Public Health - B - Oxford Bibliographies
Behavior
Laura Bouwman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Behavior Introduction Health behaviors are people’s actions, some purposefully deployed to promote or protect health, some thoughtlessly un...
Behavior Change Theory in Health Education and Promotion
Susan J. Curry, Robin J. Mermelstein
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added:
Behavior Change Theory in Health Education and Promotion Introduction The 20th century witnessed an extraordinary shift from infectious to chr...
Bioethics
Christopher Mayes, Ian Kerridge
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Bioethics Introduction Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public heal...
Board of Health
Ned E. Baker, Marie Fallon
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Board of Health Introduction Boards of health and other public health governing entities are legally designated governing bodies whose ...
Business and Corporate Practices
Nicholas Freudenberg
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Business and Corporate Practices Introduction Public health professionals and researchers have often focused on the role of civil socie...
Cancer Prevention
John B. Lowe
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Cancer Prevention Introduction Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. The purpose of cancer prevention is to reduce the probability of dea...
Cancer Screening
Juliet McMullin
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Cancer Screening Introduction According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting...
Capacity Building
Maria Isabel Loureiro
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Capacity Building Introduction Capacity building contains the concept of enabling—individuals, organizations, systems—for positive changes, stre...
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...
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