Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Sayed Hamid.MousaviMedical Research Center, Kateb University, Kabul, Afghanistan; Afghanistan National Charity Organization for Special Diseases (ANCOSD), Afghanistan. Electronic address: dr.mousavi@kateb.edu.af....
Within public health, the outgoing paradigm is the medical model. As a consequence, and notwithstanding the gradual (and sometimes reluctant) acceptance of the new vision, translation into policy has progressed more slowly than might have been hoped, in both developed and developing nations. Within...