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Uses of Electronic Health Records for Public Health Surveillance to Advance Public Health

Guthrie S. Birkhead, Michael Klompas, Nirav R. Shah • Annual Review of Public Health (2015)

Public health surveillance conducted by health departments in the United States has improved in completeness and timeliness owing to electronic laboratory reporting. However, the collection of detailed clinical information about reported ca...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122747

Oxford Textbook of Public Health

Roger Detels, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang, Martin C. Gulliford • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2011)

SECTION 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1.1 The scope and concerns of public health 1.2 The history and development of public health in high-income countries 1.3 The history and development of public health in low- and...

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Outcomes of Peripheral Vascular Interventions in Select Patients With Lower Extremity Acute Limb Ischemia

Elica Inagaki, Alik Farber, Jeffrey A. Kalish, Mohammad H. Eslami et al. • Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease (2018)

BackgroundContemporary data on patients presenting with acute limb ischemia (ALI), who are selected for treatment with endovascular peripheral vascular interventions (PVI), are limited. Our study examined outcomes following endovascular PVI...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004782

Telehealth for Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: Evidence Map of Effectiveness, Patient and Provider Experiences and Preferences, and Patient Engagement Strategies

Romil R. Parikh, Nishka U. Shetty, Chinar Singhal, Prachi Patel et al. • Clinics and Practice (2026)

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically map evidence to inform best practices for sexual and reproductive healthcare delivered via telehealth (TeleSRH) in United States-based Title X-funded clinics. Methods: We searched three...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/clinpract16010014

Impact of COVID-19 health precautions on asymptomatic Streptococcus pyogenes carriage in palestinian children: a pre- and post-pandemic study

Ibrahim Amer Ghannam, Rana Mahmoud Maraqa, Duha Shokri Qawasmeh, Rania Khalil Alsous et al. • BMC Infectious Diseases (2024)

Abstract Background Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus, GAS) is a significant pathogen that causes diverse infections, ranging from pharyngitis to severe invasive diseases. Asymptomatic carriage in children is pivotal for transmi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12879-024-10023-w

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

Alekhya Kanaparthi, Divya Dukkireddy, Hema Gopalaiah, Sathya Prakash Reddy Kesary et al. • Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research (2020)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2020.08.001

Physical Education's Role in Public Health

James F. Sallis, Thomas L. McKenzie, Michael W. Beets, Aaron E. Beighle et al. • Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (2012)

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...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2012.10599842 PMC: 6036633

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

Ross C. Brownson, Jonathan E. Fielding, Christopher Maylahn • Annual Review of Public Health (2009)

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 ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100134

Framing the Public Health of Caregiving

Ronda C. Talley, John E. Crews • American Journal of Public Health (2006)

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...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2004.059337 PMC: 1781412

Prevalence and Determinants of Hypertension in Non-pregnant Women of Punjab

Charan Kamal Sekhon, Ramandeep Kaur, Monika Airi, Anurag Chaudhary • Indian Journal of Public Health (2025)

Background: Women’s hypertension (HTN) is often underestimated and goes untreated due to the perception that women have a lesser risk of cardiovascular disease compared to males. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the preva...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_1051_24

Hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspective of challenges and their coping mechanisms in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda – a qualitative study

Rawlance Ndejjo, Paineto Masengere, Fred Nuwaha, Isaac Ddumba et al. • Open Research Europe (2023)

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of non-communicable diseases is steadily rising amidst a high prevalence of communicable diseases stretching the healthcare system. This study explored hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13286.2

Identification of wild-caught phlebotomine sand flies from Crete and Cyprus using DNA barcoding

Emmanouil Dokianakis, Nikolaos Tsirigotakis, Vasiliki Christodoulou, Nikos Poulakakis et al. • Parasites & Vectors (2018)

Abstract Background Phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) are vectors of Leishmania spp., protozoan parasites responsible for a group of neglected diseases called leishmaniases. Two sand fly genera, Phlebotomus and Sergentomyia, co...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-2676-0

A History of Public Health

George Rosen • MD Publications eBooks (1958)

Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United St...

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Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain

James F. Childress, Ruth Faden, Ruth D. Gaare, Lawrence O. Gostin et al. • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics (2002)

Public health ethics, like the field of public health it addresses, traditionally has focused more on practice and particular cases than on theory, with the result that some concepts, methods, and boundaries remain largely undefined. This p...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2002.tb00384.x

Encyclopedia of public health

• Choice Reviews Online (2002)

Comme quelqu'un pourroit dire de moy que j'ay seulement faict icy un amas de fleurs estrangeres, n'y ayant fourny du mien que le filet à les lier. "Essais", Livre III, Chapitre XIII Michel de MontaignePublic Health is defined as health prom...

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The Future of Public Health

Thomas R. Frieden • New England Journal of Medicine (2015)

Though there has sometimes been distrust between the health care and public health fields, they are inevitably and increasingly interdependent. And improvements in some types of public health interventions can increase the impact of clinica...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa1511248

Encyclopedia of Public Health

Torsten Kruse, Harald Wagner • Springer eBooks (2008)

Comme quelqu'un pourroit dire de moy que j'ay seulement faict icy un amas de fleurs estrangeres, n'y ayant fourny du mien que le filet à les lier. "Essais", Livre III, Chapitre XIII Michel de MontaignePublic Health is defined as health prom...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5614-7

LASIK Surgery

Megan Yu • Voices in Bioethics (2020)

Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to re...

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