Public Health and Global Inequalities
Many social and economic factors have a significant impact on one’s well-being. Food, water, shelter, education, decent employment, safe working conditions, and so on are all essential for good health.…
Association of meaning in life with preventive healthcare use among Chinese adults: are there age and gender differences? | BMC Public Health
In our cross-sectional online survey of Chinese adults, higher levels of perceived meaning in life were associated with a higher likelihood of obtaining preventive healthcare use. It was found that…
Socioeconomic gradient in mortality of working age and older adults with multiple long-term conditions in England and Ontario, Canada | BMC Public Health
KonéPefoyo AJ, Bronskill SE, Gruneir A, Calzavara A, Thavorn K, Petrosyan Y, et al. The increasing burden and complexity of multimorbidity disease epidemiology – Chronic. BMC Public Health. 2015;15(1):1–11. Google…
California Department of Public Health Updates COVID-19 Guidance and Reminds Californians Vaccines, Testing and Treatment Remain Available
March 4, 2023 – SACRAMENTO – On Friday the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced updates to several state public health officer orders that have guided Californians on how…
The CONFIDENT study protocol: a randomized controlled trial comparing two methods to increase long-term care worker confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines | BMC Public Health
Recruitment Our recruitment strategy (see Table 1) will be guided by our LTCW stakeholders, including our NAHCA and East Carolina University (ECU) collaborators. Our stakeholders initially recommended online recruitment given its…
Public Purists, Privatization Proponents and the Curious: Canada’s three health-care mindsets
Politics drives privatization views: half of CPC voters are proponents, most NDP voters are public purists February 27, 2023 – As the federal government holds one-on-one meetings with the…
Health care-trying to get habits for respiratory health problems in Kenya: implications for burden of disease estimation | BMC Public Health and fitness
Research web pages 4 varied counties representing urban, peri-urban, rural blended farmers, and rural pastoralist communities in Kenya (Nakuru, Kakamega, Siaya, and Marsabit respectively) had been purposively picked to take…
Former CDC Director Discusses Public Health’s Impact on National Policy
This episode features Tom Frieden, MPH, MD, who discusses his background and influence on public health and national policy. Dr. Frieden was the director of the CDC and is currently…
Racism and discrimination are public health threats, experts warn
A recent series of papers published in The Lancet explores the ways in which racism impacts the physical and mental health of people all over the world, and the mechanisms…
The cost of inaction on physical inactivity to public health-care systems: a population-attributable fraction analysis
Introduction Most countries are falling behind on their commitments to the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4 to reduce by a third the premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs),…