Promoting community health : the role of the academic health center /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Skelton, W. Douglas, 1938-, Osterweis, Marian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Association of Academic Health Centers, [1993]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Scientific basis for health promotion and disease prevention
  • Today's challenges and tomorrow's solutions / Joyce C. Lashof
  • Genetic testing as a tool for clinical risk assessment / Philip R. Reilly
  • Clinical trials in disease prevention: some ethical considerations / Robert J. Levine
  • Preventive interventions: weighing the evidence on effictiveness / Robert S. Lawrence
  • Modifying lifestyle to improve health / Lawrence W. Green
  • Too much for too few: what cost-effectiveness tells us about prevention / Louise B. Russell
  • Making prevention a national priority
  • Using the media to get the message out / Arthur Ulene
  • Why industry favors worksite wellness programs / Glenn E. Haughie and Jean C. Jester
  • Medicine and public health: a marriage proposal / M. Jocelyn Elders
  • New directions at the Henry J. Kaiser family foundation / Dennis F. Beatrice
  • Healthy communities: the role of the academic health center / Trevor Hancock
  • Academic health centers and health promotion
  • Academic health centers: expanding commitments to their communities / Marian Osterweis.
  • (cont) Collaboration for prevention: the University of North Carolina experience / Alan W. Cross
  • Community health resource development: alliances for leadership / Linda W. Goodson
  • AIDS prevention and community strategies / Jack DeHowitz
  • University wellness: a strategy on trial / Timothy Dunnagan
  • Student-faculty collaboration to enhance community health / Edward J. Eckenfels
  • Comprehensive university center on alcoholism, substance abuse and addiction / Philip A. Mary ... [et al.]
  • Community-based health promotion activities: case studies of six academic health centers / Marian Osterseis and Suzanne Finn Eichhorn.