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Communication and marketing as tools to cultivate the public's health: a proposed "people and places" framework
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Communication and marketing are rapidly becoming recognized as core functions, or core competencies, in the field of public health. Although these disciplines have fostered considerable academic inquiry, a coherent sense of precisely how these disciplines can inform the practice of public health has been slower to emerge.</p> <p>Discussion</p> <p>In this article we propose a framework – based on contemporary ecological models of health – to explain how communication and marketing can be used to advance public health objectives. The framework identifies the attributes of people (as individuals, as social networks, and as communities or populations) and places that influence health behaviors and health. Communication, i.e., the provision of information, can be used in a variety of ways to foster beneficial change among both people (e.g., activating social support for smoking cessation among peers) and places (e.g., convincing city officials to ban smoking in public venues). Similarly, marketing, i.e., the development, distribution and promotion of products and services, can be used to foster beneficial change among both people (e.g., by making nicotine replacement therapy more accessible and affordable) and places (e.g., by providing city officials with model anti-tobacco legislation that can be adapted for use in their jurisdiction).</p> <p>Summary</p> <p>Public health agencies that use their communication and marketing resources effectively to support people in making healthful decisions and to foster health-promoting environments have considerable opportunity to advance the public's health, even within the constraints of their current resource base.</p
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Meteoritic nanodiamond: a micro-raman spectroscopical overview
Introduction: There are two hypotheses on the formation processes of the meteoritic nanodiamonds: (1) Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and (2) Shock metamorphism. The purpose of this study is to investigate the crystalline background of the meteoritic nanodiamond from different meteorite separates and understand more about formation mechanism of these samples. This method is not only of great help in elucidating crystal structures, but can also be used as a method of qualitative analysis (finger print), e.g., in determining the phases of small thin section areas without destroying them. This tecnique is potentially useful for study of nanodiamonds