Holistic and multi-disciplinary responses should be prioritized given the depth and breadth through which corruption in the healthcare sector can cover. Here, taking the Peruvian context as an example, we will reflect on the issue of corruption in health systems, including corruption with roots within and outside the health sector, and ongoing efforts to combat it. Our ...

In recent years centres dealing with global mental health came into existence in London, New York, New Delhi, Melbourne and possibly elsewhere. To what an extent the creation of these centres was connected with the lesser visibility of Mental Health program of the World Health Organization (WHO) which was previously the main international agency dealing with global mental health issues is not e...

introduction: health system performance assessment provides appropriate information about the status of health systems for governments and communities. therefore, in the recent decade, many countries have focused on performance assessment and reporting in order to develop methods and tools as a mean to help achieving health goals. the present study tries to design an indicator-based model (incl...

M A Degail1,2, G J Hughes ([email protected])3, C Maule4, C Holmes4, M Lilley5, R Pebody1, J Bonnet4, A Bermingham1, S Bracebridge3 1. Health Protection Agency, Colindale, United Kingdom 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. Health Protection Agency East of England, Cambridge, ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 7, No. 3 Supplement, June 2001 544 Waterborne Disease Outbreaks In the United States, 127 drinking water outbreaks, most of them associated with groundwater systems, were reported to CDC from 1990 through 1998. The number of outbreaks has declined over the last 20 years, probably as a result of actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water ut...

1National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, USA 2Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1A8 3National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protect...