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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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""The Future of Public Health""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Summary and Recommendations""; ""WHY STUDY PUBLIC HEALTH""; ""THE APPROACH""; ""THE STATE OF U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH""; ""The Public Health Mission""; ""Professional Expertise and the Political Process""; ""Public Health and the Medical Profession""; ""The Knowledge Base and its Application""; ""THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH: RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""THE PUBLIC HEALTH MISSION, GOVERNMENTAL ROLE, AND LEVELS OF RESPONSIBILITY""; ""Mission""; ""The Governmental Role in Public Health""; ""Assessment"" |
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""Policy Development""""Assurance""; ""Levels of Responsibility""; ""States""; ""Federal""; ""Localities""; ""FULFILLING THE GOVERNMENT ROLE: IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Statutes""; ""Organizational Structure""; ""States""; ""Localities""; ""Federal""; ""Special Linkages""; ""Environmental Health""; ""Mental Health""; ""Social Services""; ""Care of the Indigent""; ""Strategies for Capacity Building""; ""Technical""; ""Political""; ""Managerial""; ""Programmatic""; ""Fiscal""; ""Education for Public Health""; ""CONCLUDING REMARKS"" |
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""1 The Disarray of Public Health: A Threat to the Health of the Public """"IMMEDIATE CRISES""; ""AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)""; ""Access to Health Care for the Indigent""; ""ENDURING PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS""; ""Injuries""; ""Teen Pregnancy""; ""Control of High Blood Pressure""; ""Smoking and Substance Abuse""; ""GROWING CHALLENGES AND IMPENDING CRISES""; ""Toxic Substances""; ""Alzheimer's Disease or Dementia of the Alzheimer Type""; ""Revitalization of Public Health Capacities""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 A Vision of Public Health in America: An Attainable Ideal "" |
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""A DEFINITION OF PUBLIC HEALTH""""The Mission of Public Health""; ""The Substance of Public Health""; ""The Organizational Framework of Public Health""; ""The Role of Government in Public Health""; ""The Functions of Government in Public Health""; ""Assessment""; ""Policy Development""; ""Assurance""; ""State, Local, and Federal Roles in Public Health""; ""State Governments""; ""Federal Government""; ""Local Governments""; ""The Public and Private Sectors in Public Health""; ""THE BASIC SERVICES OF PUBLIC HEALTH""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 A History of the Public Health System ""; ""HISTORY"" |
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""Before the Eighteenth Century""""The Eighteenth Century""; ""The Nineteenth Century: The Great Sanitary Awakening""; ""The Sanitary Problem""; ""The Development of Public Activities in Health""; ""Late Nineteenth Century: Enter Bacteriology""; ""The Development of State and Local Health Department Laboratories""; ""The Successes of Bacteriology""; ""Early Twentieth Century: The Move Toward Personal Care""; ""Further Development of State and Local Health Agencies""; ""The Growth of Federal Activities in Health"" |
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""Mid-Twentieth Century: Further Expansion of the Governmental Role in Personal Health"" |
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Public health -- United States -- Forecasting
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Health planning -- United States
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Health planning.
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Public health -- Forecasting.
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United States.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309581905 |
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0309581907 |
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