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Direct linkOstroth, D. David; Frias, Mary Lou; Turrentine, Cathryn G. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2006
Public health experts project a strong possibility that an avian flu pandemic will occur in the next 4 years, and the federal government has already warned that states and localities must make their own plans for this event since such a broad scale public health crises would far outstrip federal capacity to respond. Colleges and universities are…
Descriptors: Colleges, Public Health, Federal Government, Emergency Programs
Macintyre, Sally; McKay, Laura; Ellaway, Anne – Health Education Research, 2006
There is an extensive literature within anthropology, sociology and psychology about lay concepts of determinants of health and illness. Many of these studies have used single sex or social class samples, often in narrow age bands, and many are qualitative in approach. We asked respondents in a health survey to say how important (on a five-point…
Descriptors: Social Class, Health Education, Health Promotion, Public Health
Wallis, Lisa C. – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
Public health librarians face many challenges in collection development because the field is multidisciplinary, the collection's users have varied needs, and many of the essential resources are grey literature materials. Further, little has been published about public health selection tools. However, librarians responsible for these areas have a…
Descriptors: Selection Tools, Public Health, Librarians, Library Materials
Peer reviewedSmith, David J. – Social Education, 2005
It may surprise students to realize that health problems in other countries affect them, too. Where people live and the conditions under which they live directly affect their health. The health of a population can also offer insight into a region's social, political, and economic realities. As a powerful lens into how human societies function,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Social Studies, Water Quality, Water Pollution
Rapee, Ronald M.; Kennedy, Susan; Ingram, Michelle; Edwards, Susan; Sweeney, Lynne – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
This article reports results from an early intervention program aimed at preventing the development of anxiety in preschool children. Children were selected if they exhibited a high number of withdrawn/inhibited behaviors--one of the best identified risk factors for later anxiety disorders--and were randomly allocated to either a 6-session…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Public Health, Preschool Children, Anxiety
Zieff, Susan G. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2006
From the 1920s through the early 1940s, school-based programs in both health and physical education--mandated by government legislation and hailed by the public--increased in scope and complexity. By 1937, the assumption of the interconnectedness of the two fields was institutionalized in the merger of the American Physical Education Association…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, National Organizations, Hygiene
Walsh, Patricia Noonan; Linehan, Christine; Kerr, M. P.; van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, H. M. J.; Buono, Serafino; Azema, Bernard; Aussilloux, Charles; Maatta, Tuomo; Salvador-Carulla, Luis; Garrido-Cumbrera, Marco; van Hove, Geert; Bjorkman, Monica; Ceccotto, Raymond; Kamper, Marion; Weber, Germain; Heiss, Cecilia; Haveman, Meindert; Jorgensen, Frank Ulmer; O'Farrell, Lisa – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2005
The European Commission's Health Monitoring Programme culminated in the development of a set of European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) for the general population. Despite evidence of marked disparities between the health of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and their peers in the general population, the ECHI contain no significant…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Public Health, Foreign Countries, Standards
Hughes, Rhidian – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
In recent years, disrupting the supply of illicit drugs and injecting equipment inside Her Majesty's (HM) prisons has become an important focus for prison drug policy. This paper presents findings from qualitative research, which invited 24 drug injectors with prison experience to discuss the role and operation of illicit drug and injecting…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Narcotics, Correctional Institutions, Public Health
Schaughency, Elizabeth; Ervin, Ruth – School Psychology Review, 2006
The premise of this special series is that evidence-based interventions and systems change are key foci for building capacity to serve children. In this article, we preface the series by introducing issues relevant to understanding the interplay of these foci and by describing the articles and their contributions. Common elements across these…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Total Quality Management, Public Health, Validity
Graczyk, Patricia A.; Domitrovich, Celene E.; Small, Meg; Zins, Joseph E. – School Psychology Review, 2006
Recent changes in federal policy and the proliferation of empirically based interventions (EBIs) designed to prevent problems and promote student academic and behavioral success have created an unprecedented opportunity for schools to expand their use of comprehensive strategies to meet the academic and behavioral health needs of all students. The…
Descriptors: Public Health, Educational Change, School Psychologists, Models
Moeser, James – Presidency, 2003
On June 2003, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) faced a frightening crisis when an employee was diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). In this article, the author looks back and identifies four factors that enabled the university to navigate this crisis. These factors were: (1) leadership at every level; (2)…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employees, Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology
Bernhardt, Jay M.; Videto, Donna M.; Widdall, Christine L.; Chen, W. William; Airhihenbuwa, Collins; Allegrante, John P. – American Journal of Health Education, 2003
The health education profession has made significant strides in promoting quality assurance for credentialing of health educators through a combination of individual certification and program approval and accreditation mechanisms. Although the profession has widely embraced individual certification, program accreditation has not been uniformly…
Descriptors: Health Education, Program Validation, Certification, Accreditation (Institutions)
Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Harper, Gary W.; Lewis, Rhonda – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
Community-university partnerships for research and action are at the heart of many fields in the social sciences including public health, urban planning, education, and community psychology. These partnerships involve individuals from different backgrounds and disciplines working together to address social issues of importance to the community.…
Descriptors: Urban Planning, Public Health, Social Sciences, Partnerships in Education
Nathanson, Constance A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
Cross-national comparative analysis of tobacco control strategies can alert health advocates to how opportunities for public health action, types of action, and probabilities for success are shaped by political systems and cultures. This article is based on case studies of tobacco control in the United States, Canada, Britain, and France. Two…
Descriptors: Smoking, Industry, Public Health, Foreign Countries
Schulz, Amy; Northridge, Mary E. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
In this article, the authors draw on the disciplines of sociology and environmental and social epidemiology to further understanding of mechanisms through which social factors contribute to disparate environmental exposures and health inequalities. They propose a conceptual framework for environmental health promotion that considers dynamic social…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Health Promotion, Epidemiology, Public Health
