Four Ps of Healthcare Social Marketing
December 26, 2021 - The four Ps of healthcare social marketing are place, price, product, promotion. Product: the product is the service, in...
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Organizational Development Theory
December 25, 2021 - In organizational development theory, instead of bringing in a new change strategy, fixing what is wrong with the organi...
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Childhood prevalence of at least one mental health disorder
December 24, 2021 - National Survey of Children’s Health. The National Survey of Children’s Health found that 17% of children in the U.S. ha...
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Persuasive Technology Design
December 23, 2021 - Persuasive Technology Design. Persuasive Technology Design is a behavior change process by BJ Fogg that talks about tech...
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BRFSS - The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
December 22, 2021 - BRFSS. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The BRFSS is a telephone survey that started in 1984, the BRFSS i...
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Transtheoretical Model - Readiness for Change
December 22, 2021 - Transtheoretical Model. Readiness for Change. Stages of the Transtheoretical model are pre-contemplation, contemplation,...
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Theory of Reasoned Action - Behavioral Change
December 21, 2021 - The Theory of Reason Action suggests people behave the way they do because that's how they intend to behave. And that th...
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The Surgeon General
December 20, 2021 - The Nation's Doctor. The Surgeon General's Office is a part of the Health and Human Services, and the Surgeon General ov...
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Incarceration and Health
December 19, 2021 - In the United States, around 870 per 100,000 are incarcerated (in jail or prison). The highest rate in the world.1 The t...
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Sharing Rivals: E-Scooters Enter the Bike-sharing Arena
December 19, 2021 - E-Scooters began showing up in Chicago for rental in 2019. Research recently published in Transportation Research Part A...
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Sleep, the Gut Microbiome, and Alzheimer’s Disease
December 18, 2021 - Individuals with sleep disorders and altered circadian rhythms have been found to have higher levels of β-amyloid (the m...
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Urban Green Spaces and Health
December 17, 2021 - With over half of the world’s population living in urban environments, there is a substantial incentive to make urban la...
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Agriculture - cropland and pastureland
December 16, 2021 - Approximately 38-40% of the earth's land surface and 70% of water pulled from freshwater sources is used for agriculture...
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Lions in Mozambique
December 15, 2021 - Lions studied in Gorongosa National Park as a part of an extensive restoration project in Mozambique were found to face...
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Disruption of sandy beach ecosystems
December 15, 2021 - Disruption of sandy beach ecosystems. The coastal spread of urbanization and industrialization often replaces the fordun...
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Cyanide Poisoning and Smoke Inhalation
December 14, 2021 - Cyanide poisoning due to smoke inhalation from structural fires is potentially fatal and often occurs in the presence of...
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Refugee Health and the One Health Approach
December 14, 2021 - In 2020, there were around 26 million refugees in the world - the number is expected to increase due to the situation in...
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Childhood Malnutrition and the Gut Microbiome
December 13, 2021 - The microbiome of the western diet is associated with inflammatory disorders, diabetes, and other conditions. And differ...
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Decreased Harmful Algae Blooms in Muskegon Lake
December 12, 2021 - Harmful algae blooms are usually a consequence of eutrophication in freshwater lakes. In a study recently published in F...
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Our Natural and Modern Environment
December 12, 2021 - We may see the environment more or less as our natural surroundings. Associated with the iconic beauty of the ocean on a...
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Less PM2.5 Exposure for Cyclists Using Alternative Routes
December 11, 2021 - A newly published study in Environmental Pollution identified better air quality in terms of lower PM2.5 concentrations...
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Pesticide Exposure - Farmworkers
December 09, 2021 - An article published this year in Annual Review of Public Health describes how the existing literature regarding pestici...
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Coastal Hardening
December 08, 2021 - Costal hardening is a term for replacing natural coastlines consisting of vegetation in the form of seagrass or other co...
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Non-native Species - Suez and Panama Canals
December 07, 2021 - Expansion of the Suez and Panama Canals in recent years has led to the increased passage of non-native species. The Suez...
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Invasive Plant Species Sold in the United States
December 06, 2021 - Around 40% of invasive plant species in the United States today arrived via plant sales for gardening, landscaping, and...
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Sub-populations and Public Health
December 05, 2021 - A new perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine explains the importance of sub-populations in public he...
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Antibiotics and Childhood Obesity a Possible Association
December 04, 2021 - A new animal research study recently published ahead of print in Environmental Pollution tested the effect of erythromyc...
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Arsenic Poisoning Bangladesh
December 03, 2021 - A tragic example of arsenic poisoning is in Bangladesh. Around 1980, international organizations and the Bangladesh gove...
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Organic Pesticides Induce Genetic Resistance
December 03, 2021 - Organic farming is thought to have less of an environmental impact than conventional farming. However, organic pesticide...
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CDC One Health: International Collaboration
December 01, 2021 - An exciting study by authors from the United States and the United Kingdom published in the Proceedings of the National...
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