List of Search Terms

List of Search Terms

The following list of terms can be used to search to the Directory of Professionals. These terms are divided into the same categories found in the database, including Discipline, Focus (of research or practice), and Methodology.

Disciplines
Note: To find someone doing research in one of the following areas, perform a search using the word "researcher" and the area of interest.

Agricultural Biotechnology
Agricultural Economics
Agriculture
Anthropology
Animal Power
Behavioral Sciences
Biological Sciences
Biostatistics
Community Development
Consumer Science/Home Economics
Demography
Economics
Education
Engineering
Environmental Design
Environmental Sciences
Epidemiology
Ethics
Exercise/exercise physiology
Food Journalism
Food Insecurity/ Hunger
Food Systems

Genetics
Geography
Health Education
Human Rights
Law
Medicine
Nursing
Nutrition/Dietetics
Opthalmology
Pharmacology
Physical Education
Psychology
Public Health
Public Policy
Public Relations
Rural Planning
Social Welfare
Sociology
Statistics
Urban Planning

Focus of Research and Practice

Access to Care
Agricultural Resource Centers
Body Image
Breast Cancernull
Community Food Security
Community Food System Planning
CVD Rsik Factors
Determinants of Dietary Intake
Determinants of Overweight
Determinants of Physical Activity
Diets of Anthropoids
Diets of Traditional Peoples
Diabetes
Eating Disorders
Energy Balance
Food Work Skills
Health Care Systems/Managed Care
Health Complications of Overweight
Lipoprotein Metabolism
Mental Health Issues
Overweight and Obesity

Prevention of Overweight
School Food Service
Treatment of Overweight
Determinants of Hunger/Food Security
Food Distribution
Food Production
Parent-Child Feeding Dynamics
Prevention of Food Security/Hunger
Public and Farmers' Markets
Renal Disease
Retail Food Sector
Traditional Societies
Vegetable Production
Under-served Populations
Weight Discrimination
Weight Management
Youth Development

Methodologies

Advocacy
Animal Research
Anthropological Fieldwork
Applied Research
Assessment of Dietary Intake
Basic Research
Clinical Practice
Clinical Research
Clinical Trials
Community Based Interventions
Community Education
Community Organizing
Counseling/Individual Education
Development of portable electronic monitoring systems for human weight loss research studies
Environmental/Infrastructure Changes
Ethnography
Field Research

GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
Health Promotion
Intervention Studies
Interventions with Families or Individuals
Laboratory Research
Lifestyle/Behavior Change
Mass Media Campaigns
Participatory Action Research
Policy Development
Population Surveys
Program/Project Evaluation
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Research
School Based Interventions
Social Marketing

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