This review traces the growing burden of cancer in India from antiquity. We searched
PubMed, Internet Archive, the British Library, and several other sources for information on …

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which affect the very poor, pose a major public
health problem in the South-East Asia Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) …

" Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to
health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of …

Throughout this book, the authors analyse and reflect upon the influence of history, research
and procedures upon contemporary public health practice. The text explores the debates …

Abstract Alfred Russel Wallace, eminent naturalist and codiscoverer of the principle of
natural selection, was a major participant in the antivaccination campaigns in late 19th …

Effective risk communication is critical to gain public support when implementing population-
level health interventions. Analysis of previous public health campaigns can provide …

This article examines the US legislative and policy landscape and its historical and
contemporary recognition of young people as caregivers and their importance to public …

The modern view of addiction as a progressive brain disease originated in the second half of
the 19th and early decades of the 20th centuries. Historians attribute the shift from a moral to …

As public health aims to improve health outcomes of all populations, social justice is argued
to be the philosophy on which public health is based. A social justice approach to population …

O artigo discute, em perspectiva histórica, as agendas dirigidas para a formação de
trabalhadores e para a gestão do trabalho em saúde no Brasil, em especial as suas …