Preface Public Health - Social and Behavioral Health
Section 1 Obesity, Food and Physical Activity
Chapter 1 The IDEFICS Intervention Toolbox - A Guide to Successful Obesity Prevention at Community Level
Chapter 2 Testing the Assumptions of Stage of Change for Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Naturalistic Study
Chapter 3 Strategies for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Rural Southern African American Communities
Chapter 4 Gender Differences in Food Choice and Dietary Intake in Modern Western Societies
Chapter 5 Iron Food Fortification for the Control of Childhood Anemia in Brazil
Chapter 6 Economic Stressors and Childhood Obesity: Differences by Child Age and Gender
Chapter 7 Critical Appraisal of Selected Body Composition Data Acquisition Techniques in Public Health
Chapter 8 Physical Activity, Inactivity, and Nutrition Behavior Among Children: Investigating Compensation and Transfer Effects
Chapter 9 U.S. Food Policy and Obesity
Section 2 Addictive Behaviors
Chapter 10 Alcohol Consumption Among Adolescents in Estonia 1994 - 2010
Chapter 11 Public Health and Indigenous Australian Gambling: Risky Lifestyle or Harmless Recreation?
Chapter 12 Self Medication, Drug Dependency and Self-Managed Health Care - A Review
Chapter 13 The Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Risk Behaviour: A Systematic Literature Review of High-Risk Groups, with a Focus on South Africa
Section 3 Emerging Methods
Chapter 14 Challenges in Healthcare in Multi-Ethnic Societies: Communication as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity
Chapter 15 Public Health Research and Action: Reflections on Challenges and Possibilities of Community-Based Participatory Research
Chapter 16 Nature Therapy and Preventive Medicine
Chapter 17 How Can the Empowerment Role of Public Health Nurses (PHNs) Be Fostered? A Review of an Exploratory Research Study Conducted in Ireland and Current Evidence
Chapter 18 Disseminating an Evidence-Based Disease Self-Management Program for Older Americans: Implications for Diversifying Participant Reach Through Delivery Site Adoption
Chapter 19 Strategy and Practice of Support for Families with Multiple Births Children: Combination of Evidence-Based Public Health (EBPH) and Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Approach
Section 4 Special Populations and Settings
Chapter 20 TB Control in Prisons
Chapter 21 Social Determinants of Health in Deaf Communities
Chapter 22 Anxiety and Emotional Discomfort in the School Environment: The Interplay of School Processes, Learning Strategies, and Children's Mental Health
Chapter 23 Re-Emergence of HIV Infection and Syphilis Among Men Who Have Sex with Men
Chapter 24 Gun Violence in the United States: A Public Health Epidemic
Chapter 25 The Public Health Intervention of Skin Care for All: Community Dermatology
Chapter 26 Addressing Asthma from a Public Health Perspective
Chapter 27 An Integrated Theoretical Framework to Describe Human Trafficking of Young Women and Girls for Involuntary Prostitution