Medicine and Public Health in Latin America

Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
Author: Marcos Cueto,Steven Palmer,Steven Paul Palmer
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781107023673

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This book provides a clear, broad, and provocative synthesis of the history of Latin American medicine.

The Future of Public Health

The Future of Public Health
Author: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health,Division of Health Care Services,Institute of Medicine
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1988-01-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309581905

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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.

Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire

Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire
Author: Howard Waitzkin
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781317256144

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The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many countries are considering new approaches to health care for their citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced global health care and the impacts now in America as the system rapidly shifts is Dr. Waitzkin s subject in his provocative new book. We now live in a new era in which the prospects for more humane approaches to health care are taking root. Strengthening access and improving public health are at the heart of the many previously little-noted struggles and actions by individuals, groups, and whole nations to put control back in the hands of patients and practitioners, as Americans of many political stripes seem to universally seek. The impacts of these changes in the United States are considerable, and they are amply illustrated by Dr. Waitzkin as the United States attempts to reorient its own system of care.Selected as the 2012 winner of the Freidson Outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological Association for its "bold and timely analysis of the global political economy of contemporary crises in health and medical care. By presenting the lessons learned from social medicine (past and present), [it] outlines a macro-sociologically informed response to these crises.""

The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century

The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century
Author: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309133180

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The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.

Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine

Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine
Author: Norman Vetter,Ian Matthews (PhD.)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1999
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0443057044

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Epidemiology and public health medicine are now being given greater importance under the new curricula. This book provides an understanding of the basic principles involved and includes extensive self-testing material.

The New Public Health

The New Public Health
Author: Theodore H. Tulchinsky,Elena A. Varavikova
Publsiher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 912
Release: 2014-03-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780124157675

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The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting. This 3e provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for all masters' level students and practitioners—specifically for courses in MPH programs, community health and preventive medicine programs, community health education programs, and community health nursing programs, as well as programs for other medical professionals such as pharmacy, physiotherapy, and other public health courses. Changes in infectious and chronic disease epidemiology including vaccines, health promotion, human resources for health and health technology Lessons from H1N1, pandemic threats, disease eradication, nutritional health Trends of health systems and reforms and consequences of current economic crisis for health Public health law, ethics, scientific d health technology advances and assessment Global Health environment, Millennium Development Goals and international NGOs

Primary Care and Public Health

Primary Care and Public Health
Author: Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309255202

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Ensuring that members of society are healthy and reaching their full potential requires the prevention of disease and injury; the promotion of health and well-being; the assurance of conditions in which people can be healthy; and the provision of timely, effective, and coordinated health care. Achieving substantial and lasting improvements in population health will require a concerted effort from all these entities, aligned with a common goal. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) examine the integration of primary care and public health. Primary Care and Public Health identifies the best examples of effective public health and primary care integration and the factors that promote and sustain these efforts, examines ways by which HRSA and CDC can use provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to promote the integration of primary care and public health, and discusses how HRSA-supported primary care systems and state and local public health departments can effectively integrate and coordinate to improve efforts directed at disease prevention. This report is essential for all health care centers and providers, state and local policy makers, educators, government agencies, and the public for learning how to integrate and improve population health.

Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Author: Brett J. Cassens
Publsiher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1992
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 068306262X

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University of California, San Diego. The National Medical Series for Independent Study. New edition of a concise, comprehensive outline of public health and preventive medicine, for medical students. Includes board-type questions and annotated answers. 16 U.S. contributors.