In Africa and around the world, the integrated, holistic One Health effort has conservationists improving community health and people's livelihoods, and health-care professionals participating in conservation.
Behind the weight-loss gimmick is a serious health effort.
But as soon as the virus was confirmed, a massive public health effort began.
But some fear that the inclusion of civil society groups in the health effort may still be an issue.
Meanwhile, Google, without announcing any big health effort, has been quietly drawing more health information seekers into its gravitational pull with various new patient-friendly features.
And Dr. Trujillo, too, even in the midst of coordinating a major mental health effort, has been aware of his own personal discomposure.
The idea is that encouraging mentoring is "a public health effort," Dr. Winsten said, just like "substance-abuse prevention or violence prevention".
Yet if traditional efforts at gun control are at a political dead end, there should still be room for a public health effort to mitigate their harm.
Lowering salt consumption, along with stopping smoking, are two areas in which a broad public health effort can have the most impact on the most people, Dr. Frieden said.
If there is any doubt, even the Gates Foundation, with $37 billion at its disposal, has had to pick and choose what to finance in its global health effort.
His President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or Pepfar, directed lifesaving drugs and other care to millions with H.I.V. and was called the largest humanitarian health effort ever undertaken by any country.
