Community Health Status Indicators Project " (1) is a fascinating article that describes how county-level poverty data were created into maps. Although appropriate for review by my students, the article raises the issue of how to explain such maps to elected officials. I have a hard enough time understanding the math, and I doubt whether one in a thousand elected officials could understand the ...

Research into the mental health of female sport match officials is scarce, despite verbal and physical abuse being commonplace. Twelve officiating male matches took part in semistructured interviews, investigating their experiences understanding health. Deductive thematic analysis identified four overarching themes: football environments; abuse, sexism, homophobia football; formal informal supp...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the nationwide patterns in the use of public health informatics systems by local health departments (LHDs) and whether LHDs tend to possess informatics capacity across a broad range of information functionalities or for a narrower range. This study examined patterns and correlates of the presence of public health informatics functionalities within LHDs through th...

abstract aim and materials: the aim of current study was to investigate the role of the personality traits and psychological health in staff's job satisfaction. methods and materials: using available sampling method 110 people of kharazmi university administrative staff were selected and assessed by big five factor of personality questionnaire, psychological health questionnaire and spector’s j...

Financial bottlenecks – budget shortfalls, irregular funding flows, lack of flexibility in the use of public revenues – are major challenges for countries as they strive towards providing universal health coverage (UHC). To help countries achieve sustainable funding for UHC, World Health Organization (WHO) economists are developing a package of technical support for health ministries, so that t...

introduction: health tourism refers to travel for the use of services that improve or promote the physical or psychological health of an individual in a location apart from their place of residence lasting over 24 hours. health tourism provides a sizeable share of revenues derived from the health sector in some countries. the high potential for health tourism in iran, especially in the city of ...

HEALTH DEPARTMENT officials joined nursing and midwifery organisations last week at talks on the future of the Baby Friendly Initiative (BEI), the worldwide campaign to promote breastfeeding.