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Public health : what it is and how it works /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Turnock, Bernard J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 2001.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Public Health Administration.
Health Services.
Public Health.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • What is public health?
  • A brief history of public health in the United States
  • Images and definitions of public health
  • Public health as a system
  • Unique features of public health
  • Value of public health
  • Appendix 1-A: Selected history of public health activities in Chicago, 1834-1999
  • Understanding and measuring health
  • Health in the United States
  • Health, illness, and disease
  • Measuring health
  • Influences on health
  • Analyzing health problems for causative factors
  • Economic dimensions of health outcomes
  • Healthy people 2010
  • Health services and public health
  • Health and health services
  • The health system in the United States
  • Changing roles, themes, and paradigms in the health system
  • Appendix 3-A: Managed care and public health: strange bedfellows?
  • Law, government, and public health
  • American government and public health
  • Law and public health
  • Governmental public health
  • Appendix 4-A: Administrative law
  • Core functions and public health practice
  • Public health functions and practice befoe the IOM Report
  • Public health practice and core functions after the IOM Report
  • Post-IOM Report initiatives
  • New opportunities for improving public health practice
  • The infrastructure of public health
  • Infrastructure, ingredients, and inputs
  • Human resources in public health
  • Organizational resources
  • Information resources
  • Fiscal resources
  • Healthy people 2010 infrastructure objectives
  • Public health interventions
  • Interventions, programs, and services
  • Categorizing programs and services of public health
  • Evidence-based public health practice
  • Program management in public health
  • Appendix 7-A: Age-specific recommendations for clinical preventive services
  • Future challenges for public health in America
  • Lessons from a century of progress in public health
  • Limitations of twentieth-century public health
  • Public health: a system in "disarray"?
  • Community public health practice
  • Conclusion: why we need a more effective public health system.