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Thesis Race, class, and health: studies of breast cancer and hypertension (1989) Nancy Krieger is an American epidemiologist who is professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health .
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". [1] [2] Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. [3]
Platz also co-led a 10-year study of more than 30,000 health professionals that found the longer men take cholesterol-lowering drugs, the far less likely they were to develop advanced prostate cancer. [4] In 2008, Platz was appointed co-director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. [5]
M.P.H., 1987, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine ScD., 1991, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Thesis: Differences in intrauterine growth and infant mortality among Chinese, Japanese and White Americans (1991) Academic work; Institutions: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Boston Medical ...
VanderWeele’s research has focused on causal inference in epidemiology, the study of happiness and human flourishing, as well as the relationship between religion and health. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is author of the book Measuring Well-Being , [ 4 ] along with an influential approach to conceptualizing and assessing flourishing.
Her thesis topic was "The classification of soft tissue disorders of the neck and upper limb for epidemiological research." [2] The topic for Buchbinder's doctoral dissertation was "Short and long-term effects of a public health media campaign designed to reduce disability associated with back pain. [3]"
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.
The compression of morbidity in public health is a hypothesis put forth [1] by James Fries, professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.The hypothesis was supported by a 1998 study of 1700 University of Pennsylvania alumni over a period of 20 years.