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Overview of the American Healthcare System

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Resources for MPH Programs

WEBThe following online learning modules were designed to help students in on-campus programs learn about public health concepts and build skills at their own pace. …

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What is Public Health

WEBIn 1920, Charles-Edward A. Winslow defined public health as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and …

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What is Public Health

WEBIn a sense, public health is the heart disease that never developed, the epidemic that didn't happen, the outbreak of foodborne illness that never occurred, the …

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Descriptive Epidemiology

WEBDescriptive epidemiology provides a way of organizing and analyzing these data in order to understand variations in disease frequency geographically and over time, and how …

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The Health Belief Model

WEBThe Health Belief Model (HBM) was developed in the early 1950s by social scientists at the U.S. Public Health Service in order to understand the failure of people …

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The American Health Care System

WEBThe American Health Care System as a Non-System. Though the American health care system is a far cry from being a well-oiled machine, it does have various components …

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MPH Online Learning Modules

WEBThe MPH online learning modules allow you to learn about public health concepts in your own time and at your own pace. They are designed to complement …

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A Brief History of Public Health

WEB1916 Johns Hopkins University founds the first school of public health in the the United States with a grant of $267,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller …

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Coping Strategies and Techniques

WEBEngage in Regular Mental Activities That Reduce Stress. Practice conscious relaxation. Lie or sit in a comfortable place, close your eyes, and concentrate on letting all of your …

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The Sanitary Idea (1850-1875)

WEBThe Sanitary Idea (1850-1875) In many respects, public health as we think of it today (i.e., as a function of good government) took shape in London and Paris in the …

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Ratios, Proportion, and Rates

WEBA proportion is a type of ratio that relates a part to a whole. For example, in the class with with 20 men and 80 women, the total class size is 100, and the proportion …

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The Enlightenment (1700-1850)

WEBThe Enlightenment (1700-1850) The Enlightenment was a period that saw an embrace of democracy, citizenship, reason, rationality, and the social value of …

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Health Bucks Evaluation Toolkit

WEBHealth Bucks Evaluation Toolkit. Health Bucks Evaluation Toolkit pg. 27. Barriers to accessing nutritious foods: .geography .cost Existing access initiatives (local and …

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Characteristics of Person, Place, and Time

WEBCharacteristics of Person, Place, and Time. Descriptive epidemiology searches for patterns by examining characteristics of person, place, & time . These …

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Using Media to Advance Public Health Agendas

WEBpage 1 AUTHORS: Wendel Brunner, MD, PhD, is the Director of Public Health for Contra Costa Health Services [email protected] Kate Fowlie, BA, is the

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'proc chart' and 'proc freq'

WEBproc chart is used to construct histograms for continuous variables or bar charts for categorical (or discrete) variables.. proc freq is used to produce frequency …

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