ISSUE ADDRESSED: Mental health promotion and prevention have been key reform agendas for Australia's national mental health strategies for more than 15 years. Several important paradigmatic shifts have occurred within this reform as a result of the public health and mental health ...
Three important aspects are highlighted: 1) the importance of the intersectoral work and health equity as a cross-cutting issue in sustainable development endeavors; 2) policy coherence, health governance, and stakeholders’ participation as key issues; and 3) the need for high quality data. HIAs...
The government plays a major role. The government's response measures and policies, as well as the government's crisis public relations capabilities, are directly related to the safety and security of the people [1]. Therefore, in the process of dealing with major public health emergencies, ...
Given the importance of these extreme events, it is surprising that there has been limited attention to this issue in the scientific literature. The paper first reviews a framework for evaluating the risks of extreme weather and climate events; review trends in these events; and then focuses on...
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expertise, to ensure the service context where families can get what they need, when they need it, with an emphasis on promoting race equity. Efforts to transform child welfare through the Thriving Families, Safer Children movement are aligned with the core components of a public health framework...
Proponents of a balanced budget argue that budget deficits burden future generations with debt. Understanding a Balanced Budget The phrase "balanced budget" is commonly used in reference to official government budgets. For example, governments may issue a press release stating that they have a balance...
The "social determinants of health" are defined by WHO as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the condi- tions of daily life". They have had a great impact on CD patients since in most cases, it is ...
In recent years, the use of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) has become increasingly popular in the development of health policy by involving and analyzing the preferences of target groups for different aspects of the intervention.1, 2, 3, 4, 5 A feature of this technique is that any good...
In common with other NOS diagnoses, it is a residual category. Thus, there are two steps in making a diagnosis of eating disorder NOS: first, it must be determined that there is an eating disorder of clinical severity; and then, it must be established that the diagnostic criteria of ...