In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a press release announcing that tuberculosis (TB) was a global emergency, making it the first infectious disease to be declared as such. Although progress has been made, no country has eliminated TB and there are 3 million missed TB diagnoses each year [1]. The term global health emergency has since evolved and most recently, the term “Public ...

background: ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. public health ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. the primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools o...

OBJECTIVE This article outlines a number of important areas in which public health can contribute to making overall disaster management more effective. This article discusses health effects of some of the more important sudden impact natural disasters and potential future threats (e.g., intentional or deliberately released biologic agents) and outlines the requirements for effective emergency m...

The 25th known outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is now a global public health emergency and the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the epidemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Since the first cases of the West African epidemic were reported in March 2014, there has been an increase in infection rates of over 13,000% over a 6-month period. The...

introduction: certainly, personal health or social health issues are the most important aspects of human life. health is an essential condition for social roles and activities and is an essential condition for social roles and activities in people. lifestyle is a combination of individual behavioral patterns and habits that is created throughout socialization processes, by personal interaction ...

background: industrialization and urbanization had a devastating impact on public health and caused an increase in health related morbidity and mortality. in fact, asthma is a chronic condition which is considered as one of the significant challenges of public health. in this study, we investigated the association of air pollution and weather conditions with excess emergency ward admissions of ...

Improving preparedness in the European region requires a clear understanding of what European Union (EU) member states should be able to do, whether acting internally or in cooperation with each other or the EU and other multilateral organizations. We have developed a preparedness logic model that specifies the aims and objectives of public health preparedness, as well as the response capabilit...