Public Health
Essential public health functions
... the Public Health in the Americas Initiative has to do with the need to adapt the definition of the EPHF indicators and standards in order to strengthen public health practice by strengthening ...
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Pan American Public Health Association
... The Pan American Sanitary Bureau has given support during the past ten years to the United States-Mexico Border Public Health Association which has been composed of members [r] ...
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Essential public health functions
... National Public Health Performance Standards Program of the CDC is currently spearheading a joint effort to develop standards for public health ...evaluating public health ...
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Key words Public health, School health, Vaccina-
... The most mentioned diseases when the ad- olescents were asked which vaccinations they had had were infantile paralysis (60.7%; CI 95%: 56.6% - 64.6%), followed by yellow fever(56.0%; CI 95%: 52% - 60%), tetanus(34.0%; CI ...
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Public health significance of cancer
... Public health assistance is needed in the development of such services, includ- ing provision of consultant services, tissue diagnosis, diagnostic and cancer clinic[r] ...
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Public health in Honduras
... Present organization-At the present time public health administration comes under the Ministry of Government, Justice, Health and Welfare, with its Depart- ment of H[r] ...
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Significance of immunization for public health
... Immunization leads to a gradual reduction of the number of diseased due to a double effect: there appears individual immunity, similar to the natural one, on one side, and a vaccina- ted person is protected against ...
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Teaching of public health in a university : Responsibilities of a school of public health
... ate instruction of various professional groups to be employed in community health programs, leaving instruction of all other students to their respective colleges as un[r] ...
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A public health approach to health and retirement
... Loureiro, Fonseca and Veríssimo developed a study to describe the evolution of individual’s behaviour and health status during retirement. This was a quantitative study, in which a questionnaire was administered ...
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Public health survey of Ecuador
... of sewers; assistance to the school of nursing, construction and equipping of a 200 bed maternity hospital, 100 bed infectious disease hospital, 300 bed psychiatr[r] ...
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Public health survey of Ecuador
... cement pipe; storage, in concrete tank above City; no treatment; distribution, excellent radial network; water- borne diseases, very rarely a case of typhoid.. In a [r] ...
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Public health in El Salvador
... Among the important developments which should be mentioned are: the establishment of the Model Health Unit at Santa Tecla, and the later ones at Santa Ana and [r] ...
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New perspectives in public health
... After years of delay, epidemiologists are beginning to capture an interest and a par- ticipation in the validation of disease cause and effect. The shift from th[r] ...
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Electromagnetic fields and public health
... At a working meeting in Vienna, held 22–25 October 1997, Project manager Michael Repacholi stated, “Health research in this area has been largely ad hoc and totally uncoordinated at the international level. As a ...
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a Public Health Informatics Approach :: Brapci ::
... A seção 11 aborda o caso dos recursos humanos para operar este tipo de sistema nas suas diferentes eta- pas recomenda uma maior informatização dos sistemas e capacitação na área de inf[r] ...
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Journal of Public Health
... and health practice related to impairment is the inaccuracy of definitions all over the world, which makes it difficult to exchange infor- mation obtained by different ...World Health Organization ...
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Environmental Research and Public Health
... prescription, but 28.5% did not know what an agronomic prescription was. This prescription is a legal requirement for the purchase of pesticide products in Brazil [29], and is considered a confirmation that a certified ...
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Coban J Public Health 2018
... The HBSC survey is a repeated cross-national survey regard- ing adolescents’ health in their social context. Representative schools were selected randomly by each EU Member State. We consulted the 2013/2014 survey ...
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OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES: A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM
... Since the 1960s, PAHO's activities in the field of occupational diseases have included organizing or sponsoring meetings and seminars on the state of occu- pational healt[r] ...
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A conceptual model for public health research
... in any case alludes to something extrinsic to the research process. The primary orientation of re- search is closely linked to the primary ori- entation of the institution [r] ...
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