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C W Keck

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PubMed2000

Lessons learned from an academic health department.

Consensus has been reached in the United States on the mission and core functions of local health departments as well as services required to maximize community health status. Most local health departments do not have the financial or professional resources required to carry out all of the responsibilities assigned them. One way to improve competence is to develop partnerships with other agencies and institutions. One type of partnership that should be explored is linkages between local health departments and academic institutions. An example of such a partnership is described in this article.

Faculty, Medical↗
PubMed1992

Orally administered cefpodoxime proxetil for treatment of uncomplicated gonococcal urethritis in males: a dose-response study.

An open-label, dose-response study of cefpodoxime proxetil (CPD), an expanded-spectrum cephalosporin, was conducted with 58 males with uncomplicated Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections with single doses of 600, 400, 200, 100, or 50 mg of CPD administered orally by tablet. CPD eradicated N. gonorrhoeae in all 50 evaluable patients (10 per group) at all doses studied. Eight of the isolates eradicated were beta-lactamase-producing organisms. Two patients reported three side effects, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which were mild and resolved without intervention or sequelae. There were no clinically remarkable drug-related changes in vital signs or clinical laboratory assays. Results show that single oral doses of CPD are an effective and well-tolerated treatment for uncomplicated N. gonorrhoeae infection in males at doses as low as 50 mg.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1992

Creating a healthy public.

Significant change in thought and action will be required for our health system to become capable of serving all citizens effectively. Reliance on market forces and political expediency to shape health policy has focused attention inappropriately on finding ways to pay for illness care rather than maximizing health status. This misdirection of thought and effort has led many of us to search for ways to assure that health policy decisions are consistently based on both science and an ethic of humane concern. Courageous and disciplined local leadership will be needed to motivate policymakers to focus on the task of creating a healthy public. Linkage of academicians and practitioners with the public in a manner than empowers communities to assess and prioritize their own health problems could foster a strong community-based demand for ethical and humane decision making. Constituent demand for improved health status could provide the support politicians need if they are to legislate a national health program that emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention as well as illness care.

Forecasting↗