Invited Lecture 5: 5G Technology and Public Health Hazard

Acyclovir as a public health hazard.

Invited Lecture: Narrative Summarization

The understanding and summarization of stories remains a challenge, in part because of the inability to adequately capture the ‘aboutness’ of information content. This can result in inappropriate content selection as well as summary incoherence. This talk sketches a general framework for narrative summarization that relies in part on explo itation of temporal information. I will show how this f...

LECTURE OF THE MONTH Health services and the public health

Many modern public health practitioners become drawn to the origins of public health as a discipline, and turn their attention first to sources of local history within their jurisdiction. It was in this way that John Ashton’s curiosity was aroused, and he brought the story of William Henry Duncan to popular attention, inaugurating the Duncan Memorial Lecture Series. In fact, the career of John ...

PUBLIC HEALTH Health Technology: Challenge to Public Health

Health technology includes drugs, procedures, techniques, and equipment used by health professionals to provide health care, and the organizational and supporting systems within which the care is delivered. Such new technology may comprehend new drugs, new medical devices and appliances, new medical activities and surgical procedures, health promotion and disease prevention activities, and orga...

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