Understanding Health
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Understanding Health
Author: Helen Keleher
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2004
Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach provides students with essential knowledge to inform their future decisions and actions as health professionals. The book uncovers the role of determinants in understanding why some people are healthy and others struggle to be healthy. By applying the principles of the 'determinants of health' current and emerging developments in public health are explored comprehensively. Book jacket.
Improving Health in the Community
Author: Institute of Medicine
language: en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date: 1997-05-21
How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.
Understanding Global Health, 2E
Author: William H. Markle
language: en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date: 2013-11-05
The first edition of Understanding Global Health set a new information standard for this rapidly emerging subject. Written by a remarkable group of authors and contributors, this comprehensive, engagingly written text offers unmatched coverage of every important topic--from infectious disease to economics to war. Created with the non-specialist in mind, Understanding Global Health explores the current burden of disease in the world, how health is determined, and the problems faced by populations and health care workers around the world. The second edition has been thoroughly updated to include the most current information and timely topics. New chapters cover such topics as human trafficking, malaria and neglected tropical diseases, surgical issues in global health, and mental health. Every chapter includes Learning Objectives, Summary, Study Questions, and References and, in many instances, practical case examples. -- Provided by publisher.