Showing papers in "Public Health in 2011"

TL;DR: This Report illustrates the dynamic interventions to strengthen health potential and perspective of systems thinking systems?

TL;DR: Physiological data from this field experiment provide important scientific evidence on the health benefits of forest bathing, suggesting that forest bathing has positive effects on physical and mental health, indicating that it can be effective for health promotion.

TL;DR: This socio-economic review provides an overview of the sanitation crisis in slum areas, and re-emphasizes the importance of sanitation, elaborating how the drivers of demand for sanitation outlined in contemporary research are not universal but are rather context specific.

TL;DR: PTSD, anxiety and depression remained at an elevated level among survivors in hard-hit regions 1 year after the earthquake in Wenchuan, China, and risk factors varied between the disorders.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a fifth wave of public health development is now needed; one which will need to differ radically from its forerunners, and the authors invite others to join them in envisioning its nature and in furthering the debate about future public health.

TL;DR: The surveillance strategies in place before the H1N1 influenza pandemic and the methods used at global level to monitor the pandemic are described and enhancements of global surveillance are proposed to improve preparedness and response for similar events in the future.

TL;DR: Based on the findings of this study, it is suggested that involving family members in recruitment and interventions of the MMT programme will achieve higher rates of participation and compliance.

TL;DR: Reasons for the limited gains from investment in healthcare are identified as increased out-of-pocket expenditure including a high proportion of catastrophic expenditure, a geographical imbalance in healthcare spending, and the commercialization of healthcare without adequate attention to cost control.

TL;DR: The need to attend to the role of male gender in pathways and processes underlying racial health disparities, and the challenges of developing health promotion interventions for Black American men are discussed.

TL;DR: The study provides a rationale for strengthening the public health services in the city to make them more accessible to poor households, especially those living in the slums of Mumbai.

TL;DR: This study suggests that transport plans aimed at reducing car usage should be considered as a feasible and effective strategy for increasing health-enhancing physical activity among the workforce.

TL;DR: Onomap offers an effective methodology for identifying population groups in both health-related and educational datasets, categorizing populations into a variety of ethnic groups and suggests that it can successfully assist health researchers, planners and policy makers in identifying and addressing health inequalities.

TL;DR: In order to successfully engage Aboriginal people in health studies, researchers need to build rapport with communities, have a community presence, be respectful and collaborative, utilize incentives, and employ flexible and adaptive methodologies of reasonable length.

TL;DR: The relationship between economic development and public health and a series of health disparity issues that are emerging in China are explored and implications for government policy and action to address these issues and improve public health as well as equity are discussed.

TL;DR: The high risk associated with gay saunas and the need for steady condom supply at these venues needs urgent consideration, and a number of public health challenges which need to be considered are identified if optimum outcomes are to be achieved.

TL;DR: There is a concentration of men and women with low leisure-time physical activity who report the desire to increase their physical activity but think that they need support to do so, and this group has a significantly higher prevalence of low trust.

TL;DR: The experience of non-consensual sex is associated with a number of chronic disease outcomes and risk factors and the development and implementation of effective sexual violence prevention strategies may reduce the risk of chronic conditions among persons who have experienced sexual victimisation.

TL;DR: Although reported willingness to undergo colorectal cancer screening was high, CRC knowledge and actual uptake of CRC screening were low, and an educational intervention to reduce barriers and increase awareness could improve uptake.

TL;DR: Dog-walking was associated with street pattern and with nearby off-leash areas, but these associations varied by the measure of dog-walking examined, which indicated whether owners already walk their dogs should be taken into account in planning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the global burden of cancer, and summarized knowledge about effective interventions, including legislation and regulation, and concluded that a re-invigorated approach to global cancer prevention, within the broader context of non-communicable disease prevention, is an important pathway to global health and development.

TL;DR: The geographic variation in food prices across the USA is sufficiently large to affect dietary patterns among youth for fruit, vegetables and milk and is either too small to affect children's consumption frequency of fast food or soft drinks, or the consumption of these foods is less price sensitive.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the prevalence and factors associated with uptake of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Hong Kong.

TL;DR: A national programme of men's health promotion interventions delivered in EPL football clubs was effective in reaching target audiences and predominantly adopted by men not meeting health guidelines.

TL;DR: This paper explores innovative and meaningful ways to improve public health through policy initiatives targeted specifically at places such as homes and neighbourhoods, schools, shops, restaurants, bars and recreational areas.

TL;DR: There is no clinically significant relationship between better quality of primary care, as measured by disease-specific QOF measures, and fewer CHD admissions.

TL;DR: Encouraging the reformulation of foods, especially for products with the lowest nutritional quality in each category of processed foods, is a worthy target for health policy makers.

TL;DR: The gender differences in the health and socio-economic impact of TB included perceived causality, curability, stigma, family and community support, fear of disclosure, and use of self-help or home remedies.

TL;DR: The mortality rate in this study was low in comparison with other research, which may be explained in the context of inappropriate prehospital or interhospital care in Iran.

TL;DR: The census ethnicity categorization satisfactorily captures the ethnic diversity of the population, and adheres to the principle of self-identification in the labels used and underlying conceptual base.