Biosurveillance, Public Health, Military Barbaro, Michael,“A Worst-Case Enterprise; Md. Firm Busy Making Decontamination Shelters” The Washington Post. March 13, 2003. “The doomsday shower can sanitize 800 people an hour. It boasts separate rinse stations for contaminated men and women. It can...
Faith-based public health conferences offer a potential opportunity to improve health literacy and change health behaviors through health promotion within this population, thereby reducing health disparities. This study examined the self-reported health behaviors and preventive healthcare utilization patterns ...
2 International Public Health – The Future Place of Primary Care* Jenny Amery and Stephen Gillam Introduction Most preventable deaths occur in poor countries. Poor people carry the greatest burden from communicable diseases including AIDS, TB and malaria, particu- larly in Africa. However, non-...
It is important to understand the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of adolescents from the adolescents themselves to address their needs properly. Hence, this paper provides new knowledge on the information needs on SRH among adolescent boys and girls in selected secondary schools in Ebonyi...
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Public health practices, like dietary rules or special behavioral patterns, are often linked to ancient cultures and religions. Old water supplies or sewage systems had obvious hygienic effects. However, the earlyhistory of public healthcan only be understood if interpreted within a broader cultural ...
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White paper Identifying critical societal Public Health Needs: in search of the public health paradigm for the 21st century Ilona Kickbusch August 2008 "The challenge to public health at the beginning of the 21st century is as large as when public health was first devel...
In this paper, we review the evolution of the field of public health genomics in the United States in the past two decades. Public health genomics focuses on effective and responsible translation of genomic science into population health benefits. We dis
and some of his acolytes helped restructure Chile’s economy. Labor unions were banned, and social security and health care were both privatized. On a week-long visit in 1980, Buchanan gave formal lectures to “top representatives of a governing elite that melded the military and the corporate...