Pain as a global public health priority

Pain as a global public health priority

BACKGROUND Pain is an enormous problem globally. Estimates suggest that 20% of adults suffer from pain globally and 10% are newly diagnosed with chronic pain each year. Nevertheless, the problem of pain has primarily been regarded as a medical problem, and has been little addressed by the field of public health. DISCUSSION Despite the ubiquity of pain, whether acute, chronic or intermittent, ...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Global Developments in Priority Setting in Health

Countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. This makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. There is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

Cervical cancer vaccine as a priority of public health practices in Iran

Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women. In poor countries, it is the second cause of cancer death [1]. According to official report of World Health Organization, about 500,000 new cases of cervical cancer were recorded each year that more than half of them are leading to death. 80 percent of new cases are occurred in developing countries [2].

Communicable disease control as a Caribbean public health priority.

The English-speaking Caribbean is in transition toward communicable disease health patterns seen in the more developed world. Structural adjustment policies in recent years have weakened control measures, such as water supply and sanitation, as illustrated by recent outbreaks of typhoid fever in Jamaica (1990-1991), increased malaria incidence in Suriname and Guyana (with temporary importation ...