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Physical Activity in Public Health Practice provides the first
evidence-based, practical textbook to guide readers through the
process of conceptualizing, justifying, implementing, and
evaluating physical activity interventions across a broad array of
settings and populations. Section One begins with an overview of
epidemiology, measurement, critical milestones, and the importance
of moving beyond individual-level physical activity intervention,
to interventions aimed at policy-, systems-, and
environmental-level changes. Section Two considers planning
interventions across a variety of settings and populations,
including general concepts for implementation and evaluation, how
to build effective coalitions, steps for developing community-,
regional- or state-level strategic plans, and effectively
translating policy into practice. Section Three addresses how to
implement physical activity strategies across a variety of
settings, including worksites, faith-based settings, healthcare
settings, schools, and parks and recreation. This section also
provides guidance on the complexities and challenges of targeting
interventions for specific populations, such as families, older
adults, persons with disabilities, as well as different strategies
for urban and rural populations. Lastly, Section Four outlines
effective strategies for how to evaluate interventions depending
upon impact, outcome, and cost evaluation, and dissemination models
for your intervention. Presented from both a research and a
practice perspective while discussing the best available research,
this book provides the basis for planning and implementing physical
activity programs that work and can build healthier communities.
This hands-on text incorporates learning objectives, real-world
examples, case studies, and bulleted lists whenever possible so
that the content can be digested easily not only in undergraduate
and graduate course settings but also by public health workers and
other health educators in practice. Written by world experts and
augmented by practical applications, this textbook prepares public
health students and practitioners to develop effective
interventions and spur greater physical activity in their
communities. Key Features: Provides effective strategies for
properly measuring and increasing physical activity in communities
Demonstrates how to carry out physical activity interventions
across a variety of settings, including schools, communities,
worksites and many more Discusses methods for directing physical
activity interventions to specific populations Delivers strategies
for building successful partnerships and coalitions Practical group
activities, exercises, discussion questions, audio podcast
discussions, and a full instructor packet accompany the textbook
Includes access to fully searchable downloadable eBook
Research Methods for Public Health provides foundational knowledge
and practical guidance for all steps in the research process using
public health examples and real-world applications to reinforce all
concepts. It covers everything students need to have a firm basis
on how to design public health research, how to collect and manage
data using a variety of study designs and methods, and how to share
research results. Foundational topics such as searching the
literature, finding gaps, formulating research questions,
operationalization and measurement, sampling, budgeting for
research studies, summarizing and visualizing data, disseminating
results and more are explained in clear and accessible prose. The
textbook emphasizes skills including question development, survey
design and implementation, qualitative methodology, mixed methods
research, how to record and analyze quantitative and qualitative
data, and how to use secondary data.Regardless of whether you are
starting your scientific research career path, or are on track to
become a public health practitioner, or plan on becoming a health
policymaker, this textbook provides an authoritative introduction
to research and its importance on improving public health practice
for everyone entering the field. Richly illustrated and with an
abundance of helpful tables, boxes, and practical public health
case studies and examples, this textbook contains the core
principles, concepts, and knowledge of how to design, plan,
evaluate, and disseminate public health research. Research Methods
for Public Health comes with a full Instructor package including
PowerPoints, test banks, and an Instructor's Manual with detailed
classroom activities, CEPH competency mapping, and more. Key
Features: Provides the principles and best practices of general
research methods texts combined with specific public health
relevance Applicable to students who want to conduct research as
part of their career as well as those who need the skills to
understand how public health evidence is developed through research
Includes chapters on Developing Budgets and Timelines for Research
Studies and Disseminating Research Results, topics often overlooked
in other textbooks Aligns content with program competencies and
skills essential for those entering the public health field
Contains numerous illustrations, tables, boxes, and case studies
which provide important context to key concepts Comes with access
to the digital eBook
The greatest public health victories of the last century - public
sanitation, vehicle safety measures, limits on smoking and tobacco
use - have all been facilitated by public policies. While policy is
an unparalleled tool for effecting change in public health, most
professionals are unprepared to plan, apply, or study policy in a
consequential way. Prevention, Policy, and Public Health provides a
basic foundation for students, professionals, and researchers to be
more effective in the policy arena. It offers information on the
dynamics of the policymaking process, theoretical frameworks,
analysis, and policy applications. It also offers tools for
advocacy and communication, two integral aspects of shaping
policies for public health. Organized around the leading risk
factors for premature death and supplemented with illustrative case
study examples, this book will help professionals and researchers
understand the dimensions of policy, which can in turn inform the
conduct of research and evaluation. These skills, combined with an
understanding of opportunities and limitations within governments,
can be highly applicable to designing effective policies and
programs. With current pressures to implement broad and sustainable
public health improvements, policies are more important than ever
for anyone in the study and practice of public health. This book
can be considered a primer to truly understanding the connection
between prevention, policy, and public health.
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