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Reestablishing public health and land use planning to protect public water supplies.
OBJECTIVES This study measured the extent to which land use, design, and engineering practices could reduce contamination of major public water supplies. METHODS Key parcels of land were identified in New Jersey, and the potential uncontrolled loading of contaminants was estimated with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment model for a variety of land ...
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HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE A new course on the History of Public Health and Social Medicine is now being offered at the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, in the spring semester of 1966. The purpose of this course is to trace the genesis and the development of scientific fact and ideas, taking into account intellectual exchanges and influences of a...
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The design of a community's built environment influences the physical and mental health of its residents. Because few studies have investigated this relationship, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a workshop in May 2002 to help develop a scientific research agenda on these issues. Workshop participants' areas of expertise included physical activity, injury prevention, air po...
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INTRODUCTION As the Wisconsin ice sheets retreated to the North toward the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, tundra and boreal vegetation that had dominated the Central Hardwood Region began to be replaced by hardwood species. Spurred on by the warming climate and the widespread use of fire by Native Americans, oaks (Quercus spp.) gradually dominated the region (Abrams 2002, Carroll and others 2002).
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.91.12.1917