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Essentials of Public Health

Author : Guthrie S. Birkhead

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning

Page : 333 pages

File Size : 38,12 MB

Release : 2020-02-18

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1284173259

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As one of the foundational texts in the Essential Public Health series, Essentials of Public Health, Fourth Edition -- formerly authored by Turnock -- is an excellent introduction to the field of public health, covering public health practice, government public health, and careers in public health. After defining Public Health and looking at the current U.S. public health system and practice, the book looks at population health measurement, policy development, and collaboration between the public health and the health system. Final chapters explore career opportunities in public health administration, epidemiology, public health nursing, and health education as well as emerging ones such as health information technologists, emergency managers, and more. Helpful learning tools such as chapter exercises and discussion questions, making it an ideal text to prepare your students for the profession of public health.



Out of Print: Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health

Author : Lisa M. Sullivan

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 25,87 MB

Release : 2011-03-24

Category : Education

ISBN : 0763795321

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With a presentation style that is clear and straightforward, the text uses examples that are real, relevant, and manageable in size so that students can focus on applications rather than become overwhelmed by computations. This text is just one offering in Jones and Bartlett's unique Essential Public Health Series. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.



Out of Print: Essentials of Public Health

Author : Bernard J. Turnock

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 21,38 MB

Release : 2011-02-14

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1284033635

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Published in partnership with the American Public Health Association, this cornerstone text in the Jones & Bartlett Learning Essential Public Health series is an excellent introduction to the field of public health. Ideal for senior-level undergraduates or graduate students in public health, health science, health professions, or nursing, Essentials of Public Health focuses on the inner-workings of health departments and the role of public health professionals. This comprehensive text combines the best elements of Dr. Turnock's other two books: Public Health: What It Is and How It Works and Public Health: Career Choices That Make a Difference. The first set of chapters introduces defines and describes the public health system, provide concepts and tools for measuring health in populations, characterizes the relationship of the public health system with medical care and other elements of the overall health system, and identifies government’s unique contributions through federal, state, and local public health agencies. The second set of chatpers focuses on public health careers within the context of the overall public health workforce. Basic information on the size and composition of the public health workforce is followed by chapters that address careers and jobs in public health administration, epidemiology, public health nursing, health education, and other professional and program titles and positions. With its clear, reader-friendly language and helpful learning tools such as chapter exercises and discussion questions, this is the ideal text to prepare your students for a career in public health. Updated and New Information in the Second Edition: - NACCHO Profile data from 2008 and 2010 surveys - Accreditation of public health agencies - Public health workforce development activities including the credentialing of public health workers - Health reform provisions enacted in 2010 - Updated and revised seciton on public health financing



Essentials of Public Health Management

Author : L. Fleming Fallon (Jr.)

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning

Page : 526 pages

File Size : 24,65 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0763756814

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In the wake of 9/11, effective management of public health departments has become vitally important, as these organizations and agencies will be in the front line of any bioterror or chemical attack. Written by practitioners for other practitioners and students who want to pursue public health careers, this book provides a practical, non-theoretical approach useful for the hands-on management of these complex organizations and their daily operations. With accessible writing and many real life applications, this concise new volume serves departments at all levels--federal, state, city and county.



Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health

Author : Ann Aschengrau

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Page : 547 pages

File Size : 47,9 MB

Release : 2013-06-03

Category : Education

ISBN : 1449657354

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Successfully tested in the authors' courses at Boston University and Harvard University, this text combines theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design, with separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control studies. Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, including the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure that students are well-equipped with the necessary information to interpret the results of epidemiologic studies. An entire chapter is also devoted to the concept of effect measure modification, an often-neglected topic in introductory textbooks. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public health importance are provided throughout the book. The Third Edition is a thorough update that offers: • New examples, the latest references, and public health statistics. • Nearly 50 new review questions. • Updated discussion of certain epidemiologic methods. • New figures depicting epidemiologic concepts.



Essential Public Health

Author : Stephen Gillam

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 347 pages

File Size : 17,12 MB

Release : 2012-06-28

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1107601762

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A theoretical and practical introduction to the basics of public health, written for a multidisciplinary audience.



Essentials of Environmental Health

Author : Robert Friis

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Page : 468 pages

File Size : 28,68 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN : 0763778907

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The Future of Public Health

Author : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 33,86 MB

Release : 1988-01-15

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0309581907

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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.



Essentials of Health Policy and Law

Author : Joel Bern Teitelbaum

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 16,13 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Medical laws and legislation

ISBN : 1449604730

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Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the health of all Americans, the aim of this book is to help readers understand the broad context of health policy and law. The essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the health care and public health systems, and the way health policies and laws are formulated. Think of this textbook as an extended manual.introductory, concise, and straightforward.to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, and thus as a jumping off point for discussion, reflection, research, and analysis.



Essentials of Public Health

Author : Bernard J. Turnock

Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 36,25 MB

Release : 2014-12-11

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1284069362

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New edition coming in February 2020. As one of the foundational texts in the Essential Public Health series, Essentials of Public Health is an excellent introduction to the field of public health. Written for senior-level undergraduates or graduate students in public health, health science, nursing, and other health professions, Essentials of Public Health gives special focus to public health careers and the workings of public health agencies. Combining the best elements of Dr. Turnock's other books: Public Health: What It Is and How It Works and Public Health: Career Choices That Make a Difference, Essentials of Public Health, Third Edition, uses clear, reader-friendly language and helpful learning tools such as chapter exercises and discussion questions, making it an ideal text to prepare your students for the profession of public health. New to the Third Edition: Comprehensive new coverage of topics such as: the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, strategic planning, accreditation of public health organizations and credentialing of public health workers Extensive information on state and local public health practice derived from national surveys conducted since 2012 Two separate chapters on Community Public Health Practice and Emergency Preparedness (formerly covered in one single chapter) New conceptual frameworks for the public health system, overall health system, and public health workforce An examination of an additional 16 different public health occupations—a total of 39 covered in all More than 60 new or revised charts and tables and a series of “outside-the-book thinking” exercises appears in each chapter. This book: Defines and describes the public health system Provides concepts and tools for measuring health in populations Characterizes the relationship of the public health system with medical care and other elements of the overall health system Identifies government’s unique contributions through federal, state, and local public health agencies Offers basic information on the size and composition of the public health workforce Addresses careers and jobs in public health administration, epidemiology, public health nursing, health education, and more.