Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-based Management

Lloyd F. Novick, Glen P. Mays

Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005 - Health & Fitness - 806 pages

A refreshing new text that gives students a solid grounding in the principles, practices, and skills essential to successful public health administration. With this text you get full coverage of traditional public health responsibilities -- assessing the burden of disease, preventing and controlling health threats, and developing policies and constituencies to improve health -- in a contemporary framework that fully reflects the ongoing transition from a public to a population health perspective. Each chapter ends with chapter reviews to reinforce major points; examples throughout the textdemonstrate important major concepts; a real-life case study illustrates the application of leadership in public health.

Contents

• Chapter: 3
• A Framework for Public Health Administration and Practice: 34
• Organization of the Public Health Delivery System: 63
• Nongovernmental Public Health Organizations: 88
• Interorganizational Efforts in Public Health: 94
• Chapter Review: 114
• Historical Perspectives on the Public Health Work Force: 120
• The Structure of the Current Work Force: 126
• Employment Settings: 132
• Chapter 5: 139
• The Modern Public Health Agency: 147
• The Future of Public Health: 153
• OPERATIONAL ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH: 169
• Public Health Surveillance: 202
• Using Information Systems for Public Health Administration: 222
• Geographic Information Systems for Public Health: 248
• Public Health Assessment: 266
• Chapter 6: 284
• Public Health Education and Health Promotion: 300
• Evaluation of Public Health Interventions: 324
• Public Health Research: 359
• Protecting Human Subjects in Public Health Research: 374
• ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES AND STRATEGIES: 395
• Financing the Publics Health: 413
• Performance Measurement and Improvement: 431
• Communication and Media Relations: 457
• Public Health Marketing: 474
• Building Constituencies for Public Health: 510
• Academic Partnerships in Public Health Practice: 521
• Legislative Relations in Public Health: 539
• Leadership in Public Health: 567
• APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION: 585
• Environmental Health Administration: 604
• Public Health Laboratory Administration: 623
• Roles and Responsibilities of Public Health in Disaster: 646
• Functional Model of Public Healths Response in Disasters: 653
• A Case Study: 662
• Data Collection: 672
• Natural Disasters and Technological Disasters: 679
• Bioterrorism: 693
• Chapter Review: 702
• Administering Effective HIV Prevention Interventions: 709
• Managed Care Public Health and the Uninsured: 728
• PopulationBased Management and the Emerging Public: 762
• Index: 781
• 155: 787

Bibliographic information

• Title: Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-based Management
• Editors: Lloyd F. Novick, Glen P. Mays
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005
• ISBN: 0763740780, 9780763740788
• Length: 806 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / General; Medical / Administration; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Medical / Public Health