Academic Articles & Research Papers

Drugs, Crime and Public Health

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other coun...

Social Marketing and Public Health

Social marketing is the application of commercial marketing tools and principles to the design, implementation, and evaluation of health and social behaviour-change programmes. It focuses on target groups within the population, tailoring ca...

Rethinking the Meaning of Public Health

Public health is a dynamic field. Outbreaks of new diseases, as well as changing patterns of population growth, economic development, and lifestyle trends all may threaten public health and thus demand a public health response. As the pract...

SOCIAL MARKETING IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Social marketing, the use of marketing to design and implement programs to promote socially beneficial behavior change, has grown in popularity and usage within the public health community. Despite this growth, many public health profession...

An Ethics Framework for Public Health

More than 100 years ago, public health began as an organized discipline, its purpose being to improve the health of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health perennially faces dilemmas ...

Cancer Survivors' Experiences With Six Months of Community Health Worker Health-Related Social Needs Support: A Qualitative Analysis of Perceived Impact.

Drinking patterns and alcohol use disorders in São Paulo, Brazil: the role of neighborhood social deprivation and socioeconomic status.

Research conducted in high-income countries has investigated influences of socioeconomic inequalities on drinking outcomes such as alcohol use disorders (AUD), however, associations between area-level neighborhood social deprivation (NSD) a...

The New Public Health

Health is a crossroad. It is where biological and social factors, the individual and the community, and social and economic policy all converge. addition to its intrinsic value, health is a means for personal and collective advance­ ment. I...

Oxford Textbook of Public Health

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...

Interplay of physical activity, self-rated health, and life satisfaction among large-bodied adolescents in Europe and North America: analysis using clustered binary mixed effects logit modelling

Abstract Background There is a dearth of studies focused on the impact of self-rated health on life satisfaction among large-bodied adolescents, as well as the moderating role of physical activity in this relationship. Large-bodied adolesce...

Adaptation of the scale of effects of social media on eating behavior in Hungarian university students

Background. People live in a technological world, where social media is used very commonly. Social media has effects on eating behaviors, as in other aspects. For this reason, it is important to measure social media effect. Objective. This...

Experiences of Caring for Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV): A Qualitative Interview with Caregivers

Meble Kasande, Andrew Natwijuka, Eve Katushabe Snr, Anne Tweheyo Otwine Snr Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara, UgandaCorrespondence: Meble Kasande, Bishop Stuart University, Faculty of Nursing and Hea...

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...

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/...

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...

Communication with the public in the health-care system: a descriptive study of the use of social media in Local Health Authorities and public hospitals in Italy

INTRODUCTION. In 2010 the Italian Ministry of Health set out recommendations for the use of social technology and Web 2.0, inviting organisations within the Italian national health service (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, SSN) to equip themse...

Study on PM2.5 pollution and the mortality due to lung cancer in China based on geographic weighted regression model

Abstract Background PM2.5 has become a major component of air pollution in China and has led to a series of health problems. The mortality rate caused by lung cancer has reached the point where it cannot be ignored in China. Air pollution i...

Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain

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...

Urban Sprawl and Public Health

This article discusses the relationship between sprawl and health based on eight considerations: air pollution, heat, physical activity patterns, motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian injuries and deaths, water quality and quantity, mental heal...