Contemporary Public Health - Principles, Practice, and Policy (Hardcover)

Public health refers to the management and prevention of disease within a population by promoting healthy behaviors and environments in an effort to create a higher standard of living. In this comprehensive volume, editor James W. Holsinger Jr. and an esteemed group of scholars and practitioners offer a concise overview of this burgeoning field, emphasizing that the need for effective services has never been greater. Designed as a supplemental text for introductory courses in public health practice at the undergraduate and graduate levels, Contemporary Public Health provides historical background that contextualizes the current state of the field and explores the major issues practitioners face today. It addresses essential topics such as the social and ecological determinants of health and their impact on practice, marginalized populations, the role of community-oriented primary care, the importance of services and systems research, accreditation, and the organizational landscape of the American public health system. Finally, it examines international public health and explores the potential of systems based on multilevel partnerships of government, academic, and nonprofit organizations. With fresh historical and methodological analyses conducted by an impressive group of distinguished authors, this text is an essential resource for practitioners, health advocates, and students.

General

Imprint:	The University Press of Kentucky
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	October 2012
Editors:	James W Holsinger
Foreword by:	David M. Lawrence
Introduction by:	F. Douglas Scutchfield
Contributors:	Steven H. Woolf • Paula Braveman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-8131-4123-7
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN:	0-8131-4123-0
Barcode:	9780813141237

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