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Zero Population Growth
Healthline — Zero population growth occurs when there is neither a net growth nor a net decline in population, but rather a steady state in which the numbers added by annual births and immigration exactly balance the numbers who die and emigrate each year. ...More…
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Healthline — The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a social epidemiologic surveillance system established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to monitor health-risk behaviors among high school students, ...More…
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Yellow Fever
Healthline — Yellow fever is a severe infectious disease, caused by a virus called a "flavivirus." This flavivirus can cause outbreaks of epidemic proportions throughout Africa and tropical America. The first written evidence of such an epidemic occurred in ...More…
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Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)
Healthline — The statistic known as "years of potential life lost" (YPLL) is a measure of the relative impact of various diseases and other lethal forces on a population. It is a useful way to draw attention to the loss of expected years of life due to ...More…
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World Health Organization
Healthline — The World Health Organization (WHO) was created in 1948 by member states of the United Nations (UN) as a specialized agency with a broad mandate for health. The WHO is the world's leading health organization. Its policies and programs have a ...More…
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World Bank
Healthline — Ensuring adequate levels of basic health and nutrition lies at the heart of poverty reduction and economic development, which are the cornerstones of the World Bank's mission. While much of the world has experienced notable health gains, the ...More…
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Worksite Drug Testing
Healthline — Because of the growing use of illicit drugs and the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol in modern society, an extensive program of worksite drug testing has developed. Workers who abuse drugs are much more likely to injure themselves and put ...More…
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Workplace Smoking Policies and Programs
Healthline — Worksite smoking policies aim mainly to protect nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), while the objective of worksite cessation programs is to help employees who do smoke (and sometimes their family members, too) give up the habit. ...More…
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Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC)
Healthline — The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides nutritious food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and referral to health care and social services for low-income, nutritionally at risk, ...More…
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Women's Health
Healthline — Despite obvious differences between women and men-biologically, psychologically, and socially-the concept of viewing the totality of women's health as different from men's health arose in Western medicine only in the last two decades of the ...More…
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Winslow, Charles-Edward Amory
Healthline — Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877-1957) was a seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United States, but in the wider Western world. His vision and intellectual leadership enabled him, more than anyone else, to ...More…