Mental health is a challenging public health issue worldwide and surveillance is crucial for it. However, mental health surveillance has not been developed until recently in certain developed countries; many other countries, especially developing countries, have poor or even no health information systems. This paper presents surveillance related to mental health in China, a developing country w...

BACKGROUND Public Health Systems Research is an emerging field of research that is gaining importance in Canada. METHODS On October 22 and 23, 2012, public health researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers came together at the Accelerating Public Health Systems Research in Ontario: Building an Agenda think tank to develop a research agenda for the province. RESULTS This agenda included t...

introduction: many studies have focused on the need of health systems to educated physicians in the clinical prevention, research methodology, epidemiology and health care management and emphasize the important role of this training in the public health promotion. on this basis, shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) has established md/mph dual degree program since the year 2012. methods:...

in his insightful editorial, nir eyal explores the connections between nudging and shaming. one upshot of his argument is that we should question the principle of the least restrictive alternative in public health and health policy. in this commentary, i maintain that eyal’s argument undermines only a rather implausible version of the principle of the least restrictive alternative and i sketch ...

martin powell suggests that the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been announced so many times we are at risk of not noticing should it actually happen. he is right. if we ‘cry wolf’ too many times, we risk losing sight of what is important about the nhs and why.

further to our recently published findings, we have completed the analysis of our second year of prehospital data collection for the same service. we wish to expedite the availability of this data to clinicians, researchers and policy makers in the region. our 2015/2016 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (ohca) data displayed the following demographic results: 514 ohca resuscitation attempts were a...

public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. it is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. for this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...

background and purpose: the internet is a useful tool for developing a variety of learning experiences and as a source of information and as a means of facilitated communication between students and teachers. the aim of this research was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of the internet use among bachelors’ degree students in shahid beheshti school of health . method...