scholarly journals The Use of Open Source Software to Enhance Public Health Initiatives

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Hahn ◽  
Sheri Lewis ◽  
David Blazes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Applications

Open Source Software (OSS) is rapidly becoming part of public health applications. The adoption more broadly of OSS has the potential to improve global public health initiatives in general, because it provides a free, modifiable software option which can be altered to meet specific requirements.

Complaint-Oriented “Services”: Shelters as Tools for Criminalizing Homelessness

2021 ◽  
Vol 693 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-283
Author(s):  
Chris Herring
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

This article argues that the expansion of shelter and welfare provisions for the homeless can lead to increased criminalization of homeless people in public spaces. First, I document how repression of people experiencing homelessness by the police in San Francisco neighborhoods increased immediately after the opening of new shelters. Second, I reveal how shelter beds are used as a privileged tool of the police to arrest, cite, and confiscate property of the unhoused, albeit in the guise of sanitary and public health initiatives. I conclude by considering how shelters increasingly function as complaint-oriented “services,” aimed at addressing the interests of residents, businesses, and politicians, rather than the needs of those unhoused.

scholarly journals Advancing precision public health using human genomics: examples from the field and future research opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan C. Roberts ◽  
Alison E. Fohner ◽  
Latrice Landry ◽  
Dana Lee Olstad ◽  
Amelia K. Smit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Genomics ◽  
Precision Public Health ◽  
Genomics Research ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

AbstractPrecision public health is a relatively new field that integrates components of precision medicine, such as human genomics research, with public health concepts to help improve population health. Despite interest in advancing precision public health initiatives using human genomics research, current and future opportunities in this emerging field remain largely undescribed. To that end, we provide examples of promising opportunities and current applications of genomics research within precision public health and outline future directions within five major domains of public health: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health policy and health services, and social and behavioral science. To further extend applications of genomics within precision public health research, three key cross-cutting challenges will need to be addressed: developing policies that implement precision public health initiatives at multiple levels, improving data integration and developing more rigorous methodologies, and incorporating initiatives that address health equity. Realizing the potential to better integrate human genomics within precision public health will require transdisciplinary efforts that leverage the strengths of both precision medicine and public health.

scholarly journals Evaluating the impact of public health initiatives on trends in fecal occult blood test participation in Ontario

BMC Cancer ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys N Honein-AbouHaidar ◽  
Linda Rabeneck ◽  
Lawrence F Paszat ◽  
Rinku Sutradhar ◽  
Jill Tinmouth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Blood Test ◽  
Fecal Occult Blood Test ◽  
Occult Blood ◽  
Fecal Occult Blood ◽  
Occult Blood Test ◽  
Fecal Occult ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

scholarly journals From Prussia to China: Japanese Colonial Medicine and Gotō Shinpei’s Combination of Medical Police and Local Self-Administration

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Lynteris
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Colonial Medicine ◽  
Republican China ◽  
Self Administration ◽  
Japanese Colonialism ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

Recent historical investigation into the rise of ‘biopolitical modernity’ in China has shed some surprising light. While it was long thought that British public health initiatives entered China via Hong Kong, the recent work of Ruth Rogaski, Philippe Chemouilli and others has established that it was actually early Japanese colonialism that played the crucial role. It was the Meiji Empire's hygiene reform projects in Taiwan and Manchuria that provided the model for Republican China. Curiously overlooked by medical historians has been one of the major early works of Japanese public health that directly inspired and guided this colonial medical enterprise. This was that of the Japanese health reformer and colonial officer, Gotō Shinpei (1857–1929), and it was undertaken in Munich as a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Max von Pettenkofer. In this article, I focus on the way in which Shinpei dealt in his thesis with the relations between centralisation and local self-administration as one of the key issues facing hygienic modernisation and colonial biopolitical control.

scholarly journals Neighbourhood development and public health initiatives: who participates?

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Froding ◽  
I. Elander ◽  
C. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

Public Health Initiatives Scale

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kellie E. Carlyle ◽  
Caroline Orr ◽  
Matthew W. Savage ◽  
Elizabeth A. Babin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives

scholarly journals Public health initiatives from hospitalized patients with COVID-19, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1229-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenkai Zhao ◽  
Yueqin Xu ◽  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Yaping Zhong ◽  
Li Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Initiatives
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