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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Break the cycle of environmental health disparities: An ecological framework -- Introduction -- Ecology of environmental health disparities -- Break the cycle program -- Break the cycle 11 projects -- Prenatal factors -- Early intervention for premature infants -- An ecological model of health care access disparities for children -- Grandparent families -- Access to health care -- Immigrant and refugee children -- Family well-being after relocation -- Disparity in education -- Creativity in education -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section one: Community engagement and involvement -- Community engagement -- Introduction -- Health -- Health disparities -- Social determinants of health -- Health of communities -- Approaching the health of a community -- Community engagement -- Case discussions -- Case study: Anniston, Alabama (10) -- Community reaction -- Case study: Alaska -- Case study: The Georgia school-based health center project -- Case study: Community engagement adds value to environmental health science -- Discussion -- Notes on community engagement -- Culture and Cultural Sensitivity -- Empowerment -- Social-ecological model -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Mommy: A maternal health surveillance system -- Introduction -- Objectives -- Hypotheses -- Contextualization -- Related work -- Mommy architecture -- Discussion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Disparities in access to early intervention services for extremely preterm infants by family income -- Introduction -- Our study -- Clinical intuitions study -- Family income -- Access to early intervention services -- Data analysis -- Our findings -- Discussion -- Biological factors and developmental healthcare resources: Prematurity -- Social factors and developmental healthcare resources: Family income

"Der Begriff Public Health bezeichnet die Wissenschaft und die Praxis der Primärprävention, also einen spezifischen Bereich der Gesundheitswissenschaften, sowie ein neu entstehendes Versorgungssystem neben der Kuration, der Rehabilitation und der Pflege. Diese neuen Strukturen konsolidieren sich schrittweise. Der vorliegende Aufsatz plädiert dafür, Public Health als ein werdendes Politikfeld wahrzunehmen, dessen Aufbau systematisch voranzutreiben ist." (Autorenreferat)

This first annual report of the Director of Public Health highlights the many public health challenges that affect people in Northern Ireland and how thepublic health team tackles this complex agenda by working with many statutory, community and voluntary partner organisations across health, local government, education, housing and other sectors. The report refers to core tables throughout, these tables provide key statistical data on population, birth and death rates, mortality by cause, life expectancy, immunisation and screening. The report and the core tables are available below.

Subjects and methods: This article analyzes the scope of the rules that form the legal field Public Health Law and examines its characteristics. It further reviews the relationship between law and public health practice and analyzes the legal basis of public health. The article also examines the roles of the legal actors in public health practice and their means. Results: Law grants the necessary powers to the states and governments, and law also distributes these powers among the state institutions. Law and Public health build an important relationship in the interest of the population's health. Based on law and on legal authorization, states establish and fund public health agencies and bestow them with powers vis-à-vis citizens to pursue public health goals. A number of legal fields can be found that aim to protect and promote the public's health. The entirety of these legal fields build the superordinate field "Public Health Law." Public health law can be defined as the sum of all legal rules that directly or indirectly aim to safeguard or promote the population's health. These rules may result from statutory law, administrative regulations and acts, customary law and common law. Conclusions: Law is essential for the infrastructure and functioning of public health. The legal basis of public health is rooted in the basic rights of the people to health, safety and life. Based on these basic rights, the people and the population they form have the right to self-defense. In states, people mandate the state and the state powers to safeguard and promote their health. Therefore, the population's basic right to health, safety and life, and their corresponding right to self-defense are the basis and justification for the general existence of public health activities of states. Public health is a duty of the state vis-à-vis the people from whom all state powers derive.

pt. 1. Introduction / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 2. Public health functions / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 3. Settings for public health practice / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 4. Getting into public health / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright -- pt. 5. How to proceed from here / Fiona Sim and Jenny Wright.

<i>Background:</i> Public health genomics is a new field that brings the findings of research in genetic and molecular technologies together with public health. The purpose of this paper is to examine the interface between this new emerging field and that of public health intelligence. We describe the possible areas of integration between genomics and public health, suggesting a future potential role for the Public Health Observatories. <i>Methods:</i> A small group comprising of a public health geneticist and representatives from Public Health Observatories met and discussed the ways in which the public health information and intelligence community might contribute to the developing agenda of public health genomics. <i>Results:</i> The results of the deliberations are presented in this paper, and a combination of short, medium and longer term possibilities are described. Also, necessary changes and additions to routinely collected data are proposed. <i>Conclusions:</i> The emerging field of public health genomics has implications for the collection, management and analysis of routine data. The benefits of this will accrue over time, but changes need to be made now in order to make the best use of these developments. A possible supporting action plan for the development of public health genomics within Public Health Observatories is proposed.