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Author: Robert Beaglehole
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-22
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521540476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviewing epidemiological and demographic trends internationally, this book provides an overview of major health trends, summarises the current state of the world's health, and reviews recent estimates of the global burden of disease.
Author: Natalia Molina
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780520246485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1995-01-12
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0309176395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix dental schools have closed in the last decade and others are in jeopardy. Facing this uncertainty about the status of dental education and the continued tension between educators and practitioners, leaders in the profession have recognized the need for purpose and direction. This comprehensive volumeâ€"the first to cover the education, research, and patient care missions of dental schoolsâ€"offers specific recommendations on oral health assessment, access to dental care, dental school curricula, financing for education, research priorities, examinations and licensing, workforce planning, and other key areas. Well organized and accessible, the book: Recaps the evolution of dental practice and education. Reviews key indicators of oral health status, outlines oral health goals, and discusses implications for education. Addresses major curriculum concerns. Examines health services that dental schools provide to patients and communities. Looks at faculty and student involvement in research. Explores the relationship of dental education to the university, the dental profession, and society at large. Accreditation, the dental workforce, and other critical policy issues are highlighted as well. Of greatest interest to deans, faculty, administrators, and students at dental schools, as well as to academic health centers and universities, this book also will be informative for health policymakers, dental professionals, and dental researchers.
Author: Samer Jabbour
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-08
Total Pages: 521
ISBN-13: 0521516749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews the public health concerns and challenges specific to the complex Arab world from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Author: Theodore H. Tulchinsky
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2014-03-26
Total Pages: 911
ISBN-13: 012415767X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting. This 3e provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for all masters' level students and practitioners—specifically for courses in MPH programs, community health and preventive medicine programs, community health education programs, and community health nursing programs, as well as programs for other medical professionals such as pharmacy, physiotherapy, and other public health courses. - Changes in infectious and chronic disease epidemiology including vaccines, health promotion, human resources for health and health technology - Lessons from H1N1, pandemic threats, disease eradication, nutritional health - Trends of health systems and reforms and consequences of current economic crisis for health - Public health law, ethics, scientific d health technology advances and assessment - Global Health environment, Millennium Development Goals and international NGOs
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-06-03
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 0309101743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmergency Medical Services (EMS) is a critical component of our nation's emergency and trauma care system, providing response and medical transport to millions of sick and injured Americans each year. At its best, EMS is a crucial link to survival in the chain of care, but within the last several years, complex problems facing the emergency care system have emerged. Press coverage has highlighted instances of slow EMS response times, ambulance diversions, trauma center closures, and ground and air medical crashes. This heightened public awareness of problems that have been building over time has underscored the need for a review of the U.S. emergency care system. Emergency Medical Services provides the first comprehensive study on this topic. This new book examines the operational structure of EMS by presenting an in-depth analysis of the current organization, delivery, and financing of these types of services and systems. By addressing its strengths, limitations, and future challenges this book draws upon a range of concerns: • The evolving role of EMS as an integral component of the overall health care system. • EMS system planning, preparedness, and coordination at the federal, state, and local levels. • EMS funding and infrastructure investments. • EMS workforce trends and professional education. • EMS research priorities and funding. Emergency Medical Services is one of three books in the Future of Emergency Care series. This book will be of particular interest to emergency care providers, professional organizations, and policy makers looking to address the deficiencies in emergency care systems.
Author: Stephen Gillam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1107601762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA theoretical and practical introduction to the basics of public health, written for a multidisciplinary audience.
Author: Antonia Maioni
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0691221286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs almost all newspaper or magazine readers know, Canada figured prominently in the turbulent U.S. debates over health care reform in the early Clinton presidency. Furthermore, future news analysts and policymakers will undoubtedly again use Canada to cite the "good" and the "bad" aspects of single-payer national health insurance. Beyond the debate about the desirability of Canadian-style health care reforms, Antonia Maioni sees another question: Why did the United States and Canada, alike in so many ways, part "at the crossroads" to produce such different systems of health insurance? She answers this previously neglected query so interestingly that her book will hold the attention of anyone concerned with health care in either country or both. The author explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada, from the emergence of health care as a political issue in the 1930s to the passage of federal health insurance legislation in the 1960s. Focusing on how political institutions influence policy development, she shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance. Meanwhile, the constraints of the U.S. political system forced health care reformers to temper their own ideas to appeal to a wide coalition within the Democratic party. Even readers previously unfamiliar with Canadian politics will find in this book important clues about the "realm of the possible" in the uncertain future of U.S. health care.
Author: Bernard J. Turnock
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780763732158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a straightforward introduction to the complex, multidimensional field of public health and how it functions in modern day America.
Author: Bernard Turnock
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1449600247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a straightforward systems approach, 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. The book covers the origins and development of the modern pubic health system; the relationship of public health to the overall health system; how the system is organized at the federal, state, and local levels; its core functions and how well these are currently being addressed; evidence-based practice and an approach to program planning and evaluation for public health interventions; public health activities such as epidemiological investigation, biomedical research, environmental assessment, policy development, and more. Updated and New Information in the Fifth 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 section on public health financing
