Public health and colonialism: a new or old problem?

Public health and colonialism: a new or old problem?

Epidemiology is not alone as a discipline in facing awesome challenges. It would also be wrong to ascribe to epidemiology any particular failures; many disciplines have shared diYcult times as the world around them is restructured. What is at stake for the entire spectrum of public health disciplines—from “hard” medicine to “soft” policy—is nothing more than a need to re-think their own role in...

Old Europe — New Public Health

Synthetic Cathinones: A New Public Health Problem

New psychoactive substances (NPS) have completely modified the drug scene and the current landscape of addiction. Synthetic substances, such as substituted or synthetic cathinones, also known as « legal highs », are often produced and used to mimic the effects of controlled drugs such as cocaine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy), and methamphetamine. The overwhelming majority of sy...

Systematic reviews in public health: old chestnuts and new challenges.

a Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, England. Correspondence to Mark Petticrew (e-mail: [email protected]). The Bulletin’s editorial team has decided to encourage systematic reviews. This is an important decision and is to be welcomed. However it is possible that it will not be received positively by all. Some may fe...

International public health: between old and new paradigms.

today's changing world, public health has had to adjust to new demands arising out of the intense activity of complex and dynamic cultural, social, and economic processes that transcend borders. The dizzying development of trade, modes of transport, and telecommunications, which has led to the nearly exponential growth of migration, has contributed to this phenomenon. Changes in the health stat...