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Various aspects of public health: From top to bottom: Community health worker in Mali, vaccination example (COVID-19 vaccination in Germany), historical sewer installation photo from the United States, anti-smoking campaign in India. Part of a series on Public health Outline Subfields Community health Dental public health Environmental health Epidemiology Health economics Health education ...
Public health journals often indicate their target audience as being interdisciplinary, including health care professionals, public health decision-makers and researchers. A main objective is to support evidence-based policy and evidence-based practice in public health. [1] [2] [3] In contrast, medical journals (e.g.
Global Health [70] Public Health Specialist abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice. Contains scientific records from 1973 to the present. Subscription CABI: HCI Bibliography: Human–computer interface: An electronic bibliography for most of HCI for researchers, developers, educators, and students.
The Bradford Hill criteria, otherwise known as Hill's criteria for causation, are a group of nine principles that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect and have been widely used in public health research.
Public Health Reports is a peer-reviewed public health journal established in 1878 and published by SAGE Publishing for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and the United States Public Health Service. [1] The title and publication frequency of the journal has varied over the years, but it is currently published bimonthly. [2]
The c. 1847 work of Ignaz Semmelweis on the association between puerperal fever and the absence of aseptic procedures (specifically, doctors who failed to clean their hands before delivering babies) and the subsequent use of calcium hypochlorite to reduce risk, is an early example of outcomes research.
J. Journal for Healthcare Quality; Journal of American College Health; Journal of Community Health; Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research; Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidence-based practice by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive healthcare.