NSW Health Hepatitis C public awareness campaign

Public health and hepatitis C.

This paper reviews key public health aspects related to surveillance, transmission and primary prevention of hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is now a reportable disease in all Canadian provinces and territories. Although prevalence in Canada is estimated at under 1%, that associated with injection drug use (IDU) approaches 90%. The epidemiology of new HCV infections in Canada is now primarily defined ...

Celebrating the past; awakening the future: the NSW Public Health Forum highlights public health successes in NSW.

Public health has many forms of expression. Public health applies knowledge derived from fields of enquiry that includes epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, medicine, economics, and environmental science. Public health seeks to make healthy lifestyles, healthy policy, and a healthy economy, practical and applied ideals. Beside the natural environment and air and water quality, ozone levels a...

Georgia’s Cancer Awareness and Education Campaign: Combining Public Health Models and Private Sector Communications Strategies

The Georgia Cancer Awareness and Education Campaign was launched in September 2002 with the goals of supporting cancer prevention and early detection efforts, heightening awareness of and understanding about the five leading cancers among Georgia residents, and enhancing awareness and education about the importance of proper nutrition, exercise, and healthy lifestyles. The inaugural year of the...

Indian hepatitis C drug patent decision shakes public health community.

Reflections on 24 years of the NSW Public Health Bulletin.

The birth of the Bulletin The year 1990 was a landmark for public health in New South Wales (NSW). The Public Health Division at the then NSWDepartment of Health was in its infancy, having been formed at the end of 1989, and funding for a program to enhance public health in NSW led to the establishment of a network of Public Health Units and the NSW Public HealthOfficer Training Program. TheNSW...