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Policy Surveillance: A Vital Public Health Practice Comes of Age. [PDF]
Governments use statutes, regulations, and policies, often in innovative ways, to promote health and safety. Organizations outside government, from private schools to major corporations, create rules on matters as diverse as tobacco use and paid sick ...
S. Burris +4 more
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Public Health Practice Is Not Research
Scientific and clinical activities undertaken by public health agencies may be misconstrued as medical research. Most discussions of regulatory and legal oversight of medical research focus on activities involving either patients in clinical practice or volunteers in clinical trials.
Jean Lin, Otto +2 more
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:African Americans are disproportionately affected by COVID-19-related disease and mortality due to long-standing social, political, economic, and environmental injustice; and COVID-19 inequities are exacerbated by institutional distrust.
Alicia L. Best +3 more
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The dawn of digital public health in Europe: Implications for public health policy and practice
Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of digital health technologies and the role of effective surveillance systems. While recent events have accelerated progress towards the expansion of digital public health (DPH), there remains ...
B. Wong +6 more
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Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories [PDF]
This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to ...
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Background As a source of readily available evidence, rigorously synthesized and interpreted by expert clinicians and methodologists, clinical guidelines are part of an evidence-based practice toolkit, which, transformed into practice recommendations ...
V. Pereira +4 more
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The value of qualitative methods to public health research, policy and practice
This article reviews the role and use of qualitative methods in public health research. ‘Signs of quality’ are introduced to help guide potential authors to publish their qualitative research in public health journals.
T. Stickley, A. O'Caithain, C. Homer
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In this general literature review, we will explore the impacts and contribution of social determinants to mental health and resiliency following both natural and man-made disasters.
W. Mao, V. Agyapong
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New directions in European public health research:report of a workshop [PDF]
Public health draws from a range of academic disciplines, social, medical and statistical, and answers questions relevant to improving the health of populations.
Álvarez-Dardet, Carlos +21 more
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common in nursing home (NH) residents and Denmark is one of the countries with the highest antibiotic use in NHs. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of the diagnostic process and treatment decision on the ...
Stine Dyhl Sommer-Larsen +4 more
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