| Description |
1 online resource (418 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Transforming Public Health Practice -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- The Authors -- The Contributors -- Part One Issues and Methods of Public Health Practice -- 1 The Need for Change in the Practice of Public Health -- Mission and Services of Public Health -- Public Health's History and Its Impact on Current Services -- Gap Between Mission and Current Public Health Practice -- 2 The Success of Public Health Programs: Critical Factors -- Definition of Public Health -- Public Health Systems -- Community Health Workers -- Population-Based Medicine |
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Problems in Our Health Care System -- The Need for Improved Accountability of Public Health Professionals -- Local Health Departments -- Epidemic of Chronic Diseases -- Information Management -- Expansion of Health Education Programs -- Public Health and the Legacy Concept -- The Need for Leadership Development in Public Health -- 3 Critical Issues for the Future of Health Care in the United States -- Why We Are Failing in Our Health Care Reform Efforts -- Root Causes of the Failures of the Health Care System -- Other Problem Areas -- Solution to the Problems in Our Health Care System |
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New Model of Health Care Delivery -- Public Health as a Potential Solution to the Health Care Crisis in America -- 4 Application of Epidemiological Concepts to Health Care Delivery -- Descriptive Epidemiology -- Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases -- Epidemiology of Emerging Infections -- Analytical Epidemiology -- Epidemiology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Data Management -- Surveillance Systems -- Managerial Epidemiology -- Application of Epidemiological Concepts to Health Care -- 5 Shifting the Focus from Communicable to Chronic Diseases -- Communicable Disease Threat |
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The Challenge of Chronic Diseases -- The Need for Investment in Preventing Chronic Diseases -- Health Education -- The Need for Partnerships to Combat Chronic Diseases -- Opportunity to Improve the Way Health Care Is Delivered -- Part Two Issues and Methods of Public Health Leadership and Management -- 6 Leadership and Politics in Public Health -- Development of Power in Health Care Delivery -- Leadership and Politics in Health Care Delivery -- Public Health Leadership Styles -- Transformational Leadership and Public Health -- Public Health as a Change Agent -- Public Health Leaders and Power |
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Public Health Leaders and Conflict Management -- Can Political Appointees Lead Public Health Departments? -- Leadership Development in Public Health -- Culture of Public Health Workers -- Public Health Leaders and Innovation -- 7 Empowering Public Health Workers -- Leadership and Quality Improvement -- The Public Health Employee -- Transformational Leadership, Worker Empowerment, and Self-Managed Work Teams in Public Health -- The Role of Culture -- Culture and Change -- Empowerment of Workers in Public Health -- Disappearance of the Public Health Worker |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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8 Partnerships to Improve the Public's Health |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118089958 |
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1118089952 |
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