Public welfare agenda or corporate research agenda?

A public health nursing research agenda.

Public health nurses (PHNs) use many interventions to prevent illness and promote the health of populations. Unfortunately, generating evidence regarding PHN practice is not explicitly identified as a research priority area of the major national funding agencies. Nor has PHN, as a profession, had a strong enough research agenda to drive practice improvement on a population-level and to drive fu...

Research Agenda

I recognize that not everyone finds programming difficult. Indeed, many of my peers seem to find programming very easy, and positively revel in being able to master the complexity of an application in a write-only programming language that makes full use of a large set of support libraries to execute a complicated distributed algorithm. My research is not directed at these people. It is instead...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Public Meeting Agenda

Some appliances so/d as indoor air deaners, indoor air purifiers, and personal air purifiers, purposely emit ozone, purportedly to clean the air. Manufacturers often fa/se/y c/aim that these devices eliminate bacteria, mold, and chemical contaminants from the air, and that they he/p persons WMI asthma and allergies. Advertising and sales of such devices is increasing. Staff will report on a rec...

Shaping the Research Agenda

Despite the global efforts in research, training, and control over the years, tropical diseases remain a major cause of ill-health in poor populations. An estimated 2.7 billion people living on less than US$2 per day, in both rural and impoverished urban areas of low-income countries, are affected [1,2]. Thirteen neglected tropical diseases alone account for 534,000 deaths each year and the los...