State and local health departments have an imperative to invest in their workforces as they build toward endemic COVID-19 and improving other health outcomes. Here are six strategies to act on now.(7 pages)US public-health agencies have been fighting on the front line to p...
Surgeon general of the United States, supervising medical officer of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U.S. surgeon general oversees (but does not directly supervise) the member
mostly do not have direct control of the state and/or local departments of public health. Most central control is achieved by withholding federal funding, or mandating unfunded responsibilities for states. Other Agencies with Responsibility for Public Health Department of Agriculture: Food Supply and ...
Hispanics are the largest minority group in the USA. They contribute to the economy, cultural diversity, and health of the nation. Assessing their health status and health needs is key to inform health policy formulation and program implementation. To this end, we conducted a scoping review of ...
Widespread hepatitis A outbreaks in the USA strain public health agenciesdoi:10.1016/S2468-1253(19)30270-5Bryant FurlowThe Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Over the last years, public engagement has become a topic of scholarly and policy debate particularly in biomedicine, a field that increasingly centres around collecting, sharing and analysing personal data. However, the use of big data in biomedicine po
Public health, the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health, sanitation, personal hygiene, control of infectious disease, and organization of health services. Learn more about the history of and the
This study highlights the power of routine WGS by public health agencies to make epidemiologically significant deductions that would be missed by conventional microbiological methods. We speculate that the niche specialisation of sub-Saharan African ST313 lineages is driven in part by the acquisition of...
But just because we cannot know is no reason not to plan for the eventuality. Implementation will also require close collaboration between state and local public-health agencies, as well as with public-health organisations, medical-research centres, health-care providers and health-care networkers, ...
Health Research Funding Agencies' Support and Promotion of Knowledge Translation: An International Study Context: The process of knowledge translation (KT) in health research depends on the activities of a wide range of actors including health professionals re... JM Tetroe,ID Graham,R Foy,... ...