scholarly journals Towards a more sustainable globalisation: the role of the public health community

2001 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 617-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. W BETTCHER
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community

The Role of the Public Health Community in Detecting and Responding to Domestic Terrorism Involving Infectious Agents

2014 ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. LeDuc ◽  
Stephen M. Ostroff ◽  
Joseph E. McDade ◽  
Scott Lillibridge ◽  
James M. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community

scholarly journals The E-cigarette – a New Tool to Aid Smoking Cessation

2017 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Pierre Bartsch ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quit Smoking ◽  
Health Community

This editorial shows that, despite controversies in the public health community and among professionals regarding the role of e-cigarettes as an aid to stopping smoking, and although the potential health risks of long-term use of nicotine are unknown, modern devices should be regarded more as a solution than a problem. Clinicians, owing to the high morbidity and mortality of smoking should include e-cigarettes as efficient tools to help smokers to quit smoking or at least as a substitute for cigarettes. Effort is needed to improve knowledge about this tool.

Communicating the Public Health Risks of Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda R. Weathers ◽  
Edward Maibach ◽  
Matthew Nisbet
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Public Health Organizations ◽  
Health And Well Being

Effective public communication and engagement have played important roles in ameliorating and managing a wide range of public health problems including tobacco and substance use, cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, vaccine preventable diseases, sudden infant death syndrome, and automobile injuries and fatalities. The public health community must harness what has been learned about effective public communication to alert and engage the public and policy makers about the health threats of climate change. This need is driven by three main factors. First, people’s health is already being harmed by climate change, and the magnitude of this harm is almost certain to get much worse if effective actions are not soon taken to limit climate change and to help communities successfully adapt to unavoidable changes in their climate. Therefore, public health organizations and professionals have a responsibility to inform communities about these risks and how they can be averted. Second, historically, climate change public engagement efforts have focused primarily on the environmental dimensions of the threat. These efforts have mobilized an important but still relatively narrow range of the public and policy makers. In contrast, the public health community holds the potential to engage a broader range of people, thereby enhancing climate change understanding and decision-making capacity among members of the public, the business community, and government officials. Third, many of the actions that slow or prevent climate change, and that protect human health from the harms associated with climate change, also benefit health and well-being in ways unrelated to climate change. These “cobenefits” to societal action on climate change include reduced air and water pollution, increased physical activity and decreased obesity, reduced motor-vehicle–related injuries and death, increased social capital in and connections across communities, and reduced levels of depression. Therefore, from a public health perspective, actions taken to address climate change are a “win-win” in that in addition to responsibly addressing climate change, they can help improve public health and well-being in other ways as well. Over the past half decade, U.S.-based researchers have been investigating the factors that shape public views about the health risks associated with climate change, the communication strategies that motivate support for actions to reduce these risks, and the practical implications for public health organizations and professionals who seek to effectively engage individuals and their communities. This research serves as a model for similar work that can be conducted across country settings and international publics. Until only recently, the voices of public health experts have been largely absent from the public dialogue on climate change, a dialogue that is often erroneously framed as an “economy versus the environment” debate. Introducing the public health voice into the public dialogue can help communities see the issue in a new light, motivating and promoting more thoughtful decision making.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and human rights—why should the public health community be concerned?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 852-853
Author(s):  
David Patterson ◽  
Dineke Zeegers Paget
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community

scholarly journals Americans’ Risk Perceptions and Emotional Responses to COVID-19, April 2020

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Thomas Ballew ◽  
Parrish Bergquist ◽  
Matthew H. Goldberg ◽  
Abel Gustafson ◽  
John Kotcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Registered Voters

Drawing on a scientific national survey (N = 3,933; including 3,188 registered voters), this report describes Americans’ risk perceptions and emotional responses to COVID-19 to inform the public health community, policymakers, and the public.

scholarly journals Stanowisko Komitetu Zdrowia Publicznego Polskiej Akademii Nauk w sprawie szczepień przeciw COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-201
Author(s):  
Włodzimierz Cezary Włodarczyk ◽  
Grzegorz Juszczyk ◽  
Tomasz Zdrojewski ◽  
Wojciech Hanke ◽  
Bolesław Samoliński ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Polish Academy ◽  
Health Care Education ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Committee ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mandatory Vaccination

The Resolution of Public Health Committee Polish Academy of Science on Vaccination against COVID-19 Public health community worldwide encouraged by successes of former campaigns have always accepted vaccination as the most effective way to handle infectious diseases pandemics. Even before the outburst of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in many countries mandatory vaccination against many diseases, especially child related had been implemented. From among 193 countries under study in as many as 105 (54%) such obligation existed and in 62 of them (59%) at least one form of punishment or harm for those opposing was involved. Following this sort of available solutions and facing COVID-19 pandemic disaster the authors on behalf of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Science recommend to the government implementation od mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 for all workers in sectors of health care, education and welfare.

scholarly journals Anticipating emerging arboviruses: What comes after Zika?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle V. Evans ◽  
Courtney C. Murdock ◽  
John M. Drake
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Partially Observed ◽  
The Us ◽  
Vector Borne

AbstractNew vector-borne diseases have emerged on multiple occasions over the last several decades, raising fears that they may become established within the United States. Here, we provide a watchlist of flaviviruses with high potential to emerge in the US, identified using new statistical techniques for mining the associations in partially observed data, to allow the public health community to better target surveillance.

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