THE PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OUR NATION'S HEALTH

Our Food: Packaging & Public Health

The public health infrastructure: rebuild or redesign?

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Global Health-Related Public-Private Partnerships and the United Nations

This is one in a series of policy briefs commissioned by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to encourage sound thinking on aspects of globalisation. These briefs have been commissioned from and produced by the GASPP programme, an AngloFinnish research and public information programme based partly in STAKES, Helsinki. The opinions expressed are those of the authors. This initial series of b...

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...

The Environmental Public Health Performance Standards: strengthening the nation's environmental public health infrastructure and improving environmental health practice.

Editor’s note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build part­ nerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Con­ trol and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest au­ thors from across CDC will ...