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Child Maltreatment
Joanne Martin
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Child Maltreatment Introduction Child maltreatment encompasses all forms of child abuse and neglect. Child maltreatment has long-term devastating...
Children, Air Pollution and
Maya Leventer-Roberts, Carla Campbell
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Air Pollution and Children Introduction Air pollution consists of undesirable chemicals and particles that are present in varying levels and h...
Children, Injury Risk-Taking Behaviors in
Marizen Ramirez, Elizabeth O'Neal
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Injury Risk–Taking Behaviors in Children Introduction Unintentional injury is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality across the w...
Children, Obesity in
Elizabeth Waters, Andrea M. de Silva-Sanigorski, Tahna Pettman, Miranda Bruckner, Lisa Gibbs
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Obesity in Children Introduction Childhood obesity is a significant public health issue internationally. Growing recognition of the problem pa...
Citizen Advisory Boards
Ned E. Baker, Marie Fallon
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Citizen Advisory Boards Introduction From the earliest colonial days, the citizens of North American colonies banded together to protect th...
Climate Change and Human Health
Sotiris Vardoulakis
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Climate Change and Human Health Introduction There is increasing scientific evidence of the direct and indirect effects of climate change on huma...
Climate Change: Institutional Response
Cindy Parker
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Climate Change: Institutional Response Introduction For people to be healthy, they require clean air, sufficient quantities of clean water, fe...
Clinical Preventive Medicine
Mark B. Johnson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-09-30
Clinical Preventive Medicine Introduction The clinical practice of preventive medicine has long been the dream of many who have believed that ...
Community Air Pollution
Morton Lippmann
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community Air Pollution Introduction Human activities generate ambient air pollutants that we all inhale when outdoors. These pollutants also inf...
Community Development
Frances Dunn Butterfoss
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community DevelopmentIntroductionAlthough its work is continuously redefined by current social issues, community development (CD) is a broad term appl...
Community Gardens
Heather Kitzman-Ulrich, Jane Momoh, Ashley Martin, Mark DeHaven
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
Community Gardens Introduction Community gardens have the potential to provide access to healthy and affordable foods, particularly in food de...
Community Health Assessment
Norma Kanarek
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Community Health Assessment Introduction Community health assessment began as a key job role for health administrators, was included in an ess...
Community Health Interventions
Regina A. Galer-Unti, Marlene Tappe
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Community Health InterventionsIntroductionThe term “community health intervention” refers to the community-wide approach to health behavior change. Wh...
Community Partnerships and Coalitions
Michelle C. Kegler
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community Partnerships and Coalitions Introduction Community coalitions and partnerships are vehicles for engaging multiple sectors of a communit...
Community-Based Participatory Research
Paula L. Bush, Joshua Hamzeh, Ann C. Macaulay
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Community-Based Participatory ResearchIntroductionCommunity-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach in which researchers undertake research...
Complexity and Systems Theory
Diane T. Finegood, Lee M. Johnston, Philippe Giabbanelli, Penny Deck, Sarah Frood, Lina Burgos-Liz, Marla Steinberg, Allan Best
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Complexity and Systems Theory Introduction Public health embraces a holistic, “cell-to-society” approach to understanding both the direct and ...
Cultural Safety
Regine Halseth, Roberta Stout, Donna Atkinson
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Cultural SafetyIntroductionFirst introduced into nursing education and health care in New Zealand in 1992 by Maori scholar Irihapeti Ramsden, the conc...
Culture and Public Health
Juliet McMullin, Shraon Rushing
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Culture and Public HealthIntroductionThe concept of culture has been used as a descriptive and explanatory concept in public health efforts to underst...
Definition of Health
Lawrence W. Green
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Definition of HealthIntroductionThe definition of health has evolved with the changing conditions of societies and with the changing technologies for ...
Dental Public Health
Alyssa Hayes, Carlos Quiñonez
Subject: Public Health »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Dental Public Health Introduction Within the broader landscape of dentistry, the specialty of dental public health (DPH) has generally been de...
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