Should action take priority over further research on public health?

Concussion research: a public health priority.

Head injury is a major public health concern due to the high incidence and the accompanying morbidity and mortality. In the USA, head injuries are a contributing factor to one third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths and result in 52 000 deaths, 275 000 hospitalisations and 1.4 million emergency department visits each year. While fully 75% of head injuries are classified as mild traumatic bra...

How should health professionals take action against climate change?

What action should we take to save the health service?

How can the NHS cutbacks, downgrading, restructuring and job losses not affect the quality of care we are able to give patients? The NHS will cease to exist as we know it if we allow Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill to be implemented.

Priority setting in public health and health services research.

Models for strategic priority setting in public health and health services research typically lack coherence or omit key considerations. We propose a new model, the Seven 'I's, with seven components: innovation, identification, inequalities, incorporation, importance, influences, and interventions. It tests the 'relevance' of research, while 'excellence' will be evaluated using existing criteri...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority