Occupational Health Facilities of the Public Health Service and State Agencies

Public Health Service grants to construct health facilities.

GRANT PROGRAMS designed to stimulate and support the building of health facil¬ ities have grown markedly in terms of both kind and volume of construction aided. In 1946 the first Public Health Service construction grant program, the Hospital Survey and Construction (Hill-Burton) Act, was passed. The initial authorization was $75 million for fiscal year 1948. Until the enactment of the Health Re...

The role of social support networks in public health and health service utilization among the elderly

Background and Objective:Study the Effect of Supportive-Social Ties Onthe General Health of Elderlise it’s an Introduction to Decrease use of health service in Elderlise by Social Approach's of Iran. Method: this study is descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional survey on the statistical sample of 356Elderlise in1390 with the multistage cluster method and the relative category technique fro...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Forecast of Healthcare Facilities and Health Workforce Requirements for the Public Sector in Ghana, 2016–2026

Background Ghana is implementing activities towards universal health coverage (UHC) as well as the attainment of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the health sector by the year 2030. Aside lack of empirical forecast of the required healthcare facilities to achieve these mandates, health workforce deficits ar...

New partnerships between animal health services and public health agencies.

As Veterinary Services and animal health organisations attempt to respond to a new era of emerging and re-emerging zoonotic diseases, their ability and skill in forming new strategic partnerships will be paramount. While these new partnerships are likely to include many relationships outside traditional Veterinary Services and animal agriculture, none will become more important than the formati...