2004. Public health policy - can there be an economic imperative? An examination of one such issue. Journal of Environmental Health Research. Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 2004. ttp://www.cieh.org/JEHR/health_policy_economic.htmlBattersby JE (2004) Public health policy—can there be an economic ...
Despite accumulating evidence of the implications of trade policy for public health, trade and health sectors continue to operate largely in silos. Numerous barriers to advancing health have been identified, including the dominance of a neoliberal paradigm, powerful private sector interests, and constrain...
This book is a key text for health visitors and other community health nurses for whom public health is the key issue for future practice. It examines and defines public health nursing, explores its theoretical basis, and provides a guide to practice issues. A range of perspectives is provided...
In recent years, the effects of psychosocial risk factors on population health have received considerable attention in both research and policy circles [1–5]. Psychosocial epidemiology explores the way peoples' interactions with their social environments may influence health either directly (e.g. throu...
At a minimum, the federal level is responsible for national health policy, planning, and setting national health targets. The USA, Canada, Russia, Argentina, and Nigeria are examples of countries with federal forms of government. A unitary state is a form of government that has a central ...
This chapter explores how to combine insights from public health and political science to explain and adapt to policymaking in preventive public health. First, it describes public health approaches to policy change, focusing on the social determinants of
public health law’ and ‘public health policy’, explores the relationship between law and policy, and provides examples of public health law and policy as dual mechanisms for public health. The limits and bounds of the law as a public health tool are also discussed highlighting where policy ...
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
and suggest the possibility of employing “a ‘cost–benefit’ analysis to each element of the program that seems to need adapting.” Examples of cultural adaptation along these lines include Ahn (2016), who has described adaptations of MBSR to Korean culture (see also other chapters in McCown...
(which focuses on leveraging change in complex systems) to eight KM practices empirically identified by others. We describe how these models interact and draw out some key learnings for applying systems thinking practically to KM in public health policy and practice. Examples of empirical studies, ...