PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL PRACTICE

Public Health Policy and Practice

Study objective: This study examined the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) on sexual risk behaviours of HIV infected injecting drug users (IDUs) included in the French MANIF 2000 cohort study. Design: Longitudinal analysis including baseline and last follow up characteristics using generalised estimating equations (GEE). Setting: Hospital departments for specialist AIDS c...

Public Health Policy and Practice

Study objective: To explore how the increased supply of coronary bypass operations and angioplasties from 1988 to 1996 influenced socioeconomic and gender equity in their use. Design: Register based linkage study; information on coronary procedures from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register in 1988 and 1996 was individually linked to national population censuses in 1970–1995 to obtain patient...

Public health ethics: informing better public health practice.

Public health ethics has emerged and grown as an independent discipline over the last decade. It involves using ethical theory and empirical analyses to determine and justify the right thing to do in public health. In this paper, we distinguish public health ethics from clinical ethics, research ethics, public health law and politics. We then discuss issues in public health ethics including: ho...

Epidemiology in public health practice

• Several models exist for planning public health policies and programmes. Three important ones are: the Precede-Proceed model, the Five-Stage Community Organisation model and the Intervention Mapping model. • These models provide a detailed insight into the processes that take place during the four stages of the public health cycle. • Analysis of these models results in the following seven epi...

Medical practice in a public school.