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Public health : what it is and how it works / Bernard J. Turnock.
- Title
- Public health : what it is and how it works / Bernard J. Turnock.
- Author
- Turnock, Bernard J.
- Publication
- Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | RA 445 .T86 2001x | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 354 p. : ill., map; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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 -- Value of Public Health -- Selected History of Public Health Activities in Chicago, 1834-1999 -- 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 -- 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 -- Managed Care and Public Health: Strange Bedfellows? -- Law, Government, and Public Health -- American Government and Public Health -- Law and Public Health -- Governmental Public Health -- Administrative Law -- 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 -- 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 -- Public Health Interventions -- Interventions, Programs, and Services -- Categorizing Programs and Services of Public Health.
- ISBN
- 0834218119
- LCCN
- ^^^00032774^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library