In New Zealand (NZ), the NZ Public Health and Disability Act 2000 introduced the statutory requirement to focus on and report annually on the progress being made to improve the public health service. As an important public institution, the public health sector is of interest in the public ...
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Flinders University researchers expect their AI-driven data repository to improve public health surveillance and response.
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Teen mothers are more susceptible to the negative consequences of pregnancy, due to system-wide and socio-cultural barriers to accessing needed services, posing higher pregnancy complications and health risks to the babies and mothers. Understanding thei
Public health literature has traditionally treated the two as distinct groups with opposing interests. In contrast, in this study I demonstrate with the growth of public and quasi-public investors, such as national and occupational retirement schemes, the majority of biomedical R&D funding is public ...
Controlling obesity has become one of the highest priorities for public health practitioners in developed countries. In the absence of safe, effective and widely accessible high-risk approaches (e.g. drugs and surgery) attention has focussed on community-based approaches and social marketing campaigns...
The stigmatization of HIV-infected people and many of the sub-populations who are most vulnerable to infection, and the discrimination that results from it, act as constraints on the delivery of prevention and health care services and damage the lives of those infected with or affected by HIV/...
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If so, and given that the legitimate public health goal was to get and keep the replication rate below 1 (ie each case passing Covid on to, on average, less than one other person), was there really a compelling case – that would pass a robust cost-benefit test – for fairly extreme...