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BACKGROUND: Our aim, as part of the collaborative study SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe), was to describe public health publications in the French language according to health needs and public health functions. METHOD: All articles published in six French public health journals, and one French/English language Canadian journal, over the period 1995-2004, were retrieved from three electronic databases. Original research articles were indexed by hand according to one main domain of health need, based on Global Burden of Disease categories, and into one of four public health functions. RESULTS: After removing duplicates, 3984 original research articles were identified. Only 51% could be allocated to a health needs code. Of these, 71% were about non-communicable diseases, 25% communicable, maternal and perinatal conditions and 5% injuries. This compared only moderately with the global burden of disease for France (84, 5 and 11%, respectively). The other articles addressed health determinants, such as behavioural or environmental exposures, or a methodological issue. Ninety-two percent of the articles could be assigned a public health function code. Health monitoring and health services research accounted for 80% of references from French journals. Only 9% of articles from French journals were related to prevention, which was lower than that in the Canadian journal (17%). Only 1% of articles dealt with legislation. CONCLUSION: The distribution of articles in French public health journals broadly follows the distribution of health needs. History and data availability may explain the extra research focus on communicable diseases and maternal and child health research. Injuries, and prevention, are topics which appear to be under-represented in French language journals.

BACKGROUND: Our aim, as part of the collaborative study SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe), was to describe public health publications in the French language according to health needs and public health functions. METHOD: All articles published in six French public health journals, and one French/English language Canadian journal, over the period 1995-2004, were retrieved from three electronic databases. Original research articles were indexed by hand according to one main domain of health need, based on Global Burden of Disease categories, and into one of four public health functions. RESULTS: After removing duplicates, 3984 original research articles were identified. Only 51% could be allocated to a health needs code. Of these, 71% were about non-communicable diseases, 25% communicable, maternal and perinatal conditions and 5% injuries. This compared only moderately with the global burden of disease for France (84, 5 and 11%, respectively). The other articles addressed health determinants, such as behavioural or environmental exposures, or a methodological issue. Ninety-two percent of the articles could be assigned a public health function code. Health monitoring and health services research accounted for 80% of references from French journals. Only 9% of articles from French journals were related to prevention, which was lower than that in the Canadian journal (17%). Only 1% of articles dealt with legislation. CONCLUSION: The distribution of articles in French public health journals broadly follows the distribution of health needs. History and data availability may explain the extra research focus on communicable diseases and maternal and child health research. Injuries, and prevention, are topics which appear to be under-represented in French language journals.

Armed with up-to-date theory, narrative examples, and detailed instructions from writing assignments used in public health classrooms across disciplines and genres, Teaching Public Health Writing offers public health instructors the skills needed to refresh or redesign in-course writing instruction and assignments, ensuring the next generation of professionals have the tools they need to communicate confidently and effectively.

Frontmatter -- Geleitwort von ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herwig Ostermann -- Geleitwort von Prof. Dr. Lothar H. Wieler -- Geleitwort von Pascal Strupler -- Vorwort zur vierten Auflage -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren -- 1 Public Health: Konzepte, Disziplinen und Handlungsfelder -- 2 Public-Health-Methoden -- 3 Gesundheitssysteme -- 4 Gesundheitsförderung und Prävention -- 5 Gesundheit im Verlauf des Lebens – Life Course Approach to Health -- 6 Materielle Umwelt und Gesundheit -- 7 Arbeit und Gesundheit -- 8 Chronische Krankheiten und Unfälle -- 9 Infektionskrankheiten -- 10 Globale Gesundheit -- Register

Public health in the digital era is a significant aspect and important challenge for all public health professionals. Public health innovation, technology, and information are accelerating the advanced technique to improve the understanding of social, economic and political determinants of health; and these technologies are used for a population's health improvement. Today, several modified/improved technologies are used to support public health professionals to achieve the availability, affordability, inter-activity, accessibility and portability of access to health care systems of a population. Therefore, in digital 4.0 era, we as public health professionals need to improve our perspective and skill to use these advanced and suitable technologies to support our missions to maximize population health utilization and benefit. ; -

Public health policies continue to play important roles in national and international health reforms. However, the influence and legacies of the public health eras during which such policies are formulated remain largely underappreciated. The limited appreciation of this relationship may hinder consistent adoption of public health policies by nation-states, and encumber disinvestment from ineffective or anachronistic policies. This article reviews seven public health eras and highlights how each era has influenced international policy formulation for leprosy control—"the fertile soil for policy learning". The author reiterates the role of health leadership and health activism in facilitating consistency in international health policy formulation and implementation for leprosy control.

Over the last few decades, substantial efforts have been directed at addressing health issues in Africa and other resource-constrained areas of the world. However, unless these efforts contribute to the development and sustainability of public health infrastructure, workforce capacity, and management processes, the response is likely to have only a short-term impact on the most pressing health problems. National public health institutes (NPHIs) are a sound and viable model for low-resource countries to strengthen national public health infrastructure and capacity. Despite the benefits of an NPHI in focusing resources and improving health outcomes, most countries in Africa currently lack fully functioning NPHIs and are thus ill-prepared to address current and imminent public health threats. Formally launched in January 2006, the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) was created to help countries with limited public health infrastructure move toward development of a coordinated, science-drive organizational focus for public health decision-making and service delivery. The goal of this new organization is to improve the health of populations, particularly in low-resource countries, by providing an evidence-based framework and strategies to strengthen the ability of existing NPHIs to deliver essential public health functions, establishing new NPHIs or networks to coordinate these functions, and creating a new international community for NPHI leaders to foster public health advocacy, leadership development, and peer assistance. The extent of organized public health at the national level, and of NPHIs in particular, varies among countries. The spectrum ranges from countries with no organized, government-led focus for public health to those with fully developed NPHIs. This paper considers the state of organized public health in Africa, explains the categories and roles of NPHIs, and describes the IANPHI contribution.