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| Author | : John Costello |
| Publisher | : Red Globe Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003-04-07 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0333971736 |
Reviewing developments in public health using a critical, historical and comparative analytical framework, this text links public health explicitly to sociological theory, to demonstrate the relationship between health care and the social structures that underpin the provision of health services.
| Author | : Robert A. Hahn |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Anthropology, Cultural |
| ISBN | : 019511955X |
Cultural and social boundaries often separate those who participate in public health activities, and it is a major challenge to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action across these boundaries. This book provides an overview of anthropology and illustrates in 15 case studies how anthropological concepts and methods can help us understand and resolve diverse public health problems around the world. For example, one chapter shows how differences in concepts and terminology among patients, clinicians, and epidemiologists in a southwestern U.S. county hinder the control of epidemics. Another chapter examines reasons that Mexican farmers don't use protective equipment when spraying pesticides and suggests ways to increase use. Another examines the culture of international health agencies, demonstrates institutional values and practices that impede effective public health practice, and suggests issues that must be addressed to enhance institutional organization and process.; Each chapter characterizes a public health problem, describes methods used to analyse it, reviews results, and discusses implications; several chapters also describe and evaluate programs designed to address the problem on the basis of anthropological knowledge. The book provides practical models and indicates anthropological tools to translate public health knowledge and technical capacity into public health action.
| Author | : Randall M. Packard |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2004-09-06 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9780801879425 |
"Presenting a theoretical model of the social process of "emerging" illness, the volume's introductory chapter identifies critical factors that shape different trajectories toward the construction of public health priorities. Through case studies of individual diseases and analyses of public awareness campaigns and institutional responses, later chapters provide important insights into the reasons why some illnesses receive more attention and funding than others."--Jacket.
| Author | : Francesco P. Cappuccio |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 0198778244 |
This book summarises the epidemiological evidence linking sleep deprivation and disruption to several chronic conditions, and explores the public health implications with the view to developing preventive strategies.
| Author | : Thomas R. Prohaska |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2012-03-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1421404346 |
Students and practitioners will find Public Health for an Aging Society an invaluable resource both in the workplace and the classroom.
| Author | : Nicholas Freudenberg |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : 2009-07-08 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0470483032 |
Praise for Urban Health and Society "This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world's population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation." Hortensia Amaro, associate dean, Urban Health Research; Distinguished Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences; and director, Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University "Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public health, urban planning, social work, and other professions with the critical knowledge and practical guidance they need to work as effective members of interdisciplinary teams aimed at studying and addressing urban health problems. Throughout the chapters, the book's attention to community participation, social justice, and equity as well as interdisciplinary research methods make it an invaluable resource." Barbara A. Israel, professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan "The book will be of great interest to academics, politicians, planners, and public health professionals attempting to understand or reduce urban health risks, create safe urban environments, and deliver effective and sustainable health services and programs to urban populations." Stephen Lepore, professor and PhD program director, Department of Public Health, Temple University
| Author | : Richard K. Thomas |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2007-05-08 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0306478897 |
-Rick Thomas brings his 30 years experience in the field to the text making it very applied and accessible. -Lots of boxed material. -"Recommended" purchase for all librarians as reviewed in the June 2004 issue of CHOICE.
| Author | : Martin T. Donohoe |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 2012-10-10 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1118236769 |
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 equity." —Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Kolokotrones University Professor and chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; co-founder, Partners In Health "This superb book is the best work yet concerning the relationships between public health and social justice." —Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico "This book gives public health professionals, researchers and advocates the essential knowledge they need to capture the energy that social justice brings to our enterprise." —Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, the City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College "The breadth of topics selected provides a strong overview of social justice in medicine and public health for readers new to the topic." —William Wiist, DHSc, MPH, MS, senior scientist and head, Office of Health and Society Studies, Interdisciplinary Health Policy Institute, Northern Arizona University "This book is a tremendous contribution to the literature of social justice and public health." —Catherine Thomasson, MD, executive director, Physicians for Social Responsibility "This book will serve as an essential reference for students, teachers and practitioners in the health and human services who are committed to social responsibility." —Shafik Dharamsi, PhD, faculty of medicine, University of British Columbia
| Author | : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1988-01-15 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0309581907 |
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
| Author | : Craig Stephen |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2020-12-22 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1000285464 |
CHOICE Recommended title 2022 This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity. This new narrative promotes the positive contributions made to health across species and generations and addresses growing calls to shift from a reactive to proactive approach in One Health. Editor Craig Stephen takes the reader on a tour of the situations wherein we can all, regardless of our job description, work across species, sectors, and generations to motivate action. Perspectives and methods from a variety of fields and experts are shared and adapted to promote collaborative understanding of and action on determinants of health at the animal-society interface. Case studies demonstrate that the principles and practices presented are feasible, empowering people to make choices that concurrently benefit the health of animals, societies, and ecosystems. The first book to adapt and explain health promotion, harm reduction, and health equity issues in a One Health context, and in terms of animal health, this is necessary reading for students of and practitioners working in planetary health, conservation, ecohealth, public health, health promotion, veterinary medicine, and animal welfare.
