Practice in Public Health

Public health science and practice: from fragmentation to alignment.

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is pleased to be part of the emerging Population Health Intervention Research Initiative for Canada (PHIRIC) and to support its ongoing development. PHIRIC is a watershed initiative. It has the potential to change fundamentally the way we think about bridging research, evaluation, policy and practice. Most importantly, it has the potential to move us fr...

From Improving Processes to Improving Practice

Context: Software development depends significantly on team performance, as does any process that involves human interaction. Objective: Most current development methods argue that teams should self-manage. Our objective is thus to provide a better understanding of the nature of self-managing agile teams, and the teamwork challenges that arise when introducing such teams. Method: We conducted e...

Improving pharmacy practice through public health programs: experience from Global HIV/AIDS initiative Nigeria project

BACKGROUND The use of medicines is an essential component of many public health programs (PHPs). Medicines are important not only for their capacity to treat and prevent diseases. The public confidence in healthcare system is inevitably linked to their confidence in the availability of safe and effective medicines and the measures for ensuring their rational use. However, pharmacy services comp...

from past to present: 100 years of public health practice in trinidad

the aim of this study is to map the chronological achievements of public health over the past 100 years in a small island state and to outline emerging themes. a retrospective analysis of data was conducted from the published population and vital statistics reports of the central statistical office for the period of 1953-2006, as well as all available published reports of the ministry of health...