The value of political blogging to the public and its contribution to national debate, are at best unproven, but "citizen journalists" are surely here to stay.
This has always been the role of public health but its contribution is unseen and unsexy; it's hard to count a teenager who didn't take up smoking or binge drinking and no one comes by to thank you for saving them from a lifetime of addiction.
Despite its contribution to public health, this measure remains limited by its contributing data sources: these data streams are not available in real-time, their data collection methods and definitions may change substantially across seasons, and they are not readily collected at different spatial scales or in different countries.
If the huge total surface area of a city's buildings is thought of as part of the city's infrastructure, then its public contribution may not only make outdoor areas comfortable, clean, and enjoyable, but also help to alleviate the bigger problem of rising temperatures in cities.
"Westboro's funeral picketing is certainly hurtful and its contribution to public discourse may be negligible," Chief Justice Roberts concluded.
Objective: We aim to provide a more balanced evaluation of epidemiology and its contribution to public health discourse.Discussion Boffetta and colleagues ignore the fact that false negatives may arise from the very processes that they tout as generating false-positive results.
Goldman's public disclosures in September 2008 obscured its contribution to AIG's near bankruptcy and the need to bailout Goldman's trading partners in AIG related transactions.
But it's the work of Joseph Bazalgette, the chief engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, that stands out to me – not just for its contribution to public health but also for its potential parallels to Cycle Space.
Consequently there is concern about its safety and its contribution to public health risk.
We aim to provide a more balanced evaluation of epidemiology and its contribution to public health discourse.
