Treatment effectiveness in interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome: Do patient perceptions align with efficacy-based guidelines?

Introduction: We sought to determine if patients' perceptions of success or failure of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) therapies proposed in treatment guidelines align with the evidence from available clinical trial treatment data.

Methods: A total of 1628 adult females with a self-reported diagnosis of IC completed a web-based survey in which patients described their perceived outcomes with the therapies they were exposed to. Previously published literature, used in part to develop IC/BPS guidelines, provided the clinical trial data outcomes.

Mind the public health leadership gap: the opportunities and challenges of engaging high-profile individuals in the public health agenda.

Background: Public health leadership has been criticized as being ineffective. The public health profession is relatively small. Critics have argued that there is over-emphasis on technical aspects and insufficient use of the 'community as a source of public health actions'.

Training public health superheroes: five talents for public health leadership.

Background: Public health leaders have been criticized for their policy stances, relationships with governments and failure to train the next generation. New approaches to the identification and training of public health leaders may be required. To inform these, lessons can be drawn from public health 'superheroes'; public health leaders perceived to be the most admired and effective by their peers.