The Global Caries Initiative (GCI), was launched by FDI World Dental Federation in 2009, setting out an ambitious worldwide agenda together with a profession-led call to action, whose goal is ‘to improve oral health through the implementation of a new paradigm for managing dental caries and its consequences, one that is based on our current knowledge of the disease process and its prevention, s...

The Department of Public Health and Social Medicine at the Shaheed Beheshti Univer­sity of Medical Sciences is a new division of the medical faculty which began less than a decade ago. Since its inspection it has expanded into a department with num­bers of faculty member specialized in the field of public Health and preventive medicine. The program which is being developed with the assistance o...

Study objective: This study examined the impact of highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) on sexual risk behaviours of HIV infected injecting drug users (IDUs) included in the French MANIF 2000 cohort study. Design: Longitudinal analysis including baseline and last follow up characteristics using generalised estimating equations (GEE). Setting: Hospital departments for specialist AIDS c...

• Several models exist for planning public health policies and programmes. Three important ones are: the Precede-Proceed model, the Five-Stage Community Organisation model and the Intervention Mapping model. • These models provide a detailed insight into the processes that take place during the four stages of the public health cycle. • Analysis of these models results in the following seven epi...