1340. Mumps Outbreak among a Highly Vaccinated University Community-New York City, NY, January-April 2014 Leena N. Patel, MD; Robert Arciuolo, MPH, CPH; Tamara Brantley, MPH, CPH; Francesca R. Giancotti, PhD; Jie Fu, PhD; Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc; Anthony Muyombwe, PhD; Jennifer B. Rosen, MD; Public Health/Preventive Medicine Residency Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygie...

The mental hygiene movement in Canada emerged in the second decade of this century during a period that has been called the "heyday of public health."2 Understandably, the movement shared some of the features of the public health movement. One of these features was a tension between the priorities of physicians interested in establishing medicine as a successful profession, and the aims and met...

The author reviews the history of the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. In 1912, Dr. Creighton Wellman published a groundbreaking paper entitled "The New Orleans School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene," outlining a clear plan for a new independent school of public health. He became the founding dean of the Tulane School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Wellman had spen...

INTRODUCTION The Working Group for Hygiene of Built Environment and the National Council of Residents of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health conducted a nation-wide survey to evaluate the knowledge and training needs on Built Environment and Indoor Health of Italian public health residents. RESULTS The compliance was very high (52,4%), covering the totality o...

As the global population grows there is a clear challenge to address the needs of consumers, without depleting natural resources and whilst helping to improve nutrition and hygiene to reduce the growth of noncommunicable diseases. For fast-moving consumer goods companies, like Unilever, this challenge provides a clear opportunity to reshape its business to a model that decouples growth from a n...

1Consultant Epidemiologist (Independent), 1081 Brussels, Belgium 2Department of Vaccinology, University of Antwerp, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium 3Division of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, 0403 Oslo, Norway 4National Institute of Public Health-National Institute of Hygiene, 400-791 Warsaw, Poland 5Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Immunization Unit, Robert Koch Instit...

Local health departments (LHDs) across the United States deliver a range of essential public health services, yet little is known about the costs that LHDs incur in providing these services and the factors that may cause costs to vary both within and across health departments. This report first describes the variations in the costs of one core public health activity commonly provided by LHDs: f...

Good oral hygiene has always been the cornerstone of public and private dental health promotion. However, this has often been based upon incorrect assumptions. The public is not always willing and does not always need to change its oral health behavior to the same extent as that expected by the dental profession. The present commentary emphasizes the need to modify oral hygiene instruction acco...