WOMEN AND HEALTH: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ITS ROLE IN HEALTH: THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The Future

‘Back to the future’ - public health research into the next century

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Walter W. Holland ◽  
Beverley Fitzsimons ◽  
Michael O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Future

The Behavioral Immune System and Attitudes About Vaccines

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Clay
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Behavioral Immune System ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sources Of Contamination

The present research utilized evolutionary theory to examine the relation between the behavioral immune system (i.e., disgust sensitivity) and attitudes about vaccines. The findings from the studies suggest that higher levels of dispositional disgust sensitivity is predictive of more negative attitudes toward vaccines. These findings are consistent with several recent publications and thus have broad implications for public health research associated with vaccines. In Study 1, participants reporting higher dispositional disgust sensitivity (specifically, contamination disgust) tended to report more negative attitudes about vaccines. Study 2 replicated this result in a nonstudent sample using additional measures of disgust sensitivity more closely associated with aversion to perceived sources of contamination. Study 2 also revealed that beliefs about the likelihood of contracting illness in the future were unrelated to vaccine attitudes. Implications for the observed relation between intuitive aversion to contamination and vaccine attitudes are discussed.

scholarly journals Why public health matters today and tomorrow: the role of applied public health research

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay McLaren ◽  
Paula Braitstein ◽  
David Buckeridge ◽  
Damien Contandriopoulos ◽  
Maria I. Creatore ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Population And Public Health

AbstractPublic health is critical to a healthy, fair, and sustainable society. Realizing this vision requires imagining a public health community that can maintain its foundational core while adapting and responding to contemporary imperatives such as entrenched inequities and ecological degradation. In this commentary, we reflect on what tomorrow’s public health might look like, from the point of view of our collective experiences as researchers in Canada who are part of an Applied Public Health Chairs program designed to support “innovative population health research that improves health equity for citizens in Canada and around the world.” We view applied public health research as sitting at the intersection of core principles for population and public health: namely sustainability, equity, and effectiveness. We further identify three attributes of a robust applied public health research community that we argue are necessary to permit contribution to those principles: researcher autonomy, sustained intersectoral research capacity, and a critical perspective on the research-practice-policy interface. Our intention is to catalyze further discussion and debate about why and how public health matters today and tomorrow, and the role of applied public health research therein.

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