

On Being A Good Neighbor By Cleaning Up Your House And Yard. From the film, "It Must Be The Neighbors" (1966). Bill Duncan gets a Health Department citation for having a rusted-out garbage can. He talks to his buddy at the Health Department and learns that his neighborhood is filled with rats, disease carrying mosquitoes and neighbors who are eager to blame these problems on each other. These can be common problems in suburbs where the health departments do not have the resources to intervene. Production Company: US Public Health Service. Creative Commons license: Public Domain.
| Public health efforts called vital to nation (Bangor Daily News) AUGUSTA, Maine ? There?s no gripping, prime-time television show about the workaday world of public health professionals. |
| Institute Of Public Health Review Highlights Impact Of Education On Health, Ireland (Medical News Today) The strong link between education level and health was highlighted today in a comprehensive review of the impact of education on health, carried out by the Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH). |
| Dr. Lawrence P. Casalino Appointed Chief of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in Public Health (Newswise) Dr. Lawrence P. Casalino has been named chief of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The Division focuses on evaluating the quality and efficiency of clinical care and of organized interventions to improve care, with the goal of developing sound ... |
| Public Health Agency of Canada: Note to Editors (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Scientists at the Public Health Agency of Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory have made a significant discovery which will bring researchers one step closer to understanding the triggers which cause the Ebola virus to jump from an infected animal to humans. |
| Snakebite is a neglected threat to global public health (PhysOrg) Snakebites cause considerable death and injury worldwide and pose an important yet neglected threat to public health, says new research published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The study used the most comprehensive methods yet to estimate that at least 421,000 envenomings and 20,000 deaths from snakebites occur each year, especially in South and South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. |
