Public health

Background: Parks are important venues that can encourage population-level physical activity, and policy legislation can facilitate or discourage physical activity and other park uses, depending on the type and level of support. This study aims to summarize the status and content of state-level park-related legislation. Methods: We searched for...

Food safety is an important public health issue in the U.S. Eating at restaurants and other food service facilities increasingly has been associated with food borne disease outbreaks. Food safety training and certification of food mangers has been used as a method for reducing food safety violations at food service...

Automated disease surveillance systems are becoming widely used by the public health community. However, communication among non-collocated and widely dispersed users still needs improvement. A web-based software tool for enhancing user communications was completely integrated into an existing automated disease surveillance system and was tested during two simulated exercises and...

Judy Kruger Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. AbstractThe primary goal of many park and recreation agencies is to provide resources and programs that improve quality of life for the community. Increasing physical activity is one aspect of...

Kentaro Murakami1, Satoshi Sasaki1, Yoshiko Takahashi2, Hitomi Okubo3, Naoko Hirota4, Akiko Notsu5, Mitsuru Fukui6 and Chigusa Date7 1Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology, School of Public Health, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 2Department of Health and Nutrition, School of Home Economics, Wayo Women’s University, Chiba, Japan. 3Department of...

Andrew W Joyce1*, Sarah Dixon2, Jude Comfort2 and Jonathan Hallett2 1Department of Health Sciences, Monash University—Peninsula Campus. 2School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. *Work was conducted while with the School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Abstract Issue Addressed: This...

Amal K Halder1,2 and M Kabir1 1Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh. 2ICDDR,B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Abstract Background: Although, health status of Bangladeshis has improved, levels of child mortality in Bangladesh remain unacceptably high. This paper reviews household wealth inequalities in immunization coverage in Bangladesh. The objective...

Zubair Kabir Visiting Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

H. Seale1, D.E. Dwyer2, J.R. Chapman3 and C.R. MacIntyre1,4 1School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia. 2Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research (ICPMR), Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia. 3Centre for Transplant and...

Anne L. Coleman1, Gergana Kodjebacheva1,2, Steven P. Wallace2, Michael Prelip2, Alexander N. Ortega3, Joann Giaconi1, Fei Yu1,4 and Abdelmonem A. Afifi4 1Jules Stein Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. 2School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of...

Xue Ming1, Michael Brimacombe2, Joanne H. Malek3, Nisha Jani2 and George C. Wagner3 1Departments of Neurosciences and Pediatrics, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ. 2Department of Preventive Medicine, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ. 3Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Abstract It is believed that...

Isabella Karakis1,2, Arkady Bolotin1, Ella Kordysh1, Ilana Belmaker3 and Batia Sarov1,4 1Department of Epidemiology and Health Services Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. 2School of Public Health, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. 3Southern Regional Health Department of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Beersheba, Israel. 4Department of Epidemiology, Johns...

Takeo Fujiwara Department of Health Promotion and Research, National Institute of Public Health, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan. Abstract Recent research shows that exposure to community violence is, directly and indirectly, associated with asthma. This article reviews the findings on the impact of violence on asthma, and the pathways...

Amanda Niskar Sackler Senior Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Abstract The health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke are well documented. The past decade provides several examples of successful smoke-free policies that...

David B. Resnik Bioethicist National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC. Abstract This article reviews some of the ethical issues that arise in environmental health research with human subjects, such as minimizing risks to subjects, balancing benefits and risks in...

Jan Saarela1 and Fjalar Finnäs2 1Åbo Akademi University, Finland. 2Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Abstract In light of possibilities and limitations of data from the Finnish population register, and the general demographic development of Finland, this paper illuminates the complex interrelation between internal migration and mortality. We explore...