The links between health and sustainability have become increasingly accepted in health policy. For many practitioners, however, sustainability and climate change remain marginal to day-today practice. The lack of modelled best practice, combined with GP trainers’ uncertainty about content expertise, has resulted in a skills gap for new registrars. We suggest teaching sustainability skills at t...

A postal survey of 4066 men and women aged between 16 and 64 years was carried out in a general practice in Oxfordshire which had a patient participation group, established in 1972. The aim of the survey was to ascertain the knowledge and use of the group among adults aged 16-64 years. The adjusted response rate was 73%. Despite the length of the group's existence only 45% of these patients wer...

This paper reports the results of an analysis of the dissemination of community-based heart health promotion strategies. The research draws on diffusion and socio-ecological theories to study the first 10 years of heart health promotion in the public health system in Ontario, Canada. Using case description and interpretive analysis, the study describes developments in five stages of disseminati...

There is little doubt that the elderly population of the world is growing. The greatest growth in this segment of society happens to be in the industrialized nations and is becoming a serious public policy issue, which will have a dramatic economic impact. Many approaches to solving this problem have been presented from various perspectives. In the current work, we examine the challenges associ...

the topic of how cost-effectiveness information informs priority setting in healthcare remains important to both policy and practice. this commentary considers the study carried out by eckard and colleagues in sweden. in it we distinguish between the conditions at national and local levels and put forward some recommendations for research into local priority setting in particular.

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...

The author develops the basic idea of evaluation policy, describes a practical model for development and revision of evaluation policies (including a taxonomy, structure, and set of principles), and suggests critical challenges and opportunities for the future of evaluation policy. An evaluation policy is any rule or principle that a group or organization uses to guide its decisions and actions...

The book provides a well documented basic overview of the main developments and dilemmas in the field. It contains eleven chapters, the first sketching conceptualisations of mental illness and public health issues over time, especially the divide between the medical model and the social causation model developed in antipsychiatry. The second chapter resumes developments in policy making on stra...