TECHNOLOGY CAN IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION

Strengthening public health education and training to improve global health.

Public health training and education have existed for over a century,1 yet there is little systematic evidence on whether current approaches prepare graduates to improve health by developing, evaluating and implementing effective and equityoriented public health programmes. There are three reasons to document and debate this topic worldwide and disproportionately focus on lowand middle-income c...

Can public-private partnership (PPP) improve hospitals’ performance indicators?

    Background: This study was conducted to compare the main performance indicators of Hasheminejad hospital before and after implementing PPP model.    Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in Iran in 2015. Performance indicators of Hasheminejad hospital, the only Iranian unit that implemented PPP model, were applied. Data were collected based on a researcher-designed checklist af...

Can technology improve teaching of public health and social/behavioral sciences?

Can the Energy and Enterprise Initiative Improve Public Health?

A former Republican congressman from South Carolina has started an institution to promote conservative approaches to mitigating climate change and achieving energy security for the United States. According to Bob Inglis, whose Energy and Enterprise Initiative is housed within George Mason University, market distortions lead Americans to use far more fossil fuels than they would if they paid the...

Can measuring the ankle-brachial index improve public health?

eripheral artery disease (PAD) is a common manifestation of ystemic atherosclerosis, with a prevalence ranging from 4% in he healthy U.S. adult population over the age of 40 years, to 9% in patients screened in primary care offices, with diabetes, igarette smoking, and age as risk factors (1,2). Peripheral rtery disease is highly associated with the risk of cardiovascular schemic events and exc...