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Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public administrators or development agency workers, and increase transparency and accountability. This U4 Brief summarises experiences and approaches to educating new and experienced public health professionals and donor agency practitioners about how to analyse problems of corruption in the health sector and design strategies to address them.

"CeaseFire is a unique, interdisciplinary, public health approach to violence prevention. We maintain that violence is a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods. Using proven public health techniques, the model prevents violence through a three-prong approach: Identification & detection Interruption, Intervention, & risk reduction Changing behavior and norms"

One of the greatests aspects of broadband Internet is that you can use it from just about anywhere to get a college degree online. If you are interested in getting a bachelor's or master's degree in public health, there are many online schools and other aspects that you should consider.

Our 100 Awesome Deans of Public Health is a fun list our editors put together as an excuse to truly highlight these individuals responsible for developing our global leaders of tomorrow. If we could list every Dean #1 we would.

A Doctor-Professor answers the old question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way. Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's

"MedEdPORTAL Publications and Georgia Regents University have partnered to bring you the Directory and Repository of Educational Assessment Measures (DREAM). DREAM's mission is to achieve excellence in health sciences education by providing easy-to-locate, publically accessible information about assessment instruments to health science educators, educational researchers, and program/curriculum evaluators."

"To tweet or not to tweet: Exploring the role of social media in public health: Part II"

he principle aim of the NHS Evidence service is to provide easy access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who takes decisions about treatments or the use of resources - including clinicians, public health professionals, commissioners and service managers - thus improving health and patient care. It will build on NICE's significant international reputation for developing high quality evidence-based guidance. It provides access to a range of information types, including primary research literature, practical implementation tools, guidelines and policy documents.

The eHealth International Journal provides a peer-reviewed vehicle for timely publication of scientific research on the application of information technology in medicine, medical care delivery, and public health.

To educate public health professionals on the importance of health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy.

"As we develop written materials for the general public, we need to think about vocabulary and sentence structure, organization of ideas, as well as layout and design elements so that we can eliminate as many unnecessary barriers as possible."

The Internet increasingly serves as a platform for the delivery of public health interventions. The efficacy of Internet interventions has been demonstrated across a wide range of conditions. Much more work remains, however, to enhance the potential for broad population dissemination of Internet interventions. In this article, we examine the effectiveness of Internet interventions, with particular attention to their dissemination potential. We discuss several considerations (characterizing reach rates, minimizing attrition, promoting Web site utilization, use of tailored messaging and social networking) that may improve the implementation of Internet interventions and their associated outcomes. We review factors that may influence the adoption of Internet interventions in a range of potential dissemination settings. Finally, we present several recommendations for future research that highlight the potential importance of better understanding intervention reach, developing consensus regarding Web site usage metrics, and more broadly integrating Web 2.0 functionality.

" Among malpractice claims, diagnostic errors appear to be the most common, most costly and most dangerous of medical mistakes. We found roughly equal numbers of lethal and non-lethal errors in our analysis, suggesting that the public health burden of diagnostic errors could be twice that previously estimated. Healthcare stakeholders should consider diagnostic safety a critical health policy issue. "

Access research studies, publications, conference proceedings, reference materials, databases, tools, and other resources of interest to medical researchers, health care providers, patients, consumers, citizens, and policymakers.

"In keeping with our commitment to inform society on how to best navigate today's unprecedented increase in longevity, we publish timely, relevant, evidence-based research on issues such as healthy aging, ageism, caregiving, financing longevity, politics and health care, and more. Our books and reports are offered for sale at competitive prices. Electronic versions of reports and our trademarked issue briefs can be downloaded for free. "

"Some healthcare professionals-especially those working in public health, with young people, or with non-native speakers-have begun to use graphic stories for patient care and education"

Video from the University of Michigan about a variety of Second Life Health sites