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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...

Mental Health Promotion

Vikki Vandiver, Nikki Hozack

Subject: Public Health »

Date Added: 2011-02-23

Mental Health Promotion Introduction Increasingly, promoting mental health is seen as an integral part of public health. The promotion of mental ...

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...

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