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National Association of Local Boards of Health
Ned E. Baker, Marie Fallon
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
National Association of Local Boards of Health Introduction In 1991, Ned Baker (Ohio) and Vaughn Upshaw (North Carolina) convened a meeting...
Needs Assessment
Chris Lovato
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Needs Assessment Introduction At the most basic level, needs assessment is about identifying the gap between “what is” and “what should be.” The ...
Obesity Prevention
Shiriki K. Kumanyika
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Obesity Prevention Introduction Obesity reflects a physiologically harmful excess of body fat, overall or accumulated in specific parts of the...
Occupational Safety and Health
Arthur L. Frank
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Occupational Safety and Health Introduction Occupational safety and health is the discipline that collectively looks after the regulation, inspec...
Ottawa Charter
Evelyne de Leeuw
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Ottawa Charter Introduction The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (see Introductory Works) is widely regarded as the visionary gospel...
Parenting Skills and Capacity
Maria Isabel Loureiro, Ana Rita Goes
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Parenting Skills and Capacity Introduction Parenting has a strong impact on a child’s health and well-being. The rising incidence of developmenta...
Patient Decision Making
Jeffrey K. Belkora
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Patient Decision Making Introduction Patients historically deferred to physicians in a health crisis, even after Western civilization embraced ...
Pesticides
Mark Robson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Pesticides Introduction The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines a pesticide as any substance or mixture of substa...
Physical Activity and Exercise
Jeffrey Hallam
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Physical Activity and Exercise Introduction Understanding the role of physical activity and exercise behavior is vitally important to the publi...
Population Aging
Lynda Anderson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Population Aging Introduction The age of a population, or group of people, can change over time and become younger or older. “Population aging” r...
Population Health Objectives and Targets
Lawrence W. Green
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Population Health Objectives and Targets Introduction Borrowing from its epidemiological roots and from management science, public health has widel...
Precautionary Principle
Yazmin Amado Vu, William M. London
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Precautionary Principle Introduction Precautionary actions to protect health and ensure safety have always been an important part of public he...
Prenatal Health
M. Anne George, Mary H. George
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Prenatal Health Introduction Maternal and prenatal health covers a spectrum of topics, including nutrition, adequate health care, and risks...
Preparedness
Linda Young Landesman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Preparedness Introduction The body of research investigating public health considerations in disasters has only recently received dedicated at...
Program Planning and Evaluation
Chris Lovato
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Program Planning and Evaluation Introduction At the most basic level, program planning is a process that is designed to address questions such...
Public Health Genomics
W. David Dotson, Muin J. Khoury
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Public Health Genomics Introduction In the wake of the Human Genome Project’s completion in 2003, the pace of biological discovery and the rate...
Public Health, History of
L. Fleming Fallon
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
History of Public Health Introduction The history of public health is dynamic and being generated on a constant basis. Diseases have provided t...
Randomized Controlled Trials
Christine Paul, Robert Sanson-Fisher, Mariko Carey
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Randomized Controlled Trials Introduction Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become the accepted approach, or “gold standard,” for producin...
Rural Health in the United States
Ryung Suh, Hilda R. Heady
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Rural Health in the United States Introduction “Rural health in the United States” refers to the health status of rural people and the policie...
Sex Education in HIV/AIDS Prevention
Jessica M. Sales, Ralph J. DiClemente
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Sex Education in HIV/AIDS Prevention Introduction HIV/AIDS is the largest epidemic in modern history, resulting in approximately 25 million deaths s...
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