The extent of premature death and ill health in the developing world is staggering. In 2000 almost 11 million children … the developing world. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters of concern in their own right. They are also a … brake on economic development. These concerns led the international community to put health at the center of the Millennium …

the Health Impact Fund. Financed by many governments, the HIF would offer any new pharmaceutical product the opportunity … assessed global health impact of all HIF registered products. In exchange, the innovator would have to agree to make this … engender large global health gains …

health aid on health outcomes. After taking into account the endogeneity and using the instrumental variable approach, the … results reveal that health aid help improving health outcomes in sub-Saharan African countries. More specifically, for each … additional unit of health aid, life expectancy increases by 0.093, prevalence of HIV decrease by 0.063, child mortality decrease …

of crucial importance in Africa where shortages affects the health system resilience. Edwards et al provides a good … the strengthening so that managers can better intervene in complex contexts? Deeper involvement of health authorities and … more rigorous approaches are seriously desirable for the proper development of health capacity strengthening programs in …

Public Health degree. The Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH), the American Public Health Association, the … Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the … Association for Prevention Teaching and Research joined together to establish the National Board of Public Health Examiners (5 …

The concept of sleep health provides a positive holistic framing of multiple sleep characteristics, including sleep … duration, continuity, timing, alertness, and satisfaction. Sleep health promotion is an underrecognized public health … opportunity with implications for a wide range of critical health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental …

This review describes the context of health equity and options for integrating equity into public health practice. We … first discuss how the conceptualization of health equity and how equity considerations in US public health practice have … been shaped by multidisciplinary engagements. We then discuss specific ways to address equity in core public health …

the structure of health care and health insurance in America -- and consequently on patients and health-care providers … Act (ACA), former President Obama's signature health insurance law. His very first executive order, signed within hours of … this fundamental policy shift affect the U.S. health care and health insurance systems? Those questions were explored by a …

experiment about the nature of what the article terms “Prime Health.” That analysis is based initially on observations about … Amazon's existing culture and business model of Amazon. Thereafter the article examines both what Prime Health could and … regulatory environment that hybrid healthcare generally and Prime Health in particular will face. The analysis includes federal …

India is striving towards the public health hygiene and nutrition through its massive health and insurance schemes. The … public health …