to support health care, involving individuals and communities in health care decisions, the need for affordable health care, health inequalities, the link between poverty and health and the menace from vaccine preventable childhood illnesses are still very much important health issues in London today....
Surveys are one of the most frequently employed study designs in healthcare epidemiology research. Generally easier to undertake and less costly than many other study designs, surveys can be invaluable to gain insights into opinions and practices in large samples and may be descriptive and/or be ...
This edition presents new chapters on causal thinking, ethics, and web resources, analyzes data on multinational increases in poverty and longevity, details the control of transmissible diseases, and explains quality management, and the evaluation of healthcare system performance. 关键词: DELIVERY OF ...
Primary health care in the era of HIV/AIDS. Some implications for health systems reform In this article it is argued that the current emphasis on third generation reforms to health systems places at risk the empowering comprehensive agenda of ... I Petersen,L Swartz - 《Social Science & Medic...
Wanted: A New Ethics Field for Health Policy Analysis Ethics guidance and ethical frameworks are becoming more explicit and prevalent in health policy proposals. However, little attention has been given to eva... N Kenny,M Giacomini - 《Health Care Analysis》 被引量: 144发表: 2005年 Public He...
SHEA is a professional society representing more than 2,000 physicians and other healthcare professionals around the world with expertise in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention and control. SHEA's mission is to prevent and control healthcare-associated infections and advance the field of ...
Preventive healthcare is a way to avoid an injury, sickness, or disease in the first place. A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started. A treatment attempts to improve or remove a problem,...
World Health Organization. Atlas of Headache Disorders and Resources in the World 2011 (WHO, 2011). A useful document from the WHO for those advocating for the allocation of more resources to headache care or research. Steiner, T. J. et al. Migraine remains second among the world’s causes...
Meningitis could be behind ‘mystery illness’ reports in Nigeria The WHO confirms three meningitis deaths, which it says might have triggered rumours of an outbreak of an unknown disease. Sarah Wild Career Q&A|01 March 2024 ‘This is my calling’: building point-of-care diagnostic tools to fi...
Antimicrobial resistance results in increased morbidity, mortality, and costs of health care. Prevention of the emergence of resistance and the dissemination of resistant microorganisms will reduce these adverse effects and their attendant costs. Appropriate antimicrobial stewardship that includes optimal select...