Study Objective: To report the evolution in perceptions and behaviours of the general public in response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong. Design: Ten similar and sequential telephone surveys were conducted during outbreak of SARS, which are classified as belonging to the first and second phases of the epidemic. Setting: Hong Kong, China. Participants: 1397 ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To report the evolution in perceptions and behaviours of the general public in response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong. DESIGN Ten similar and sequential telephone surveys were conducted during outbreak of SARS, which are classified as belonging to the first and second phases of the epidemic. SETTING Hong Kong, China. PARTICIPANTS 139...

1. Health in Emergencies & Disasters Department, School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Office of the Minister, Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan 3. School of Sanitation and Hygiene Education, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 4. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland USA 5. Department of ...

Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi1, Katherine E. Smith2, David Stuckler3, Martin McKee4 Public Health, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G2 3QB, UK Global Public Health Unit, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK Political Economy and Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UQ...

The University of Georgia, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Environmental Health School of Medicine, University o...

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The School of Community and Environmental Health offers graduate and certificate programs which lead to careers in health services research, public health, community health, health care administration, environmental health, and occupational safety. The Master of Science in community health offers practicing health care professionals the opportunity to complete their degrees in a distance format...

1Department of Preventive Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, LT-49264 Kaunas, Lithuania 2Department of Hygiene and Dietetics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-034 Krakow, Poland 3Cooperative Research Group for Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH), Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen and Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and E...

S. C. SEAL, M.B., D.P.H., F.A.P.H.A. (From the Department of Epidemiology, All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Calcutta) Since their inception, public health and research activities in this country have mainly been directed towards the investigation and control of epidemic diseases. The high incidence of mortality is partly due to the prevalence of these diseases, which sometimes ...

1Section of Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Francesco Vito 1, 00168 Rome, Italy 2IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Via della Pisana 235, 00163 Rome, Italy 3The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA 4Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza Univ...