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There are several limitations to the adolescent reproductive health (ARH) program, which are sustainability (Menna, Ali, & Worku, 2015)and unidentifiable changes in behavior (Rashid & Mwale, 2016)are the main issues. Unsustainable programs are caused by gaps between program design, theory basis used and evaluation of achieved results (Sood, ShefnerRogers, & Skinner, 2014) and willingness to communicate ARH problems (Rankin et al., 2016). Health promoters in the community play im...

1. Background To fulfil its constitutional and international commitments, the Government of Nepal is currently implementing various health care programs, mainly aimed at providing free health care services to the general public or target groups. These programs include Aama Suraksha, the Uterine Prolapse Treatment Program, the Free Health Care Program and some additional free services for target groups. Substantial subsidies are also being provided for the treatment of heart disease, ...

INTRODUCTION Various methods, approaches, and strategies designed to understand and reduce health disparities, increase health equity, and promote community and population health have emerged within public health and medicine. One such approach is community-engaged research (Clinical and Translational Science Awards [CTSAs] Consortium Community Engagement Key Function Committee Task Force on the Principles of Community Engagement, 2011; Committee to Review the CTSAs Program at the Na...

Findings • Climate change will cause unprecedented harm to human populations, with the greatest burden falling on children, the elderly, those with underlying illnesses, and the poor, particularly poor women. • Climate Change will disproportionately affect low income countries, especially their coastal cities, and will also disproportionately affect poorer people within wealthier countries. • Technological and policy solutions to climate change must be combined with policy ...

S evere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) disturbed  the medical community’s complacency about control of respiratory infections. Severe acute respiratory  syndrome  disproportionately  affected  health  care  workers and innocent bystander patients1,2 and revealed  the  potential  for  spread  of  respiratory  infection  in  primary  care  offices.3   More  recently,  occurrences  of  avian  i...

The increase of human population and the consequent intensification of agricultural and industrial activities along with deficient water management have led to the enhancement of eutrophication in superficial freshwater bodies used for recreational purposes and as drinking water sources. The occurrence of phytoplanktonic blooms is also becoming more frequent worldwide. Environmental conditions such as higher temperature and pH values, low turbulence, and high nutrient inputs (particular...

Overview This course is designed for physician, veterinarians, public health officers, emergency responders, state and local health department staff and graduate students aspiring to hold positions responsible for planning and responding to public health emergencies. This course will include an overview of public health’s involvement and response to various natural and unnatural emergencies and will discuss the domestic and international responses to disasters and epidemics. Course...

India, after independence, has to meet with most friendly technologies viz, integrated pest management difficult challenge of overcoming the problem of long- system, use of neem based insecticides and other standing food crisis owing to rapidly growing biopesticides are available for pest management, population. For attaining self-sufficiency in food grain farmers rely mostly on the chemical pesticides production, Government of India played a pivotal role because of their easy availability, imme...

Ted Schettler, Katherine Barrett, Carolyn Raffensperger Science and Environmental Health Network The precautionary principle is a guide to public policy decision making (Raffensperger and Tickner 1999, Schettler et al. 2002). It responds to the realization that humans often cause serious and widespread harm to people, wildlife, and the general environment. According to the precautionary principle, precautionary action should be undertaken when there are credible threats of harm, despite r...

Extensive literature search was conducted to computationally analyze the relationship between key perceived road fatality factors and public health impacts, in terms of mortality and morbidity. Heterogeneous sources of data on road fatality and that based on interview questionnaire on European road drivers’ perception were sourced. Computational analysis was performed on these data using the Multilayer Perceptron model within the dtreg predictive modeling software. Driver factors had...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in men and the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the United States. African-American men have substantially higher prostate cancer incidence and mortality than EuropeanAmerican men. It is unclear whether this incidence is due to acquired DNA changes (sporadic cancer) or if germline Mendelian genetics/genomics (inherited cancer) is the source of this health disparity. To explore this cause, the focus of this dissertation...

Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem(1). Overweight and obese children are at increased risk of experiencing co-morbidities, such as CVD, type II diabetes and hypertension(2–4). Being overweight or obese in childhood consistently increases the risk of being overweight or obese in adolescence and adulthood(5–7), thereby leading to further co-morbidities(8) . A recent US study also suggested that, given the marked increase in the proportion of obese people, obesity...

Young adulthood, which may include college attendance, is a critical developmental period, often associated with increasingly negative views of oneself, psychological distress, and anxiety (Arnett, 2000; Audley, Grenier, Martin, & Ramos, 2018; Deasy, Coughlan, Pironom, Jourdan, & Mannix-McNamara, 2014). The onset of mental health disorders, particularly anxiety, mood disorders, and substance use disorders may occur during young adulthood (Kessler et al., 2007). American university students ...

Creating yourself a supportive, friendly worldview is essential for well-being and health. Having such a worldview facilitates the effectiveness of own actions and establishing favorable relations with fellow citizens. Elaboration of a supportive worldview that gives meaning to one's life is important not only for particular individuals. If the majority of citizens in a given community have a friendly, uplifting worldview that gives meaning to their own actions then the state of p...

As the world adapts to the latest phase of globalization, perhaps no aspect of human life has been affected more than the health of the individual. Open markets, open borders, and open political systems have led to increased potential risks of harm and to greater opportunities to promote public health and to protect consumers. How can government agencies that historically are primarily domestic in nature address global issues such as: • growing international trade in foods, pharmaceutica...

Maternal and child health (MCH) epidemiology has become a major program component of most state Title V MCH programs [1]. MCH epidemiology is “the systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of population-based and program-specific health and related data in order to assess the distribution and determinants of the health status and needs of the maternal child population for the purpose of planning, implementing, and assessing effective, science-based strategies and promoting p...

INTRODUCTION Globally, a total of 10% of the population suffers from some sort of mental health disorder. Taking into account that the world’s population has surpassed 7.5 billion, mental health care has become a great challenge. The exhausting fast pace of life associated with daily pressures have paved the way to the use of psychotropic medications because they rapidly and efficiently relieve mental distress.1 The WHO and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) ha...

Promoting equity in maternal, newborn and child health – how does gender factor in? Perceptions of public servants in the Ethiopian health sector Nicole Bergen a , Grace Zhub , Shifera Asfaw Yedenekal c , Abebe Mamoc , Lakew Abebe Gebretsadikc , Sudhakar Morankar c and Ronald Labonté d a Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; b Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; cDepartment of Health, Behavior & Society, Institute of Health, Jimm...

Community gardens play an important role in promoting urban health, social inclusion, active civic participation and practices of sustainable living in urban environments. High quality, informed planning policy and practice improves the sustainability and liveability of our cities. The purpose of this conference was contribute to these goals by exploring community gardening practices, academic evaluations of local food systems and current policy initiatives. Representatives from differ...

School-based physical activity policies and programs have been shown to be associated with a range of benefits including increased physical activity, fitness and additional health outcomes (Dobbins, Husson, DeCorby, & LaRocca, 2013; Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2013; Kahn et al., 2002). In 2005, the Ontario Ministry of Education (EDU) released Policy/Program Memorandum 138 which required elementary school students in grades 1-8 to “have a minimum of twenty minutes of sustained modera...