How the Continuity of Care Document Can Advance Medical Research and Public Health

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

Medical Advance, Public Health and Social Evolution

ground of his life (over 250 names of his contemporaries appear in the text), Gibbs also provides a valuable document of the eighteenth century scene and, at the same time, produces an excellent companion volume to R. E. Schofields' The Lunar Society ofBirmingham (1963). That science never for long took first place in Priestley's life is correctly stressed. Full justice is done, for instance, t...

How can computation advance microbiome research?

Microbiome science is already in the fast lane, and computations share the credit. How can computations further speed up the pace of microbiome research as it dashes farther, scaling higher summits? What can computations accomplish? What questions can computations help address and what types of algorithms and software should computational biologists aim to develop? These are tantalizing questio...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

How anthropological theory and methods can advance global mental health.

396 www.thelancet.com/psychiatry Vol 3 May 2016 Anthropologists have levied a range of concerns about the burgeoning fi eld of global mental health. These critiques encourage refl ection about practice. The next step is for anthropologists to consider how their theories and methods can contribute to generation of empirical data to contribute to eff ective, ethical, and sustainable achievements ...