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...

Physical Activity and Public Health

OBJECTIVE: To encourage increased participation in physical activity among Americans of all ages by issuing a public health recommendation on the types and amounts of physical activity needed for health promotion and disease prevention. PAR...

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...

Physical Activity and Public Health

In 1995 the American College of Sports Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published national guidelines on Physical Activity and Public Health.The Committee on Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation of the American Hea...

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 ...

The Untilled Fields of Public Health

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Anthropology in Public Health

Anthropology in Public Health. Robert A. Hahn. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxii +384 pp....

Behavioral Economics and Public Health

Abstract Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first title to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In addition to providing a primer on the beh...

EmergingAeromonasSpecies Infections and Their Significance in Public Health

Aeromonas species are ubiquitous bacteria in terrestrial and aquatic milieus. They are becoming renowned as enteric pathogens of serious public health concern as they acquire a number of virulence determinants that are linked with human dis...

Dietary Niches and Their Consequences for Five Insectivorous Passerines in a Seasonal Boreal Setting.

Lack of Usefulness of Literature-Based Helicobacter pylori Resistance Data for Predicting First-Line Empirical Treatment Effectiveness in the European Registry on H. pylori Management (Hp-EuReg).

Revealing the Widespread Bias of Extinction Risk in the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean.

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

Decision-Making on First-Line Treatment Alternatives in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis to Elicit Stakeholders' Preferences in Italy.

Support for mask use as a COVID-19 public health measure among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students

Abstract Background Youth voice has been largely absent from deliberations regarding public health measures intended to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission, despite being one of the populations most impacted by school-based policies. To inform ...

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...

Prediction of cardiorrespiratory fitness by screen time in schoolchildrens

The time spent in front of the screens, results in accumulations of sedentary behavior, which is related to health damages to adolescents, such as a low cardiorespiratory fitness. In this sense, this study aimed to predict cardiorespiratory...

Agreement and association between normative and subjective orthodontic treatment need using the index of orthodontic treatment need

AIMS: To determine the association and level of agreement between young adults' perception of orthodontic treatment need (subjective need) and the orthodontists' assessment of treatment need (normative objective need). METHODOLOGY: For this...