Volume 7, Issue 5
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Accelerating the Worldwide Adoption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes: Strengthening Commitment and Capacity; Comment on “The Untapped Power of Soda Taxes: Incentivizing Consumers, Generating Revenue, and Altering Corporate Behavior”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)In their recent article Roache and Gostin outline why governments and public health advocates should embrace soda taxes. The ...
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Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)
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Public Spending on Health Services and Policy Research in Canada: A Reflection on Thakkar and Sullivan; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Vidhi Thakkar and Terrence Sullivan have done a careful and thought-provoking job in trying to establish comparable estimates of public spending on health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada, the United Kingdom ...
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Knowledge Translation in Healthcare – Towards Understanding its True Complexities; Comment on “Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)This commentary argues that to fully appreciate the complexities of knowledge transfer one firstly has to distinguish between the notions of “data, information, knowledge and wisdom," and that the ...
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Soda Taxes: The Importance of Analysing Policy Processes; Comment on “The Untapped Power of Soda Taxes: Incentivising Consumers, Generating Revenue, and Altering Corporate Behaviours”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Sarah A. Roache and Lawrence O. Gostin's recent editorial comprehensively presents soda taxation rationales from a public health perspective. While we essentially agree that soda taxes are gaining ...
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Human Rights Treaties Are an Important Part of the “International Health Instrumentariam”; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments - What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)In their commentary, Haik Nikogosian and Ilona Kickbusch argue for the necessity of new binding international legal instruments for health to address complex health determinants and offer a cogent ...
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Factors That Influence Enrolment and Retention in Ghana’ National Health Insurance Scheme
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background The government of Ghana introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2004 with the goal of achieving universal coverage within 5 years. ...
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Reaching Outside the Comfort Zone: Realising the FCTC’s Potential for Public Health Governance and Regulation in the European Union; Comment on “The Legal Strength of International Health Instruments – What It Brings to Global Health Governance?”
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)In their paper, Nikogosian and Kickbusch show how the effects of the adoption by the World Health Organization (WHO) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and its first ...
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The Global Health Policies of the EU and its Member States: A Common Vision?
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background This article assesses the global health policies of the European Union (EU) and those of its individual member states. So far EU and public health ...
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The Challenges of a Complex and Innovative Telehealth Project: A Qualitative Evaluation of the Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background The Eastern Quebec Telepathology Network (EQTN) has been implemented in the province of Quebec (Canada) to support pathology and surgery practices ...
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What Factors Do Allied Health Take Into Account When Making Resource Allocation Decisions?
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background Allied health comprises multiple professional groups including dietetics, medical radiation practitioners, occupational therapists, optometrists and ...
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The Response to and Impact of the Ebola Epidemic: Towards an Agenda for Interdisciplinary Research
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background The 2013-2016 Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in West Africa was the largest in history and resulted in a huge public health burden and significant social and economic impact in those countries most ...
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Unit Costing of Health Extension Worker Activities in Ethiopia: A Model for Managers at the District and Health Facility Level
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background Over the last decade, Ethiopia has made impressive national improvements in health outcomes, including reductions in maternal, neonatal, infant, and child mortality attributed in large part to their Health ...
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Assessment of the Effects of Economic Sanctions on Iranians’ Right to Health by Using Human Rights Impact Assessment Tool: A Systematic Review
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Background Over the years, economic sanctions have contributed to violation of right to health in target countries. Iran has been under comprehensive unilateral ...
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Shaping Policy Change in Population Health: Policy Entrepreneurs, Ideas, and Institutions
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2018-05-01)Political realities and institutional structures are often ignored when gathering evidence to influence population health policies. If these policies are to be successful, social science literature ...
