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American Public Health Association
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the largest association of public health professionals in the world. The organization represents all of the many disciplines that contribute to contemporary public health practice. APHA's policies are determined by a... Read more |
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Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors
ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL DENTAL DIRECTORS The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD) is a national, nonprofit organization representing state and territorial oral-health program directors. The ASTDD provides leadership to formulate and promote sound national... Read more |
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Health promotion
Health Promotion Achieving optimal health is not the sole responsibility of the individual. Health promotion enables individuals to improve their health and delay disease, disability, and death. Health-promoting activities include healthful eating, adequate physical activity,... Read more |
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United States. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the primary federal agency conducting research on the safety and health of the workplace. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. Department... Read more |
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Multidisciplinary Team
MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM Many seniors enjoy good health and independence well into their ninth and tenth decades. However, some develop illnesses and functional impairments that require intensive or prolonged health care and supportive services at home, in hospitals, or in long-term care facilities.... Read more |
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History of Public Health
HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH Public health was defined by the American public health leader, Charles-Edward A. Winslow, in 1920 as, "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the... Read more |
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Primary Care
PRIMARY CARE The concept of primary health care was defined by the World Health Organization in 1978 as both a level of health service delivery and an approach to health care practice. Primary care, as the provision of essential health care, is the basis of a health care system. Seventy-five to... Read more |
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Social Marketing
SOCIAL MARKETING Toward the end of the twentieth century, public health professionals embraced a new strategy for promoting healthful behaviors and increasing the utilization of health services. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States Department of Health and Human... Read more |
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Minority Health
Minority health Definition Minority health addresses the special medical and health needs associated with specific ethnic and other minority groups. Description The United States, along with many other countries, experiences cultural diversity. This fact poses health issues that... Read more |
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Sir Edwin Chadwick
Sir Edwin Chadwick 1800-1890, English social reformer. For many years an assistant to Jeremy Bentham, Chadwick applied Bentham's utilitarianism to the reform (1834) of the Poor Law and to the development of public health measures, particularly in his The Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring... Read more |
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