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The public health quality improvement handbook / by Bialek, Ronald G., Duffy, Grace L., Moran, John W., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 3 Strategic and Operational Planning -- The Pitfalls Associated with Strategic and Operational Planning and How to Overcome Them -- Chapter 4 Public Health Program Design and Deployment -- Accreditation -- Getting the Process of Accreditation Started -- Developing a Plan and Gathering the Tools -- Leverage Points -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence As a Framework to Improve Public Health -- Using the Seven CPE Categories to Improve Public Health Organizations -- Additional Resources for Improving Public Health Organizations -- Final Considerations for Public Health Performance Improvement -- Chapter 6 Measures for Public Health -- Critical Concepts Concerning Measures -- Selecting or Developing Your Measures -- Summary -- Chapter 7 Leading and Lagging Indicators of Public Health and Public Health Assessment and Accreditation -- Need for Both Leading and Lagging Indicators of Public Health Improvement.…”
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Bringing public health into urban revitalization : workshop summary / by Pool, Robert, 1955-

Subjects: “…Public health Congresses.…”
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Public health perspectives on depressive disorders /

Table of Contents: “…The path to the public health recognition of depressive disorders / Neal L. …”
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Oxford handbook of public health practice / Handbook of public health practice

Table of Contents: “…Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Options and decisions; Introduction; 1.1 Scoping public health problems; 1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions; 1.3 Assessing health needs; 1.4 Economic evaluation--the science behind the art of making choices; 1.5 Assessing health impacts on a population; 1.6 Being explicit about values in public health; 1.7 Understanding ethics in public health; 1.8 Innovative ways to solve public health problems; Part 2 Using data and evidence; Introduction; 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge; 2.2 Using qualitative methods.…”
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Implications of health literacy for public health : workshop summary / Health literacy for public health

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background and overview -- Current health department efforts in health literacy -- Health literacy facilitates public health efforts -- Supporting public health implementation and research -- Reflections on the presentations and discussions -- Meeting agenda -- Speaker biosketches -- A prescription is not enough: improving public health with health literacy -- Revised questions for Nebraska survey.…”
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The public health effects of food deserts : workshop summary /

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Public health and epidemiology at a glance / by Somerville, Margaret, Dr

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; About the authors; 1 Introduction to public health; Domains of public health; Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice; 2 Incidence and prevalence; Definitions; Rates; Descriptive epidemiology; 3 Risks and odds; Risk, relative risk and absolute risk difference; Odds and odds ratio; 4 Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation; Hierarchy of evidence; Establishing a causal relationship; 5 Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies; Bias; Confounding; Chance; 6 Standardisation; Why do we need to standardise data?…”
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Protecting public health at Superfund sites : can institutional controls meet the challenge? by Breggin, Linda

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Physical activity and public health practice /

Table of Contents: “…History of physical activity contributions to public health / Amanda E. Paluch [and others] -- Ch. 2. …”
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Future trends in veterinary public health : report of a WHO Study Group.

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Public Health Systems and Emerging Infections : Assessing the Capabilities of the Public and Private Sectors. by Davis, Johnathan R.

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Applications of regression models in public health / by Rivera, Roberto (Associate professor), Martínez, Melissa N.

Table of Contents: “…Applications of Regression Models in Public Health; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; 1: Basic Concepts for Statistical Modeling; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Parameter Versus Statistic; 1.3 Probability Definition; 1.4 Conditional Probability; 1.5 Concepts of Prevalence and Incidence; 1.6 Random Variables; 1.7 Probability Distributions; 1.8 Centrality and Dispersion Parameters of a Random Variable; 1.9 Independence and Dependence of Random Variables; 1.10 Special Probability Distributions; 1.10.1 Binomial Distribution; 1.10.2 Poisson Distribution; 1.10.3 Normal Distribution.…”
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Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance by Somerville, Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- How to use your textbook -- Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction to public health -- Chapter 2: Public health old and new -- Part 2: Epidemiology and evidence-based practice -- Chapter 3: Incidence and prevalence -- Chapter 4: Risks and odds -- Chapter 5: Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation -- Chapter 6: Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies -- Chapter 7: Standardisation…”
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Linking research and public health practice : a review of CDC's program of centers for research and demonstration of health promotion and disease prevention /...

Table of Contents: “…A Focus on Risk Conditions and Social Determinants of HealthAn Orientation Toward the Community -- Interdisciplinarity -- A Means for Dissemination Research in Public Health -- An Interactive Process for Establishing Research Priorities -- A Role in Setting National Research Priorities -- 3 The Research and Demonstration Projects Conducted by the Prevention Research Centers -- INNOVATIONS -- SETTING PRIORITIES IN THE PRCS -- Criteria for Project Selection -- Quality Control -- Peer Review -- Public Health Impact -- Balance in Research Portfolios…”
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Methods for community public health research : integrated and engaged approaches /

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Dental Public Health at a Glance by Chestnutt, Ivor G.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Dental Public Health at a Glance -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 What is dental public health? …”
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International public health policy and ethics /

Table of Contents: “…International public health, morality, politics, poverty, war, disease / Michael Boylan -- pt. 1. …”
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Public health for the 21st century : the prepared leader / Public health for the twenty-first century by Rowitz, Louis

Table of Contents: “…The new public health : a preparedness approach -- The social capital perspective -- The changing public health system -- Overview to bioterrorism preparedness and response -- Bioterrorism competencies for leaders -- New partnerships -- Concern of the community for safety -- Systems thinking and complexity -- People skills -- Public health law and ethics -- Risk and crisis communication -- Tipping point awareness -- Forensic epidemiology : a new partnership -- Building communities -- Change strategies -- A view of tomorrow.…”
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New perspectives on public health policy /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: new perspectives on public health policy / James Mohr -- Reform and its discontents: public health in New York City during the Great Society / James Colgrove -- Crisis and opportunity in drug policy: changing the direction of British drug services in the 1980s / Virginia Berridge and Alex Mold -- The other war on drugs: the pharmaceutical industry, evidence-based medicine, and clinical practice / Howard I. …”

...: a critical evaluation of moral, legal, and political claims in public health /... by Coggon, John, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…The seven faces of public health; 4. Public health policy; 5. Public health law and ethics; 6. …”
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Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South. by Ellis, John H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Preface; 1 Beginnings of the Public Health Movement; 2 The Necropolitan South; 3 The Epidemic of 1878; 4 The Quest for National Health Legislation; 5 The New Orleans Sanitary Association; 6 Tales of Romance from Memphis; 7 The Sanitary Question in Atlanta; 8 Public Health in the New South; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Food Health : Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health. by Chrzan, Janet

Table of Contents: “…Tables and Figures; Introduction to the Three-Volume Set Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition; Introduction to Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health; Research Ethics in Food Studies; Section VII -- Public Health and Nutrition; Chapter 1 -- Introduction to Public Health Nutrition Methods; Chapter 2 -- Identifying and Using Indicators to Assess Program Effectiveness: Food Intake, Biomarkers, and Nutritional Evaluation; Chapter 3 -- Focused Ethnographic Studies for Food and Nutrition Planning and Program Development.…”
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Biostatistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Using R. by Chan, Bertram K. C., PhD

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Share Biostatistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Using R; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Public Health, and Epidemiology; Medicine; Preventive Medicine and Public Health; Public Health and Epidemiology; Review Questions for Section 1.1; 1.2 Personal Health and Public Health; Personal Health Versus Public Health; Review Questions for Section 1.2; 1.3 Research and Measurements in EPDM and PH; EPDM: The Basic Science of PH; Main Epidemiologic Functions; The Cause of Diseases; Exposure Measurement in Epidemiology.…”
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Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health. by Verderber, Stephen F. F.

Table of Contents: “…FrontCover; SPRAWLING CITIES AND OURENDANGERED PUBLIC HEALTH; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1INTRODUCTION: AN EPIDEMICON OUR DOORSTEP; 2SPRAWL, ARCHITECTURE, AND HEALTH:A BRIEF HISTORY; 3GLOBAL SPRAWL MACHINES; 4TRANSFUSION: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; 5CASE STUDY: NEW ORLEANS; 6THE FUTURE; APPENDIX: MALL TYPOLOGIES; INDEX.…”
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Equity, Social Determinants and Public Health Programmes. by Organization, World Health

Subjects: “…Public health.…”
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Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic. by Gostin, Lawrence O.

Table of Contents: “…Harmonizing Human Rights and Public Health""; ""3. Human Rights Impact Assessment""; ""4. …”
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Violence in America : a Public Health Approach. by Rosenberg, Marc L.

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Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration. by Vadi, Valentina

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Public Health in International Investment Law and Arbitration; Copyright page; Contents; Table of treaties; Table of cases; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Foreign direct investments and public health: defining and connecting the two fields; Introductory note; 1 International investment law; Introduction; Foreign direct investment: definition and function; Multilateral failures and bilateral successes; Contents of investment treaties; The settlement of disputes between foreign investors and states.…”
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A Public Health Approach to Bullying Prevention. by Masiello, Matthew G.

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Crash course sociology. / Population health

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Health Situation in the South-East Asia region.

Subjects: “…Public health Southeast Asia.…”
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Rapport sur l'epidemie mondiale de VIH/SIDA 2004

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WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2008 : the MPOWER Package. by WHO

Subjects: “…Public health.…”
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Macroeconomia y Salud : Invertir en Salud en Pro Del Desarrollo Economico Informe de la Comision Sobre Macroeconomia y Salud.

Subjects: “…Public health administration.…”
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Case Studies in Community Health. by Fairbanks, Dr. Jo

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I -- Epidemiology; Case Study # 1: Basic Terms in Epidemiology; Case Study #2: Cholera in London, 1850; Case Study #3: The Hantavirus Outbreak; Case Study #4: Focus on Violence; Part II -- Public Health Administration; Case Study #5: Why Regulate?…”
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Principles of social research

Table of Contents: “…Half title; Understanding Public Health series; Title; Copyright; Praise for this book; Contents; List of authors; Acknowledgements; Overview of the book; SECTION 1: Planning your social science research; 1 Introduction to social research; 2 Science and social science; 3 Framing a research question; 4 Research design; SECTION 2: Qualitative methods of data collection and analysis; 5 Introduction to qualitative research methods; 6 Qualitative interviewing; 7 Focus groups and other group methods; 8 Analysing qualitative data; 9 Practical: using qualitative methods.…”
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Strengthening of health surveillance of working populations : the use of international statistical classification of diseases (ICD-10) in occupational health

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The health of populations : general theories and particular realities by Kunitz, Stephen J.

Subjects: “…Public health Economic aspects.…”
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Global population health and well-being in the 21st century : toward new paradigms, policy, and practice by Lueddeke, George R.

Table of Contents: “…A snapshot of public and population health through the ages -- Contemporary challenges in public health -- Public health: the impending financial crisis -- World health reforms (UN, WHO, and the World Bank) in the early years of the 21st century -- Contemporary approaches to public health issues -- Community-centered care and evolving "fifth" wave interventions in public health -- Toward a new worldview -- Building public health capacity: "working differently means learning differently" -- Global health workforce capacity and transforming the education of health professionals -- Epilogue: global health, governance, and education -- The past, the present, and the future.…”
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Who runs America?.

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