Measurable health outcomes as well as self-reported effects on teenagers highlight the dangers of the current trajectory. Finally, the dangers to children are empahsised in a discussion of how the fantasies encouraged by 'pseudo child porn' genres engender a sexual interest in genuine child ...
(Galea,2017) Public health is fundamentally a data-driven science, confident in its approach that sufficient data will ultimately illuminate what the causes of health are so that we intervene to maximize health. To say that we “know” something, within the context of public health therefore, e...
Gestational weight gain (GWG) is a routinely monitored aspect of pregnancy health, yet critical gaps remain about optimal GWG in pregnant people from socially marginalized groups, or with pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) in the lower or upper extremes. The PROMISE study aims to determine over...
Mental health is now widely acknowledged by public health as important, partly because of the widespread recognition that life stress can powerfully affect physical health—also a foundational recognition in the mindfulness field (e.g., Baker,1985; Goldgruber & Ahrens,2010; Khoury et al.,2015; ...
public health law has been modernized to incorporate essential protections. This improvement was all the more necessary in light of a series of abuses of the quarantine power bypublic health officials, mostly in the late nineteenth andearly twentieth centuries. In addition, the heightened focus on...
Intervention elements are assumed to impact lifestyle changes of the participants through their influence on motivational regulation and behaviour-specific cognitions. The figure also depicts the context, which is assumed to influence the implementation process of the intervention and thus have a potential...
Public health education For the question in CMDS 2018 questionnaire, "Have you received health education in your current community/workplace in the past year?", the public health education items, received by each respondent included "occupational disease prevention", "infectious disease prevention, and...
Over the last years, public engagement has become a topic of scholarly and policy debate particularly in biomedicine, a field that increasingly centres around collecting, sharing and analysing personal data. However, the use of big data in biomedicine po
Given the increasing genetic/genomic and infectious disease research on the African continent, ethical issues are extensively covered under public health research ethics, regulation of genomic research, and controversial ethical issues in biomedical and biotechnology research. We use case scenarios from ...
The SCD-well randomized controlled trial: effects of a mindfulness-based intervention versus health education on mental health in patients with subjective cognitive decline (SCD). In: Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical Interventions; 2018. p. 4. Google Scholar Lorig Kate...