نتایج جستجو برای: public health practice
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Study objective: To explore how the increased supply of coronary bypass operations and angioplasties from 1988 to 1996 influenced socioeconomic and gender equity in their use. Design: Register based linkage study; information on coronary procedures from the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register in 1988 and 1996 was individually linked to national population censuses in 1970–1995 to obtain patient...
Sir Robert Watson-Watt, who developed early warning radar in Britain during WorldWar II to counter the rapid growth of the Luftwaffe, proposed a “cult of the imperfect,” which he stated as “Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes” (Brown 1999). Just as imperfect radar detected incoming German aircraft to protect British citizens, imperfect pu...
Public health management is a pillar of public health practice. Only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. With this in mind, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed an innovative program called Improving Public Health Management for Action (IMPACT) which aims to address th...
It is widely acknowledged that public health practice raises ethical issues that require a different approach than traditional biomedical ethics. Several frameworks for public health ethics (PHE) have been proposed; however, none of them provides a practice-oriented combination of the two necessary components: (1) a set of normative criteria based on an explicit ethical justification and (2) a ...
Health promotion and education components of state health agencies are at the center of the application of modern public health practice. Two reports on the future of public health, issued 15 years apart, detailed the changing nature and systemic problems of public health in the late 20th century (1) and identified the challenges in improving the public’s health as we head into the 21st century...
The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) celebrates its 10th annual meeting with the arrival of the 2011 ISDS Annual Conference, ‘Building the Future of Public Health Surveillance’. This milestone in the Society’s history is punctuated not only by the achievements of the disease surveillance community but also by the promise of what lies ahead. The Annual Conference brings toge...
OBJECTIVE To assess the role of ethical regulations in public health practice, and to review the need to exempt any public health activity from such ethical regulations. METHODS Literature review of published papers regarding ethical regulations in public health practice. RESULTS There is a current criticism of public health ethics as hindering rather than facilitating public health researc...
Primary prevention is generally considered as the prevention of a disease before it occurs, or reduction of its incidence. However, this concept needs to be expanded here since early nutritional interventions are often targeted towards optimizing neurodevelopmental potential. Therefore, the suggested definition of primary prevention for this Workshop is as follows: To prevent or reduce the risk...
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