Academic Articles & Research Papers

Awareness of COVID 19 pandemic among dental practioners of Telangana state, India: A cross sectional survey

Background: Coronavirus diseases (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern. The dental professionals are considered to be at high risk, as most of the treatments may lead to the spread of infection due to direct proxi...

The metabolic equivalents of one-mile walking by older adults; implications for health promotion

Background: Instructions for older adults regarding the intensity of walking may not elicit an intensity to infer health gains. We recorded the metabolic equivalents (METs) during a 1-mile walk using constant and predicted values of resting...

How nurses address psychosocial needs in patients with advanced heart or lung failure: a qualitative interview study

Abstract Background Patients with advanced heart failure or lung failure often experience significant changes in psychosocial needs, which may affect their quality of life, emotional wellbeing, and daily functioning. Although nurses are wel...

Social Marketing for Public Health

Prologue: At a time when the Clinton administration is promoting fundamental reform of the U.S. health care system, far less attention is being paid to perhaps the most important challenge any country faces when it seeks to improve the heal...

Physical Education's Role in Public Health

The 1991 paper, "Physical education's role in public health" described the importance of physical education in addressing public health problems. On its 20th anniversary, this article reviews accomplishments in improving the health impact o...

STERILIZED in the Name of Public Health

In exploring the history of involuntary sterilization in California, I connect the approximately 20,000 operations performed on patients in state institutions between 1909 and 1979 to the federally funded procedures carried out at a Los Ang...

Evidence-Based Public Health: A Fundamental Concept for Public Health Practice

Despite the many accomplishments of public health, a greater attention to evidence-based approaches is warranted. This article reviews the concepts of evidence-based public health (EBPH), on which formal discourse originated about a decade ...

The new public health.

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Crowdsourcing Applications for Public Health

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century By the Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century, National Academies Press, 2002, 536 pp., $39.00 (doth), $29.95 (paper). Also available at http://books.nap.edu/...

Violence a global public health problem

This article is a version of the Introduction to the World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization (WHO). It presents a general description about this phenomenon and points some basic questions: concepts an...

Risk Communication and Public Health

Abstract Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or ‘lifestyle’ risks such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public r...

Housing and Public Health

This review considers the broad area of housing and public health, one of the traditional and core areas of public health research and intervention. The review takes into account the range of factors, acting at different levels, directly an...

Transportation and Public Health

This article investigates various ways that transportation policy and planning decisions affect public health and better ways to incorporate public health objectives into transport planning. Conventional planning tends to consider some publ...

Role of Chat GPT in Public Health

Alcohol and public health

Physical Education's Role in Public Health

The public health community is becoming increasingly interested in the potential contributions of school physical education to child health. School physical education is seen as an ideal site for the promotion of regular physical activity b...

Framing the Public Health of Caregiving

Caregiving has only recently been acknowledged by the nation as an important topic for millions of Americans. A psychological or sociological approach to care-giving services has been most often applied, with little attention to the populat...

Removal of Microcystin-LR by a Novel Native Effective Bacterial Community Designated as YFMCD4 Isolated from Lake Taihu

Microcystin-LR (MC-LR) is the most toxic and frequently detected monocyclic heptapeptide hepatotoxin produced by cyanobacteria, which poses a great threat to the natural ecosystem and public health. It is very important to seek environment-...

Understanding Nigeria’s antibiotic resistance crisis among neonates and its future implications

Abstract A well-documented mounting public health crisis is the antibiotic crisis, which is most significantly felt in low-resource countries like Nigeria. This article sheds light on the rising level of antibiotic resistance in newborns in...