Michael Schwab
Biographic Data
| ID | 5450022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Schwab |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwab |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWAB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1073-4740 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Do They Feel About It? Testing a New Mixed Methods Survey Tool to Assess Collective Emotional Status
Emotions are now widely accepted as important elements of qualitative research, in studies of individuals and communities. However, collective emotional status—what a community feels about a given situation or proposition—can be challenging to assess. In this study, we examined the validity and acceptability of a new mixed methods survey tool, primarily qualitative, to address this challenge—the Assessment of Collective Emotional Status (ACES). T…
Community Participation in Health Promotion
With the rapid rise in health care costs, it has become imperative that departments of health services find effective and affordable ways to prevent disease and promote health. During the past 20 years, most of the major educational interventions in the US designed to prevent disease by changing behavior have not been as successful as expected. At the same time, there is increasing evidence that community participation, a central feature of the ‘…
On paradigms, community participation, and the future of public health
On paradigms, community participation, and the future of public health. M Schwab, and S L SymeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.12.2049 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Mechanical Milk
This article describes how the infant formula, originally designed to save babies' lives, ended up responsible for perhaps millions of their deaths. It reaches back 300 years into the idea of the body as a machine, the rise of science and industrial capitalism, the emergence of nutrition and pediatrics, the growth of the formula industry and resistance to it. It shows how the formula became an icon of modernity, whose promise was truth and happin…
The Wellness Guide
This paper describes how community participation came to play a central role in developing the Wellness Guide Project, a major new health promotion initiative of the State of California. The Guide itself was to be a simple document that would give information on how to stay well and where to find help on health-related topics. It was to be sensitive to the needs of people of all ethnic and social backgrounds, and suitable for distribution to all …
The actions of others as determinants of behavior in social trap situations
The actions of others as determinants of behavior in social trap situations
On paradigms, community participation, and the future of public health
On paradigms, community participation, and the future of public health. M Schwab, and S L SymeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.12.2049 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Mechanical Milk
This article describes how the infant formula, originally designed to save babies' lives, ended up responsible for perhaps millions of their deaths. It reaches back 300 years into the idea of the body as a machine, the rise of science and industrial capitalism, the emergence of nutrition and pediatrics, the growth of the formula industry and resistance to it. It shows how the formula became an icon of modernity, whose promise was truth and happin…
The actions of others as determinants of behavior in social trap situations
The Wellness Guide
This paper describes how community participation came to play a central role in developing the Wellness Guide Project, a major new health promotion initiative of the State of California. The Guide itself was to be a simple document that would give information on how to stay well and where to find help on health-related topics. It was to be sensitive to the needs of people of all ethnic and social backgrounds, and suitable for distribution to all …
Mechanical Milk
This article describes how the infant formula, originally designed to save babies' lives, ended up responsible for perhaps millions of their deaths. It reaches back 300 years into the idea of the body as a machine, the rise of science and industrial capitalism, the emergence of nutrition and pediatrics, the growth of the formula industry and resistance to it. It shows how the formula became an icon of modernity, whose promise was truth and happin…
On paradigms, community participation, and the future of public health
On paradigms, community participation, and the future of public health. M Schwab, and S L SymeCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.87.12.2049 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Community Participation in Health Promotion
With the rapid rise in health care costs, it has become imperative that departments of health services find effective and affordable ways to prevent disease and promote health. During the past 20 years, most of the major educational interventions in the US designed to prevent disease by changing behavior have not been as successful as expected. At the same time, there is increasing evidence that community participation, a central feature of the ‘…
How Do They Feel About It? Testing a New Mixed Methods Survey Tool to Assess Collective Emotional Status
Emotions are now widely accepted as important elements of qualitative research, in studies of individuals and communities. However, collective emotional status—what a community feels about a given situation or proposition—can be challenging to assess. In this study, we examined the validity and acceptability of a new mixed methods survey tool, primarily qualitative, to address this challenge—the Assessment of Collective Emotional Status (ACES). T…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Community health (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Community Health and Development (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works)