Public Health Practice
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Using practice development methodology to develop children's centre teams: ideas for the future.

30 Aug 2009 The Children's Centre Programme is a recent development in the UK and brings together multi-agency teams to work with disadvantaged families. Practice development methods enable teams to work together in new ways. Although the term practice ... Read more...

An evaluation of performance-arts based HIV-prevention events in London with 13- 16-year-olds.

30 Aug 2009 AIM: The London borough of Newham is ethnically diverse and is one of the poorest regions in the UK. Rates of teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV are high compared to the rest of the country. One strand of the local ... Read more...

Implementation of the WHO guidelines for the safe use of wastewater in Pakistan: balancing risks and benefits.

30 Aug 2009 The use of wastewater in agriculture is receiving renewed attention as a result of increasing global water scarcity. Wastewater use potentially poses a risk to public health if not properly managed. In Pakistan the use of wastewater in agriculture ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Public Health Practice'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Influenza in 2009: new solutions, same old problems. 2 Nov 2009
• IOM offers new guidance in crisis care. 19 Oct 2009
• Planning for a pandemic. Interview by Haydn Bush. 30 Aug 2009
• Using practice development methodology to develop children's centre teams: ideas for the future. 30 Aug 2009
• An evaluation of performance-arts based HIV-prevention events in London with 13- 16-year-olds. 30 Aug 2009
• The Infant Mortality National Support Team. 30 Aug 2009
• Public health law. 30 Aug 2009
• Implementation of the WHO guidelines for the safe use of wastewater in Pakistan: balancing risks and benefits. 30 Aug 2009
• Tracking diabetes: New York City's A1C Registry. 30 Aug 2009
• H1N1 influenza, public health preparedness, and health care reform. 25 Aug 2009
• Applying health services research to public health practice: an emerging priority. 15 Aug 2009
• Commentary: partnership for the future of public health services and systems research. 15 Aug 2009
• Public health emergency preparedness at the local level: results of a national survey. 15 Aug 2009
• Public health systems: a social networks perspective. 15 Aug 2009
• Introducing quality improvement methods into local public health departments: structured evaluation of a statewide pilot project. 15 Aug 2009
• Geographic variation in public health spending: correlates and consequences. 15 Aug 2009
• Toward standardized, comparable public health systems data: a taxonomic description of essential public health work. 15 Aug 2009
• To build on the discipline of health services research focused on the public health system. Foreword. 15 Aug 2009
• A framework to measure the value of public health services. 12 Aug 2009
• How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count. 9 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Public Health Practice'

Definition: The activities and endeavors of the public health services in a community on any level.

Descriptor UI: D015980

Alternative terms: Public Health Practice; Health Practice, Public; Health Practices, Public; Practice, Public Health; Practices, Public Health; Public Health Practices;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N06.850.780;

History Note: 98; use explode 1990-97

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics