Prof. Rachael Dixey Inaugural Lecture - Health, Social Justice & Access to Learning
The Faculty of Health's Professor Rachael Dixey delivered her inaugural lecture in the iconic Rose Bowl. The lecture 'Health, Social Justice and Access to Learning' considered the relationships globally between health inequalities and education, exploring ideas of education as liberatory and empowering, and consequently how this impacts on the politics of health. Professor Dixey is the head of Health Promotion at Leeds Met. She has a lifelong interest in Africa, doing PhD research in the 1970s o
Global Perspectives in Public health and Health Promotion
9 Powerpoint slide sequences based on MSc lectures from a global prespecitves module that, adoting a social science perspective, explores the trends, issues and context of global public Health and Health Promotion.
Sociology of health and illness
This module aims to show how health and illness although rooted in biological issues are not reducible to them. It will introduce key theories and empirical evidence to demonstrate a range of issues such as the social construction of medical power and the relationship between social inequalities and health. It will introduce students to some of the debates about medical uncertainty and the show the value of sociological critiques to medical practices.
Episode 112: Counting us in: Assessing indigenous child health Epidemiologist Assoc Prof Jane Freemantle unpacks the delicate, complex task of empirically assessing child health in indigenous communities. With host Jennifer Cook. Assoc Prof Jane Freemantle - Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally and Walking the Talk EFFECTIVENESS OF MODELS Mesopotamia Punctuation Rap Algorithm Design 2010 Elizabeth L. Rogers Lecture in Geriatric Medicine The Bill of Rights Benefits of the Online Poster Application: Glogster 8.1 Syringes and sharps South African Child Gauge 2009/2010 Principles of Industrial Hygiene Biostatistics Lecture Series Global Tobacco Control Health Across the Life Span: Frameworks, Contexts, and Measurements Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty Interviews Teaching the Digital Natives: Austrian Best Practice Projects
Why do so many sustainable transportation programs turn out, like the Alice in the Wonderland parable to lead us down unexpected paths? Fred Salvucci observes that true sustainable transport requires making more than short-term fixes. A sustainable transportation program is built upon the pyramid of three “E”s: equit
Architects use many types of models to simulate space either in their design process or as final specifications for building them. These models have been proved useful or effective for specific purposes. This paper evaluates architectural models in terms of five effectiveness components: time of development, cost, complexity, variables simulated and ecological validity. This series of models, used regularly in architecture, are analysed to finally produce a matrix that shows the effectiveness of
A short video on the history of the ancient Mesopotamia society.
A rap about punctuation, explains when to use period, question mark, exclamation, and comma. (1:09)
This course treats various methods to design and analyze datastructures and algorithms for a wide range of problems. The most important new datastructure treated is the graph, and the general methods introduced are: greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming and network flow algorithms. These general methods are explained by a number of concrete examples, such as simple scheduling algorithms, Dijkstra, Ford-Fulkerson, minimum spanning tree, closest-pair-of-points, knapsack, and B
"Bringing Health Information to Life" - Dr. David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, delivered the tenth annual Elizabeth L. Rogers, M.D. Visiting Lecture in Geriatric Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Tuesday November 2, 2010. Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Asthma & Allergy Center.
Do you know your rights? Professor of Law Henry Chambers explains the lasting wisdom of the Constitution's first 10 amendments.Author(s):
This short video explains how it is better for the environment to use Glogster to make posters.
Health, safety and risk assessment are of paramount importance both in the laboratory and the field. This unit will help make you more aware of the hazards and risks involved in laboratory and field-based research work, as well as giving you an overview of the legal requirements attached to this work. The unit discusses issues involved in the handling chemical and biological agents, basic safety procedures and common field-work hazards.
The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children Institute University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society progress towards realising the rights of children This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE Children and law reform. Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abus
Principles of Industrial Hygiene provides an introduction to the field of industrial hygiene and to occupational health in general.
Addresses topics that commonly arise from the day-to-day collaboration between researchers in public health and Biostatistics at the School.
Presents the health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance and evaluation.
Introduces and examines the basic prinicples which guide growth and development and the health of individuals across the lifespan, from the prenatal period through senescence.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty Interviews
The following three projects promote e-Learning in Austrian schools and stimulate the change to student centred and collaborative learning and teaching. These projects bring teachers closer to learning habits of the “digital natives” and prepare our students for live long learning.
