1 1Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA 2Johns Hopkins University, Global mHealth Initiative, Baltimore 3Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA 4Family Health International 360, Durham, NC, USA 5School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San F...

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and World Health Organization (WHO) are currently engaging in the revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). Polish Psychiatric Association (PPA) is participating in that process and the first step was an international survey of Polish psychiatrists expressing their experiences and concepts about the new...

ensuring the security in civil aviation - as a primary factor in economical and industrial development - is the major concern of international community. pursuant to the serious challenges in this sector after terrorist events of 11 september 2001 in the united states, international civil aviation organization (icao) as the most important organization relating to the international civil aviatio...

WPSAR Vol 4, No 3, 2013 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2013.4.3.003 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 1 a Division of Health Security and Emergencies, World Health Organization Regional Offi ce for the Western Pacifi c, Manila, Philippines. Submitted: 8 August 2013; Published: 30 September 2013 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2013.4.3.003 The revised International Health Regulations, known as IHR (2005), went into effect on 15 ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this report is to describe issues relevant to public health and to review all passenger ship associated diseases and outbreaks. Moreover, legislation and practices on sanitation and diseases surveillance related to ships internationally were also reviewed. Some relevant historical information about infections on merchant ships is provided as well. MATERIAL AND METHOD...

Global changes and new managerial challenges require new concepts of health and well-being in organizational contexts. In the South African context, health and well-being of managers have gained relevance in organizations and in management sciences. International organizations, in particular, attempt to address the increasing demand for health care and the delivery of health services to their m...

Ten years have elapsed since the World Health Organization issued its first global alert for an unexplained illness named severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect on the international response to this new global microbial threat. While global surveillance and response capacity for public health threats have been strengthened, critical gaps rem...

The Albanian Forum of Public Health (AFPH), an umbrella organization including different public health associations operating in Albania, was established in March 2004 with the support of the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and the Open Society Institute (OSI). Ever since its establishment the AFPH has been an open arena wherein opinions and options for rational health policies compr...

OBJECTIVE Parental self-efficacy is associated with increasing mental health in children. There is a paucity of research in Iran on the role of parental self-efficacy in increasing mental health status of children. In this preliminary study, we studied the effectiveness of the World Health Organization international child development program (2002) for children aged 3 years and younger in incre...

The United Nations adopted an historic international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in April 2013. A 1997 meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who called for an International Code of Conduct to address the 'destructive effects of the unregulated arms trade' initiated discussions that led to the Treaty. Public health institutions, including the World Health Organization and the International Committe...