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Physical Activity and Health Promotion: A Public Health Imperative

WEB2. Consequences of physical inactivity. A lack of sufficient daily physical activity is an underappreciated primary cause of most chronic conditions with vast …

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Health Promotion IntechOpen

WEBHealth promotion is one the major interventions employed in healthcare delivery generally and primary care in particular. Health promotion enables individuals, …

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Demand for Health and Healthcare IntechOpen

WEBHealthy human beings are the center of sustainable development, and human beings have long sought to maintain and improve their health by increasing their health …

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Functional Foods and Human Health: An Overview IntechOpen

WEBFunctional food is a whole ingredient or a part of food that used as food for specific therapeutic purposes. It is divided into two wide categories: Conventional and …

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Introductory Chapter: What Is Global Health

WEB1. Introduction. A useful definition of “global health” is an elusive prey, hiding among its congeners of public health, international health, tropical public health, and …

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Positive Psychology and Healthy Lifestyles for Health and …

WEBPositive psychology in combination with a healthy lifestyle has the potential to enhance health and well-being at a level beyond that achieved by healthy lifestyle …

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Health Literacy: An Intervention to Improve Health Outcomes

WEB2. Introduction. The term health literacy was introduced in 1974 in a paper calling for minimum health education standards for all grade-school levels in the United …

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Health, Academic Achievement and School-Based Interventions

WEBThere is a statistically significant relationship between health and academic achievement. Research evidence shows that children who are healthy are at a low risk …

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Patient Safety: Preventing Patient Harm and Building Capacity for

WEBPatient safety is a global public health concern. It is a health care discipline with ever evolving advancement and complexity resulting in consequential rise in patient …

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Healthcare Delivery Systems in Rural Areas IntechOpen

WEBHealth care is a fundamental right of every human being. About half of the world’s population (An estimated 3.4 billion of the world’s 7.6 billion in 2018) lived in rural …

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Impact of Poverty on Health IntechOpen

WEBPoverty is not merely the absence of money but the absence of resources to get the necessities of life. Poverty and health are always in a reciprocal relationship. …

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Health Promotion IntechOpen

WEBThe health promotion examples in this book illustrate how people are affected by the cultural, social, and environmental factors in which they live. It also …

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Cultural Practices and Health Consequences: Health or Habits, the

WEB3. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) This is a cultural practice that has attracted worldwide concern due to its profound deleterious consequences on the …

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Pesticides and Human Health IntechOpen

WEBPesticides are used in managing pests and their use will continue in future because of food security and vector control. Most pesticides are potentially toxic to …

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Clinical Epidemiology and Its Relevance for Public Health

WEBThe health inequities analysis is based in the social epidemiology, to reinforce the important role of the environment as cause of the disease. A typical …

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Improving Healthcare Access through Digital Health: The Use of

WEB2.1 Electronic health record. Electronic health record (EHR) is a repository of information regarding the health status of an individual in computer processable form …

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Oral Health Promotion: Evidences and Strategies IntechOpen

WEBOral health promotion is for upliftment of oral health of community rather than an individual and has long‐term impact. Since Ottawa Charter for health promotion …

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Electromagnetic Waves and Human Health IntechOpen

WEBProper evaluation and assessment of possible health effects from long term exposure to IF fields are important because human exposure to such fields is increasing …

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Health Promotion and Its Challenges to Public Health Delivery …

WEB1. Introduction: conceptualizing health promotion. According to Tannahill [], health promotion is an umbrella term covering overlapping fields of health education, …

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Ten Quality Improvement Initiatives to Standardize

WEBQuality improvement is a continuous journey to standardize healthcare processes and structure to reduce variation, achieve predictable results, and improve …

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The One-Health Approach to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Control

WEBDecision-makers for disease prevention and control should utilize the One Health approach to prepare for and prevent illness, hospitalization, death, and the …

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Introductory Chapter: Bio-Psychosocial Model of Health

WEBThe aim of this chapter is to examine possible contributory connections between bio-psychosocial factors and health at the population level. The book explores …

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