Talk:Public health

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
This article is part of a WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's articles related to medicine. For guidelines see WikiProject Clinical Medicine and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.
This article is a candidate for the Medicine Collaboration of the Week. Please visit that page to support or comment on the nomination.
WikiProject on Sociology This article is supported by the Sociology WikiProject, which gives a central approach to Sociology and related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article Public health, or visit the project page for more details on the projects.
Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the importance scale.

Contents

[edit] Comment

I saw the quote below and wanted to know more.

"Early on in human civilization, it was recognized that polluted water and lack of proper waste disposal may spread vector-borne diseases."

How early on? What is your source with page number included.

ken 16:18, 2 August 2005 (UTC)kdbuffalo

[edit] Why

I have been avoiding this article for long because I assumed there would be a lot of controversy here. Then I came here ready to deal with the squabbles, but nada. Why? Where are the health promotion vs. health education arguments? Where are the risk factors and the health behaviours? Or is it that this is the ultimate article? The wikipedia article where everyone is NPOV? I doubt it. Well, I'll go quarrel about what Homer Simpson said or did not say. --Ezeu 14:15, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I agree

I cleaned it up a lot but have yet to add more thorough discussion. will do in a bit,. ThatPaige 03:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)ThatPaige

[edit] Categories

Should Category:Sewerage & Category:Water treatment be subcategories of Category:Public health?

What about other technologies, such as refrigeration, which have an impact on public health? Should we create a category called Public health technologies? --Singkong2005 04:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schools

Why is only Johns Hopkins (correctly, Bloomberg School) listed on this page? What about Harvard, Michigan, Washington, North Carolina, Emory....

I'd rather delete the link and replace it with a link to the Association of Schools of Public Health -- unless someone wants to make a list of schools and programs of public health. --D Wilbanks 03:55, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Good point. I deleted the link to JHBSPH, replaced it with a link to ASPH, and reordered the links a little with agencies at the top. Of course, you should feel free to do this sort of editing in the future! bikeable (talk) 20:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splitting?

Moved from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine:

I think this article should be split into several other articles - it would be a good thing, I feel. Does anyone else agree with this proposal?? SunStar Net 13:44, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Why do you think that? And in what would you split? A quick look doesn't convince me that's the way to go...--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 14:58, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
If you define how you would split the article and provide a good reason I may support in the future. Currently, I'm not convinced the article needs to be split. It isn't very long and the material fits together reasonably well. Nephron  T|C 05:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] i don't agree

The New Public Health is uncritically presented here. It is actually nothing 'new'. By focusing on community-based approach, it remains top-down. Similarly, with 'empowerment', it has not gone any far from victim blaming because the individuals are asked to take more care of themselves. Phong. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.23.56.51 (talk) 22:33, 18 December 2006 (UTC).

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../p/u/b/Talk%7EPublic_health_5ef9.html"