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Special Primary Interest Groups
- Alternative & Complementary Health Practices- Works toward the scientific evaluation of methods to promote and restore health that are not available from conventional medicine. Disseminates knowledge of validated practices and their potential contributions to health care.
- Ethics- Encourages public health officials to deliberately and systematically consider the ethical implications and cultural values behind their decisions.
- Health Law - Encourages recognition and analysis of law's influence on public health programs, access to services, and health outcomes.
- Laboratory- Promotes the involvement of laboratory scientists in governmental policies affecting laboratories, and of laboratorians in the planning, evaluation, and operation of national, state, and local health programs that are dependent upon laboratory data.
- Physical Activity- The Physical Activity (PA) Special Primary Interest Group was created to provide a credible and visible home within APHA for Physical Activity practitioners, researchers, advocates, and partners. Our objectives include implementing annual meeting activities to meet the needs of professional and student members. We also seek to enhance the development and dissemination of evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence. Furthermore, we will strive to facilitate the inclusion of PA in public health policy and advocacy.
- Veterinary Public Health- Deals with those diseases or environmental health issues that affect both human and animal populations.
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