scholarly journals The High Importance Role of Epidemiology in Health Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mobaraki K ◽  
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Ahmadzadeh J ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Is Management

Epidemiology is a scientific discipline, sometimes called “the basic science of public health”. According to what it has done in the last 200 years, epidemiology is the science and practice. One of the areas that are less addressed in the literature is the important role of epidemiology in health management. The authors believed that one of the areas that epidemiologists can work is management debate.

The role of microbiology in gonococcal control in the West: helping to understand the enemy

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
David J Speers
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Antimicrobial Management ◽  
Laboratory Surveillance ◽  
Public Health Challenge

Western Australia (WA), Australia's largest state by area, has one of the highest notification rates of gonorrhoea in the world. This is likely a reflection of the challenges of providing health services over a vast remote area combined with a unique set of sociocultural aspects. Despite this, microbiology can play a pivotal role in the public health management of gonorrhoea even if the primary health services are thousands of kilometres away from the laboratory. However, it requires new approaches to how diagnostic testing and laboratory surveillance are conducted and the repurposing of existing technologies to cater for novel demands. In this article I describe some of the microbiological approaches that have been undertaken in WA to help address the public health challenge of gonorrhoea. That is, facilitating the appropriate antimicrobial management of gonorrhoea in an era of increasing resistance to prevent treatment failure, timely provision of an accurate diagnosis to inform appropriate treatment, and providing molecular insights to better understand gonococcal transmission (Table 1).

Role of GIS in public health management in Pakistan

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hussain ◽  
M. Arsalan ◽  
M. Mehdi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Public Health Management

scholarly journals Formation and development of public health teaching in the system of higher medical education (From social hygiene to public health and health care)

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
pp. 897-907
Author(s):  
V A Reshetnikov ◽  
O A Manerova ◽  
A S Sozinov ◽  
N T Ismayil-zada
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Health Care Organization ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Care Organization ◽  
Social Hygiene ◽  
National Education

The article deals with the historical ways of formation and development of the educational and scientific discipline Public Health and Healthcare, underlines the role of N.A. Semashko in the formation and development of the educational and scientific discipline, in the foundation and holding the first Department of Social Hygiene in Russia. The features of teaching the discipline at the stage of formation, the content of the first Russian manual on Social Hygiene are highlighted in this article. The stages of the formation and development of the discipline in Russia since the 20s of the last century until the present, the peculiarities of teaching the discipline at each of the stages, the reasons for changing the name of the discipline are considered. The special role of the Department of Public Health and Health Care Organization, among other departments dealing with the study of health, is highlighted. The article substantiates the leading, methodological role of the Department in teaching the issues of preserving, strengthening and restoring public health, presents the modern requirements for the departments of Public Health and Health Care Organization, as well as for teachers, shows special aspects of teaching the discipline, the content of the national education program and differences from foreign programs. The ways of development of the academic discipline and the Departments teaching it are also presented.

scholarly journals Leaders’ Future Orientation and Public Health Investment Intention: A Moderated Mediation Model of Self-Efficacy and Perceived Social Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6922
Author(s):  
Jianming Wang ◽  
Tsung Piao Chou ◽  
Chia-Pin Chen ◽  
Xiangzhi Bu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Health Investment ◽  
Public Health Management

Prior studies have investigated the issue of public health and health policy from economic, environmental, and healthcare perspectives. Research on public health from leaders’ perspective may also help to advance our knowledge about leaders’ perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions toward public health management. Therefore, this study is based on social ideal theory, social cognitive theory, and social trust theory to investigate the influence of leaders’ future orientation on public health investment intention with the mediating role of leaders’ self-efficacy and the moderating role of perceived social support. Using a structural equation modeling with a sample data of 381 leaders of government agencies in Vietnam, empirical results indicate that leaders’ future orientation has a positive influence on public health investment intention. Furthermore, self-efficacy is found to have a positive mediating effect in the relationship between leaders’ future orientation and public health investment intention. In addition, perceived social support positively moderates the link between leaders’ future orientation and self-efficacy. Perceived social support also moderates the indirect effect of leaders’ future orientation on public health investment intention through self-efficacy. On one hand, this study contributes to theoretical research by clarifying the effects of leaders’ perceptions, and cognitive and behavioral intentions toward public health investment. Findings of this study may have implications for researchers who may have interest in studying the issue of public health management from leaders’ viewpoints. On the other hand, this study contributes to practitioners since understanding how leaders’ characteristics affect public health investment will enhance the quality of policy makers’ decision-making in improving public health for citizens and society.

scholarly journals Naturopathic Medicine and Public Health Management in Ghana; A Mixed Questionnaire Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Raphael Nyarkotey Obu ◽  
Lawrencia Aggrey-Bluwey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Naturopathic Medicine ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Public Health Management

Background: Naturopathic medicine is at its embryonic stage of development in Ghana and West Africa in entirety. In jurisdictions where Naturopathic medicine is well regulated, Naturopathic practitioners are well integrated into the primary healthcare delivery team. In Ghana, the case is quite different due to a myriad of issues. Objectives: This study examines the role of Naturopathic medicine in Public Health in Ghana and potential policy direction for adoption of Naturopathic protocols in global pandemic management, the challenges faced by Naturopathic Physicians in primary healthcare delivery, and the challenges of Naturopathic Medical Students on their clerkship at one of the designated government Hospitals.  Methods: The study adopted a mixed questionnaires study engaged in integrated data analysis. The respondents in this study were selected Naturopathic Medical Students of the Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine, Ghana.  Results: Out of a sample size of 28, 100% (28) believed that, there is a role of Naturopathic medicine in public health management. 95% asserted that very little naturopathic remedies have been employed in the fight against Covid-19 in Ghana. There was also a unanimous agreement (100%) that Ghana needs to adopt a National Policy on Naturopathic remedies in Public Health.  Conclusion: Naturopathic medicine should be embraced fully into Ghanaian primary healthcare delivery. It is important to look at the best practices which exist in other jurisdictions such as China and India for adoption. It is time for the policy makers to speed up the passage of the Traditional and Alternative Medicine bill.

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