Dawning Answers: How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health (Medicine) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195147405 ISBN 13: 9780195147407

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Dawning Answers charts the legacy of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic to the theory and practice of public health. Richly detailed chapters describe how advances in techniques and startegies to monitor health events, develop public policy, set funding priorities, mobilize communities, support the adoption of safer behaviors, ensure access to needed prevention and treatment services, and involve affected populations in public health research, intervention, and evaluation, all owe a substantial debt to those who have adapted, redefined, and extended these techniques and startegies in response to HIV/AIDS. The book offers thoughtful analyses from experts in various fields and disciplines. Although most of the examples reflect the U.S. experience, relevant examples from other countries are cited, and an entire chapter is devoted to the evolving impact of HIV/AIDS on global health and development. Devastating as the losses from AIDS have been, the many public health lessons learned as a result of the epidemic have positively influenced other domains of public health and will continue to exert an influence on new approaches to health assessment, policy development, and assurance.

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. . . the quality of the chapters in this volume range from excellent to oustanding . . . should be considered an essential book for understanding the recent past and current state of public health in the US. Anyone interested in public health in this country would benefit from reading this book. (AIDS Care, Vol 16, No 1)

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195147405
• ISBN 13: 9780195147407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Valdiserri Ronald O.