Public Health Nursing Legislation—What It Should Include

Why Education in Public Schools Should Include Religious Ideals

This article aims to open a new line of debate about religion in public schools by focusing on religious ideals. The article begins with an elucidation of the concept ‘religious ideals’ and an explanation of the notion of reasonable pluralism, in order to be able to explore the dangers and positive contributions of religious ideals and their pursuit on a liberal democratic society. We draw our ...

A health policy for hearing impairment in older Australians: what should it include?

BACKGROUND As in all western countries, Australia's older population experiences high levels of hearing impairment coupled with relatively low levels of hearing device usage. Poor hearing diminishes the quality of life of affected individuals and their families. This paper discusses how to improve Australian hearing health policies in order to better combat this impairment amongst older Austral...

Provider-initiated HIV testing in health care settings: should it include client-centered counselling?

To increase access to HIV testing, the WHO and CDC have recommended implementing provider-initiated HIV testing (PITC). To address the resource limitations of the PITC setting, WHO and CDC suggest that patient-provider interactions during PITC may need to focus on providing information and referrals, instead of engaging patients in client-centered counselling, as is recommended during client-in...

Public Health Nursing.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off the spark in one another. Introduction T he development of a competent future public health nursing workforce is strongly influenced by the nursing students' educational experiences. The responsibility for providing realistic, high quality public health nursing education is shared by both education and prac...

Does public health still include environmental health and protection?