Public Health category: 1911 books
by Martin Donohoe
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Praise for Public Health and Social Justice
"This compilation unifies ostensibly distant corners of our broad discipline under the common pursuit of health as an achievable, non-negotiable human right. It goes beyond analysis to impassioned suggestions for moving closer to the vision of health...
by Sarah Moreland-Russell, Ross C. Brownson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
The greatest public health victories of the last century -- public sanitation, vehicle safety measures, limits on smoking and tobacco use -- have all been facilitated by public policies. While policy is an unparalleled tool for effecting change in public health, most professionals are unprepared to...
Working in Public Health
An introduction to careers in public health
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
What can you contribute to improving and protecting the health of your community? Public health is becoming an increasingly central area of healthcare practice and people working in public health come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.
This practical and accessible book maps...
Transforming Public Health Practice
Leadership and Management Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
This text provides students a foundation in public health practice and management, focusing on developing the knowledge and skills required by the real world of public health. The authors of Transforming Public Health Practice explain the drivers of change in public health practice, key success factors...
by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as...
European Union Public Health Policy
Regional and global trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for...
Ecological Public Health
Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles.
This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...
Health and Inequality
Applying Public Health Research to Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
How can research on the social determinants of health be translated into real life public health practice? Challenging the research-practice gap, this text shows readers from a range of professions how their practice can help to minimise health inequalities. The social model of health embraces individual...
Shifting Paradigms in Public Health
From Holism to Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This transdisciplinary volume outlines the development of public health paradigms across the ages in a global context and argues that public health has seemingly lost its raison d’être, that is, a population perspective. The older, philosophical approach in public health involved a holistic, population-based...
Disease and Discovery
A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists—there was little agreement about the skills...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Public Health and Aging was published to critical acclaim almost fifteen years ago. Much has changed in public health since then. Thomas R. Prohaska, Lynda A. Anderson, and Robert H. Binstock now offer a completely new and updated overview of the field in Public Health for an Aging Society.
This...
Public Health Perspectives on Disability
Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Traditionally, the public health viewpoint on disability was geared toward primary prevention of disabling conditions or events. More recently, with the movement for disability rights and the emergence of disability studies, the challenge to the field has been to promote positive health outcomes in...
Essentials of Environmental Public Health Science
A Handbook for Field Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Environmental public health is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the direct and indirect impact of exposure to environmental hazards on the public's health and wellbeing. Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical, ionising and non-ionising radiation, and noise hazards requires a sound...
by Robert B. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
An extensive, in-depth look at public health and preventive medicine topics from experts in the field
This trusted one-stop resource is a completely up-to-date, all-in-one public health and preventive medicine guide. Sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and edited...