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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...

Global Health Promotion

Angela Scriven

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Global Health Promotion Introduction There are a number of reasons why a global perspective and understanding relating to health promotion have b...

Guide to Community Preventive Services, The

Peter A. Briss

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

The Guide to Community Preventive Services Introduction The Guide to Community Preventive Services (or “Community Guide”) is a family of produ...

Health Administration

Julia Field Costich

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Administration Introduction The term “health administration” in a public health context has connotations that vary with the health sys...

Health Communication

W. Douglas Evans

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Communication Introduction Communication and marketing are broad, interdisciplinary fields that draw from disciplines such as psycho...

Health Education

Elaine Auld, Stephen F. Gambescia

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Education Introduction Health education is defined as “any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary action...

Health Literacy

Rima Rudd, Lindsay Schubiner

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Literacy Introduction Health literacy represents a new field of inquiry at the intersection of individuals’ literacy skills and health sys...

Health Measurement Scales

F. Douglas Scutchfield, Alex F. Howard, Robert M. Shapiro

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Measurement Scales Introduction “What gets measured gets done,” as the old adage says. The measurement of health and health status is a key ...

Health Planning

F. Douglas Scutchfield, Alex F. Howard, Robert M. Shapiro

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Planning Introduction Health planning represents the first step in an orderly process to accomplish the things necessary to improve the he...

Health Promotion

Lawrence W. Green

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Health Promotion Introduction While the scope and definition of health promotion continues to evolve, international consensus has settled on some...

Homelessness

Holly A. Holtzen

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2012-11-21

Homelessness Introduction Homelessness has existed throughout human history, and as far back as the 17th century in the United States. The cau...

Immigrant Populations

Hector G. Balcazar, Holly J. Mata

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Immigrant Populations Introduction The phenomenon of immigration is as old as humanity itself. Movement of people into and out of their habita...

Indigenous Populations of North America, Australasia, and Circumpolar North

Kue Young

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

Indigenous Populations Introduction It is estimated that worldwide there are some 370 million indigenous people in ninety countries. There is ...

Indoor Air Quality Guidelines

Hernando Perez

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2013-05-28

Indoor Air Quality Guidelines Introduction It is well established that various air pollutants are associated with adverse health in exposed po...

Knowledge Translation and Exchange

Graham Colditz

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Knowledge Translation and Exchange Introduction “Words, whether credible or not, rarely flow automatically into action” (Lomas 1991, cited und...

Media Advocacy

Lori Dorfman, Priscilla Gonzalez

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Media Advocacy Introduction The history of public health is clear: social conditions and the physical environment are important determinants of healt...

Mental Health

Vikki Vandiver, Nikki Hozack

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Mental Health Introduction An essential starting point for understanding and describing mental health is to also understand mental illness. Essen...

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