scholarly journals Regulations concerning natural swimming ponds in Europe: considerations on public health issues

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saverio Giampaoli ◽  
Nathalie Garrec ◽  
Gérard Donzé ◽  
Federica Valeriani ◽  
Lothar Erdinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Microbiological Analysis ◽  
Recreational Water ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
European Directive ◽  
New Type

Natural swimming ponds (NSPs) are a new type of recreational water facility characterized by the substitution of traditional disinfection with biodepuration. While this feature meets esthetic desires of users, specific concerns on public health issues have been raised by the scientific community and local authorities. The absence of a European directive applicable to these environments leaves each country without specific and harmonized indications. The present work describes the local/national policy situation, describing adopted parameters and monitoring activities. All documents underline the need for appropriate microbiological analysis and correct water management.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection/AIDS In Children: The Next Decade

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 930-935
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Ammann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Critical Issues

The next decade of HIV/AIDS must resolve critical issues. It will be necessary to probe deeply to examine what is currently known, identify what needs to be known, and find ways to solve the issues that must be confronted. How to best achieve solutions in a timely manner must also be determined. Seven priorities of major importance have been identified. There are others, and there will be new ones. Each issue is complex, but each one must be faced with the hope that solutions will be found. After 10 years, HIV infection is at risk of becoming institutionalized, bringing with it an acceptance of the issues as inherent to the disease. Patients look to the medical profession and scientific community to provide hope. But there are also significant educational, psychological, social, and public health issues that must be resolved. The first decade of AIDS consisted of recognition, diagnosis, and early treatment. If hope is to be brought to our children and their parents, the next decade must consist of the prevention and therapeutic control of HIV and its complications.

scholarly journals MALNUTRITION AND INFECTION: AN UPDATE

2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (S1) ◽  
pp. S5-S10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel W. Solomons
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Emerging Infectious Diseases ◽  
Micronutrient Deficiencies ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Obesity And Overweight ◽  
Molecular Immunology ◽  
Multiple Micronutrient

The original Scrimshaw, Taylor and Gordon conceptual framework for the interaction of nutrition and infection has well served the scientific community for almost half a century. At its core is the notion of synergistic (mutually reinforcing) and antagonistic (mutually nullifying) influences of the malnourished state on infectious conditions and vice versa. Research on a series of advancing fronts, however, has allowed the incorporation of both relevant public health issues (parasitosis, emerging infectious diseases, obesity and overweight, etc.) and advancing science (molecular immunology, oxidation biology, multiple micronutrient deficiencies, etc.). The present review is an interpretative update on close to 50 years of demographic and epidemiological evolution in the field of human nutrition and the implications for the interaction in the context of microbiological and immunological developments on the infectious side of the dialectic.

scholarly journals Capture of Viruses and Microorganisms in Aerosols Using A Newly Designed Collection System: A Proof-of-concept Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dapeng Chen ◽  
Alese P Devin ◽  
Emily R Caton ◽  
Michael McLoughlin ◽  
Wayne A Bryden
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Capture Efficiency ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Human Pathogens ◽  
Collection System ◽  
Sampling System ◽  
System A ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
New Type

Aerosols contain human pathogens that cause public health disasters such as tuberculosis (TB) and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The current technologies for the collection of viruses and microorganisms in aerosols face critical limitations, necessitating the development of a new type of sampling system to advance the capture technology. Herein, we presented a new type of collection system, which exploits the affinity between carbon chains and organic molecules on the surfaces of viruses and microorganisms. We demonstrated that the physical capture efficiency of the collection system was over 99% for particle sizes from 0.3 to 10 um. We further evaluated the biochemical capture efficiency of the collection system using mass spectrometry approaches and showed that the biochemical information of viruses and microorganisms was well preserved. Coupled with well-established molecular technologies, this new type of capture technology can be used for the investigation of aerosol-related disease transmission models, as well as the development of innovative screening and monitoring tools for human diseases and public health issues.

scholarly journals Principles of Lifeworld Led Public Health Practice in the UK and Sweden: Reducing Health Inequalities

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Hemingway ◽  
Liz Norton ◽  
Clara Aarts
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Health Practitioner ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk

The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the lifeworld perspective in reducing inequalities in health and we explain how the public health practitioner can use this perspective to address public health issues with individuals and groups. We offer ideas for public health actions that are based on and deal with the lifeworld context of individual people or families. Each of the dimensions of the lifeworld temporality, spatiality, intersubjectivity, embodiment and mood are outlined and their significance explained in relation to health inequalities. Suggestions for action to reduce health inequalities are made and overall principles of lifeworld led public health practice are proposed by way of conclusion. The principles comprise understanding the community members’ lifeworld view, understanding their view of their potential, offering resources and facilitating empowerment, and sharing lifeworld case studies and lobbying to influence local and national policy in relation to both the individual and communities.

Public Health Issues Took Center Stage in Election

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (23) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDER
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Center Stage

EU Health Law & Policy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anniek de Ruijter
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
Legal Competence ◽  
The Eu

This book describes the expansion of EU power in health care and public health and analyses the implications of this expansion on EU health values and rights. The main conclusion of the book is that the EU is de facto balancing fundamental rights and values relating to health, implicitly taking on obligations for safeguarding fundamental rights in the field of health and affecting individuals’ rights sometimes without an explicit legal competence to do so. This brings to light instances where EU health policy has implications for fundamental rights and values without the possibility to challenge the exercise of power of the EU in human health. This begs the question of whether subsidiarity is still the most relevant legal principle for the division of powers and tasks among the Member States, particularly when EU policy and law involves the politically sensitive areas of health care and public health. This question draws out the parameter for continuing the debate on the role of the European Union in promoting its own values and the wellbeing of its peoples, in light of its ever-growing role in human health issues.

scholarly journals Television News Coverage of Public Health Issues and Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Gollust ◽  
Erika Franklin Fowler ◽  
Jeff Niederdeppe
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Health Policy And Practice

Television (TV) news, and especially local TV news, remains an important vehicle through which Americans obtain information about health-related topics. In this review, we synthesize theory and evidence on four main functions of TV news in shaping public health policy and practice: reporting events and information to the public (surveillance); providing the context for and meaning surrounding health issues (interpretation); cultivating community values, beliefs, and norms (socialization); and attracting and maintaining public attention for advertisers (attention merchant). We also identify challenges for TV news as a vehicle for improving public health, including declining audiences, industry changes such as station consolidation, increasingly politicized content, potential spread of misinformation, and lack of attention to inequity. We offer recommendations for public health practitioners and researchers to leverage TV news to improve public health and advance health equity.

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