Think Tanks for Public Health Action – a Swedish Example

Interest Groups, Think Tanks, and Health Care Policy (1960s-Present)

Postgraduate Design Courses as Research Think Tanks for Cultural Institutions

In the interest of reinforcing the relationship between academic research and professional practice, certain postgraduate design courses can serve as research think tanks for cultural institutions or projects which may not have access to inhouse research departments, either for organic reasons or as a result of limited resources. This approach, which we have been implementing since 2006 within ...

A framework for public health action: the health impact pyramid.

A 5-tier pyramid best describes the impact of different types of public health interventions and provides a framework to improve health. At the base of this pyramid, indicating interventions with the greatest potential impact, are efforts to address socioeconomic determinants of health. In ascending order are interventions that change the context to make individuals' default decisions healthy, ...

Public Health Action

of the two diseases, treatment of persons with dual disease and prevention of TB in persons with DM.5 For each of these challenges, the knowledge gaps are highlighted along with the research questions that need to be answered if care and control of the dual burden of disease are to be achieved. The second review article looks at existing and new technologies for screening and diagnosing type 2 ...

Travel Medicine in Qatar: Strategic Action for Better Public Health Outcome