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Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies
Steven M. Becker
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2015-03-10
Radiological and Nuclear Emergencies Introduction Radioactive materials are widely used in the world today. Although electricity production fr...
Randomized Controlled Trials
Christine Paul, Robert Sanson-Fisher, Mariko Carey
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Randomized Controlled Trials Introduction Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have become the accepted approach, or “gold standard,” for produ...
Real World Evaluation Strategies
Valéry Ridde, Émilie Robert
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Real World Evaluation StrategiesIntroductionPublic health interventions are by nature complex and are implemented in contexts and with social actors w...
Reducing Obesity-Related Health Disparities in Hispanic and Latino Populations in the United States
Noe Crespo, Melawhy Garcia, Alma Behar, Christina Holub, John P. Elder
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Reducing Obesity-Related Health Disparities in Hispanic and Latino Populations in the United StatesIntroductionLatinos are the largest “minority” grou...
Research Integrity in Public Health
Dennis M. Gorman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Research Integrity in Public HealthIntroductionIt is now recognized that a crisis of credibility exists in many academic disciplines, which manifests ...
Resilient Health Systems
Laura Hawken
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Resilient Health SystemsIntroductionTo understand health system resilience requires at least some exploration of the wider uses of the term resilience...
Rural Health in the United States
Ryung Suh, Hilda R. Heady
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Rural Health in the United States Introduction “Rural health in the United States” refers to the health status of rural people and the policie...
Safety, Patient
Liam Donaldson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
Patient SafetyIntroductionAs a unified field of scholarship, patient safety dates to the late 20th century. It has its origins in several developmenta...
School Health Programs in the Pacific Region
Albert Lee
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
School Health Programs in the Pacific RegionIntroductionHow should a school health program be constituted? There are widely debated existing infrastru...
Sex Education in HIV/AIDS Prevention
Jessica M. Sales, Ralph J. DiClemente
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Sex Education in HIV/AIDS Prevention Introduction HIV/AIDS is the largest epidemic in modern history, resulting in approximately 25 million deaths s...
Silicosis
Kenneth Rosenman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
SilicosisIntroductionThe element silicon (Si) is the second most common element in the Earth’s crust. Silicon in combination with oxygen is silica (Si...
Skin Cancer Prevention
Karen Glanz
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Skin Cancer Prevention Introduction Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States, with more than 1 million Americ...
Smoking Cessation
Michael Eriksen, Carrie Whitney
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Smoking CessationIntroductionWorldwide, there are approximately one billion adult smokers who cumulatively smoke approximately 5.8 trillion cigarettes...
Social Determinants of Health
Carles Muntaner, Deb Finn Mahabir, Virginia Gunn
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Social Determinants of HealthIntroductionThe social determinants of health (SDOH) are a combination of social, economic, and political factors that sh...
Social Epidemiology
Regina A. Galer-Unti
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Social Epidemiology Introduction The term social epidemiology refers to the branch of epidemiology that investigates how social interactions a...
Social Marketing
R. Craig Lefebvre, Claudia M. Squire
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
Social Marketing Introduction Social marketing is a framework for the application of the marketing discipline to social issues and causes. It ...
Statistics in Public Health
David L. Streiner
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Statistics in Public HealthIntroductionStatistics refers to a branch of mathematics that is concerned with the description and analysis of data. It is...
STI Networks, Patterns, and Control Strategies
Ian H. Spicknall, Jeremy A. Grey, Rilene A. Chew Ng, Sevgi O. Aral
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-06-27
STI Networks, Patterns, and Control StrategiesIntroductionSexually transmitted diseases are propagated through sexual connections. Networks of sexual ...
Stillbirths
Vicki Flenady, Chrissie Astell, Laura Singline, Aleena Wojcieszek, Jessica Sexton, David Ellwood, Philippa Middleton, Adrienne Gordon, Caroline Homer, Joshua Vogel, Alyce Wilson, Frances M. Boyle, Siobhan Loughnan, Christine Andrews
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
StillbirthsIntroductionStillbirth is a major public health problem that often has long-lasting psychological, social, and financial burden on parents ...
Suicide
Ronald W. Maris
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-02-25
SuicideIntroductionSuicide is a major public health problem. In 2015 there were 44,193 suicides in the United States, a suicide rate of 13.8 per 100,0...
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