ArticleAmerican journal of public health2007
The role of the public health official in communicating public health information.
Article in American journal of public health, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Article
- The effect of toxicity on COVID-19 news network formation in political subcommunities on Reddit: An affiliation network approach.International journal of information management · 2021Article
- Low and unequal use of outpatient health services in public primary health care facilities in southern Ethiopia: a facility-based cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- In an Age of Open Access to Research Policies: Physician and Public Health NGO Staff Research Use and Policy Awareness.PloS one · 2015Article
- Towards public health ethics.Public health reviews · 2015Review
- Public Health Practice within a Health Information Exchange: Information Needs and Barriers to Disease Surveillance.Online journal of public health informatics · 2012Article
- Pandemic influenza preparedness and response among public-housing residents, single-parent families, and low-income populations.American journal of public health · 2009Article
- Evaluation of the impact of news coverage of an HIV multiclass drug-resistant cluster in Seattle, Washington.American journal of public health · 2009Article
- Reducing hazardous cleaning product use: a collaborative effort.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The prevailing views on the role of public health professionals refer to professionals in the academic world, without taking into account the fact that many public health professionals are government employees. For example, the American Public Health Association states that public health professionals play an active role in communicating public health information to nonscientific audiences, such as the general population or the mass media. We propose that public health officials have an important responsibility to promote the practice of public health. However, they must do so within the bureaucracy. Any actions that public health officials wish to take as advocates of particular public health activities should be carried out independent of their role as government officials.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.