TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007)
Theory is the EYE of Practice
2006 Leavell Lecture |
Special Section |
Articles |
The Federation Pages |
Book Reviews |
Letter |
In Memoriam: The End of an Era for JPHP |
Contributors
Editorial
The End of an Era for JPHP
Phyllis Freeman and Anthony Robbins
J Public Health Pol 28: 1; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200112
2006 Leavell Lecture
The 2006 Hugh Rodman Leavell Lecture "Globalization, Poverty, and Health" FREE
At the World Federation of Public Health Associations' August 2006 congress in Rio de Janeiro, the Federation's newly elected President (from Brazil) presented his views of the world's health problems in the context of globalization and poverty.
Paulo Marchiori Buss
J Public Health Pol 28: 2-25; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200119
Special Section
Editorial: Palliative Care as a Public Health Issue in the Developing World
Phyllis Freeman
J Public Health Pol 28: 26-27; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200110
Palliative Care: A Public Health Priority in Developing Countries
The authors review the status of palliative care in the developing topic prominent in specialty literature, but often neglected by public even where the suffering associated with HIV/AIDS and cancers constitutes a most visible burden to individuals, families and communities.
Ruth Webster, Judith Lacey and Susan Quine
J Public Health Pol 28: 28-39; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200097
Palliative Medicine, an Urgent Public Health Need in the Developing World
Leaders of Uganda's Hospice Africa explain that Uganda is the only country in Africa where, in the context of HIV/AIDS, palliative care is classified in the nation's health strategic plan as an essential clinical service.
Jack Jagwe and Anne Merriman
J Public Health Pol 28: 40-41; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200096
Palliative Care: The Public Health Strategy
The founder of palliative care programmes for the World Health Organization summarizes the strategy formulated 20 years ago, and outcomes today.
Jan Stjernswärd
J Public Health Pol 28: 42-55; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200115
Palliative Care and Public Health, A Perspective from Nigeria
In 1996 a few Nigerians began to advocate palliative care, including opioids to manage pain. Two organizations emerged from that work, and members from several tertiary institutions are now promoting curriculum review and inclusion of multidisciplinary pain management in undergraduate training.
Olaitan A Soyannwo
J Public Health Pol 28: 56-58; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200114
Palliative Care and Public Health, A Perspective from the African Palliative Care Association
The African Palliative Care Association uses innovative approaches to achieve government acceptance of opioid use for pain management; and new methods to replace opioid consumption measurements as an indicator of palliative care development.
Faith Mwangi-Powell
J Public Health Pol 28: 59-61; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200123
A Visit to Hospice Africa
The author takes readers along on her tour of Hospice Africa in Kampala where she observes an ambitious strategy in action, combining outpatient care, home visits, formulation of color coded concentrations of oral morphine solutions, research, staff training, community outreach, and development of curricula and delivery of educational programs for professional care providers and community workers locally and across Africa.
Phyllis Freeman
J Public Health Pol 28: 62-70; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200107
Articles
Plain Language: A Strategic Response to the Health Literacy Challenge
Distinctly different than simple language, the authors explain the utility for public health of this increasingly popular concept.
Sue Stableford and Wendy Mettger
J Public Health Pol 28: 71-93; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200102
Strategic Orientation of Public Health in Transition: An Overview of South Eastern Europe
Continuing our Special Series on Prevention Legislation, the authors who live and work in South Eastern Europe describe the Public Health Mandate of the European Commission and the New Public Health. The policies reflected therein are likely to influence the future course of public health policy. The authors indicate what they believe to be the impending consequences.
Vesna Bjegovic, Dejana Vukovic, Zorica Terzic, Milena Santric Milicevic and Ulrich T Laaser
J Public Health Pol 28: 94-101; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200121
Substance Abuse and the Uninsured Worker in the United States
The very workers who most need good insurance coverage for substance abuse services are the least likely to have such coverage in the United States.
Deborah M Galvin, Ted R Miller, Rebecca S Spicer and Geetha M Waehrer
J Public Health Pol 28: 102-117; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200105
A Decade of Work on Organized Labor and Tobacco Control: Reflections on Research and Coalition Building in the United States
The authors review the history of collaboration between labor unions and anti-smoking activists and conclude that there is reason to be optimistic about the future.
Elizabeth M Barbeau, Gregory Delaurier, Graham Kelder, Deborah Mclellan, Glorian Sorensen, Edith D Balbach and Charles Levenstein
J Public Health Pol 28: 118-135; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200118
The Federation Pages
WFPHA: World Federation of Public Health Associations
J Public Health Pol 28: 136-150; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200117
Book Reviews
The Invisible ABCs: Exploring the World of Microbes
Adolfo Martínez-Palomo
J Public Health Pol 28: 151-152; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200122
Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in India 1947–1977
William Muraskin
J Public Health Pol 28: 153-155; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200116
Letter
Second-hand Smoke in Restaurants after Enforcement of a Health Promotion Law in Japan
Ryota Sakamoto, Toshitaka Nakahara, Kazunari Satomura, Suketaka Iwanaga, Megumi Noami, Asuka komatsu, Yuko Irie and Akihiko Kinugasa
J Public Health Pol 28: 156-161; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200120
In Memoriam: The End of an Era for JPHP
In Memoriam: The Passing of the Terris Era for JPHP
Max Pepper MD, MPH
J Public Health Pol 28: 162-164; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200111
Herbert Abrams in China: International Social Medicine
Victor W Sidel
J Public Health Pol 28: 165-180; doi:10.1057/palgrave.jphp.3200113
