COMMUNICABLE DISEASES FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH PROMOTION - Softcover

AYIM, MARTIN AYONG

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468500236 ISBN 13: 9781468500233

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2011

Synopsis

Get ready to explore the fascinating terrain of infectious diseases that includes The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (best seller on the Ebola outbreak), Strafford-Belmont Hotel in Philadelphia (Legionnaires disease outbreak), Jack-in the Box fast-food restaurants, Lyme Disease, Connecticut (tick-borne infection), Jim Hinson (famous puppeteer killed by streptococcal infection).

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About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/EDITOR The author and editor, Martin Ayong Ayim, was born in Ngwenjin village in the Azem Clan of Widikum in Cameroon. He studied at Federal Bilingual Grammar School Yaounde and Nursing School Bamenda. He was admitted into Indiana University Bloomington in 1984 where he graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Public Health Administration in 1987, and a Masters of Public Health with emphasis in Community Health Education in 1989. Thereafter, he was admitted into Texas A & M University for the doctoral program where he graduated in 1993 with a Ph. D. in Health education. He is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) in the USA. Furthermore he is a grant writer and publisher of many scholarly articles in National and International Journals of Health Education. He was employed at Grambling State University of Louisiana where he was promoted to Professor of Health Education. He successfully developed the Bs Kinesiology Health Promotion where he serves as Senior Academic Advisor. He earned the Dr. Eddie Robinson, Snr Endowed Professorship in the Department. He won the Health Educator of the Year in the State of Louisiana by the Louisiana Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (LAHPERD) in 2004. He also won the LAHPERD Ethnic Minority Award in 2005. Ayim is an active member of many professional organizations at local, national, and international levels. He has edited and written books in community health promotion, and published articles in the State and International Journals of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. He developed the INDICATE Model, a culture-based Model for Community health promotion program planning. His career objectives are to: teach health education content and process in an Institution of Higher Learning and write grants for external funding; conduct extensive health education-related research

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1468500236
• ISBN 13: 9781468500233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496