Public health policy seeks to intervene to close the gap between dietary intake and dietary recommendations for good health. Population-level policies include actions to enhance nutritional knowledge, set nutrition standards for food provision and introduce fiscal interventions such as taxation. They can ...
hashighlighted the techniquesthe tobacco industry uses to undermine such policies. One main strategy they have been accused of using is spreading a false narrative about the effecttobacco controlpolicies will have on society and the economy.
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA. slgreer@umich.eduBMJBMJ (Clinical research ed.)Greer, S., 2009. Devolution and divergence in UK health policies. BMJ 338.Greer, S. ( 2009 ), Devolution and divergence in UK health policies , BMJ , 338 , ...
Over 12 million people in the United Kingdom have insurance cover for private health care, and over two thirds of policies are paid for by employers, though coverage varies greatly—from 20% of the population of outer London to 4% of that of the north east. On p 563 Doyle and Bull exp...
UK health policies should be redesigned to become more accessible for men, according to a new report by the Work Foundation. Terms such as 'mental health' risk alienating men, so services should be marketed differently and as part of targeted, gendered campaigns to reach men at greatest risk ...
However, understanding the causality of the relationship between poverty and mental illness may be crucial for public health policies, as they may target essential aspects of poverty and improve public mental health9. To date, the direction of the association between poverty and mental illness ...
Over the past decade, states have enacted an extraordinary array of health care policies, including public insurance expansions, efforts to regulate the emerging managed care industry, and initiatives designed to deal with the pernicious influence of tobacco. The various authors in The New Politics ...
While the high prevalence of immunosuppressive illness such as HIV and malaria in sSA are clear predisposing factors for the emergence of iNTS disease as a major public health problem, the huge burden of disease has led to further investigation into the serovars responsible for iNTS disease. S...
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Such changes in night-life settings have created major problems with management of alcohol-related violence.Approach.We examine what policies and interventions have been implemented to reduce violence in public night-life environments. We critically appraise the outcomes of such measures and whether they...