Migrant health is public health, and public health needs to be political

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

Public Health Public Health

Methods The number of cases of death were obtained from the 2002 and 2005 Mortality Database and population data from the Population Census 2002. Standardized sex specific rates of non-traumatic and traumatic mortality in 2002 and 2005 were calculated in relation to the European standard population. We presented population pyramid and aging index for both populations in 2002 and compared sex sp...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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Health needs and public health functions addressed in French public health journals.

BACKGROUND Our aim, as part of the collaborative study SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe), was to describe public health publications in the French language according to health needs and public health functions. METHOD All articles published in six French public health journals, and one French/English language Canadian journal, over the period 1995-2004, were retrieved fr...

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...