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Public
Health:
What It Is
And How It Works
Second Edition
by
Bernard Turnock
Table
of Contents
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1-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
- The Value of Public Health
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
- Appendix 1-A: Selected History of Public Health Activities in
Chicago, 1834-1999
Chapter 2-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
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
Chapter 3-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
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
- Appendix 3-A: Managed Care and Public Health: Strange Bedfellows?
Chapter 4-Law, Government, and Public Health
- American Government and Public Health
- Law and Public Health
- Governmental Public Health
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
- Appendix 4-A: Administrative Law
Chapter 5-Core Functions and Public Health Practice
- Public Health Functions and Practice before the IOM Report
- Public Health Practice and Core Functions after the IOM Report
- Post IOM Report Initiatives
- New Opportunities for Improving Public Health Practice
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
Chapter 6-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
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
Chapter 7-Public Health Interventions
- Interventions, Programs, and Services
- Categorizing Programs and Services of Public Health
- Evidence-Based Public Health Practice
- Program Management in Public Health
- Conclusion
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
- Appendix 7-A: Age-Specific Recommendations for Clinical Preventive
Services
Chapter 8-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
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
Appendix A-Glossary of Terms
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