Introduction to Community and Public Health (eBook)

Manoj Sharma, Paul W. Branscum, Ashutosh Atri (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-44838-0 (ISBN)

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Learn the basics of the five core areas of community and public health

Introduction to Community and Public Health covers the basics in each area of community and public health as identified by the Association of Schools of Public Health. In a student-friendly approach, authors Manoj Sharma, Paul W. Branscum, and Ashutosh Atri discuss epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioral sciences, environmental health, and healthy policy and management. Written to serve both graduate and undergraduate public health students, as well as to help prepare for the Certified in Public Health (CPH) exam, Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) exam and Master certified in Health Education Specialist (MCHES) exam, the book covers each of these five core disciplines, plus other important topics such as:

• Population dynamics and control
• Air, water, and noise pollution, and other environmental issues
• Program planning, budgeting, management, and evaluation
• Systems thinking and leadership in community and public health

Students will gain insight into the descriptive, inferential, and analytical aspects of community and public health, as well as models, methods, and theories in health education and health promotion. Introduction to Community and Public Health provides the foundation necessary to build the skills of tomorrow's community and public health leaders.

Manoj Sharma, MBBS, MCHES, PHD, FAAHB is a professor at the Jackson State University's MPH and Dr. PH programs in Behavioral Health Promotion & Education

Paul W. Branscum, PHD, RD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at the University of Oklahoma.

Ashutosh Atri, MD, MS, is a practicing psychiatrist in Kearney, Nebraska, and has completed graduate training in health promotion and education from the University of Cincinnati.

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Figures and Tables

Figures

1. 1.1 One of the Many Dimensions of Health
2. 1.2 Community Health Is About Promoting Health for Groups of Individuals
3. 1.3 A Nigerian Boy Receiving a Smallpox Vaccination in 1967, an Example of an Organized Public Health Effort
4. 1.4 Health Education Is About Facilitating Voluntary Health Behavior Change
5. 1.5 Factors Affecting the Health of a Community
6. 1.6 A Local Health Inspector Inspecting a Kitchen for Food Safety
7. 1.7 Vaccination Was a Major Milestone in the History of Community and Public Health
8. 2.1 Waterborne Transmission of Cholera Was First Recognized in Europe in the Mid-1800s, by John Snow
9. 2.2 Bacteria: Examples of a Biological Agent
10. 2.3 Page One of the US Death Certificate
11. 2.4 Incidence Rates of Breast Cancer in Women by Race— United States, 1999– 2007
12. 2.5 The Relationship Between Flowing Water and Accumulated Water Is Analogous to the Relationship Between Incidence (New Water Flowing) and Prevalence (Total Accumulated Water)
13. 2.6 The Secular Trend in Tetanus Cases— United States, 1947– 2009
14. 3.1 Schematic Diagram of the Case-Control Study
15. 3.2 Confounding
16. 3.3 Schematic Diagram of the Cohort Study
17. 3.4 An Image from a 1950s Cohort Study Conducted with Miners Exposed to Airborne Particulates in Diatomaceous Earth Mining and Processing Plants
18. 3.5 Schematic Diagram of a Randomized Clinical Trial
19. 3.6 Relationship of Infectious Diseases, Communicable Diseases, and Contagious Diseases
20. 3.7 A Transmission Electron Micrograph of Measles Virus, a Paramyxovirus Transmitted by Direct Projection of Droplets
21. 4.1 Graph of a Normal Distribution
22. 4.2 Positively Skewed and Negatively Skewed Distributions
23. 4.3 Bar Graph of a Hypothetical Distribution of Race in a Group (n = 20)
24. 4.4 Pie Chart of a Hypothetical Distribution of Race in a Group (n = 20)
25. 4.5 Histogram of a Hypothetical Age Distribution in a Group of College Students
26. 4.6 Stem and Leaf Display of Hypothetical Data (n = 12)
27. 4.7 Box and Whisker Plot for Hypothetical Data
28. 5.1 Box and Whisker Plot of Hypothetical Posttest Knowledge Scores for Three Groups (n = 30)
29. 6.1 The Ecological Model
30. 6.2 Social Support Has Been Shown to Be a Major Determinant of Mental and Physical Health
31. 7.1 Diagram for Prioritizing Epidemiological Factors
32. 7.2 Program Planning Is About Involving Community Members as Important Stakeholders, and People Working Together as a Team
33. 7.3 Program Planning Is About Diversity, and Involving Community Members of All Different Backgrounds
34. 7.4 Diagram for Prioritizing Health Issues
35. 8.1 According to the Health Belief Model, Teenagers Will Continue to Text While Driving If They Do Not Perceive Themselves to Be at Risk of Any Harm
36. 8.2 According to Social Cognitive Theory, Children Who Observe Their Parents Obeying Traffic Laws, Such as Waiting for a Walk Light to Cross the Street, Will Likely Repeat This Behavior Later in Life
37. 8.3 Adopter Categories on a Bell Curve
38. 8.4 Rate of Adoption
39. 9.1 Overview of the 4Mat Model of Learning
40. 9.2 Lectures Can Be an Effective Way to Disseminate Large Amounts of Information to Large Groups
41. 9.3 Diaphragmatic Breathing Can Be a Simple and Easy Way to Promote Stress Reduction
42. 9.4 Using the Beach as a Peaceful Setting Is a Common Strategy in Guided Imagery
43. 10.1 Demographic Transition
44. 10.2 World Population: Past Estimates and Future Projections
45. 10.3 Fertility Rates in the United States, 1917– 1997
46. 10.4 A Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill
47. 10.5 An Intrauterine Device (IUD) with Progestogen
48. 10.6 An Opened Latex Condom and a Pregnancy Test (Showing the Sample Well): Items That May Be Used by the Sexually Active Individual
49. 11.1 A Roadside Vendor Cooking Jalebi, a Popular Sweet Dish in South Asia
50. 11.2 Mean Air Pollution (Particulate Matter of 10 μm or Less) in 13 Cities
51. 11.3 Smog in Beijing: Air Pollution Remains a Major Issue for Many Nations
52. 11.4 Workers Wearing Protective Clothing to Avoid Contamination from Hazardous Waste
53. 11.5 Components of Integrated Solid Waste Management
54. 12.1 Preventing Drinking and Driving Can Save Many Lives
55. 12.2 The Four Components of Integrated Pest Management
56. 12.3 Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania: Site of a Partial Meltdown in 1979
57. 12.4 Homes North of Charleston, South Carolina, Damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989
58. 12.5 The Three Phases of Disaster Management
59. 12.6 A CDC Employee Demonstrating the Proper Way to Wear Personal Protective Equipment
60. 13.1 Screening Exercise Conducted by CDC Nurses to Help Employees Monitor Their Blood Pressure
61. 13.2 A Young Girl with Diabetes Performs Self-Monitoring of Her Blood Glucose Level, an Important Aspect of Diabetic Preventive Care
62. 13.3 Four Components of the US Health Care System
63. 13.4 One of Insurers' Many Cost Containment Strategies Is to Preferentially Cover Cheaper, Generic Versions of More Expensive, Brand Name Medications
64. 14.1 Basic Schematic of a Logic Model
65. 14.2 Sample Gantt Chart for a One-Year Childhood Obesity Prevention Program
66. 14.3 Example of a One-Year Budget: Projected and Actual at Six Months
67. 14.4 Essential Elements of a SWOT Analysis
68. 14.5 Using a SWOT Analysis to Develop Organizational Strategies
69. 14.6 Using a SWOT Analysis to Create Public Health Strategies
70. 14.7 Outline for a Projected Sex Education Program Budget
71. 15.1 NCHL Health Leadership Competency Model

Tables

1. 1.1 Differences Between Medicine and Community and Public Health
2. 1.2 Factors Affecting Community Health
3. 1.3 Topic Areas in Healthy People 2020
4. 1.4 Ten Public Health Achievements Between 1900 and 1999 in the United States
5. 1.5 Summary of the Timeline of Community and Public Health
6. 1.6 Current Challenges in Community and Public Health
7. 2.1 Summary of the Uses of Epidemiology
8. 2.2 Agent Factors in the Epidemiological Triad, with Examples
9. 2.3 Host Factors in the Epidemiological Triad, with Examples
10. 2.4 Environmental Factors in the Epidemiological Triad, with Examples
11. 2.5 Age-Adjusted (to 2000 US Standard Population) Prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease by Age and Sex— United States, 2006– 2010
12. 3.1 Framework of a Case-Control Study
13. 3.2 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Case-Control Study
14. 3.3 Framework of a Cohort Study
15. 3.4 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Cohort Study
16. 3.5 Hypothetical Data for the Relationship Between a Study Factor and a Health Outcome over One Year of a Cohort Study
17. 3.6 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Randomized Clinical Trial
18. 3.7 Routes of Transmission for Infectious Diseases
19. 3.8 Complete Immunization Schedule: United States
20. 3.9 Differences Between Infectious Diseases and Chronic Diseases
21. 3.10 Common Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors
22. 4.1 Four Scales of Measurement
23. 4.2 Frequency Distribution Table of Age in a Sample of 100 Employees at a Worksite
24. 4.3 Frequency Distribution Table of Age in a Sample of 100 Employees at a Worksite, with Cumulative Frequency, Relative Frequency, and Cumulative Relative Frequency
25. 4.4 Hypothetical Distribution of Race in a Group (n = 20)
26. 4.5 Hypothetical Age Distribution in a Group of College Students
27. 4.6 Raw Data for Schoolchildren (n = 25)
28. 5.1 Two Types of Error When Making a Statistical Decision
29. 5.2 Hypothetical Knowledge Scores for a Theory-Based Educational Program and a Knowledge-Based Educational Program (n = 20)
30. 5.3 Means and Standard Deviations of Hypothetical Knowledge Scores for the Two Groups (n = 20)
31. 5.4 Summary of t-Test on Hypothetical Knowledge Scores for the Two Groups (n = 20)
32. 5.5 Hypothetical Pretest and Posttest Knowledge Scores for a Theory-Based Educational Program (n = 10)
33. 5.6 Means and Standard Deviations of Hypothetical Pretest and Posttest Knowledge Scores for a Theory-Based Educational Program (n = 10)
34. 5.7 Summary of a Paired t-Test on Hypothetical Pretest and Posttest Knowledge Scores (n = 10)
35. 5.8 Hypothetical Posttest Knowledge Scores for Three Groups (n = 30)
36. 5.9 Means and Standard Deviations on Hypothetical Posttest Knowledge Scores for Three Groups (n = 30)
37. 5.10 ANOVA Summary Table for the Hypothetical Posttest Knowledge Scores for Three Groups (n =...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Schlagworte: Öffentlicher Gesundheitsdienst u. Gesundheitspolitik • Allg. Public Health • Ashutosh Atri • community health care • community health issues • community health outreach • community health systems • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Health & Social Care • Health Communication • introduction to community and public health • Krankenpflege • Krankenpflege im öffentl. Gesundheitswesen, Hausbesuchsdienst • Krankenpflege im öffentl. Gesundheitswesen, Hausbesuchsdienst • Manoj Sharma • nursing • Öffentlicher Gesundheitsdienst u. Gesundheitspolitik • Paul W. Branscum • Population health • Public Health • public health dangers • public health disciplines • Public health education • public health essentials • Public Health General • Public Health Leadership • Public Health Nursing & Health Visiting • Public health policy • Public health promotion • Public Health Services & Policy • Public health systems • public health textbook • social health
• ISBN-10: 1-118-44838-3 / 1118448383
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-44838-0 / 9781118448380