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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...
Sustainable Development Goals
Sarah Hawkes, Kent Buse
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Sustainable Development GoalsIntroductionThe adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development marked a defining moment in the history of the Un...
Systems in the United States, Public Health
Margaret A. Potter
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Public Health Systems in the United States Introduction Public health systems in the United States are networks of public, private, and volunt...
Systems Modeling and Big Data for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
Nick Roberts, Jo-An Atkinson, Geoff McDonnell, Nathaniel Osgood, Sonia Wutzke
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Systems Modeling and Big Data for Non-Communicable Disease PreventionIntroductionNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a complex problem and are the le...
Systems Theory in Public Health
Amber D. Elkins, Dennis M. Gorman
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Systems Theory in Public Health Introduction The recognition of the complexity of many public health problems has led to the search for analyt...
Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (TCAIM)
Jon Adams, Jane Frawley
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (TCAIM)IntroductionHistorically, public health has paid little systematic or coordin...
Translation of Science to Practice and Policy
Ross C. Brownson, Lauren Cardick
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Translation of Science to Practice and Policy Introduction One of the greatest challenges for public health researchers and practitioners is t...
Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Carmen P. Mclean, Edna B. Foa
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Introduction The past two decades have witnessed an enormous growth of rigorous research t...
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