Recently added articles from Journal of Public Health Policy:
Epidemiology and the Macrosocial Determinants of Health
Jul 01, 2008; Putnam, Sara; Galea, Sandro ... ABSTRACT In the past two decades, public health researchers have taken renewed interest in investigating the role of social factors in health. This holds substantial promise in terms of identifying manipulable social factors that are amenable to policy intervention. Most existing ...
Genocide: Can We Predict, Prevent, and Protect?
Jul 01, 2008; Richter, Elihu D ... "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me", goes the childhood taunt. Not so, according to Paul Rusesabagina, the hero of the movie Hotel Rwanda, concerning the Rwandan genocide. The big question, of course, is why did it all happen? Rusesabagina, after telling ...
Population-level Risk Factors, Population Health, and Health Policy
Jul 01, 2008; Naumova, Elena N; Cohen, Steven A ... Putnam and Galea challenge the epidemiological framework underlying conventional public health research. They underscore the need to address population-level macrosocial determinants of health in epidemiological studies. Studying the population-level factors that ultimately determine population ...
Macrosocial Determinants, Epidemiology, and Health Policy: should politics and economics be banned from social determinants of health research?
Jul 01, 2008; Muntaner, Carles; Chung, Haejoo ... In "Epidemiology and the Macrosocial Determinants of Health," Putnam and Galea highlight important new developments in health policy and social epidemiology. We aim, in this commentary, to enhance the issues raised by the authors while complementing their arguments with our analyses. We ...
Population Health and the Hardcore Smoker: Geoffrey Rose Revisited
Jul 01, 2008; Chaiton, Michael O; Cohen, Joanna E; Frank, John ... ABSTRACT The "hardening hypothesis" suggests that as smoking prevalence decreases, lighter smokers will quit first, leaving more "hardcore" smokers in the population. At a population level, however, the weight of evidence suggests that no hardening is occurring. By understanding the ...
Clustering Countries to Evaluate Health Outcomes Globally
Jul 01, 2008; Hegyvary, Sue Thomas; Berry, Devon M; Murua, Alejandro ... ABSTRACT Clustering countries based on health outcomes is a useful technique for assessing global health disparities. However, data on country-specific indicators of health outcomes are inconsistent across databases from different sources, such as World Bank, WHO, and UNICEF. The new ...
Happy Hours and Other Alcohol Discounts in Cafés: Prevalence and Effects on Underage Adolescents
Jul 01, 2008; Van Hoof, Joris; Van Noordenburg, Marieke; De Jong, Menno ... ABSTRACT Adolescents' alcohol-related attitudes and behaviors may be affected by marketing efforts of the alcohol industry, retailers, and the catering industry. Most research has focused on the effects of commercials and media exposure. This article investigates another aspect of ...
Community Wellbeing in an Unwell World: Trends, Challenges, and Possibilities
Jul 01, 2008; Wiseman, John; Brasher, Kathleen ... ABSTRACT This essay explores the changing nature of the concept of community wellbeing and the richness of the concept for enhancing measurement of societal progress beyond the use of indicators focused more narrowly on economic growth. Beginning with the history of the concept of ...
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
Jul 01, 2008; Robbins, Anthony; Freeman, Phyllis ... Les Leopold. The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi. White River Junction, Vermont, USA: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2.007. $40 hardcover, $24.95 paper. Journal of Public Health Policy (2.008) 2,9, ...
WFPHA: World Federation of Public Health Associations
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... THE FEDERATION'S PAGES Editorial Note This issue of the Federation's Pages is devoted to some fascinating developments on the African continent: Public Health Associations present themselves as forerunners of national and international cooperation. We publish here for a wider ...
NPHIs as Focal Points for Leadership in Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases
Jul 01, 2008; Heymann, David L ... The article by Binder et al. (J Public Health Policy 2008;29:3-21) and the accompanying editoral and commentaries launch an important discussion on the role of robust national public health institutes (NPHIs). In a landscape of disease-specific funding initiatives, NPHIs emerge as a much-needed ...
Letter from Guinea Bissau: Follow up to the Article by Binder et al. and Accompanying Articles
Jul 01, 2008; Silva, Augusto Paulo ... To the Editor: I read with great interest the recent commentary about national public health institutes (NPHIs) in the Journal (J Public Health Policy, 2008; 29: 3-21). Since 1995, we in Guinea Bissau have been considering the idea of creating an NPHI. In 2007, with the help of the ...