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The Stench of Disease: Public Health and the Environment in Late

WEBThis article explores the urban environmental concerns of late-medieval English towns and cities and argues that these urban areas had a form of public health.

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Staying Positive: Women's illness narratives and the stigmatized

WEBThis article uses the stigmatized vernacular (Goldstein & Shuman, 2012) as a conceptual framework for examining the public construction and reception of women’s illness …

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The Pandemic and its Impacts

WEBThere had been 387 confirmed cases of human H5N1 infection across 15 countries since from late 2003 to late 2008, including 245 deaths, with an average case-fatality rate of …

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Resilience: Protective Factors for Depression and Post Traumatic …

WEBK. B. Holden Morehouse School of Medicine United States Kisha B. Holden, PhD, MSCR is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and …

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Understanding Well-Being in Multi-Levels: A review Ng Health

WEBThis paper, drawing on psychology tradition, tries to go beyond the dichotomy of well-being as either an individual attribute or external conditions. Instead, this article acknowledges …

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The Pandemic and its Impacts Qiu Health, Culture and Society

WEBThere have been many significant pandemics recorded in human history, and the pandemic related crises have caused enormous negative impacts on health, economies, and even …

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Who is Teaching Us about Sustainable Happiness and Well-Being

WEBThe growing recognition that happiness and well-being are intertwined with sustainability is leading to new opportunities for enhancing happiness and well-being, sustainably.

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Serving the Needs of the Latina Community for Health Information

WEBLatinos remain the largest US population with limited health literacy (Andrulis D.P. & Brach, 2007).Concerned with how local media can meet the information needs of underserved …

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The Health System Dynamics Framework: The introduction of an …

WEBB Criel Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp Belgium Dr. Bart Criel is Head of the Health Policy and Financing Unit, ITM. Dr. Criel's main areas of work are the study of health …

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The production of critical theories in Health Systems Research and

WEBThis paper aims at offering alternative methodological perspectives in health systems research, to produce critical, theoretical knowledge in domains such as health policy …

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Engaging with the discourse on lifestyle modifications: Evidence …

WEBAnnandale, Ellen. 1998. The sociology of health and medicine: A critical introduction. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity press. Beck, Ulrich. 1992.

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Translating Universal Health Care for the Homeless: Barriers and

WEBAbraham, L. (2005). Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM) and Public Healthcare in India. In LV. Gangolli, R. Duggal and A. Shukla. (Eds) Review of Health Care in India.

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Perceived Health Issues: A perspective from East-African immigrants

WEBS. A. Francis United States Shelley Francis has over thirteen years of experience working in the public health field. Dr. Francis has substantial experience developing and leading …

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Health, Culture and Society

WEBHealth, Culture and Society has ceased publication, and this site is no longer accepting submissions. SENIOR EDITOR. Dr. David Reggio, MicroGravity Centre, PUC-RS, …

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The Health System Dynamics Framework

WEBThis brings us to a framework consisting of ten elements and their dynamic interactions: 1) goals and outcomes; 2) values and principles; 3) service. 11(Shakarishvili et al. 2010) …

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The Health-Seeking Behavior of Leprosy Patients: An explanatory …

WEBThe way people interpret their diseases/illness and its treatment, or the meanings of these, has a direct impact on the way populations at the community and reagional levels deal …

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Chronic Illness as a Source of Happiness: Paradox or perfectly …

WEBIn this paper I analyse the relation between happiness and chronic illness from the perspective of medical anthropology and disability studies.

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Social Sutra: Yoga, identity, and health in New York’s changing

WEBP Biswas CUNY Graduate Center United States Urban Planning, Ph.D. (2011) Columbia University Assistant Director, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY …

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Misconceptions of the Deaf: Giving voice to the voiceless

WEBThese discourses may lead to misconceptions, prejudice and possibly discrimination. A study was conducted to identify the challenges members of the Deaf community …

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