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Essentials of Public Health
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.
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Blueprint for a Healthier America
Even though America spends more than $2 trillion annually on health care, tens of millions of Americans suffer every day from preventable diseases. The current public health (PH) system is broken. It is chronically underfunded and outdated. Modernizing public health is urgently needed. This Blueprint is a fed. policy guide with expert recommend. to revitalize the nation¿s ability to protect the health of all Americans. It contains: A vision statement that outlines principles to make disease and injury prevention a cornerstone of America¿s health policies; Recommend. to improve the infrastructure of America¿s PH system; Recommend. for ongoing initiatives and projects; and a Paper that defines the need and scope for a policy agenda to modernize PH. Illus.
Turnock's Public Health: What It Is and How It Works
Using a straightforward systems approach, Turnock’s Public Health: What It Is and How It Works explores the inner workings of the complex, modern U.S. public health system—what it is, what it does, how it works, and why it is important. Divided into two parts, Part I of the text focuses on the key elements of public health practice in 21st Century America, while Part II offers case studies designed to emphasize what public health is and how it works in practice. Collectively, this text gives students an understanding of the key concepts underlying public health as a system and social enterprise while enabling them to practice their knowledge with real-life public health problems, programs, and initiatives. The Seventh Edition introduces the concept of “Public Health 3.0”, with its new set of recommendations for updated public health practice in the 21st century and forms a unifying thread through the first six chapters of the book. A new appendix addresses COVID-19.
Essentials of Health Policy and Law
Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks for studying these complex issues, and an understanding of the ways in which health policies and laws are formulated, implemented, and applied. Thoroughly revised, the Fifth Edition explores the key health policy and legal changes brought about by the Biden Administration and the presently Democrat-controlled Congress. It also addresses the Covid-19 pandemic, and its many devastating and intertwined health, economic, and social consequences.
Escape from Poverty
Escape from Poverty addresses the recent increase of child poverty within the USA and suggests specific modes of change.
Essentials of Health Economics with Navigate Advantage Access
Written with the non-specialist in mind, Essentials of Health Economics, Third Edition examines the public health care system through the lens of economic theory. Through numerous examples, case studies, and profiles related to the field, students will learn the importance of health economics and its relevance to more general analysis of health policy issues. With new information on health care reforms faced as the state, national, and international level, new chapter on COVID,19, fresh profiles of notable economists, updated statistics, and more, the Third Edition provides a timely and accessible introduction that focuses on how to do descriptive, explanatory, and evaluative economics in a systematic way.
To Improve Health and Health Care
Since 1972, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation’s well-being. As part of the Foundation’s efforts to inform the public, To Improve Health and Health Care, the eighth volume in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Written for policy makers and practitioners, as well as interested members of the public, the series offers valuable lessons for leaders and educators developing plans for the coming years.
Essentials of Health Economics
"Essentials of Health Economics studies the public health care system through the lens of economics. Provides a basic understanding of economic theory as it relates to the public health system and the delivery of health care in the U.S. Including numerous examples and profiles related to the field, it relays the importance and relevance of health economics as well as how it relates to more general analysis of health policy issues. Written with the non-specialist in mind, focusing on how to do descriptive, explanatory and evaluative economics in a systematic way"--
