Tuesday, December 19, 2006

How the Framing of Mental Illness in Public Health has Contributed to the Social Problem of Stigma - Lisa Pinnow

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Mental illness, defined by the National Mental Health Association is “a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thinking, percept...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Blast from the Past: Bringing Back Community Involvement and Positive Messages in Safer-Sex Interventions among Gay Men - Gadi Niram

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Introduction The advent of the HIV epidemic among gay men in the 1980s led to strong efforts among gay men to combat HIV infe...
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Exacerbating the Problem: Our Failure to Embrace Mental Health is Hindering Acceptance, Increasing Stigma, and Reducing Access - Justin Nyborn

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“A clear and complete insight into the nature of madness, a correct and distinct conception of what constitutes the difference between the s...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

The Role of Cultural Health Beliefs in Public Health Practice: What the Health Belief Model Isn’t Telling Us– Jessica J. Harvill

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Introduction The topic for the December 2004 volume of the American Journal of Public Health was “Health Disparities: The Importance of Cult...
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The Failure of the Dietary Guidelines to Promote the Health of a Culturally Diverse America: An Abandonment of Social Science Principles-Rebecca Bokat

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The Dietary Guidelines for Americans were first published in 1980 following the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dietary...
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Abstinence is best? How this country’s ignorance to basic social science principles is ultimately endangering sexual health of youth - Melanie Steeves

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Swedish teens are having sex. French and English teens are having sex. Canadian teens are having sex and not so far away… American teens are...