Public Health Optimism in the New Millennium

Public health in the new millennium I: Technology.

Challenges to public health in the new millennium.

Of all the medical specialties, it is public health that by its very nature is most aVected by political, social and economic changes. Therefore the challenge to public health in the new millennium will be deciding how to adapt to the simultaneous changes in all these areas created by the forces of globalisation. Diseases will travel faster than every before, as will the information (and mislea...

Revisiting Public Health Challenges in the New Millennium

Positive Health of the communities could only be brought out through the interrelationship between conventional health sector and other development sectors. It was a dream that came true when World Health Organization (WHO) accepted Primary Health Care (PHC) as the major tool to achieve its proposed goal of Health For All (HFA) by 2000 A.D., but we could not succeed as expected. Now we have the...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...

Health for all in the new millennium.

Health professionals working in organisations promoting health through social and environmental justice have a good track record. Poverty is the greatest violence Ghandi Do health professionals have a responsibility to identify, and attempt to correct the social and environmental wrongs that so undermine our personal and collective health? The organisation of which I am presently chairman, Meda...