Public health
Subtitle: what it is and how it works
By: Bernard J. Turnock
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Gaithersburg, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780834218116
Subjects: Public health; Public Health Administration; Public Health; Health Services; Public health administration
Description: "The Second Edition of this popular text brings clarity and insight to the study of a complex and multidimensional field. The author introduces a unifying conceptual model that characterizes public health by its missions, functions, capacity, processes, and outcomes"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What Is Public Health? --; title: A Brief History of Public Health in the United States --; title: Images and Definitions of Public Health --; title: Public Health as a System --; title: Unique Features of Public Health --; title: Value of Public Health --; title: Selected History of Public Health Activities in Chicago, 1834-1999 --; title: Understanding and Measuring Health --; title: Health in the United States --; title: Health, Illness, and Disease --; title: Measuring Health --; title: Influences on Health --; title: Analyzing Health Problems for Causative Factors --; title: Economic Dimensions of Health Outcomes --; title: Healthy People 2010 --; title: Health Services and Public Health --; title: Health and Health Services --; title: The Health System in the United States --; title: Changing Roles, Themes, and Paradigms in the Health System --; title: Managed Care and Public Health: Strange Bedfellows? --; title: Law, Government, and Public Health --; title: American Government and Public Health --; title: Law and Public Health --; title: Governmental Public Health --; title: Administrative Law --; title: Core Functions and Public Health Practice --; title: Public Health Functions and Practice before the IOM Report --; title: Public Health Practice and Core Functions after the IOM Report --; title: Post-IOM Report Initiatives --; title: New Opportunities for Improving Public Health Practice --; title: The Infrastructure of Public Health --; title: Infrastructure, Ingredients, and Inputs --; title: Human Resources in Public Health --; title: Organizational Resources --; title: Information Resources --; title: Fiscal Resources --; title: Healthy People 2010 Infrastructure Objectives --; title: Public Health Interventions --; title: Interventions, Programs, and Services --; title: Categorizing Programs and Services of Public Health.