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Essentials of Management and Leadership in Public Health.
  Burke, Robert E./ 9780763742911
 
  Driven by recent events and new trends, public health training increasingly requires new and more advanced information¡Xleadership and management skills drawn from business, industry, education, and government. This text offers a basic foundation for students entering the field of public health management with a specific focus on developing knowledge and skills in the cross-cutting competency domains identified by the ASPH. Essentials of Management and Leadership in Public Health covers: An introduction and history of the field of public health management; The evolution of key leadership and management theories; The changing role of public health management professionals and key characteristics of a successful public health leaders; Key issues in the organization, financing and delivery of healthcare services; Fundamental concepts about the classic functions of management including economics, finance, marketing, strategy, administration, human resources, and community relations; and Modern approaches to leadership development, selection, retention and succession planning.
Social Marketing for Public Health.
  Cheng, Hong/ 9780763757977
 
  Social Marketing for Public Health: Global Trends and Success Stories explores how traditional marketing principles and techniques are being used to increase the effectiveness of public health programs¡Xaround the world. While addressing the global issues and trends in social marketing, the book highlights successful health behavior change campaigns launched by governments, by a combination of governments, NGOs, and businesses, or by citizens themselves in 15 countries of five continents. Each chapter examines a unique, current success story, ranging from anti-smoking campaigns to HIV-AIDS prevention; from promotions for health lifestyle to battles against obesity; and from public educational campaigns on hepatitis B to contraceptive social marketing. Contributing authors include leading social marketing scholars, seasoned social marketing practitioners, and longtime public health professionals. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in social marketing, public health, health communication, international marketing, international advertising, consumer behavior, and social change, it is also an inspirational resource for current public health practitioners. Discussion questions and PowerPoint slides are designed for each chapter to engage the reader in learning.
Health Education: Creating Strategies for School and Community Health.
  Gilbert, Glen G./ 9780763759292
 
  The skills necessary to plan and deliver efficient health education programs are fundamentally the same, whether it's in a classroom, workplace, hospital, or community. Health Education: Creating Strategies for School & Community Health, Third Edition provides the tools to make appropriate programming decisions based on the needs of the clients and the educational settings. It encourages the systematic development of sound, effective, and appropriate presentation methods and demonstrates the evolving state of health education.
Introduction to Public Health.
  Schneider, Mary-Jane/ 9780763763817
 
  Published in conjunction with the American Public Health Association, Introduction to Public Health, Third Edition offers a thorough, accessible overview of the expanding field of public health for students new to its concepts and actors. Written in engaging, nontechnical language, this best-selling text explains in clear terms the multi-disciplinary strategies and methods used for measuring, assessing, and promoting public health. Packed with illustrative real-world examples, this updated edition provides students with informative discussions of the current technical issues and practical obstacles facing public health practitioners and policymakers alike. Through coverage of new approaches to research and data collection, current best practices in the field, and the social and ethical challenges of devising public policy, Introduction to Public Health, Third Edition provides readers with a broad-reaching, practical framework for understanding the multifaceted forces and organizations of today¡¦s public health enterprise.
Public Health Laboratories: Analysis, Operations, and Management.
  Jenkins, Wiley D./ 9780763771027
 
  As the only text of its kind, Public Health Laboratories explores the objectives and inner workings of the public health laboratory. The book looks at the array of regulatory agencies such as the USEPA and the FDA, and interagency collaborations such as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, as well as personnel issues, education and certification requirements, and management topics that impact every day laboratory operations. Topics include: history of public health labs; different testing sections, methods, missions, and technologies; personnel issues including education and certifications; different laboratory designs/levels/certifications; biological/chemical terrorism response strategies; coordination with law enforcement/outside agencies; uses of lab data; CLIA/HIPAA/other confidentiality and legal issues; personnel management basics; LIMS and other topics.
Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute Guide to Patient Management and Prevention.
  Philis-Tsimikas, Athena/ 9780763773267
 
  For almost 30 years, the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute has provided diabetic patients with the quality resources they need to improve their lives. Now, with this unique guide, the Institute's expert insights are available to physicians! Packed with key information, this portable reference presents easy-to-use tools to effectively manage and communicate with patients about diabetes. Topics include standards of care and prevention, treatment of microvascular and macrovascular complications, blood glucose monitoring, psycho-social care related to diabetes, and much more! Exploring both the medical and personal side of diabetes, this guide provides physicians with a holistic approach to treating patients. Also included are state-of-the art patient education tools such as the peer-reviewed, multi-lingual handouts on nutrition, blood glucose monitoring, and more, that appear at the beginning of each chapter. Featuring a CD-Rom, and easy-to-understand medication guides, this stand-out text is perfect for every healthcare professional treating diabetic patients.
Essentials of Global Community Health.
  Gofin, Jaime/ 9780763773298
 
  This essential reference delves into the individual, family, social, and global determinants that shape a community¡¦s health. Combining theory with practical application, Essentials of Global Community Health provides step-by-step guidance on interventions that promote health and prevent disease at the community level. With 16 structured case studies that span the globe¡Xfrom Cambodia and Chad, to Moldova, Israel, Spain, and others¡XEssentials of Global Community Health explains and illustrates how principles of Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) and Community-Oriented Public Health (COPH) work in diverse settings worldwide. Jaime and Rosa Gofin bring 40 years of academic and field experience to bear in this text by offering a complete framework for putting community health into practice.
Integrating Service-Learning into the University Classroom.
  Bryant, J. A./ 9780763780753
 
  Service-learning is on the rise across campuses, as more and more students and professors are engaging with the communities around them. While this is a rewarding experience for students and the communities served, a tremendous amount of effort is needed to incorporate service-learning into the curriculum. It takes trial-and-error to find the right pedagogical tools and the perfect balance of in-field and in-class learning, as well as considerable time spent fostering relationships with community partners. For many, this can be too daunting. Integrating Service-Learning into the University Classroom helps simplify the process by providing educators with a series of course portfolios to follow. Written by instructors who have taught service-learning courses across a variety of disciplines, these portfolios model how to effectively design, teach, and evaluate a course. As service-learning courses range in topic, format, learning goals and community commitment, the book highlights both the variety and best practices of service-learning courses in higher education.
Foundations of Global Community Health Promotion and Education.
  Hernandez, Barbara L./ 9780763781682
 
  Health promotion and education is an emerging and growing field. Foundation Concepts of Global Community Health Promotion and Education examines the underlying concepts appropriate in any global community health promotion and education course. It investigates the history, terminology, philosophy, theory, ethics, programs, resources and settings for the practice of community health education and promotion. The text also explores professional competencies and preparation, standards, models, theories, careers, technology and the role of professional associations and organizations within community health. The roles and responsibilities of health promotion practitioners are explored in detail, as are the many employment opportunities for health education and health promotion professionals.
Managing Stress: A Creative Journal.
  Seaward, Brian L./ 9780763790141
 
  This journal allows students to identify common causes of stress in their lives and develop skills to manage them. Writing in this journal for a period of weeks or months, and then reading over the passages, will help students sort through personal, social, or even global issues.
Health and Wellness Journal Workbook.
  Seaward, Brian L./ 9780763790134
 
  The Health and Wellness Journal Workbook is a compilation of over 75 thought-provoking and soul-searching health and wellness exercises that can be used as a supplement in any health and wellness course. Each exercise provides some background information and then asks readers to reflect by responding to specific questions related to each theme. This workbook integrates all the dimensions of wellness-balancing emotional, social, and spiritual health for total well-being and self-responsibility.
Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly-Funded Health Services.
  Donaldson, Cam/ 9781847427526
 
  The credit crunch continues to threaten publicly-funded health care. World-leading health economist, Cam Donaldson, defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, what has been achieved and how much more can be achieved through health care reform and serious priority setting? The issues addressed in the book have global appeal and this accessible book will therefore be attractive to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists.
Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly-Funded Health Services.
  Donaldson, Cam/ 9781847427533
 
  The credit crunch continues to threaten publicly-funded health care. World-leading health economist, Cam Donaldson, defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, what has been achieved and how much more can be achieved through health care reform and serious priority setting? The issues addressed in the book have global appeal and this accessible book will therefore be attractive to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists.
SM05-391 Health Promotion and Education Research Methods: Using the Five Chapter Thesis/Dissertation Model.
  Cottrell, Randall R./ 9780763775070
 
  The main objective in writing a thesis or dissertation is to teach students how to conduct research in a planned and systematic way. Health Promotion & Education Research Methods, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and thorough presentation of the skills and processes needed to complete high quality research. Students will receive an overview of the different approaches to research methods and are introduced to the five-chapter thesis or dissertation format. Each chapter contains information relevant to the writing of one or more chapters of a thesis or dissertation. Designed for health education specialists, this text uses plenty of health education examples, some from former graduate students¡¦ work, to help students learn and understand how research is used within the Health Promotion and Education profession.
SM05-379 Women's Global Health and Human Rights.
  Murthy, Padmini/ 9780763756314
 
  Women¡¦s Global Health and Human Rights serves as an overview of the challenges faced by women in different regions of the world. Ideal as a tool for both professionals and students, this book discusses the similarities and differences in health and human rights challenges that are faced by women globally. Best practices and success stories are also included in this timely and important text.
SM05-378 Public Health 101: Healthy People-Healthy Populations.
  Riegelman, Richard/ 9780763760441
 
  Public Health 101 provides a big-picture, population perspective on the determinants of health and disease and the tools available to protect and promote health. It examines the full range of ¡§options for intervention¡¨ including use of the health care system, the public health system, and society-wide interventions such as laws and taxation. Students will learn how public health affects them in their everyday lives. Using case studies, vignettes, and extensive examples, they will learn and apply frameworks for thinking about the issues of public health. They will gain a deeper understanding about the health news they hear, the web sites they visit, and the research they read.
SM05-377 New World of Health Promotion, The: New Program Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.
  Healey, Bernard J./ 9780763753771
 
  The New World of Health Promotion: New Program Development uses the concepts of epidemiology and collaboration to define the real causes of chronic diseases and provides a methodology to develop cost-effective programs to better inform the population on how to prevent these diseases and their expensive complications. Health care workers and health educators will find that this essential tool provides them with the necessary skills to develop, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs.
SM05-376 Essential Readings in Health Behavior: Theory and Practice.
  Edberg, Mark/ 9780763738181
 
  Essential Readings in Health Behavior: Theory and Practice is ideal as a companion to the textbook Essentials of Health Behavior. It complements the text in several ways: First, it offers selections from readings referred to and outlined in the text. Second, the annotations introducing the readings provide guidance and tie them to themes outlined in the basic text. Third, the readings provides students and the instructor with options for exploring issues in more depth. Finally, the reader includes case-related articles concerning ways in which the theoretical approaches to behavior have been applied in real-world settings ¡V both successfully and unsuccessfully.
Emergency Public Health: Preparedness and Response: Preparedness and Response.
  Kapur, Girish B./ 9780763758707
 
  Emergency Public Health provides readers with important information and analysis of key public health crises threatening our local, state, and national jurisdictions. As the first text of its kind in the emerging field of emergency public health, it provides a framework for public health professionals, policy makers, first responders, and emergency healthcare providers to plan and implement effective measures to protect the public health of civilian populations during times of emergencies. Written by experts with both emergency healthcare and public health backgrounds, the case-based chapters provide valuable information on the preparedness, response, and mitigation of emergency public health topics. In addition, Emergency Public Health contains timely information of key areas such as public health law and the interactions among government jurisdictions. Each chapter also includes online resources for the reader to pursue additional web-based resources.
Essentials of Public Health Communication.
  Parvanta, Claudia/ 9780763771157
 
  The field of communications is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool in addressing the world¡¦s most imperative public health challenges. Effective communication in health campaigns can inform, empower, or persuade individuals to adopt healthier lifestyles as well as foster public debate and policy change. Featuring a full chapter on informatics, this book is devoted to the competencies in health communication and informatics recommended by the Association of Schools of Public Health. With chapter contributions from some of the leading experts in public health informatics and epidemiology, health communication and evaluation, Essentials of Public Health Communications introduces concepts and examples that will prepare students to enter a local health department, community organization or government agency, and contribute to health communication research, patient counseling, materials design, program management and media relations.
Drug Abuse Prevention.
  Wilson, Richard/ 9780763771584
 
  Using an evidence-based approach, Drug Abuse Prevention, Third Edition teaches students and practitioners the important concepts and skills needed to design effective drug prevention programs. Written to cover more than just the facts about drugs, this text provides a background of drug use and abuse, presents the principles and skills of prevention, with particular focus on adolescents and school settings, and reinforces the importance of schools forming community partnerships with key institutions and the application of policy tools to enhance the impact of education alone.
AIDS: Science and Society.
  / 9780763773151
 
  AIDS: Science and Society, Sixth Edition provides readers with the most current information available on the biology of the virus and the impact it has on society. The Sixth Edition of this best-selling text provides readers with a solid overview of AIDS from both a biomedical and a psychosocial perspective. The authors cover the molecular and cellular aspects of the virus and the immune system's response to it, and examine epidemiology and its role in understanding HIV and AIDS. The use of understandable vocabulary and clear illustrations, along with updated biomedical data and the most current statistics on AIDS available, makes AIDS: Science and Society an essential resource for students, researchers, and general readers.
Skills Based Health Education.
  Connolly, Mary/ 9780763773663
 
  Skills Based Health Education includes an in depth review of the National Health Education Standards and their use as the foundation to teach health education content and skills. It illustrates formative and summative assessments to improve teaching and learning, provides assessment guidelines, explains the advantage of using rubrics, and demonstrates how to assemble rubrics based on the performance indicators of the National Health Education Standards. Rather than include content information, students are encouraged to determine content based on needs. Readers are shown how to establish student need, select content and skill performance indicators to meet the need, and plan and implement assessment and instruction.
Cph Exam Quick Reference Review.
  Holmes, Larry/ 9780763779269
 
  CPH Exam Quick Reference Review, Second Edition is a comprehensive study guide that will thoroughly prepare you for the new Certification in Public Health exam. In seven chapters, you¡¦ll get a complete review of each of the core competencies as recommended by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) as well as tips, test-taking skills, recommended resources, and 200 practice-test multiple choice questions. A concise review of epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral and social sciences, environmental sciences, and health policy and management sciences is offered along with vignettes that illustrate the application of concepts. Numerous figures, tables, and references further enhance learning.
Nutrition in Public Health.
  Edelstein, Sari/ 9780763777913
 
  Nutrition in Public Health, Third Edition defines the state of public health nutrition and the services offered in the United States today. It provides readers with a description of public health in the U.S. through data and expertise from relevant contributing authors, and discusses the active services and service agencies that are available to manage today¡¦s health issues.
Essentials of Environmental Health.
  Friis, Robert H./ 9780763778903
 
  This best-selling offering from the APHA/Jones & Bartlett Learning Essential Public Health series is a clear and comprehensive study of the major topics of environmental health, including: * Background of the field and ¡§tools of the trade¡¨ (environmental epidemiology, environmental toxicology, and environmental policy and regulation). * Environmental diseases (microbial agents, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation). * Applications and domains of environmental health (water and air quality, food safety, waste disposal, and occupational health). The Second Edition covers new material including: * New chapter (Chapter 14) on injuries * All Web-based sources updated throughout to include the most recent information * Expanded discussion of the history of environmental health, e.g., contributions of John Snow, Lemuel Shattuck, and Walter Reed * New case study on pandemic influenza (H1N1) 2009 * Coverage of recent environmental controversies, such as use of bisphenol A in plastics With a straightforward, non-technical approach, the author has included many examples and illustrations of environmental health issues. Perfect for the beginning student as well as the experienced health professional, each chapter concludes with study questions and exercises to engage the reader in further study.
Cases in Field Epidemiology: A Global Perspective.
  Dworkin, Mark S./ 9780763778910
 
  This collection of case studies¡Xsome never before published¡Xuncover the details of actual disease outbreaks from within the United States and around the world. At the conclusion of each chapter, the investigator reviews the methods and processes that were employed to execute the investigation. Ideal as a complement to any text on infectious disease epidemiology, these case studies will bring to life the classic functions of field epidemiology and the application of epidemiological methods to unexpected health problems that require fast, on-site investigation and timely intervention. The cases cover investigations in infectious and non-infectious disease outbreaks, as well as environmental health related disease outbreaks.
Global Health Disparities: Closing the Gap Through Good Governance.
  Kebede-francis, Enku/ 9780763778934
 
  One hundred countries¡Xmore than half of the world¡¦s population¡Xhave made significant strides in the last 30 years, improving life expectancy and the health of their populations. Despite socioeconomic limitations including extended wars and economic embargos as well as geographic limitations, these countries managed to provide basic health care, primary education, and clean water for their populations. In this unique book, with a foreword by the former Deputy Director-General of WHO, the author puts these, and many other countries, under the microscope through a detailed examination of best practices and best outcomes. How did they reach their present high level of life expectancy? How might future development programs be enhanced and what can other, still-developing countries learn from these examples? Should development assistance programs in the 21st century be based on teaching rather than giving unconditionally? Anchored on landmark UN declarations, and based on numerous indices including the World Development Index, all these questions are addressed.
Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness.
  Nash, David B./ 9780763780432
 
  With over 45.7 million uninsured in the United States and health reform a national priority, the need for population health management has never been more eminent. Sixty percent of American deaths are attributable to behavioral factors, social circumstances and environmental exposures. Employment of population health management techniques advocating use of preventative services and quality clinical care are imperative. Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness offers an educational foundation for both professionals and students on the genesis and growth of this important topic. The book provides a concise overview of the topic from the perspectives of providers and businesses. As a text, this book provides a population-based approach to education applicable to professionals in disease management, chronic care management, and politics in addition to students studying public health, health policy, quality and patient safety, health care administration, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work and other related clinical professions.
Global Surgery and Public Health.
  Devries, Catherine R./ 9780763780487
 
  Until recently, surgical services in developing countries have been neglected, despite the critical role they could play in preventing disease and saving lives. Over the last few years, world leaders, public health professionals, and surgeons have collaborated to discuss public policies, resource utilization, healthcare reform, surgical safety, and workforce issues in order to bring these life-saving services to those most in need. Global Surgery and Public Health: A New Paradigm offers the most current information as well as a systematic approach to considering surgery in the context of a broader umbrella of public health. It is ideal for courses in Global/International Health, Public Health, Surgery, Medical Anthropology as well as for professionals in public policy and international health care and humanitarian groups serving the surgical needs of patients in under-resourced settings.
 

 

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