The COVID-19 Response
The Vital Role of the Public Health Professional
- 1st Edition - September 22, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Jennifer Horney
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 8 1 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 7 9 - 6
The COVID-19 Response: The Vital Role of the Public Health Professional explores population health during a pandemic and how is it different than clinical medicine. Other sectio… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe COVID-19 Response: The Vital Role of the Public Health Professional explores population health during a pandemic and how is it different than clinical medicine. Other sections cover federal, state and local responses to COVID-19, testing for COVID-19, the implementation of public health control measures, the use of public health emergency powers, health equity, the resignation and firing of public health leaders, vaccination planning, and the future of public health post COVID-19. Leaders and practitioners working in public health practice and academia, as well as students in public health undergraduate and graduate level programs will find this book extremely useful.
- Clarifies the role of public health in a pandemic emergency
- Assesses the indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which include excess deaths from dementia, diabetes and heart disease, and will soon include the potential for global epidemics of preventable diseases like measles, diphtheria and polio
- Explores the impact of lack of trust in science and public health leadership
- Describes a way forward for the public health system to be prepared to respond to future threats
Leaders and practitioners working in public health practice and academia as well as students in public health undergraduate and graduate programs. Leaders, practitioners, and academics in related fields of governmental social services beyond public health (e.g., public administration, social services, emergency management) as well as policy makers and graduate students in these fields
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. What is a population health approach?
- Who and what is public health?
- Individual and population level causes of disease
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Federal, state, local, and other public health agency roles in preparedness
- Public health emergency preparedness: important events, 2000–2016
- Implications of federalism in public health emergency preparedness
- Tribal public health agencies
- Legislative and funding mechanisms
- Public health emergency preparedness and the U.S. response to COVID-19
- International public health agencies responses to COVID-19
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Implementing public health control measures
- Quarantine, isolation, and contact tracing
- Movement and travel
- Masks and face coverings
- Limits to gatherings and congregate spaces
- Schools and instructional modes
- Air filtration
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Standing up testing
- The early pandemic and challenges to testing
- Testing strategies
- Sensitivity and specificity
- Inequitable access to testing
- Legislation, policy, and COVID-19 testing
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Measuring the impact of COVID-19
- Direct measures of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Indirect measures of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Responding to concurrent disasters
- What are concurrent disasters?
- The health impacts of disasters
- Public health's role in disaster response
- Public health's role in response to disasters concurrent with COVID-19
- Hurricanes
- Heatwaves
- Wildfires
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Equity and disproportionate impacts of COVID-19
- Inequities in COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths
- Inequities in exposure
- Inequities in vaccine access
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Vaccines and vaccinations
- The role of public health departments in vaccination
- State and local public health roles in COVID vaccination
- Progress in vaccination coverage
- Remaining challenges
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Will the damage to public health be long-lasting?
- A legacy of inadequate investment in U.S. Public health systems
- Where is the evidence base for public health preparedness?
- Where is the future public health workforce pipeline?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. The future of public health
- Public Health 3.0
- Time for Public Health 4.0?
- Enhanced leadership and workforce
- Strategic, hyperlocal partnerships
- Conclusion
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 22, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 176
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323988100
- eBook ISBN: 9780323972796
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Jennifer Horney
Jennifer Horney is a Professor and Founding Director of the Epidemiology Program and Core Faculty at the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on assessing the health impacts of disasters, including inequitable impacts among physically and socially vulnerable groups. She is currently a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Preparedness and Response, a member of the National Academies of Sciences’ Gulf Research Program’s Enhancing Community Resilience Committee, and a member of the Publications Board of the American Public Health Association. She has provided technical assistance to public health agencies globally around disasters, emerging infectious disease outbreaks, and pandemic influenza planning and response.
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Professor and Founding Director of the Epidemiology Program and Core Faculty at the Disaster
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