Rural Public Health Service Delivery: Promising New Directions

Promoting Public Health in the Context of the "Obesity Epidemic": False Starts and Promising New Directions.

In the battle to combat obesity rates in the United States, several misconceptions have dominated policy initiatives. We address those misconceptions, including the notion that restrictive diets lead to long-term weight loss, that stigmatizing obesity is an effective strategy for promoting weight reduction, and that weight and physical health should be considered synonymous with one another. In...

Policy and environmental change: new directions for public health.

Solving major, persistent public health problems requires new policies and more aggressive, sweeping interventions that affect large populations. We need well-conceived health policies and effective interventions for environmental change, but are we likely to get them? To find out, the Directors of Health Promotion and Education and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initiated ...

Public sentiment driving health reform tipping in new directions.

The Canadian public has come to the conclusion that now is the time to make tough choices to secure a sustainable, relevant, responsive healthcare system for the future.While the public does not feel it has all the answers, or all the information to provide informed directions, it does feel competent to say what is wrong with the system, what values should drive repairs and what new directions ...

Public health in hospitals: new steps in old directions.

A pilot scheme of hospital epidemiologists in the Northern and Yorkshire region has provided an exciting opportunity to promote a public health perspective among hospital clinicians. Responsibilities and roles of the posts include the promotion of clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice, epidemiological support for audit, research and clinical evaluation, liaison with primary care an...

Traditions, transitions, and transfats: new directions for public health.