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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...
Migrant Worker Health
Thomas A. Arcury, Taylor J. Arnold
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Migrant Worker HealthIntroductionMore than 150 million international migrant workers and an unknown number of internal migrant workers toil across the...
Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention
David A. Sleet, David Viano, Ann Dellinger
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Introduction One hundred years after the first self-propelled vehicle was invented, the world’s first recorded...
Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Nora Engel
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Introduction Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been framed by the World Health Organization as ...
Nanotechnology
Anupam Dhasmana, Sumbul Firdaus, Mohtashim Lohani, Mohammed Yahya Areeshi, Peter Langer, Qamar Rahman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
NanotechnologyIntroductionNanotechnology is defined as the study of structures of size ranging between 1 and 100 nanometers in at least one of their d...
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...
National Public Health Institutions
Courtenay M. Dusenbury, Jeffrey P. Koplan
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
National Public Health Institutions Introduction More than eighty-five countries around the world have established national public health inst...
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 ...
Needs Assessments in International Disasters and Emergencies
Richard Garfield
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-10-25
Needs Assessments in International Disasters and EmergenciesIntroductionA Needs Assessment (NA) is a “time-bound, multi-sectorial, multi-stakeholder p...
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 Cancers
Andrew E. Watterson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-04-28
Occupational CancersIntroductionThe recognition and diagnosis of occupational cancers dates back to medieval times. Knowledge of the biological mechan...
Occupational Exposure to Benzene
Melvyn Kopstein
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Occupational Exposure to BenzeneIntroductionMillions of workers around the world are routinely exposed to benzene from product mixtures formulated wit...
Occupational Exposure to Erionite
David N. Weissman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Occupational Exposure to ErioniteIntroductionErionite provides an excellent example of the public health importance of recognizing, evaluating, and re...
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...
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Jeanne Stellman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2022-03-23
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)IntroductionThe landmark Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety & Health Act of 1970 (OSHAct) guaran...
Oral Health Equity for Minority Populations in the United States
Mary E. Northridge
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Oral Health Equity for Minority Populations in the United StatesIntroductionAlong with the Oxford Bibliographies in Public Health article “Dental Publ...
Ottawa Charter
Evelyne de Leeuw
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
The Ottawa Charter and Subsequent WHO International Health Promotion MeetingsIntroductionThe Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (see Introductory Wor...
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