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This portfolio covers social determinants, health disparities, and healthcare systems, supporting public health professionals, sociologists, and policymakers. It features research on health promotion, behavioral health, and community interventions that improve population health outcomes and reduce inequalities.

  • Social Justice and Healthcare

    Intersections of Political Philosophy and Healthcare
    • 1st Edition
    • William O'Donohue
    • English
    Social Justice and Healthcare: Intersections of Political Philosophy and Healthcare addresses the pressing need for a comprehensive resource that connects the principles of social and economic justice with the realities of healthcare practice. Clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, nurses, and medical professionals face daily challenges related to fairness, discrimination, and access to care, yet lack a unified reference that integrates philosophical frameworks with actionable insights for healthcare delivery. The reference surveys nearly 70 influential social justice theorists and 20 healthcare economists, offering an extensive overview of major thought in this domain. Structured into two major sections, the book first explores the evolution of political philosophy as it relates to justice, fairness, and access, profiling key figures from Plato and Kant to Rawls and Nussbaum. The second section contextualizes these theories within the field of healthcare, introducing foundational health economists and examining core issues such as managed care, the Affordable Care Act, and healthcare reform. Each chapter distills complex ideas into accessible, clinically relevant summaries, providing the historical context and practical implications essential for healthcare professionals. Social Justice and Healthcare empowers clinicians with the knowledge to navigate ethical dilemmas, advocate for justice in healthcare systems, and improve patient outcomes. By integrating diverse scholarly voices and economic perspectives, this reference enhances critical thinking and problem-solving skills, equipping its readers to address inequities and advance reform within their clinical practice.

  • International Encyclopedia of Public Health

    • 3rd Edition
    • Stella R. Quah
    • English
    The International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Third Edition, Seven Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Spanning across 7 volumes, 13 subject areas and 398 chapters, this new edition takes a multidisciplinary approach and presents the history, methodology, and latest advances in biomedical research and related scientific fields, including social sciences, life sciences, and bioengineering to address public health research, disease, health processes, and disciplines. The book offers readers evidence-based analysis and information on solutions to real-world problems in global and local health through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach.Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included comprise the fundamental research areas of global public health: historical roots, scientific research methodology and approaches, public health of vulnerable population subgroups (the aged, children and adolescents, at-risk populations), environmental and occupational epidemiology, and much more.

  • The New Public Health

    • 4th Edition
    • Theodore H. Tulchinsky + 2 more
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Public Health**The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into seven 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.Fully revised, the Fourth Edition of The New Public Health provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for graduate students and advance undergraduate students especially for courses in MPH, community health, preventive medicine, community health education programs, community health nursing programs. It is also a valuable resource for health professionals requiring an overview of public health.

  • Advances in Virus Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 113
    • English
    Advances in Virus Research, Volume 113 in this ongoing serial, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Sections cover RNA modifications in viruses and virus infected cells, RNA silencing suppression, Animal models of alphavirus infection, and Enterovirus entry and spread.

  • Health Care Today in the United States

    • 1st Edition
    • Jahangir Moini + 3 more
    • English
    Health Care Today in the United States details the complexities of health care in the United States and provides readers with up-to-date information on the state of health care, its challenges, and how to navigate the system. Sections cover patient populations, diverse cultures, legalities, the opioid epidemic, the impact of COVID-19, health care costs, insurance and the impact of technology on health care. Written for students seeking a health science degree, as well as health care professionals, nurses, medical students, and those in the field of public health, this book provides a comprehensive view of health care in the U.S.

  • One Health

    Integrated Approach to 21st Century Challenges to Health
    • 1st Edition
    • Joana C. Prata + 2 more
    • English
    One Health: Challenges for the 21st Century is a transdisciplinary approach to health, considering the interdependency of human, animal, and environmental health. This approach to health promotion and disease prevention calls for integrative and interdisciplinary cooperation. From zoonotic diseases to environmental degradation, this book introduces core concepts of the One Health approach by presenting focal key challenges. The objective of this book is not centered solely on epidemiologic interactions of infectious diseases but also on the environmental and ecological implications of current major threats. Written by international experts, the ten chapters provide a comprehensive approach consisting of core concepts, practical examples, and applications that align with key challenges to public health. Therefore, this book is a valuable resource for public health professionals, veterinarians, physicians, environmental researchers, policymakers, and other professionals who seek to understand the overarching complexities of health.

  • The Social Validity Manual

    Subjective Evaluation of Interventions
    • 2nd Edition
    • Stacy L. Carter + 1 more
    • English
    Social Validity is a concept used in behavioral intervention research. It focuses on whether the goals of treatment, the intervention techniques used, and the outcomes achieved are acceptable, relevant, and useful to the individual in treatment. The Social Validity Manual, Second Edition, provides background on the development of social validity, an overview of current research in social validity, and guidelines for expanding the practice of social validation. The book offers detailed information on scales and methods for measuring social validity across the goals, procedures, and effects of treatments utilized in various fields. The second edition incorporates advances in research findings and offers two new chapters on the use of social validity in the health sciences and how social validity plays an important role in increasing cultural awareness.

  • Statistical, Mapping and Digital Approaches in Healthcare

    • 1st Edition
    • Gilles Maignant + 1 more
    • English
    Statistical, Mapping and Digital Approaches in Healthcare addresses all health territories, starting from the analysis of geographical data (health data, population data, health data systems and environmental data), to new health areas (Health 3.0), i.e. digital health territories. Specific tools are used to question environmental changes, such as health statistics, mapping, mathematical models, optimization models and serious games.

  • Case Studies in Public Health

    • 1st Edition
    • Theodore H. Tulchinsky
    • English
    Case Studies in Public Health contains selected case studies of some of the most important and influential moments in medicine and epidemiology. The cases chosen for this collection represent a wide array of public health issues that go into the makeup of what can be termed the New Public Health (NPH), which includes traditional public health, such as sanitation, hygiene and infectious disease control, but widens its perspective to include the organization, financing and quality of health care services in a much broader sense. Each case study is presented in a systematic fashion to facilitate learning, with the case, background, current relevance, economic issues, ethical issues, conclusions, recommendation and references discussed for each case. The book is a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers with specialized knowledge who need further information on the general background and history of public health and important scientific discoveries within the field. It is an ideal resource for students in public health, epidemiology, medicine, anthropology, and sociology, and for those interested in how to apply lessons from the past to present and future research.

  • Health Reform Policy to Practice

    Oregon’s Path to a Sustainable Health System: A Study in Innovation
    • 1st Edition
    • Ronald Stock + 1 more
    • English
    Health Reform Policy to Practice: Oregon as a Case Study for a Path to a Comprehensive and Sustainable Health Delivery Model offers a real world example of an innovative, successful and comprehensive program conducted by the U.S. State of Oregon. In 1991, Oregon embarked on a journey to improve health for all its citizens by radically re-thinking how to approach health care for long-term benefits. Over more than two decades, Oregonians have participated in a dialogue to create a new approach to solve the dilemma of providing high quality health care that is affordable and effective. Traditionally, health care reform looked at cutting people from care, cutting provider rates or cutting services. Oregon’s approach is unique in that it built a new system of delivery from the ground (community) up. The Oregon model took a “Fourth Path” to health care by redesigning the clinical delivery system through reducing waste, improving individual health and prevention, and therefore reducing utilization of services, creating local accountability, aligning financial incentives and creating fiscal accountability. This is not only an Oregon story, but a national one as other states, payers and purchasers implement health care reform.