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Health Education - Research News and Information
Friday, July 03, 2009
Definition of 'Health Education'Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis. Common names: Health Education; Education, Health; Community Health Education; Health Education, Community; Education, Community Health |
30 May 2009 
BACKGROUND: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is common after major storms because of loss of electrical power and use of alternate fuel sources for heat and electricity. In past epidemics of hurricane-related CO poisoning, the source has typically ... Read more...
Paying for obesity: a changing landscape.
30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Coverage for obesity related services is highly variable. Despite this, health plans, purchasers, and states have mounted numerous recent initiatives. OBJECTIVE: To identify the range of approaches being used to address coverage and ... Read more...
Small steps to health: building sustainable partnerships in pediatric obesity care.
30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Given the prevalence of childhood obesity and the limited support for preventing and managing obesity in primary care settings, the Seattle Children's Hospital's Children's Obesity Action Team has partnered with Steps to Health King ... Read more...
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Latest indexed articles for 'Health Education'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Economic conditions and obesity.
22 Jun 2009 - Litigation, regulation, and education--protecting the public's health through childhood immunization. 9 Jun 2009
- Stigma and discrimination in mental illness: Time to Change. 4 Jun 2009
- Creating a healthier future through early interventions for children. Jun 2009
- Healthy communities: reducing cancer risks. 30 May 2009
- Sleep behavioral education as a key preventive health care for obesity. 30 May 2009
- Dying to play video games: carbon monoxide poisoning from electrical generators used after hurricane Ike. 30 May 2009
- Paying for obesity: a changing landscape. 30 May 2009
- Small steps to health: building sustainable partnerships in pediatric obesity care. 30 May 2009
- Health care providers' perceived role in changing environments to promote healthy eating and physical activity: baseline findings from health care providers participating in the healthy eating, active communities program. 30 May 2009
- Responding to the childhood obesity epidemic: from the provider visit to health care policy--steps the health care sector can take. 30 May 2009
- The Well Woman Program: a community-based randomized trial to prevent sexually transmitted infections in low-income African American women. 30 May 2009
- Were our forebears aware of prenatal alcohol exposure and its effects? A review of the history of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. 11 May 2009
- Can communications reduce racial disparities? Two programs take on breast cancer. 10 May 2009
- Weight, physical activity and dietary behavior change in young mothers: short term results of the HeLP-her cluster randomized controlled trial. 29 Apr 2009
- Borderline personality disorder: ontogeny of a diagnosis. 29 Apr 2009
- Lesbians' constructions of depression. 29 Apr 2009
- Marching for science. 29 Apr 2009
- Epidemiology of lifetime work-related eye injuries in the U.S. population associated with one or more lost days of work. 29 Apr 2009
- Adoption of Western culture by Californian Asian Americans: attitudes and practices promoting sun exposure. 29 Apr 2009
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Technical information about 'Health Education'
Definition: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Descriptor UI: D006266
Alternative terms: Health Education; Education, Health; Community Health Education; Health Education, Community; Education, Community Health;
Related Mesh Headings: Health Promotion;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: I02.233.332; N02.421.143.827.407; N02.421.726.407;
Technical Notes: educ of general public or individuals; educ of patients in & outside hosp = PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC