U.S. health in international perspective: shorter lives, poorer health
by Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Woolf, Steven H., Aron, Laudan Y., National Academies (U.S.)., Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries
Introduction -- Documenting the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Shorter lives -- Poorer health throughout life -- Explaining the U.S. Health disadvantage -- Framing the question -- Public health and medical care systems -- Individual behaviors -- Social factors -- Physical and socia…
The environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at di…
In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1, disease diploma…
"This is the sixth edition of the successful and internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology. The work comprehensively covers the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline."--[Source inconnue].
Oxford textbook of global public health
This is the sixth edition of the successful and internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology. The work comprehensively covers the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline.
"Teaches students and managers how to develop, lead, and evaluate health programs to ensure quality outcomes. The focus is on the three core management concepts of strategy, design, and leadership, but time is also devoted to describing facilitative management activities integra…
" ... briefly discusses some of the debates in Ghana's health sector: decentralization and governance, private sector partnership, strengthening health systems, and health financing. It brings together several elements of health system development and challenges and links it to …
The UK government's reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a 'good thing' which add, rather than consume, value. Yet the significant em…
"The UK government's reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a 'good thing' which add, rather than consume, value. Yet the significant e…
Partnership working in health presents the findings from a detailed study of public health partnerships in England which are used to explore the government's changes in public health now being implemented.
Through chapter cases, activities, and questions that reinforce essential concepts, this book explores theories of organizational design, leadership, and management and the social psychology of organizations as they apply to healthcare. --