November 18, 2009
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Social marketing campaigns can convince mothers to give their children low-fat milk instead of whole milk, kids to exercise, women to get a mammogram and everyone to eat more fruit and vegetables.
November 18, 2009
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Kristin Schultz, the assistant director of a local public health department in rural Minnesota, was tired of always trying to do more with less and overwhelmed by the challenges of working in public health.
November 18, 2009
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In order to strengthen the state's public health infrastructure, the Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association partnered to manage Virginia Turning Point.
September 1, 2006
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The Center for Natural Language Processing at Syracuse University developed a method for extracting key information from public health reports that will make it easier to find information on public health interventions.
February 1, 2005
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The Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, sponsored a series of 14 symposia on a broad range of public health topics, including nutrition, bioterrorism, ethics and health care disparities.
March 1, 2005
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National Charrette Institute conducted a literature review on collaborative public involvement practices and convened a best practices forum with experts from a variety of disciplines that use public involvement processes to promote and improve public health.
March 1, 2005
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In 2003, the nonprofit advocacy group Trust for America's Health, Washington, developed three reports to highlight the gaps in the nation's public health infrastructure and to build support to strengthen the public health system.
December 1, 2004
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, sponsored a two-day conference designed to discuss patient advocacy as an emerging field of public health.
April 1, 2003
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The National Association of County and City Health Officials, a national, Washington-based organization of local health officials, conducted a national survey of local public health agencies in order to profile local public health infrastructure.
June 1, 2003
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The American Medical Informatics Association held a three-day conference in Atlanta in May 2001 at which public health officials and specialists in public health informatics sought to develop recommendations for strengthening informatics in public health.
