Dear Editor, Ever since Odegaard’s studies in the early part of the 20th century there has been considerable interest regarding the differences in the rates of psychosis among native and non-native populations (Odegaard, 1932). There is a substantial body of research that demonstrates increased rates of psychosis among the Black African and Caribbean population in the UK (Fearon et al. 2006). O...

NATIONAL SAMPLE SURVEY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS Authority of the federal agency, HRSA, to collect the information requested, the purpose and use of this information and the voluntary nature of participation, the extent to which information provided will be treated as private or confidential appears in the first communications with potential participants (in advance letters, brochures, and instrum...

1 | P a g e States license EMS personnel and EMS agencies as a means of ensuring public health and safety. The public should have access to practitioners who practice safely and competently. Because of this common and important function, the National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) has taken the lead in coordinating implementation of the EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Syste...

we are on the eve of a revolution in health policy that will forever change our way of thinking about health and healthcare. a few years from now, our vision of the organization and the administration of healthcare services will be transformed.   this is not a revolution born out of crisis, albeit the financial pressure on public and private funders of healthcare is clearly at play. it has not ...

On April 16, 1999, the Department of Health and Human Services and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) announced that the number of organ donors increased 5.6 percent in 1998, the first substantial increase since 1995. Donation increases between 1997 and 1998 were substantial for whites (up 6.6 percent from 4,139 to 4,410 donors) and Hispanics (up 7.8 percent from 552 to 595 donors). Ho...

** The planning process allows HSO managers to effectively deal with their varied external environments on a proactive basis. In terms of the management model, planning forces managers to focus on outputs, which then determines relative input needs into the HSO. The successful elucidation of HSO outputs and necessary inputs also allows managers to more effectively design and manipulate the conv...

background : schools have an important role in developing the countries. physical, health and safety factors are essential for normal growth of students' body, spirit and learning. by using environmental health protocols, it is easier to achieve these aims. methods : the aim of this research is to study the environmental health conditions in the primary schools of ghorve, west of iran. this obs...

background: the existing models of information technology in health sciences have full scope of betterment and extension. the high demand pressures, public expectations, advanced platforms all collectively contribute towards hospital environment, which has to be kept in kind while designing of advanced technological ecosystem for information technology. moreover, for the smooth conduct and oper...

Peter D. Jacobson Introduction For the past 20 years, I have been teaching various law courses, mostly to public health students. At the RAND Graduate School, I taught two courses to Ph.D. candidates: one on law and social science, and then a course on law and epidemiology (co-listed with the UCLA School of Public Health). Each year since 1996 at the University of Michigan School of Public Heal...