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Child Maltreatment
Joanne Martin
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Child Maltreatment Introduction Child maltreatment encompasses all forms of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment has long-term devastating...
Citizen Advisory Boards
Ned E. Baker, Marie Fallon
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Citizen Advisory Boards Introduction From the earliest colonial days, the citizens of North American colonies banded together to protect th...
Climate Change and Human Health
Sotiris Vardoulakis
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Climate Change and Human Health Introduction There is increasing scientific evidence of the direct and indirect effects of climate change on huma...
Community Air Pollution
Morton Lippmann
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community Air Pollution Introduction Human activities generate ambient air pollutants that we all inhale when outdoors. These pollutants also inf...
Community Development
Frances Dunn Butterfoss
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community Development Introduction Although its work is continuously redefined by current social issues, community development (CD) is a broad te...
Community Partnerships and Coalitions
Michelle C. Kegler
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community Partnerships and Coalitions Introduction Community coalitions and partnerships are vehicles for engaging multiple sectors of a communit...
Community-Based Participatory Research
Ann C. Macaulay, Erin Sirett, Paula L. Bush
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community-Based Participatory Research Introduction Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach in which researchers undertake r...
Complexity and Systems Theory
Diane T. Finegood, Lee M. Johnston, Philippe Giabbanelli, Penny Deck, Sarah Frood, Lina Burgos-Liz, Marla Steinberg, Allan Best
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Complexity and Systems Theory Introduction Public health embraces a holistic, “cell-to-society” approach to understanding both the direct and ...
Culture
Juliet McMullin
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Culture Introduction The concept of culture has been used as a descriptive and explanatory concept in public health efforts to understand human a...
Definition of Health
Lawrence W. Green
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Definitions of Health Introduction The definition of health has evolved with the changing conditions of societies, with the changing techno...
Dietary Guidelines
Kathryn M. Kolasa, Katherine Rickett
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Dietary Guidelines Introduction Dietary guidelines or recommendations are suggestions to help adults and children consume foods and beverages ...
Ecological Approaches
Monica L. Wendel, Kenneth R. McLeroy
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Ecological Approaches Introduction Social ecology provides a framework for understanding how individuals and their social environments mutuall...
Environmental Protection Agency
Mark Robson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Environmental Protection Agency Introduction The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a federal agency of the US government with the respo...
Ethics of Public Health
David Ross Buchanan
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Ethics of Public Health Introduction Discussion of the ethics of public health today emerges from the confluence of two streams of writings. A sm...
Evidence-Based Public Health Practice
Gilbert Ramirez
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Evidence-Based Public Health Practice Introduction Evidence-based public health (EBPH) practice is the informed use of evidence to guide practice...
Family Planning Services and Birth Control
Jessica Morse, Philip D. Darney
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Family Planning Services and Birth Control Introduction Family planning services and birth control are integral to how families determine the ...
Food Safety
Mark Robson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Food Safety Introduction Food safety is a broad term that is associated with how food is grown, harvested, stored, shipped, processed, and pre...
Food Security and Food Banks
Carol Dawne Milligan
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Food Security and Food Banks Introduction Food security refers to a state in which adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appro...
Functional Literacy
John P. Comings
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Functional Literacy Introduction Literacy comprises a set of skills (usually listed as phonics, decoding, fluency, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehe...
Geographic Information Systems
Candace I.J. Nykiforuk
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Geographic Information Systems Introduction Understanding relationships between health and environmental factors (e.g., sociodemographic, econ...
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