In the 1910s, in the wake of the glorious decade of syphilography (1900-1910), the early health education films lay the groundwork for a pragmatic approach to the containment of venereal diseases combining (early) diagnosis, treatment and prophylaxis. Realizing that WWI was turning into a durable military conflict, the French Army created a Cinematographic Section (SCA) in 1915 for the purposes...

1Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR 2MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge CB2 0SR 3Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia 4Cancer and Statistical Methodology Groups, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London NW1 2DA 5Medical Statistics...

McKee's laptop is always running while he travels, and he is known for his “legendary ability to write influential and original articles at lightning speed”, says Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where McKee is also based. As Professor of European Public Health, McKee is bold and outspoken: he issues unapolog...

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

There is little information available about incidences and causes of foodborne illnesses that can help the government develop policies, which prevent them in the UAE. This study includes a group of multinational subjects (males and females), residing in Al Ain, UAE, and of an age ranging between 15 and 55 years. A questionnaire designed to assess “Knowledge” and “Practice” of public hygiene mea...

background and aims: beauty salons are considered as the places which the environmental health and renovation are adhered too. they can improve the society’s health and influence controlling the diseases. not considering this issue causes the spread of skin and hair diseases and infections and louse. this study was aimed to determine the health status of beauty salons of kashan in 2014. methods...

Importance Adequate management of menstrual hygiene is taken for granted in affluent countries; however, inadequate menstrual hygiene is a major problem for girls and women in resource-poor countries, which adversely affects the health and development of adolescent girls. Objective The aim of this article is to review the current evidence concerning menstrual hygiene management in these setti...

BACKGROUND Influencing the general public response to pandemics is a public health priority. There is a prevailing view, however, that the general public is resistant to communications on pandemic influenza and that behavioural responses to the 2009/10 H1N1 pandemic were not sufficient. Using qualitative methods, this paper investigates how members of the general public respond to pandemic infl...

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