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1. What is Public Health? | CDC Foundation
Link: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/what-public-health
Description: WebPublic health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. This work is achieved by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease and injury prevention, and detecting, preventing and responding to infectious diseases.
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2. What Is Public Health? | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health
Link: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/about/what-is-public-health
Description: WebIn public health, researchers, practitioners, and educators prevent disease and injury at the community and population level. We identify the causes of disease and disability, and we implement large-scale solutions.
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3. Introduction to Public Health|Public Health 101 Series|CDC
Link: https://www.cdc.gov/training/publichealth101/public-health.html
Description: WebPublic 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.”
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4. Public health | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
Link: https://www.britannica.com/topic/public-health
Description: WebApr 10, 2024 · Public health, the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health, sanitation, personal hygiene, control of infectious disease, and organization of health services. Learn more about the history of and the organizational patterns and progress in public health.
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5. The Socioecological Model as a framework for ... - BMC Public Health
Link: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-10922-6
Description: WebMay 5, 2021 · It is critical that future public health interventions build on stakeholder input and consider all aspects of the SEM in order to achieve SDG and reduce childhood death due to vaccine-preventable disease.
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6. “Between Hunger and the Virus” - Human Rights Watch
Link: https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/07/28/between-hunger-and-virus/impact-covid-19-pandemic-people-living-poverty-lagos
Description: WebJuly 28, 2021. “Between Hunger and the Virus” The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People Living in Poverty in Lagos, Nigeria. Women queue for food parcels during distribution by volunteers of...
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7. From Ebola to COVID-19: emergency preparedness and …
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8267235/
Description: WebJul 9, 2021 · Measures to manage the outbreak of a novel disease such as COVID-19 are reliant on a State’s existing operational readiness and capacities to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies . As has already been well established, many of the emerging epidemic and pandemic threats that confront humanity have a …
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8. A qualitative analysis of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in
Link: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000486
Description: WebNov 8, 2022 · Abstract. Mass vaccination has proven useful in the control of COVID-19, though vaccine rollout has met major challenges. The learning curve of this process has been valuable. This qualitative study aimed to assess the plan, the process and the progress of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Lagos, Nigeria.
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9. Challenges in conducting population-based ... - BMC Public Health
Link: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-17125-1
Description: WebDec 21, 2023 · The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 [ 1] and was later declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020 [ 2 ]. Ever since then, this virus continued to spread rapidly and ravaged the entire globe leading to several cases and deaths.
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10. An account of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in ... - BMC Public Health
Link: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4535-x
Description: WebJul 10, 2017 · Nigeria. Lagos. Public health. Disease control. The 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak remains unprecedented both in the number of cases, deaths and geographic scope. The first case of EVD was confirmed in Lagos Nigeria on 23 July 2014 and spread to involve 19 laboratory-confirmed EVD cases.
