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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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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 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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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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Community Health Interventions

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

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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 …

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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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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 …

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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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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 …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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Cultural Capital and Health

WEBIntroduction. Cultural capital has received an increasing amount of attention from public health researchers and practitioners in recent years. Adoption of cultural …

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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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