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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 from “complete physical, mental and social health” toward the ability to adapt and self …
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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 health behavior, but also in those of social change. Increasingly, this tactic of community …
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 public health systems developed. Beginning with Institute of Medicine 1988, the concept …
History of Public Health
WebThe history of public health is dynamic and being generated on a constant basis. Diseases have provided the stimulus for much of the activity in public health. In a handful of instances, overcoming a disease has removed a barrier to commerce or another desired …
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, medicine, and health-seeking practices of individuals and groups. Increased global connections …
Evidence-Based Public Health Practice
WebBrownson, R. C., J. E. Fielding, and C. M. Maylahn. 2009. Evidence-based public health: A fundamental concept for public health practice. Annual Review of Public Health 30:175–201. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100134. Calls attention to the …
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 individuals and populations. In this section, entries provide background information …
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 provided in Fisher, et al. 2011.The tables in Fisher, et al. 2011 provide detailed …
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 health of the community are identified and public health advocates work to inform, create, and …
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 history of pre-modern women and medicine received its first modern treatment in a …
Black Death and Plague: The Disease and Medical Thought
WebIntroduction. The history of the Black Death constitutes one of the most interdisciplinary fields of Renaissance and Reformation studies, bringing together not only a wide spectrum of scholars in the humanities and social sciences—students of literature, …
Human Sexuality and Sexual Health: A Western Perspective
WebComprehensive rights-based sexuality education is a cornerstone of sexual health, as discussed in the Oxford Bibliographies in Public Health article Sex Education in HIV/AIDS Prevention by Jessica M. Sales and Ralph J. DiClemente. Freedom to choose …
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