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Definition of Health

WebDOI: 10.1136/bmj.d4163. This interdisciplinary group of public health experts critiqued the WHO definition of health and proposed changing the emphasis …

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Health Communication

WebAnthologies and Edited Volumes. Anthologies presented here represent a wide range of research, theory, case studies, and topical essays. Students may notice …

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Public Health Systems in the United States

WebIntroductory Works. As a field of practice, public health has a history in the United States of at least two centuries, but only since the late 1980s has the concept of …

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Health Education

WebHealth education is defined as “any combination of learning experiences designed to facilitate voluntary actions conducive to health” ( Green and Kreuter 2005 ). …

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Culture and Public Health

WebThe concept of culture has been used as a descriptive and explanatory concept in public health efforts to understand human action and knowledge about health, illness, …

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Community Health Interventions

WebThese modifications can be environmental, political, economic, and/or sociocultural. Community health interventions have deep roots in the theories of not only …

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Geography and Health

WebDOI: 10.1002/9781444314762. A collection of essays by leading researchers in the field, this provides an overview of major debates in geographies of health. It also includes sections …

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Health-Care Politics in the United States

WebDead on Arrival: The Politics of Healthcare in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009. Draws on archival research to chronicle …

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Community Health Assessment

WebThis text offers a schematic for enhancing evidence-based public health intervention. Community health assessment provides guidance for the initial steps of (1) prioritization …

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Public Health Advocacy

WebThe term “public health advocacy” refers to educating, organizing, and mobilizing for systems change in population health. Current and future threats to the …

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Needs Assessment

WebIntroductory Works. Available online for community action groups or people who are new to the area are several practical resources, such as the Centers for Disease …

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Health Measurement Scales

WebHealth measurement scales are those tools and items used to collect and analyze data regarding health indicators and outcomes to evaluate health status of both …

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Behavior Change Theory in Health Education and Promotion

WebGeneral Overviews. Schroeder 2007 provides one of the most concise and compelling rationales for the importance of addressing health behaviors. Further detail is …

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Cultural Capital and Health

WebAdoption of cultural capital, a concept developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, represents a way of bringing social theory to bear on associations …

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Education and Health

WebDOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00412.x. Baker and colleagues focus on three objectives: (1) assessing the causal role of education in improved population …

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Global Health Security

WebGlobal (public) health security is defined by the World Health Organization as the activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize the danger and impact …

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Women and Medicine

WebWomen played substantial roles as healers in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, as well as experiencing ill health and serving as a focus of medical inquiry. The …

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