Tuberculosis screening of new entrants; how can it be made more effective?

Weight management in primary care: how can it be made more effective?

Obesity is often difficult to tackle in primary care. Pressure of time in the consultation, a lack of appropriately-trained primary care staff, a shortage of community dietitians or nutritionists, the potentially enormous caseload, language or cultural barriers and the sheer intractability of patients' eating habits, exercise behaviour and their clinical condition, all conspire to make general ...

Epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis in Brazil: How can more progress be made?

How Can Vaccines Against Influenza and Other Viral Diseases Be Made More Effective?

1 Biological Mimetics, Inc., Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, 3 Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Unive...

The meaning of "socialization of health" to Iranian policymakers and how it can be implemented

Complex nature of health and disease, the impact of various socioeconomic factors on the health system arrangements and health of the society, and also the impact of health on the social and economic conditions of the society require a social approach to health. This necessity has led to the creation of new policies and programs, under the name of socialization of health, to strengthen the soci...

Screening for lung cancer: can it be cost-effective?

Last year, the Lancet reported on a study concerning a particular, avant-garde regimen of CT-based screening for lung cancer, showing its great superiority relative to the corresponding regimen based on traditional radiography (Lancet 1999;354:99-105). That report was met with great interest in the media, worldwide. It thereby also led to substantial public demand for the state-of-the-art scree...