A spate of legislations prohibiting cigarette smoking in enclosed public spaces, mainly on grounds of public health protection, recently swept across cities around the world. This is in tandem with a raft of increasingly restrictive national laws that emerged on the back of the ratification of the WHO Framework for Tobacco Control by more than one 168 countries in 2005. The central debate on th...

In the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) (http://www.share-project.org), health measures were constructed based on a careful consultation process of health experts and previous health surveys. However, there have been limited efforts to examine the comparability of health data in SHARE. Therefore, we aim to compare self-reports of health based on incidence and prevalence...

The ethical problems in vaccine research have grown in frequency and magnitude in last decades, due to the dominant place of the pharmaceutical industry in the development of such studies. Traditional issues of security and efficacy have been aggravated by the conflicts of interests introduced by commercial competition in a global market worth billions of dollars. We present here a few examples...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to document Australian policies on the physical health of people with mental illness and evaluate the capacity of policy to support health needs. METHODS A search of state and federal policies on mental and physical illness was conducted, as well as detailed analysis of policy content and the relationships between policies, by applying the World Hea...

PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY A one day public engagement workshop was held to focus on the priorities of older people about research and practice in health and social care. Seventy-five older people from the general public and a variety of backgrounds attended this event to share their views and discuss what should be prioritised. The main aim of this workshop was to identify and prioritise issues tha...

community  nutrition  can  be  defined  as  a coordinated set of actions and services helping people  to  choose  a  healthy  diet  in  terms  of nutritional value and food safety to meet  their physiological needs in any given social context. it encompasses a wide range of strategies and programs based on evidence generated through basic and epidemiological nutrition and food research. the ult...

globally around 38 million people die each year as a result of non communicable diseases (ncds) in which 42% (~ 16 million) are premature deaths (below the age of 70). nine voluntary global targets were set by world health organization to control above mentioned premature deaths. iran added 4 more targets to it, including 20% reduction in the mortality rate due to road traffic injuries. the nee...