UID:
almafu_9959234390102883
Format:
1 online resource (905 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-02343-4
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9786611023430
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0-08-052533-4
Content:
Countries around the world are engaged in health reform, which places great demands on health care providers and systems managers. From the managed care revolution in the United States to the rebuilding of health systems in postcommunist Russia, these reforms impact millions of health care workers, government officials, patients, and the public alike.The New Public Health will help students and practitioners understand factors affecting the reform process of health care organization and delivery. It links the classic public health issues such as environmental sanitation, health
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The New Public Health; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1. A History of Public Health; Introduction; Prehistoric Societies; The Ancient World; The Early Medieval Period (Fifth to Tenth Centuries AD); The Late Medieval Period (Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries); The Renaissance (1500-1750); Enlightenment, Science, and Revolution (1750-1830); Foundations of Health Statistics and Epidemiology; Social Reform and the Sanitary Movement (1830-1875); Hospital Reform; The Bacteriologic Revolution; Microbiology and Immunology; Maternal and Child Health
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Nutrition in Public HealthMilitary Medicine; Internationalization of Health; The Epidemiologic Transition; The Evolution of Public Health in the Twentieth Century; Creating and Managing Health Systems; Summary; Historical Markers; Recommended Readings; Bibliography; Chapter 2. Expanding the Concept of Public Health; Introduction; Evolution of Public Health; Health and Disease; The Natural History of Disease; Society and Health; Modes of Prevention; Demographic and Epidemiologic Transition; Interdependence of Health Services; Defining Public Health
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World Health Organization's Definition of HealthSelective Primary Care; The Risk Approach; The Case-for-Action; Political Economy and Health; Health and Development; Health Systems: The Case for Reform; Advocacy and Consumerism; The Health Field Concept; The Value of Medical Care in Public Health; Health Targets; Individual and Community Participation in Health; Social Ecology and Health Promotion; Defining Public Health Standards; Integrative Approaches to Public Health; The New Public Health; Summary; Recommended Readings; Bibliography
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Chapter 3. Measuring and Evaluating the Health of a PopulationIntroduction; Epidemiology; Social Epidemiology; Epidemiology in Building Health Policy; Rates and Ratios; Demography; Life Expectancy; Sentinel Events; The Burden of Disease; Measurements; Normal Distribution; Standardization of Rates; Sampling; Potential Errors in Measurement; Screening for Disease; Epidemiologic Studies; Establishing Causal Relationships; Notifiable Diseases; Special Registries and Reporting Systems; Disease Classification; Hospital Discharge Information; Health Information Systems (Informatics)
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Surveillance, Reporting, and PublicationAssessing the Health of the Individual; Assessment of Population Health; Health Care Financing and Organization; Summary-From Information to Knowledge to Policy; Electronic Sources; Recommended Readings; Bibliography; Chapter 4. Communicable Diseases; Introduction; Public Health and the Control of Communicable Disease; The Nature of Communicable Disease; Host-Agent-Environment Triad; Classifications of Communicable Diseases; Modes of Transmission of Disease; Immunity; Surveillance; Endemic and Epidemic Disease; Control of Communicable Diseases
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-703350-5
Language:
English
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