Why health communication is important in public health

Why health communication is important in public health.

a Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America (USA). b Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA . Correspondence to Rajiv N Rimal (e-mail: [email protected]). For the first time, health communication was allocated a chapter in the United States of America (USA)’s Healthy People 2010 objectives,...

Why is preconception health and care important?

The aim of the conference was to promote further international cooperation and knowledge sharing amongst researchers. By means of a generous grant from The Swedish Research Council to cover travel costs for invited keynote speakers it became possible for us to plan and realize the conference. Preconception care is a set of interventions intended to identify and to modify biomedical, behavioural...

Public health is more important than health care.

PUBLIC health practitioners seem to be suffering an identity crisis. Perhaps they have felt ignored and under-funded for so long that they are eager to latch onto anything that includes the word "health." Or perhaps some public health practitioners understand that health care receives 94% of the health services dollars with only 3 % going to public health, so they mistakenly think they should b...

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Why is rural public health important? A look to the future.

Public health in the United States began as a largely urban phenomenon, dating back to the late 1700s. In those days, public health was mostly concerned with issues such as sanitation and communicable diseases, which were of greater concern in areas with higher population density. By the late 1800s, however, it was apparent that the country's population was becoming more mobile and communicable...