Occupational Health Activities in Public Health Practice

Occupational health of Iranian farmworkers: A public health priority

Epidemiology in public health practice

• Several models exist for planning public health policies and programmes. Three important ones are: the Precede-Proceed model, the Five-Stage Community Organisation model and the Intervention Mapping model. • These models provide a detailed insight into the processes that take place during the four stages of the public health cycle. • Analysis of these models results in the following seven epi...

Dental Public Health Activities & Practices

Lack of access to dental care is a common problem for people with Medicaid, whether they are covered by traditional fee-for-service programs or by managed care. For people with developmental disabilities who are covered by Medicaid, access to dental care is even more restricted. This situation was recognized at a 1999 state dental summit in Pennsylvania and led to a recommendation that a specia...

Research to practice in occupational health nursing.

Occupational health nursing research has gained a significant place in national and international nursing programs and has advanced occupational health nurses' understanding of the most effective ways to prevent occupational illness and injury, provide access to quality care for workers, and manage occupational injuries and return to work. This article describes the history of nursing research ...

The heartsink consultation in occupational health practice.

Editorial the heartsink consultation in occupational health practice The term 'heartsink patient' was first used by O'Dowd in 1988 to describe patients who engender a feeling of intense dysphoria in doctors. Terms used to describe that dysphoria include 'exasperate', 'overwhelm', 'anger', 'inadequacy' and 'frustration'. While these patients present with a range of diagnoses and socio-demographi...