Enhancing children ’s awareness of sexual abuse in Pakistan with video literacy interventional cartoons
AbstractIn presence of violent extremism, children in Pakistan are at high risk for child sexual abuse (CSA), especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. Effective approaches for preventing CSA include enhancing resilience resources in violence-affected societies. Previous research suggests that video-based curricula effectively enhances learning in primary schoolchildren. We pilot tested a video literacy program to build awareness in children, creating a ‘personal safety and space bubble’ as an educational approach for prevention of sexual abuse with an experimental 6 weeks long pre- and post-test design. We conducted qu...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
What isn ’t public health?
AbstractBy recognizing the structural causes of health and illness, public health has often been associated with values of compassion and solidarity, and a relational understanding of human agency. Rather than supporting the consistent integration and application of these insights, however, public health is now sometimes invoked more as a rhetorical move, used to construct issues as simple questions of neoliberal scientistic rationalism. Public health practitioners must reckon, therefore, with how the field can be di scursively deployed in the public square, for multiple divergent political ends. If public health is alw...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 3, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
A call to action: securing an uninterrupted supply of Africa ’s medical products and technologies post COVID-19
AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the vulnerability of many African healthcare systems, amplifying inadequacies and constraints in the supply chain for medical products and technologies on the continent. Disruptions in the global supply chain due to the pandemic resulted in the continent ’s population of over one billion people grappling with shortages in the supply of essential medicines. The shortages and their consequences set back achievement of Sustainable Development Goals and progress towards universal health coverage. A virtual meeting of global experts in medical products and supply chain identified as urge...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 30, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Geo-epidemiological approach of the COVID-19 pandemic in France and in Europe for public health policies
AbstractThe spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has shown great heterogeneity between countries that merits investigation. There is a need to better highlight the variability in the pandemic trajectories in different geographic areas. By using openly available data from ‘GitHub’ COVID-19 dataset for Europe and from the official dataset of France for the period 2020 to 2021, I present the three COVID-19 waves in France and Europe in maps. The epidemic trends across areas display different evolutions for different time periods. National and European public health authorities will be able to improve allocation of resources fo...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 30, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Publisher Correction to: Translating results into action: the global impact of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 20, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Should we still talk about crisis?
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 16, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Potential chemical risks from tattoos and their relevance to military health policy in the United States
AbstractWe summarize and consolidate disparate sources of information about the practice of tattooing and its potential implications for military population health and policy. Each branch of the United States military has policies about tattoos for service members, but these have varied over time and do not cover health protection. The number of veterans receiving disability payments and the cost of those payments has been rising over time; the broad category of skin conditions accounts for 11% of disability claims. Any additional factor, such as tattoos that may increase the occurrence of adverse skin reactions, can subst...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
A mistake-find exercise: a teacher ’s tool to engage with information innovations, ChatGPT, and their analogs
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
The obligation to use face masks in public spaces as a public health measure and permissible limits on civil liberties
AbstractDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have imposed various social restrictions on a massive scale. This Viewpoint discusses current issues about the legality of restrictions and current knowledge about how to prevent the spread of Sars-Cov-2. Although vaccines are already available, other basic public health measures are needed to suppress the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and reduce the COVID-19 related mortality: isolation, quarantine, and wearing of face masks. This Viewpoint shows that the emergency measures during a pandemic are important for protecting the public ’s health, but they may only be legitimate ...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Adolescent autonomy for the COVID-19 vaccine
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 14, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Correction: Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 10, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
An equity and environmental justice assessment of anti-science actions during the Trump administration
AbstractIn the United States, science shapes federal health and safety protections, but political officials can and do politicize federal science and science-based safeguards. Many presidential administrations have politicized science, but under the administration of President Trump, these attacks on science —such as buried research, censored scientists, halted data collection—increased in number to unprecedented levels. Underserved communities bore the brunt of the harms. Such attacks disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, low-income communities, and communities of color, all of whom have long been burdened by pol...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 3, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic —what Occupational Safety and Health can bring to Public Health
AbstractWe strive to increase public (PH) and occupational health (OSH) inter-linkages by building a collaborative framework. Besides Covid-19 pandemic, recent approaches such as Human Exposome and Total Worker Health TM, have led to a shift to improving health of working population and consequently the total population. These health objectives can be best realised through primary care actors in specific contexts. Work, school, home and leisure are the four multi-stakeholder contexts in which health and healthcare (goal-oriented care) objectives needs to be set and defined. PH policy makers need to establish a shared decis...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - January 16, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Translating results into action: the global impact of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative
AbstractThe World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) provides a participative framework to bridge the gaps in policies and programs on breastfeeding. This concurrent mixed-methods study investigated how and why carrying out WBTi evaluations in countries influences their breastfeeding policies and outcomes. We used data from WBTi ’s Global Repository to evaluate performance scores in 98 countries and conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews to investigate the impact of WBTi process, using the Managing for Development Results structure and actor-network theory. Countries that conducted WBTi multiple times seem to ...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - January 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Caregiver perceptions of England ’s universal infant school meal provision during the COVID-19 pandemic
AbstractThe United Nations (UN) recognises free school meals as critical, yet widely disrupted by COVID-19. We investigate caregiver perceptions and responses to interruptions to the universal infant free school meal programme (UIFSM) in Cambridgeshire, England, using an opt-in online survey. From 586 responses, we find 21 per cent of respondents ’ schools did not provide UIFSM after lockdown or advised caregivers to prepare packed lunches. Where provided, caregivers perceived a substantial decline in quality and variety of meals, influencing uptake. Direction to bring packed lunches, which caregivers reported to have co...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - January 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
