Public Health - B - Oxford Bibliographies
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...
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 ...
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