Lessons from India: outcomes of an overseas field trip for public health students

Lessons from Lithuania: rethinking public health training.

Lithuania faces stark problems that are familiar to most countries in the former Soviet Union: high morbidity and mortality rates, pollution, an unstable economy, and rapid changes in the financing and organisation of health care. In this environment Moore and Dixon visited Kaunas Medical Academy to help identify how training in public health medicine could contribute towards improving the heal...

Reforming Public Services in India: Drawing Lessons from Success

Lessons from a Special Service for Public Health, Brazil

To the Editor: Many thanks for your interesting and informative special section on infectious diseases in the Amazon Region (1). Your readers should also be interested in a little known, but extremely successful, sustainable health program that had its start in the Amazon. In 1942, the governments of Brazil and the United States agreed to establish a special service for public health (called th...

an application of fuzzy logic for car insurance underwriting

در ایران بیمه خودرو سهم بزرگی در صنعت بیمه دارد. تعیین حق بیمه مناسب و عادلانه نیازمند طبقه بندی خریداران بیمه نامه براساس خطرات احتمالی آنها است. عوامل ریسکی فراوانی می تواند بر این قیمت گذاری تاثیر بگذارد. طبقه بندی و تعیین میزان تاثیر گذاری هر عامل ریسکی بر قیمت گذاری بیمه خودرو پیچیدگی خاصی دارد. در این پایان نامه سعی در ارائه راهی جدید برای طبقه بندی عوامل ریسکی با استفاده از اصول و روش ها...

Undergraduate Public Health, Lessons Learned from Undergraduate Health Administration Education

1 John A. Drew Professor of Healthcare Administration, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 2 Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA *Correspondence: [email protected] The authors who presently serve in administrative leadership positions in graduate education have both previously served as directors of undergrad...