Public Health - E - Oxford Bibliographies
Ecological Approaches
Monica L. Wendel, Whitney R. Garney, 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...
Enabling Factors
Gary D. Gilmore
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Enabling Factors Introduction The concept and the implementation of enabling factors emerged from the behavioral sciences. Enabling factors ar...
Environmental Health, Pediatric
Ruth Etzel
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
Pediatric Environmental HealthIntroductionPediatric environmental health is the academic discipline that studies how environmental exposures in early ...
Environmental Laws
Robert Percival
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Environmental LawIntroductionConcern over the effects of pollution on public health has been a major factor shaping the development of environmental l...
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 s...
Evidence-Based Pediatric Dentistry
Donald Chi
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Evidence-Based Pediatric DentistryIntroductionThe practice of evidence-based pediatric dentistry is a mindful melding of three factors: knowledge glea...
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...
Food Systems
Jane Dixon
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Food Systems Introduction The term food systems refers to the complex of institutions, actors, and actions that take place across the spheres ...
Frail Elderly
William Satariano, Marlon Maus
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Frail Elderly Introduction The frail elderly are the subject of a growing number of conferences, consensus panels, review articles, book chapt...
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...
Genomics, Public Health
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...
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...
Geography and Health
Sarah Curtis
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Geography and Health Introduction Health geography considers the significance for physical and mental health of interactions between people an...
Global Health
Karen R. Siegel, KMV Narayan
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-10-29
Global Health Introduction Global health is the study of population health in a global context. In today’s increasingly globalized world, the ...
Global Health Diplomacy
Ilona Kickbusch, Thorsten Behrendt
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Global Health Diplomacy Introduction Today’s debates on global health diplomacy are characterized by two major governance challenges in the gl...
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...
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