Development communities in rich and poor countries have long been concerned about the minimal attention many political leaders in developing countries give to serious public health problems. Developing country officials often have different priorities than international actors, and efforts to make their priorities converge are complicated by the fact that there is little systematic research on ...

Although leaders and other commentators have called for the medical profession's greater engagement in improving systems of care and population health, neither medical education nor the practice environment has fostered such engagement. Missing have been a clear definition of physicians' public roles, reasonable limits to what can be expected, and familiarity with tasks that are compatible with...

S upport for the development of leaders and staff members in Catholic health care is vital for the ministry's future. Bon Secours Health System, Inc. (BSHSI), Marriottsville, xMD, places a high priority on such development. Indeed, BSHSI's commitment is reflected in various strategic documents, including its Sponsorship Policies, Strategic Quality Plan, and Human Resources Philosophy, to name o...

Laboratories are integral to the delivery of quality health care and for public health functions; however laboratory systems and services are often neglected in resource-poor settings such as the East African region. In order to sustainably strengthen national laboratory systems in resource-poor countries, there is a need to train laboratory personnel to work in clinical as well as public healt...

The effects of home-based HIV counseling and testing on HIV/AIDS stigma among individuals and community leaders in western Kenya: Evidence from a clusterrandomized trial Corinne Low, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Winnie Rono, Evan Plous, Angeli Kirk, Samson Ndege, Markus Goldstein & Harsha Thirumurthy a Department of Economics, Columbia University, NY, USA b School of International and Public Affairs, ...

Among first-world countries blessed with abundance, as well as within developing nations struggling to move forward, achieving and sustaining acceptable health care services are priorities for civic leaders, medical workers, and citizens. When epidemiologic trends, including escalating rates of chronic illness,1,2 rapidly aging populations, and greater-than-ever health care use, are juxtaposed ...

Increasingly, financial incentives are being used in health care as a result of increasing demand for health care coupled with fiscal pressures. Financial incentive schemes are one approach by which the system may incentivize providers of health care to improve productivity and/or adapt to better quality provision. Pay for performance (P4P) is an example of a financial incentive which seeks to ...

Objectives This study aims to evaluate a leadership fellowship program through perspectives of Ethiopian women medical faculty participants. Methods An intensive two-week leadership development fellowship was designed for women faculty from Ethiopian medical schools and conducted from 2011-2015 at the University of Wisconsin-School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. Nine Eth...

The Commonwealth Government is increasing its emphasis on public health and quality of care, which will require a capacity to measure health outcomes and develop strategies for continuous improvement. The reforms being considered by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) are designed to improve the quality of health services by allowing the Commonwealth to concentrate on broader strategic...

"The basic operation of the epidemiologist is to count cases and measure the population in which they arise" (1, p. 349). With this statement, Alexander D. Langmuir emphasized the critical role of statistical methods in public health practice. Public health is a population-based discipline that depends on science from other fields (2, p. 44), and a fundamental public health activity is the scie...