Abstract Background The present crisis offers a unique opportunity to better understanding the specific contribution of health workforce system resilience, and more specifically adaptive, absorptive transformative capacities that influence how systems respond COVID-19 pandemic. Methods study examined different in context as central prerequisite resilience. We compared policies services response...

Recent pandemics such as Swine Flu, have caused concern for public health officials. Given the ever increasing pace at which infectious diseases can spread globally, officials must be prepared to react sooner and with greater epidemic intelligence gathering capabilities. However, state-of-the-art systems for Epidemic Intelligence have not kept the pace with the growing need for more robust publ...

The public health response to false information about vaccines can sometimes backfire. A series of workshops aims to help public health officials in Europe meet the challenge. Tatum Anderson reports.

The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) in the early 1990s, including multidrug-resistant strains, led health officials to recommend the use of involuntary detention for persistently nonadherent patients. Using a series of recently published articles on the subject, this paper offers some opinions on how detention programs have balanced protection of the public's health with patients' civil liberti...

There are a number of factors and driving forces that have converged to create a new era of emerging and re-emerging diseases. This era is likely to continue for some time with profound implications for both human and animal health. Because approximately 75% of the new emerging human diseases over the last several decades are zoonotic, this era is also characterized by a greater convergence of ...

To combat disease outbreaks, public health officials often use painstaking fieldwork to try to stay one step ahead of the infectious bugs, linking patients’ symptoms to a source of infection to quickly identify the common culprit in related cases. Now, a new field called genomic epidemiology is taking advantage of the rapidly reduced costs of next-generation DNA sequencing to better inform publ...

This study explores the acceptability, the barriers to the implementation of needle and syringe exchange programs (NSPs) and the potential improvement strategies in China from the perspectives of governmental health and public security officials. Purposive sampling was used for recruitment of participants who had been involved in NSPs implementation. Semi-Structured individual interviews were c...