1College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA 2Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology, Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, USA 4Hematology/Oncology Section, Department of Medicine, Stephenson Cancer Center, University...

The history of the Center for Occupational Health (COH) at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague dates back to the early 1950s. The Center was established on January 1, 1952. The first director of the Institute was Prof. Jaroslav Teisinger, M.D., D.Sc. (1902–1985), the founding father of occupational medicine in former Czechoslovakia, and the head of the first Czech Department of Oc...

James M. Hill 1,2,3,4 and Walter J. Lukiw* 1 Louisiana State University Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA 2 Departments of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA 3 Microbiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA 4 Pharmacology, Louisiana State Universi...

the current challenge in health services research is disability to present comprehensive and effective intervention plans for community health promotion. there are numerous reasons in this regard, some of which can be overcome through performance-based participatory research methods. the population research center (prc) in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) provides the necessary grou...