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IANPHI and National Public Health Institutes
Ellen Whitney, Katherine Seib, Jessica Blackburn, Jacob Clemente, Courtenay M. Dusenbury, Jeffrey P. Koplan
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
IANPHI and National Public Health InstitutesIntroductionMore than one hundred countries around the world have established national public health insti...
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...
Immunization and Pneumococcal Infection
Marina Ulanova
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
Immunization and Pneumococcal Infection Introduction Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, is an important bacterial pathogen responsible...
Immunization in Pregnancy
Varun K. Phadke
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Immunization in PregnancyIntroductionRoutine childhood immunization has had a substantial impact on pediatric morbidity and mortality globally. Howeve...
Indigenous Peoples, Public Health and
Margo L. Greenwood, Regine Halseth, Nicole Lindsay, Hilary McGregor, Sarah de Leeuw, Donna Atkinson, Deborah Keahey
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Public Health and Indigenous Peoples: North America, Australia, and New ZealandIntroductionIndigenous peoples around the world experience a disproport...
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 ...
Indoor Air Quality Guidelines
Hernando Perez
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Indoor Air Quality Guidelines Introduction It is well established that various air pollutants are associated with adverse health in exposed po...
Inequities
Elizabeth Harris, Jane Lloyd
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Inequities Introduction The term “health inequity” can be confusing to those entering the field, as it is often used interchangeably with “hea...
Infant Mortality
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Amira Khan, Omar Irfan
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Infant MortalityIntroductionA child younger than one year of age (i.e., birth to twelve months) is termed an infant. Nearly 5.2 million children less ...
Internet Applications in Promoting Health Behavior
Rik Crutzen, Stan Vluggen
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Internet Applications in Promoting Health BehaviorIntroductionInternet applications fall under the umbrella of eHealth, which is an emerging field in ...
Intersectoral Action
Evelyne de Leeuw
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2021-08-25
Intersectoral ActionIntroductionIntersectoral collaboration has become an essential dimension of public health practice and policy since the mid-1970s...
Intersectoral Strategies in Low - Middle Income Countries (LMIC)
Ligia de Salazar
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
Intersectoral Strategies in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC)IntroductionThere is a growing literature demonstrating the need for intersectoral actio...
Justice, Social
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
Social JusticeIntroductionRealizing social justice has always been a prominent concern of public health. From the initial founding of public health as...
Knowledge Translation and Exchange
Graham Colditz
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Knowledge Translation and ExchangeIntroduction“Words, whether credible or not, rarely flow automatically into action” (Lomas 1991, cited under Models ...
Knowledge Utilization and Exchange
Erica Di Ruggiero, Sarah Viehbeck, Devon Greyson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Knowledge Utilization and ExchangeIntroductionKnowledge on population and public health relates to the social, cultural, economic, and environmental d...
Law of Public Health in the United States
Ross D. Silverman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Law of Public Health in the United States Introduction Public health law is law that affects the health conditions of populations. In the Unit...
Media Advocacy
Lori Dorfman, Michael Bakal, Priscilla Gonzalez
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media AdvocacyIntroductionThe history of public health is clear: social conditions and the physical environment are important determinants of health. ...
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
Laura Boltz, Vikki Vandiver
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Mental Health PromotionIntroductionPromoting mental health is an important goal in the field of public health. By specifying mental health promotion f...
Migrant Health
Kevin Pottie, Kamila Premji
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Migrant Health Introduction Migration is a historic process that has increased dramatically in scale and scope in recent decades. There are mo...
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