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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Public Health Policy"”.
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Public Health Policy: An Ethical Analysis of Quarantine
<p>As a public health measure quarantine has both historical and contemporary significance both in the United States and abroad. On the surface it represents a low-cost, low-tech way in which the spread of disease can be mitigated as its core requirement is that those who may have been exposed to …
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Informing public health policy and practice in populations with diverse needs
… is a gap between those with the best and poorest health, which has implications for the health outcomes of some of the most disadvantaged groups in the community. In this thesis, I present four applied research projects that were undertaken across a broad range of public health policy and practice …
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Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications
… approaches hold immense potential for improving public health decision-making in complex, uncertain, and high-risk environments. Yet, there are several key challenges that stand in the way of successfully leveraging large-scale, heterogeneous, and noisy data into timely and actionable policy …
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Assessing the disparities in COVID-19 outcomes among different socioeconomic and demographic groups and implications for public health policy.
… pandemic has highlighted present disparities in health effects amongst diverse socioeconomic and demographic groups, revealing full-size inequities in access to healthcare, exposure to the virus, and typical fitness outcomes. This research ambitions to research these disparities, specializing in …
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Controlling and constraining the participation of the hepatitis C-affected community in Australia: A critical discourse analysis of the first national hepatitis C strategy and selected news media texts
… p. ix), informs this study of the ways in which public health policy makers and journalists in Australia communicate about hepatitis C. The institutions of public health and the news media form part of the cultural context within which persons construct their illness narratives. The privileged …
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Moving Milk: Public Health, Milk Transportation, and Modal Choices in Baltimore, 1840-1940
… 1920s. It draws on histories of transportation, public health, food, and business to maintain that progressive public health regulation, driven by calls for reform of the milk supply, created an oligopoly for which trucks better suited vertical integration goals. This research highlights the …
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Social Marketing Campaigns: A Public Health Tool in the Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Other Chronic Diseases
… towards behavior change that can help eliminate health disparities based on race, sexuality, gender, and environment. The planning, implementation, and evaluation of social marketing campaigns and the implications this has for future campaigns and public health policy are also addressed. Overall, …
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Problematising Big Food’s appetite for policymaking the case of childhood obesity
… – by partnering with government, academia, health societies and other responsible members of civil society’ (Coca-Cola, 2011: 1). Big Food’s reinvention as public health promoter means that government public health policy is increasingly entangled with corporate practices. In 2011, the …
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Systems analysis of vaccination in the United States: Socio-behavioral dynamics, sentiment, effectiveness and efficiency
… determinants of vaccination and their impacts on public health, using a systems approach that emphasizes the interface between population health research, policy, and practice. First, we identify the facilitators and barriers of parental attitudes and beliefs toward school-located influenza …
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Health Equity Education, Awareness, and Advocacy through the Virginia Department of Health Health Equity Campaign
This study showed that health equity must be achieved through education, awareness, and advocacy. A structured program must be put in place to provide accountability towards achieving health equity within organizations, communities, cites, and states. In Virginia, the Health Equity Campaign was a …
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A Call For Environmental Justice: Water Access and Alcohol Policies
… San Francisco (UCSF) Community Engagement and Health Policy Department (CEHP) bridges academic research, health policy, and community practice to improve public health. Within CEHP is the San Francisco Health Improvement Partnership (SFHIP). The SFHIP partners work together to promote synergies …
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An Exploratory Analysis of the Scottish Diet 2001-2009 Using Household Purchase Data
… intake are key for informing and monitoring public health policy on diet related health. In order to estimate food and drink consumption and assess diet quality in Scotland, household food purchase data, from 2001 to 2009, were analysed. Data from the Expenditure and Food Survey / Living …
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Inserção do terapeuta ocupacional em dispositivos da rede de saúde no município de João Pessoa
… generalist professionals to work for Unified Health System (UHS) and Unified Social Assistance System (USAS). The occupational therapist is a professional able to assign diagnosis of occupational performance and intervene to treat limitations in order to achieve the highest possible level of …
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Contributions to the psychological evaluation of UK exercise referral: the ER-QLS a measure of exercise-related life-quality
The benefits of physical activity for health are sufficient enough to be incorporated into UK public health policy and the exercise referral scheme is a popular method of engaging sedentary individuals into a more active lifestyle. However, the evidence base as to the extent to which such schemes …
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Epidemiology of oral cancer from a socioeconomic perspective
Tackling health inequalities is a policy priority. Research on cancer and particularly oral cancer aetiology has somewhat overlooked this area, in favour of pursuing genetic and 'lifestyle' risk factors. The over-arching aim of this thesis was to investigate the epidemiology of oral cancer in …
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The setting of health research priorities in South Africa
The health and development of a nation are linked. Health research is a vital element helps bring about improved health and has the potential to serve as an impetus for equitable development. Generally, it is necessary to prioritise needs in order to optimise the use of scarce resources for …
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Trends and Outcomes of a School-Based Campaign to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students in Middle School
… et al., 2019; USDA & HSS, 2015) and promoting healthier alternative beverage options has become an important focus for public health policy and educational efforts. Community-driven school-based health initiatives targeting SSB consumption have shown promising outcomes however, few studies have …
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Mental health policy outcomes: an examination of older adults' mental health service use, 2002-2012
The underutilization of mental health services (MHS) by older adults – and especially by racial/ethnic minority elders – is a well-recognized problem. Though several national-level mental health policies have been enacted and implemented over the past decade, rates of underutilization remain high. …
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Logistical Models For Planning And Operating Medical Countermeasure Distribution Networks During Public Health Emergencies
Public health emergencies require rapid responses from federal, state, and local authorities to prevent widespread mortality and morbidity. However, existing response plans seldom account for the variety of risks and uncertainties inherent in emergency scenarios. Our goal is to construct models …
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