Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not

• Author : Robert G. Evans,Morris L. Barer,Theodore R. Marmor
• Publisher : Transaction Publishers
• Release Date : 1994
• Total pages : 378
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Each topical chapter in this volume crystallizes the findings of a five-year study, under the auspices of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, that probed the links between social hierarchy, the “macroenvironmental” factors in illness patterns, the quality of the “microenvironmental,” and other determinants of ...

• Author : Mary A. Nies,Melanie McEwen
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release Date : 2018-08-31
• Total pages : 728
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Give your students a complete guide to community health nursing! Community/Public Health Nursing, 7th Edition provides a unique, upstream preventive focus and a strong social justice approach, all in a concise, easy-to-read text. Covering the nurses’ role in promoting community health, it shows how students can take an active ...

• Author : Jack James
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2015-11-02
• Total pages : 526
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : The Health of Populations: Beyond Medicine uses current research and in-depth analysis to provide insights into the issues and challenges of population health; a subject of increasing concern, due largely to rapid population growth, population aging, rising costs and diminishing resources, health inequality, and the global rise in noncommunicable diseases. ...

• Author : Stephen J. Kunitz
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2007
• Total pages : 286
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the matter. While this area of research deals in complex problems, it is often dominated by those who deploy rather categorical, ...

• Author : Ron Brookmeyer,Donna F. Stroup
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2004
• Total pages : 370
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : This text explores the critical issues in the statistical analysis and interpretation of public health surveillance data. It covers statistical methods for detecting disease outbreaks and clusters, the use of survey methods and interpreting time trends and geographic patterns, among other topics....

• Author : Mary Albrecht Nies,Melanie McEwen
• Publisher : Saunders
• Release Date : 2011
• Total pages : 693
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : This edition contains a new chapter on disaster management and preparedness that examines this new area of concern. It contains case studies that emphasise community aspects of all steps of the nursing process to promote the community perspective in all health situations....

• Author : Mary Albrecht Nies,Melanie McEwen
• Publisher : W B Saunders Company
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 860
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Based on the unique upstream thinking approach that emphasizes health promotion efforts to address the precursors of poor health, this edition focuses on the issues, responsibilities, and roles important for providing contemporary community health nursing care. Detailed case studies provide a community component for each step of the nursing process, ...

• Author : Rosemary M. Caron
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017
• Total pages : 356
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Instructor Resources: Test bank; presentation PowerPoint slides, answer guides to discussion questions, exercises, and assignments, and resource lists. The field of population health examines a diverse range of environmental, physical, and cultural conditions that occur within populations; considers the health outcomes influenced by these conditions; and seeks the development of ...

• Author : Katherine M. Keyes,Sandro Galea,Robert a Knox Professor and Dean Sandro Galea, MD
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2016-08-04
• Total pages : 224
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE formalizes an emerging discipline at the crossroads of social and medical sciences, demography, and economics--an emerging approach to population studies that represents a seismic shift in how traditional health sciences measure and observe health events. Bringing together theories and methods from diverse fields, this text provides grounding ...

• Author : T. Kue Young
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2005
• Total pages : 392
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Population health encompasses traditional public health and preventive medicine but emphasises the full range of health determinants affecting the entire population rather than only ill or high-risk individuals. The population health approach integrates the social and biological, the quantitative and qualitative, recognising the importance of social and cultural factors in ...

• Author : Mary A. Nies,Melanie McEwen,Penny Leake
• Publisher : Saunders
• Release Date : 2008-08-01
• Total pages : 8
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Note: This synopsis may refer to a different edition of this book....

• Author : Richard K. Riegelman
• Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 232
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Public Health 101 provides a big-picture, population perspective on the determinants of health and disease and the tools available to protect and promote health. It examines the full range of options for intervention including use of the health care system, the public health system, and society-wide interventions such as laws and ...

• Author : Frances A. Maurer,Claudia M. Smith
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release Date : 2014-04-04
• Total pages : 888
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Focusing on practical, need-to-know information, Community/Public Health Nursing Practice helps you learn how to apply the nursing process at the community and family level. It features an engaging, easy-to-understand writing style, as well as assessment tools, detailed case studies, and clinical examples that demonstrate how key concepts apply to ...

• Author : Organisation mondiale de la santé,World Health Organization,A. D. Lopez
• Publisher : World Health Organization
• Release Date : 2002
• Total pages : 770
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : As life expectancy rates continue to increase in many countries around the world, comparative health assessments based on mortality rates alone give an increasingly inadequate picture of public health. This publication addresses a wide range of key issues regarding the measurement of population health using comprehensive indices which combine data ...

• Author : Steven E Rigdon,Ronald D. Fricker, Jr.
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2020-02-14
• Total pages : 204
• ISBN : 9780202304908

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Summary : Today the citizens of developed counties have never experienced a large-scale disease outbreak. One reason is the success of the public health community, including epidemiologists and biostatisticians, in tracking and identifying disease outbreaks. Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague is the ...