Public Health category: 1911 books
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider behaviors, but little is known about PBAS effectiveness at achieving performance goals. This study examines nine PBASs that are...
Social Networks and Health
Models, Methods, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research is that relationships are of paramount importance in explaining behavior. Because of this, social network analysis offers...
by Russell R. Pate, David Buchner
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Developed through a partnership with the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance and the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA), Implementing Physical Activity Strategies profiles 42 physical activity programs that are helping people adopt more active and healthy lifestyles based...
Silicosis
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Despite the common perception that "black lung" has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now...
by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, Timothy H. Holtz
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED "This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these...
Social Marketing and Social Change
Strategies and Tools For Improving Health, Well-Being, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
How can we facilitate more effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to the problems that confound our communities and world? Social marketing guru R. Craig LeFebvre weaves together multi-level theories of change, research and case studies to explain and illustrate the development...
Health Care in the United States
Organization, Management, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Health Care in the United States combines an explanation of population health with a comprehensive introduction to health services delivery. The author, an expert on health care policy and management, shows how the U.S. health services system is organized, managed, financed, and evaluated. Filled...
Health Justice
An Argument from the Capabilities Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions due to the overwhelming focus in health policy on medical care, individual-level risk factor research, and changing individual behaviours. Likewise,...
24 hours to save the NHS
The Chief Executive's account of reform 2000 to 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"24 hours to save the NHS". It was a political slogan but it hid a deeper question. Could the NHS survive? Could it continue to offer free health care for every citizen regardless of their ability to pay? Could the extraordinary, liberating ambition and dream of its founders 50 years before...
Empowerment, Health Promotion and Young People
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Globally, young people’s health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people’s health. Yet the concept of empowerment remains under-theorized, and its...
by Mark Elwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Since publication of the first three editions of this hugely successful book, systematic methods of critical appraisal have been accepted as central to healthcare provision, both in critical applications and in a wider health services and community perspective. This new edition builds on the work...
Minority Populations and Health
An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
"The text is state-of-the-art in its analysis of health disparities from both domestic and international perspectives. Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States is a welcome addition to the field because it widens access to the complex issues underlying...
Beyond Obamacare
Life, Death, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GDP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy and even some developing nations. How is it possible that the United States, which spends more than any other nation on health...
by Lori DiPrete Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
An essential introduction to global health in the modern world
Foundations for Global Health Practice offers a comprehensive introduction to global health with a focus on ethical engagement and participatory approaches. With a multi-sectoral perspective grounded in Sustainable Development Goals,...