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Estimating the costs and benefits of providing free public transit passes to students in Los Angeles County: lessons learned in applying a health lens to decision-making. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In spite of increased focus by public health to engage and work with non-health sector partners to improve the health of the general as well as special populations, only a paucity of studies have described and disseminated emerging lessons and promising ...
Fielding, Jonathan E   +3 more
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NCD Prevention and Control: Sustainable and Comprehensive Solutions; A Response to Recent Commentaries [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020
Viroj Tangcharoensathien   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Describing a “mass shooting”: the role of databases in understanding burden

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2019
Background The mass shooting phenomenon has gained much attention lately as this form of gun violence appears to increase in frequency. Although many organizations collect information on mass shootings (fatal and nonfatal injuries), no federal definition
Marisa Booty   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food for thought? Potential conflicts of interest in academic experts advising government and charities on dietary policies

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2016
Background A conflict of interest (CoI) can occur between public duty and private interest, in which a public official’s private-capacity interest could improperly influence the performance of their official duties and responsibilities. The most tangible
Alex Newton   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Health Policy for the 1990s [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Public Health, 1990
Public health policy in the 1990s will be determined not only by factors intrinsic to the health field but by external circumstances related to international and domestic political and economic changes. The prospects for positive action vary with the specific areas of public health policy, since in each instance there are somewhat different sets of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Public management and essential public health functions [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors provide an overview of how different approaches to improving public sector management relate to so-called core or essential public health functions, such as disease surveillance, health education, monitoring and evaluation, workforce ...
Das Gupta Monica, Khaleghian, Peyvand
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The impact of e-cigarette taxation: a systematic review and meta-analysis on usage, pricing strategies, and public health implications

open access: yesBMC Medicine
Background E-cigarette taxation has been increasingly implemented worldwide as a fiscal and regulatory tool to curb consumption, generate revenue, and mitigate public health risks.
Quan Wang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decentralization and Public Delivery of Health Care Services in India [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines delivery of public health care services in India, in the broader context of decentralization. It provides an overview of the basic features and recent developments in intergovernmental fiscal relations and accountability mechanisms ...
Singh, Nirvikar
core   +1 more source

Achieving balance in state pain policy: a progress report card (Second edition) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
36 pagesA "report card" for state policies regulating pain medications used for pain management and palliative ...
University of Wisconsin. School of Medicine and Public Health. Pain & Policy Studies Group.
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Public health nursing and public health policies:

open access: yes, 2021
Objectives: to characterize the interventions of specialist nurses of community health and public health of a Group of Health Centers, to identify the main facilitating factors for the performance of competences, and the contribution to public health policies.
Cunha, Carmen   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

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