Essentials of Public Health (Essential Public Health) - Softcover

Turnock, Bernard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763745251 ISBN 13: 9780763745257

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2007

Synopsis

This comprehensive text is an excellent introduction to the field of public health. The book is divided into two parts. Part I defines and describes the public health system, provide concepts and tools for measuring health in populations, characterizes the relationship of the public health system with medical care and other elements of the overall health system, and identifies government's unique contributions through federal, state, and local public health agencies. Part II focuses on public health careers within the context of the overall public health workforce. Basic information on the size and composition of the public health workforce is followed by chapters that address careers and jobs in public health administration, epidemiology, public health nursing, health education, and other professional and program titles and positions. With its clear, reader-friendly language and helpful learning tools such as chapter exercises and discussion questions, this is the ideal text to prepare your students for a career in public health.

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Synopsis

This text serves as an introduction for undergraduate students to the field of public health, describing the public health system in the US as well as careers in the field. Turnock (community health sciences, U. of Illinois at Chicago) uses a systems approach to public health, viewing it as a model characterized by its missions, functions, capaciti

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0763745251
• ISBN 13: 9780763745257
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272