Venter backs call for more public funds

Physicians, CIHR call for more H1N1 research funds.

To Suggest More Funds , Profs , For History

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The No-Destination Ship of Priority-Setting in Healthcare: A Call for More Democracy

In dealing with scarcity of resources within healthcare systems, decision-makers inevitably have to make choices about which services to fund. Setting priorities represents a challenging task that requires systematic, explicit and transparent methodologies with focus on economic efficiency. In addition, the engagement of the general public in the process of decision-making has been regarded as ...

Preventing Bounce-Backs: More Filled Meds, Less Hurting Heads.

This retrospective cohort analysis of Medicaid claims data included .30 000 children from 12 states who were hospitalized for asthma from 2005 to 2007. The study linked hospitalization for asthma and readmission for asthma with b-agonist medication fill rate, oral steroid fill rate, and inhaled steroid fill rate. Readmission was defined as hospitalization with a primary or secondary diagnosis o...

A call for more research that enhances public health nutrition practice.

Public health nutrition practice can be simply categorised to include three interrelated but distinct spheres of activity, including analysis, capacity building and intervention management. This is clearly a simplification of practice that in reality is quite complicated and diverse, but serves in this Editorial to help make a point about the need for research in under-represented areas of the ...