The first edition of the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC) was released on August 29, 2014, and is now available on the Centers for Disease Control and Preven­ tion’s (CDC’s) Web site (www.cdc.gov/mahc, see Figure 1). The MAHC is a set of free guide­ lines based on science and best practices to help jurisdictions reduce outbreaks, drowning, and chemical injuries at public aquatic facilities. The...

The study proposed here is the result of work conducted under NSF Digital Government Grant #306803, “How are we doing? Tracking country image in the information age.” The goal of the one-year planning grant (awarded May 2003) was to conduct project start-up activities. The objective of the study is to examine the institutional factors that influence the use of IT for knowledge management in pub...

In Japan, overwork-related disorders occur among local public employees as well as those in private businesses. However, to date, there are no studies reporting the state of compensation for cerebrovascular/cardiovascular diseases (CCVD) and mental disorders due to overwork or work-related stress among local public employees in Japan over multiple years. This report examined the recent trend of...

BACKGROUND Communication and marketing are rapidly becoming recognized as core functions, or core competencies, in the field of public health. Although these disciplines have fostered considerable academic inquiry, a coherent sense of precisely how these disciplines can inform the practice of public health has been slower to emerge. DISCUSSION In this article we propose a framework--based on ...

Governments in developing countries usually fail to generate innovative solutions to public policy issues or they are not even conscious of the high potential they have if they could open their problems for innovative solutions. Innovation at the public level is limited because of organizational and cultural reasons, mainly because government officials do not have the right incentives to do so....

In early 1999, more than 160 senior physicians, public health officials, and nurses met to discuss London's tuberculosis (TB) control program. The program was examined against the public health response of New York City's Bureau of Tuberculosis Control during a 1988 to 1992 epidemic. This article outlines TB epidemiology and control in New York City 10 years ago and in London today to assess wh...

A broad competence is conferred upon judges in their capacity as public-office holders, including achieving the fair settlement of criminal and civil relationships solving disputes between private persons public authorities by way administrative proceedings. In administering justice, are officials who have a task to ensure that what today’s society understands trial. democratic world, right tri...

Understanding how information spreads throughout a population can help public health officials improve how they communicate with the public in emergency situations. In this project, I implement an agent-based information diffusion model inspired by the Bass model. I compare my discrete-time simulation to a traditional differential-equation conceptualization of the Bass model. Finally, I test my...

Understanding how information spreads throughout a population can help public health officials improve how they communicate with the public in emergency situations. In this project, I implement a fast, memory-efficient agent-based information diffusion model inspired by the Bass model. I compare my discrete-time simulation to a traditional differential-equation version of the Bass model. Finall...

The primary purpose of this chapter is to provide public health officials, physicians, toxicologists, and other interested individuals and groups with an overall perspective of the toxicology of sulfur dioxide. It contains descriptions and evaluations of toxicological studies and epidemiological investigations and provides conclusions, where possible, on the relevance of toxicity and toxicokine...