background: inadequate attention to management and institutional reforms is an important barrier to achieving universal health coverage. skilled and motivated public health managers in adequate numbers are an important requirement to overcome this hurdle. however, what are the career choices of medical students? are they interested in community medicine and public health? to document the career...

background and purpose:: although it will be one of the most critical duties and skills of a general practitioner to manage outpatients in his office or at ambulatory care centers, our present medical education is based upon ward-based teaching and ambulatory care, as one important part of medical education, has been overlooked. we evaluate attitudes of faculty members of zahedan university of ...

Qualitative research is becoming more prominent in academic medicine and health care fields, and an increasing number of publications using qualitative methods are featured in prominent journals1–3; thus, recognizing the different available approaches can benefit researchers of all types. While a debate may wage between proponents of qualitative versus quantitative research, both sets of method...

Studies on the work of Mascarenhas analyze his contribution to the history of health in Sao Paulo and the aspects of his work which place him in what is entitled the second generation of health workers of São Paulo state - being the first generation the one led by Emílio Ribas. This article recaptures these points and highlights his last works on preventive and community medicine. We argue that...

Background: Road crash injury is largely preventable and predictable; it is a human-made problem amenable to rational analysis and countermeasures. All the studies on Road Traffic accidents either use number of accidents or victims according to availability of accident data. Studies combining these two types of data to identify hazardous locations are a rarity. In this study data on both, the n...

In the decades to come, molecular genetic insights and techniques will have great influence on prevention and health care. Health care providers should anticipate important new developments rather than just wait and see. For community doctors, who can impossibly oversee all relevant developments in sufficient detail, close communication with the community and clinical genetic specialists is nec...