What's new in public health?

PTSD Treatment for Veterans: What's Working, What's New, and What's Next.

More than a decade of war in the Middle East has pushed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the forefront of public health concerns. The author defines the disorder and discusses risk factors, treatments, and the barriers to effective care.

What's public? What's private? Policy trade-offs and the debate over mandatory annual influenza vaccination for health care workers.

Policy decisions about public health services differ from those for personal health services. Both require trade-offs between such policy goals as liberty, security, efficiency, and equity. In public health, however, decisions about who will approve, pay for, and deliver services are often accompanied by decisions on when and how to compel individual behaviour. Policy becomes complex because di...

Global health: what's in it for us?

A new report, America's Vital Interest in Global Health, released in June by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Board on International Health, calls for increased U.S. foreign health care spending to fund research and education about diseases of the developing world, a global surveillance system to spot environmental changes and emerging disease conditions, public and private sector partnerships...

What's in the telling? Understanding social, psychological and clinical aspects of HIV disclosure

What’s in the telling? Understanding social, psychological and clinical aspects of HIV disclosure Xiaoming Li, Shan Qiao, John de Wit and Lorraine Sherr Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality (CHQ), University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, Columbia, SC, USA; Center for Social Research in Health, Univer...

Tracking health care costs: what's new in 1998?