Primary Health Care in Urban Communities
Primary Health Care in Urban Communities

Author: Beverly Jane McElmurry

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780763710101

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Explores the efficacy of primary care concepts in real world situations. Written collaboratively by academics and community leaders, it details partnerships forged between health professionals, institutions, local governments, and organizations to provide accessible, acceptable, and affordable health services to underserved populations. The contributors document the lessons learned from working with community advocates in a variety of settings in order to form bridges across the boundaries of the disparate worlds in which we live. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place
Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place

Author: Valorie A. Crooks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 131707596X

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Health care is constantly undergoing change and refinement resulting from the adoption of new practices and technologies, the changing nature of societies and populations, and also shifts in the very places from which care is delivered. Primary Health Care: People, Practice, Place draws together significant contributions from established experts across a variety of disciplines to focus on such changes in primary health care, not only because it is the most basic and integral form of health service delivery, but also because it is an area to which geographers have made significant contributions and to which other scholars have engaged in 'thinking geographically' about its core concepts and issues. Including perspectives from both consumers and producers, it moves beyond geographical accounts of the context of health service provision through its explicit focus on the practice of primary health care. With arguments well-supported by empirical research, this book will appeal not only to scholars across a range of social and health sciences, but also to professionals involved in health services.

Modern Epidemiology
Modern Epidemiology

Author: Kenneth J. Rothman

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 9780781755641

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The thoroughly revised and updated Third Edition of the acclaimed Modern Epidemiology reflects both the conceptual development of this evolving science and the increasingly focal role that epidemiology plays in dealing with public health and medical problems. Coauthored by three leading epidemiologists, with sixteen additional contributors, this Third Edition is the most comprehensive and cohesive text on the principles and methods of epidemiologic research. The book covers a broad range of concepts and methods, such as basic measures of disease frequency and associations, study design, field methods, threats to validity, and assessing precision. It also covers advanced topics in data analysis such as Bayesian analysis, bias analysis, and hierarchical regression. Chapters examine specific areas of research such as disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, and clinical epidemiology.

Primary Care in Urban Disadvantaged Communities
Primary Care in Urban Disadvantaged Communities

Author: Joe Kai

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-12-14

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1315343436

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This approach to a common problem differs from classical texts by concentrating on clear, concise presentations of standard and advanced techniques in inguinal herniorrhaphy, and assumes that the underlying anatomy and pathology is already understood by the reader. It is a high-level reference, written by and for experts in the field.

Urban Health in Developing Countries
Urban Health in Developing Countries

Author: Marcel Tanner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1134171382

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The impact of urbanization on the health of citizens in developing countries has received increasing attention recently. This book addresses the problems in an integrated way, looking in detail at both the problems themselves and the action and research necessary to alleviate them. It includes contributions from leading practitioners and advisors to many of the main international agencies and presents the latest thinking of those institutions. It also presents recent information on research findings, the management and financing of urban health services and trends in urban health policy. Case studies examine major initiatives in cities as diverse as Santiago, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Kampala and Bombay.

Primary Care and Public Health
Primary Care and Public Health

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2012-07-19

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0309255201

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Ensuring that members of society are healthy and reaching their full potential requires the prevention of disease and injury; the promotion of health and well-being; the assurance of conditions in which people can be healthy; and the provision of timely, effective, and coordinated health care. Achieving substantial and lasting improvements in population health will require a concerted effort from all these entities, aligned with a common goal. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) examine the integration of primary care and public health. Primary Care and Public Health identifies the best examples of effective public health and primary care integration and the factors that promote and sustain these efforts, examines ways by which HRSA and CDC can use provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to promote the integration of primary care and public health, and discusses how HRSA-supported primary care systems and state and local public health departments can effectively integrate and coordinate to improve efforts directed at disease prevention. This report is essential for all health care centers and providers, state and local policy makers, educators, government agencies, and the public for learning how to integrate and improve population health.

Communities in Action
Communities in Action

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0309452961

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.