Promoting Public Health Through Electronic Media
A Challenge for Schools of Public Health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11029756 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew A Sorensen (Andrew A. Sorensen is president of The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1183-1185 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.91.8.1183 |
| PMID | 11499098 |
| OpenAlex | W1976674544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
RESTRICTED ACCESS TO health care services has long been a problem for our nation's poorest citizens. In his presidential address to the 55th annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in 1926, C. E. A. Winslow—the founding chair of Yale University's Department of Public Health—urged the development “of free public services for the examination of well persons or of persons who suspect the presence of disease, for their hygienic instruction and for the administration of preventive medical treatment or reference to private physicians or to institutions where such treatment can be secured.”1 Regrettably, the system that Winslow envisioned three quarters of a century ago still has not materialized. The disenfranchisement of the estimated 47 million Americans who have no health insurance, and thus have little or no access to medical care,42,3 underscores the desperate need for a better balance “between the clinical approach to disease, currently the dominant public health model for most risk factors, and research and intervention efforts that address generic social and behavioral determinants of disease, injury and disability.”4(p6)
Environmental health · Family medicine · Health education · International health · Journal of Public Health · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Mobile Health and mHealth Applications · Nursing · Social Media in Health Education
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2004 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |