Dr A Poobalan, Dr H Morgan, Mr C Littlejohn, Dr I Rowe
Application Deadline:
22 March 2019
Public health (PH) is a population-based approach that recognizes the contributions of individuals, communities, voluntary groups and business to health (Wright J, 2016).
Of the 20 countries with the highest maternal mortality ratios worldwide, 19 are in Africa and the region has the highest neonatal death rate in the world” (WHO, 2014).
1. Background to the project. Scottish people living further from key healthcare facilities have less chance of prompt cancer diagnosis and poorer cancer survival than those living closer-by[1].
Background to the project. During in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), women are treated with hormone injections so that their ovaries can produce multiple eggs.
Group-based parenting interventions for preschool children with behavioural problems can be highly effective and cost-effective in preventing later conduct disorders, but such programmes have not been shown to be effective with younger children, where enhancing parental sensitivity is likely to be a more appropriate therapeutic aim than improving behaviour management.
Chronic pain represents a frequent and disabling condition and it is generally acknowledged that it represents and important public health problem and economic burden.
Described as the single most critical development failure of the past 30 years, in Africa and Asia the majority of births, deaths, and causes of deaths are never recorded.
