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Policy Surveillance: A Vital Public Health Practice Comes of Age. [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 2016
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
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Public Health Practice Is Not Research

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2014
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
openaire   +4 more sources

Institutional Distrust among African Americans and Building Trustworthiness in the COVID-19 Response: Implications for Ethical Public Health Practice

open access: yesJournal of health care for the poor and underserved, 2021
: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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The dawn of digital public health in Europe: Implications for public health policy and practice

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
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 ...

core   +2 more sources

Strategies for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in public health: an overview of systematic reviews

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The value of qualitative methods to public health research, policy and practice

open access: yesPerspectives in Public Health, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Role of Social Determinants in Mental Health and Resilience After Disasters: Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

New directions in European public health research:report of a workshop [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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
core   +1 more source

Quality of the Diagnostic Process, Treatment Decision, and Predictors for Antibiotic Use in General Practice for Nursing Home Residents with Suspected Urinary Tract Infection

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

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