The Future of Emergency Medicine Public Health Research

The future of emergency medicine public health research.

This chapter addresses past successes and challenges and then elaborates on the potential for further advances in three areas that bridge emergency medicine and the broader public health and health services research agenda: (1) monitoring health care access; (2) surveillance of diseases, injuries, and health risks; and (3) delivering clinical preventive services. This article also suggests ways...

Future role of public health medicine.

Frada Eskin in her contribution to the debate on the future role of public health medicine makes interesting points on the interrelationship between leadership, politics and public health. In particular, she laments that public health doctors have been too involved in ‘unnecessary detail’, as their job is to ‘create the vision’ so that ‘others can make it happen’. Although a firm believer in mu...

Public Health Research Priorities For The Future

The last century of innovative public health discoveries has led most of the world’s population to lead longer, healthier lives. Yet, the future holds some of the greatest public health challenges in mankind’s history. Global disparities in health; medication safety; climate change; epidemics of obesity and diabetes; an aging world demographic; and emerging infections all represent problems req...

Biomedical research and the future of public health.

Public health disaster research: surveying the field, defining its future.

Disaster medicine and public health preparedness are commonly perceived as subfields of the larger fields of medicine and public health rather than being recognized as an emerging academic field embracing all of the disciplines that contribute to effective disaster response. As such, they serve as appropriate subjects for multidisciplinary work in the social sciences, whether it is a sociologic...