Objective To understand the attitudes of consultant emergency medicine physicians and
advanced trainees and the perceived barriers to public health interventions in A ustralasian …

This paper describes the initiation of Victoria's Health Promoting Emergency Departments
(HPEDs) Program, involving seven of Melbourne's Emergency Departments (EDs). The …

Emergency departments (ED) in the United States serve a dual role in public health: a portal
of entry to the health system and a safety net for the community at large. Public health …

Study objective: To describe the opportunities for health promotion in emergency
departments (EDs). Methods: A comprehensive literature review and consultation with ED …

Background ED staff assess patients with modifiable risk factors for acute and chronic
illness. Health promotion interventions delivered in the ED have been advocated for these …

Background There are potential health gains such as reducing early deaths, years spent in
ill-health and costs to society and the health and care system by encouraging NHS staff to …

In the Institute of Medicine's 1988 report “The Future of Public Health,” the mission of public
health was defined as to “fulfill society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can …

Methods Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a sample of ECPs working in an
inner city setting based in one ambulance service trust. ECPs with at least 4 years of …

This article is the outcome of a consensus building workshop entitled,“Overcoming Barriers
to Implementation and Dissemination” convened at the 2009 Academic Emergency …

Fifty years ago, CP Snow wrote of the intellectual divide between the humanities and the
sciences in his essay, Two Cultures. 1 The book sparked an intellectual debate that …