a preventable public health problem

EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN docx

EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION: A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN docx

... hospital treatment, and increased risk of death from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases or lung cancer Particulate matter is estimated to cause about 8% of deaths from lung cancer, 5% of deaths ... attributable to selected major risks Geneva, World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/GlobalHealthRisks_report_full.pdf) WHO (2008) Air quality and health Geneva, ... World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines2,3,5,6 Particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 µm or less (PM 2.5 ) 10 µg/m3 (annual mean) 25 µg/m3 (24 h mean) Particulate matter with a...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

6 401 1
Tài liệu A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health - A Conceptual Framework pdf

Tài liệu A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health - A Conceptual Framework pdf

... mental health problems, treating mental health problems, and reclaiming optimal health while addressing a mental health problem A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health: A Conceptual ... mental health and Ensuring Quality, Access, and Sustainability Gathering and Analyzing Data to Drive Decisions Assessing A Conceptual Framework for a Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health ... mental health and whole health of individuals, while still working to prevent and ameliorate factors that threaten their health A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health: A Conceptual...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

141 470 0
Tài liệu A Women’s Health Intervention for Gynecological Problems in the Deployed Environment ppt

Tài liệu A Women’s Health Intervention for Gynecological Problems in the Deployed Environment ppt

... presenting to an evacuation hospital during JH Operation Desert Storm Mil Med 1992 May;157(5):222-4  Hannoun AB, Nassar AH, Usta IM, Zreik TG, Abu Musa AA Effect of war on the menstrual cycle Obstet ... contraception Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews • Friedl, K E (2005) Biomedical research on health and performance of military women: Accomplishments of the Defense Women's Health Research ... nearly twice as many GU health p problems as those at home duty stations • Many female Soldiers are not prepared for GU health & hygiene challenges yg g during deployment Operational Obstetrics...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

18 734 0
Tài liệu Integrating Youth-Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Public Health Facilities: A Success Story and Lessons Learned in Tanzania ppt

Tài liệu Integrating Youth-Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Public Health Facilities: A Success Story and Lessons Learned in Tanzania ppt

... Dar es Salaam; Dr Laizer, municipal medical officer, Arusha; Dr Frank Eetaama –Tarime; Dr Rutahinurwa –Karagwe; Dr Bangi –Kasulu; Dr Kajuna – Kibondo; Dr Kahama – Ilala; Dr Beatrice Byarugabe- Kinondoni; ... International Tanzania Office i About the African Youth Alliance Project The African Youth Alliance (AYA) was an initiative implemented in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda The five year project ... integration of AYA activities in their district development plans Shyam Thapa (Family Health International), Palena Neale (Pathfinder International headquarters), and Emmanuel Boadi (AYA/Pathfinder...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

17 614 0
Tài liệu More Than a Message: Framing Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices docx

Tài liệu More Than a Message: Framing Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices docx

... between a portrait and a landscape (Dorfman, 2003) In a news story framed as a portrait, audiences may learn a great deal about an individual or an event, with great drama and emotion But it is hard ... presumably attract a larger audience FRAMING PUBLIC HEALTH Public health issues, such as tobacco, alcohol, guns, and traffic safety, have all experienced a transition from a focus on behavior to attention ... in a framework of values The good news is that in fact, public health has a clear, consistent set of values that can guide health educators’messages Just as the corporate arguments are organized...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

17 352 0
Tài liệu Mental Health Services A Public Health Perspective Third Edition docx

Tài liệu Mental Health Services A Public Health Perspective Third Edition docx

... mental health, mental health, and public health for pharmacists, with research interests in managed behavioral health care, mental health policy, graduate behavioral health education, and mental ... workforce, a fundamental transformation of America’s varied approaches to mental health care may be achieved 10 mental health services Implications for Mental Health A public health approach to mental ... behavioral health care organizations managed care organization Medicare Payment Advisory Commission mental health courts Mental Health Statistical Improvement Program Mental Health Transformation-State...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

572 540 0
Tài liệu A REVIEW OF INDOOR AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE: FOCUSING ON THE STUDIES OF INDOOR AIR ENVIRONMENT IN JAPAN COMPARED TO THOSE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES pptx

Tài liệu A REVIEW OF INDOOR AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH PROBLEMS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE: FOCUSING ON THE STUDIES OF INDOOR AIR ENVIRONMENT IN JAPAN COMPARED TO THOSE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES pptx

... (in Japanese) IPCS (1989) Environmental Health Criteria 89 Formaldehyde, World Health Organization, Geneva Takeda, M., Saijo, Y., Yuasa, M., Kanazawa, A. , Araki, A and Kishi, R (2009) Relationship ... Environmental Health Criteria 186 Ethylbenzene, World Health Organization, Geneva 84) Saijo, Y., Kishi, Y., Sata, F., Katakura, Y., Urashima, Y., Hatakeyama, A. , Kobayashi, S., Jin, K., Kurahashi, ... Indoor Air Quality Indoor Environ., 1, 27–34 (in Japanese) 126) Kishi, R., Saijo, Y., Kanazawa, A. , Tanaka, M., Yoshimura, T., Chikara, H., Takigawa, T., Morimoto, K., Nakayama, K and Shibata, E (2009)...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

14 941 1
Tài liệu Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge doc

Tài liệu Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge doc

... biomass smoke is a potential risk factor for lung cancer Nasopharyngeal and laryngeal cancer Biomass smoke has been implicated as a cause of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (100), although this is not a ... a las establecidas como referencia por la ´ Agencia para la Proteccion del Medio Ambiente de los ´ Estados Unidos La exposicion a esa contaminacion ´ ´ afecta principalmente a las mujeres y a ... sı´ntomas) ´ ´ y la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva cronica ´ (evaluada clı´nicamente y mediante espirometrı a) , sobre todo entre las mujeres, algunas de las cuales acaban desarrollando enfisema o...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

15 551 1
Tài liệu Carrots, Sticks, and Promises: A Conceptual Framework for the Management of Public Health and Social Issue Behaviors docx

Tài liệu Carrots, Sticks, and Promises: A Conceptual Framework for the Management of Public Health and Social Issue Behaviors docx

... Social Marketing Health Research: Examples from South Africa," presented at Innovations in Social Marketing, (May), Boston Matarazzo, J.D (1984), "Behavioral Health: A 1990 Challenge for the Health ... focus has occurred in large part because most social marketing managers come from a public health or mass communications background, and few have had broad training in marketing William Smith ... threaten to disadvantage noncompliance Law is also similar to what Wiener and Doescher (1991)'term a structural solution, that is, a political act that mandates individual behavior For Taylor and Singleton...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

14 780 0
Diabetes & Women’s Health Across the Life Stages: A Public Health Perspective potx

Diabetes & Women’s Health Across the Life Stages: A Public Health Perspective potx

... Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting Hence, these names are used: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, black not of Hispanic origin, Hispanic, and ... clinical and public health strategies In the next 12 months, CDC and its primary cosponsors, the American Diabetes Association, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, and the American ... mid-1800s and 1910 as well as recent immigrants from countries as varied as India, Vietnam, Korea, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.15-17 Hispanics are also a diverse population that includes descendants...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

222 1K 0
A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns pdf

A Meta-Analysis of Fear Appeals: Implications for Effective Public Health Campaigns pdf

... successes and failures of fear appeals, and fear is reincorporated as a central variable in the model According to the EPPM, the evaluation of a fear appeal initiates two appraisals of the message, which ... correlation matrices and report standard deviations in their articles Practical Implications Fear appeals motivate attitude, intention, and behavior changes—especially fear appeals accompanied ... fear or threat in a message were retained for analysis To be included in this meta-analysis, fear appeal studies needed to manipulate fear or threat in a fear appeal message (i.e., there had...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

25 486 0
Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy ppt

Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy ppt

... organization and financing of medical and public health systems are problematic The public s health is dependent upon our public health infrastructure, the public and private medical care system, and ... charge including Shauna Spencer, Washington, DC, Department of Mental Health; Dan Dodgen, Jan Peterson, Georgia Sargeant, and Susan Brandon, American Psychological Association; William Goldman, ... subsequent health care utilization PFA is described in detail in Chapter of the full report Association of Schools of Public Health What Is Public Health [Online] Available: www.asph.org/aa_section.cfm?section_id=3...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:20

185 423 0
AIR POLLUTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH: A GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR RISK MANAGERS doc

AIR POLLUTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH: A GUIDANCE DOCUMENT FOR RISK MANAGERS doc

... they may interact to pose a cumulative risk to human health are emerging as important challenges • Urban areas, especially emissions and health effects associated with particulate matter (PM), are ... air quality problems can be expected and more alternative approaches to air quality management can be developed The more alternative approaches that are available, the more likely it is that air ... pollutants Among other things, an association between a health endpoint and a given pollutant may be because that pollutant is acting as an indicator for an unmeasured pollutant (gas or particle)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

183 473 0
A Model Course for Public Health Education in Chiropractic Colleges: A Users Guide doc

A Model Course for Public Health Education in Chiropractic Colleges: A Users Guide doc

... World Health Organization Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) a Administration for Children and Families (ACF) b Administration on Aging (AOA) c Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ... (SAMSA) The Public Health Service F Voluntary Organizations American Cancer Society The American Heart Association G The American Public Health Association Function and Importance The Chiropractic ... the health care delivery system A number of proactive suggestions have been offered by health organizations, agencies and health educators In 1994 the American Public Health Association (APHA) and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

76 376 0
A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies pdf

A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health Strategies pdf

... policies may be implemented at the national, state, organizational, and community levels in an effort to advance public health 16 A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship: Advancing Public Health ... the National Action Plan Addressing and achieving the National Action Plan’s goals and objectives require a multifaceted approach that is both ambitious and feasible The National Action Plan consists ... Carolina Division of Health and Human Services Oklahoma State Department of Health iv Oncology Nursing Society Ovarian Cancer National Alliance Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas Patient Advocate Foundation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

88 263 0
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative, and for other purposes. ppt

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for a Pancreatic Cancer Initiative, and for other purposes. ppt

... of the National Cancer Institute in ac- cordance with paragraph (5) regarding the prioritization and award of National Institutes of Health research grants relating to pancreatic 10 cancer 11 ... principal investigators 12 in pancreatic cancer, who are each an as- 13 sistant-level professor in a major academic 14 research institution and who have each re- 15 ceived at least grant from the National ... to address the 18 high mortality rate associated with pancreatic can- 19 cer Such Initiative shall focus on— ‘‘ (A) advancing research on the causes, di- 21 agnosis, and treatment of pancreatic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

18 296 0
Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water: A guide to their public health consequences, monitoring and management pot

Toxic Cyanobacteria in Water: A guide to their public health consequences, monitoring and management pot

... Dr Mary Drikas, Australian Water Quality Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (Chapter 9) Professor Ian Falconer, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (Chapters 4-7) Dr Jutta Fastner, ... as contact irritation Water and health, and in particular drinking water and health, has been an area of concern to the World Health Organization (WHO) for many years A major activity of WHO ... (Gorham and Carmichael, 1988) The water quality problems caused by dense populations of cyanobacteria are intricate, many and various (Skulberg, 1996b) and can have great health and economic impacts...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

400 1,1K 0
A Guide to Clinical Management and Public Health Response for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) doc

A Guide to Clinical Management and Public Health Response for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) doc

... A Guide to Clinical Management and Public Health Response for Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A Guide to clinical management and public health ... to ANS, and subsequently to devastating pulmonary oedema Retrospective analysis of IVIG-treated cases in Taiwan (China) and Sarawak, Malaysia, seen during earlier outbreaks, appear to demonstrate ... Shekhar K, et al Deaths in children during an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in Peninsular Malaysia-clinical and pathological characteristics Medical Journal of Malaysia, 2005, Aug,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

71 776 0
báo cáo sinh học:" Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program (CA FETP): a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development" pdf

báo cáo sinh học:" Central America Field Epidemiology Training Program (CA FETP): a pathway to sustainable public health capacity development" pdf

... positions of advanced-tier FETP graduates in Central America region, n = 58.* Country Ministry of Health Epidemiology office Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Dominican Rep Panama*** ... from an affected health area and the presence of an intermediate-tier FETP graduate In addition to natural disasters, there have been national-scale outbreaks in which FETP trainees played a key ... periodically as a team to analyse surveillance and conduct outbreak investigations and other public health interventions Standardized evaluations are being planned before (baseline) and after implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

6 240 0
w