Because public health is a continually evolving field, it is essential to provide ample training opportunities for public health professionals. As a natural outgrowth of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program, training courses of many types have been developed for public health practitioners working in the field. This article describes three of the ...

introduction: purchasing scientific journals take a large amount of university library budget. so choosing journals with a scientific validity that response to universities needs is so important. this article aims to have a survey on usage rate of isfahan university of medical sciences users on public, environmental and occupational health journals to confirm core journals via bradford scatteri...

Issue addressed Despite being viewed as a core competency for public health professionals, public health advocacy lacks a prominent place in the public health literature and receives minimal coverage in university curricula. The Public Health Advocacy Institute of Western Australia (PHAIWA) sought to fill this gap by establishing an online e-mentoring program for public health professionals to ...

CONTEXT Addressing the nation's increasingly complex public health challenges will require more effective multisector collaboration and stronger public health leadership. In 2005, the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute launched an annual, year-long intensive "community teams" program. The goal of this program is to develop collaborative leadership and public health skills among Wisconsin-ba...

background: ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. public health ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. the primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools o...

introduction: certainly, personal health or social health issues are the most important aspects of human life. health is an essential condition for social roles and activities and is an essential condition for social roles and activities in people. lifestyle is a combination of individual behavioral patterns and habits that is created throughout socialization processes, by personal interaction ...

Through well-planned health promotion and education programming, federally funded projects are often leaders in the development and implementation of sound public health practices. In public health practice, program evaluations are used to 1) determine whether program objectives related to health status have been achieved, 2) improve program implementation, 3) increase community support, 4) con...