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T HE HIGH global prevalence of chronic diseases is an escalating challenge for health care systems and health professionals (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017; Halpin et al., 2010). Therefore, community interventions to promote healthy lifestyles are essential to reduce the main risk factors of obesity, physical inactivity, and an unbalanced diet (Jamison et al., 2006). Public health nurses are in key positions to offer counseling on healthy living among clients. Howev...

Introduction We live in a country with a high rate of accidents, crime and medical emergencies for violent trauma, but in Rabat the main cause of deaths of people between 15 and 44 years is violence, for each violent death, between 8 and 10 people require blood products to save their lives. About 70% of the blood collected in the city is for trauma services, which increases the blood deficit for other services in need. Rabat now has a population of more than eight hundred thousand in...

At times of global health emergencies, such as the Ebola and Zika virus disease outbreaks, the world looks to the World Health Organization (WHO) for leadership. When problems are perceived in the handling of a crisis,1,2 there are sometimes calls for changes to the international legal instruments that set the agency’s powers, duties and procedures for action, particularly the International Health Regulations (IHR).3,4 The IHR, which are binding on all WHO Member States, are a...

I. INTRODUCTION The problems attendant on urbanization in the global South are often framed in terms of the challenges they pose to housing provision and the provision of basic services to informal settlements. Within the global urban agenda far less attention has been paid to the need to accommodate the many informal workers who earn their incomes from urban public spaces, whether those spaces are located in informal settlements or in more central parts of the city.(1) With some im...

Childhood immunization rates are low in many large US cities.1 In general, rates are lowest in inner-city areas,2 among minorities,1–3 in families with lower incomes,3–8 in single-parent families,6,9 in larger families,5,10 and in families with less educated parents.6 The major barriers to childhood immunization are well established and include parentrelated factors (e.g., lack of knowledge of immunization schedule,10–15 perceptions that vaccination is relatively unimportant10,...

Promoting CAM research: Encouraging a wider context: The exponential growth in the use and practice of CAM has fuelled a drive to advance the evidence-base for these medicines to allow consumers to make informed choices about their health. Indeed, we are currently witnessing an exciting expansion in complementary and alternative medicine research and any reader who has conducted mainstream database searches over the last few years to locate literature on the broad topic of CAM will no do...

activities, the emphasis in online communities is on learning and information exchange [5,6]. Self-directed learning, where the individual is in command of what should be learned, stands in contrast to health education, where health experts provide information that they think the recipients need [7]. An online health-promoting community (OHPC) has the potential to promote health and advance new means of dialogue between public health representatives and the general public. In Sweden mor...

History of Public Health in the Global Context: Charles-Edward A. Winslow, American public health leader, defined Public Health as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and...

The emergency medical services (EMS) system in the United States (U.S.) is fragmented, with various private and public entities responsible for dispatching calls, acting as first responders, and providing transport for medical emergencies [1]. Fire departments represent the majority (89 %) of first responders to arrive on the scene of an accident or emergency in large metropolitan areas [1]. Indeed, in 2013, fire departments nationwide responded to 31,644,500 calls to the 9-1-1 emergency...

nterconnecting patient safety and satisfaction has become a major goal contributing to the evaluation and continuous improvement of healthcare quality, and is a predictor of future behaviors, patient retention and intention to return for care. For this reason, medical prognosis has been shown to be better in patients who report a high level of satisfaction with the medical care they receive. However, the results of patient satisfaction assessment are not always similar to tho...

Individual Assignment Topic: Stress is a common health problem. Discuss common sources of your stress, its management and prevention. Weighting: 34% of the total continuous assessment score of the subject Guidelines for assignment: The contents of your essay should cover (but not limited to) the followings: (1) Draw a mind map illustrating all sources of your stress (MUST); (2) Include brief descriptions of the stressors, the stress responses and how they affect your daily lif...

The prevalence of children’s psychological disorders is 17.4%, and rates for anxiety, depression and suicide are steadily increasing (Cree et al. 2018; Mojtabai et al. 2016). Glaring racial and ethnic disparities exist in access to and quality of mental health services (Merikangas et al. 2011). Contributing to both prevalence and service disparities, 18% of children lived in poverty, and 33% had parents who lacked stable employment before COVID. These situations are worsening wi...

Improving conditions for walking and bicycling in our cities is vital for America’s public health. The measures described in this article would not only reduce pedestrian and cycling fatalities and injuries, they would also allow millions of people, many of them dangerously overweight, to bike or walk for some of their short trips and thus obtain healthful exercise in the course of daily life. More walking and cycling would yield further public health benefits by reducing use of auto...

INTRODUCTION In nations that rely on representative political systems, policies designed to address climate change will ultimately depend on sustained public support. By design, representative political systems punish politicians for taking costly actions that are not high priorities for their constituents, making it very difficult to align the legislative and bureaucratic processes necessary for effective policy change (Wilson, 1980; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993; Baumgartner...

The most unprecedented global pandemic that knows no borders has brought into sharp focus the intersection of government and public health policy, and the unique challenges that Nigeria population face today. As the world faces a pandemic of historic proportions with the worst public health and economic crisis, governments are periodically confronted with an array of time-sensitive policy questions. Although, while we are still learning a lot about the value of Health Impact Assessment and ...

At the Alma Ata Conference in 1978 and in the follow up programs urban health has received little attention [1]. The solution to Developing World Health problems, including Sub-Saharan Africa, was seen to lie in (PHC) the Primary Health Care approach which was generally interpreted to mean improvement of the health of rural communities. During the decade and a half after Alma Ata hundreds of projects were started in developing countries to implement the principles of PHC and star...

For a long time, law has been an essential tool in the armoury of states for communicable disease control, authorizing interventions such as quarantine, detention, border control and surveillance deemed necessary for the protection of population health. Increasingly, law has come to play a role in the control of non-communicable disease, authorizing control of the lifestyle environment by means such as regulation of advertising and taxation of harmful products. The importance of law as ...

1. Problem Setup In linear multivariate regression, we have the following model: y T i = x T i B + ǫ, i = 1, . . . , n, (1) where yi ∈ R q×1 is the response vector (q > 1), xi ∈ R p×1 is the predictor vector, B ∈ R p×q is the coefficient matrix, and ǫi ∈ R q×1 represents the noise with i.i.d. elements that are independent of xi . In this paper, we consider the following extension of this problem: y T i = Ui(x T i B + ǫ T i ), i = 1, . . . , n, (2) whe...

8: Basic Features of Indian Constitution The founding fathers of our constitution studied the various constitutions available in the various countries of the World and picked up the selected principles which would be suitable to Indian social-political, economic, cultural, religious conditions. The Constitution of India have provided the Indian citizen the best of the things for leading a happy and peaceful life. Therefore, the basic features of it are as follows:- The Lengthiest Wri...