What a Public Health Nurse Expects of Her Chief—the Health Officer

The Ramblings of a Public Health Officer

When I agreed to speak to this association on some of the experiences of my recent leave, I did not realise how impossible it was to give any adequate idea of my ramblings until I had set myself down to the task. I wish, therefore, to state at the commencement, that if my remarks appear to be somewhat disjointed, as I am afraid they will be, this is largely due to the fact that I have been comp...

What the probation officer expects from the psychiatrist

The origins of the probation service can be traced back to the late-Victorian era and the introduction of the so-called police court missionaries who super vised offenders on conditional release from the court. The service grew slowly, but mushroomed in the 1970s and 1980s when several major acts widened the scope of the service by introducing parole, after care of discharged prisoners, communi...

Perinatal Mental Health: A Public Health Concern

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What is public health?

At the time of the formation of the World Health Organization in 1946, one of its first achievements was to create a brilliant new definition of health: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”1 This definition has lasted 7 decades without modification as it reflects the multidimensional nature of health. If it ha...

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority