Basic Prevention

Volume numbers determined from Scope of the guidelines, p. 12-13.

Aging is not a disease; it’s a normal part of life. BASIC PREVENTION is your guide to aging successfully. It will help you increase the time in your older years when you are independent and enjoying your life. It may decrease the time, if any, in your older years when you must depend on others to help you through the day. Each section of BASIC PREVENTION concludes with “What You Can Do.” Find out what you can do to keep your mind sharp, to keep your bones strong, to avoid falls, to understand what cholesterol is, to understand what medicines you should—and should not—take, to understand what your blood pressure tells you, and to learn many other things that will help you age successfully. The second part of BASIC PREVENTION is titled COMMON PROBLEMS. Here you will learn what you need to know about back pain, constipation, dementia, and other health problems that are common among older people. If you are in your 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, or 60’s, BASIC PREVENTION can help your older years be healthy ones. If you are in your 70’s or 80’s, BASIC PREVENTION can make your present years more enjoyable. You have only one body, one life. Let BASIC PREVENTION show you how to take charge now and increase your chances of enjoying your older years. .

This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.

At a time of unprecedented challenges and opportunities for publichealth, Prevention is Primary provides models, methods, andapproaches for building health and equity in communities. Writtenin accessible and understandable language, this comprehensive bookincludes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness socialjustice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness andinjury in the first place. Prevention is Primary, written by associates of thenationally renowned Prevention Institute, is a theory-to-practicebook for students, faculty practitioners, and community leaders whowant to take a proactive stance against the most pressing healthproblems in the community including asthma, tobacco, violence, HIV,poor nutrition and physical inactivity, health disparities, andenvironmental injustice. The volume provides a comprehensive andpractical understanding of prevention on a community level. Theauthors define the elements of comprehensive, quality preventionefforts—from the necessary partnerships that need to bedeveloped to the training, vision, and policies that go intosuccessful efforts.

Foundational topics such as history, ethics, and principles of primary prevention, as well as specific issues such as consultation, political issues, and financing. The second section addresses such topics as abuse, depression, eating disorders, HIV/AIDS, injuries, and religion and spirituality often dividing such topics into separate entries addressing childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.

Part 4 examines school-age programs ranging from interventions in school settings to developing social competency and job readiness. And, Part 5 focuses on prevention interventions in adulthood, specifically unemployment and depression.