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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...
Global Health Security
Sara E. Davies, Jessica Kirk
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Global Health SecurityIntroductionGlobal (public) health security is defined by the World Health Organization as the activities required, both proacti...
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 AdministrationIntroductionIn a public health context, the term “health administration” has connotations that vary with the health system in whi...
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 psych...
Health Disparities
Leandris Liburd
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Health Disparities Introduction Despite improvements in the overall health status of the US population, health disparities remain widespread a...
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 Impact Assessment
Jason Corburn
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Health Impact Assessment Introduction Health impact assessment (HIA) is often defined as a combination of procedures, methods, and tools that ...
Health in All Policies
Louise St-Pierre
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Health in All Policies Introduction The phrase Health in All Policies (HiAP) became popular during Finland’s presidency of the European Union ...
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