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Direct linkWallis, 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 Children were selected if they exhibited a high number of withdrawn/inhibited behaviors--one of the best identified risk factors for later anxiety disorders--and were randomly allocated to either a 6-session…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
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
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
Download full textBernhardt, 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
Fox, Kenneth R. – Quest, 2004
Childhood obesity has become an emotive and serious problem in Europe. In the UK, it has generated a great deal of interest by the media, health professionals, food companies, scientists, and more recently, the government. Upward trends have been recorded in most countries, levels are interestingly variable, and the origins of this variation have…
Descriptors: Child Health, Public Health, Life Style, Obesity
Wang, Catharine; Bowen, Deborah J.; Kardia, Sharon L. R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
Researchers and practitioners in health behavior and health education (HBHE) can play a pivotal leadership role in the integration of genomic advances to improve the public's health. The purpose of this article is to outline research and practice opportunities at the intersection of genomics and HBHE. We begin this article by briefly summarizing…
Descriptors: Health Education, Public Health, Health Behavior, Genetics
Galer-Unti, Regina A.; Miller, Susan M.; Tappe, Marlene K. – American Journal of Health Education, 2004
Advocacy and public policy were determined to be one of the six key focal points for the profession at the Health Education in the 21st Century meeting held in 1995. A content analysis of journals of the member organizations of the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations was conducted to discover whether there was a difference in the…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Public Health, Content Analysis
Atherson, Martin J.; Metcalf, James – American Journal of Health Education, 2005
A large national database (U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2001) was analyzed for age, sex, race/ethnicity and television viewing among American adolescents aged 12-18 years. Body Mass Indices (BMI) were calculated from self-reported height and weight. Ninety-fifth percentile and above was classified as obese; [less…
Descriptors: Public Health, Television Viewing, Obesity, Body Composition
Scott, Michael – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Efforts to expand diversity in the health professions has received a boost from a prominent member of Congress. U.S. Senator Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, recently introduced a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act as part of a comprehensive initiative to improve the health of minority and other underserved populations. This bill, which is being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Employment Opportunities, Public Health
