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The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health

Author : James Keith Colgrove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813543123
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health written by James Keith Colgrove and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Contested Boundaries of Public and Population Health will be a valuable text not only in schools of public health but also in those of economics, political science, medicine, history, sociology and law. James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner compile a volume of essays that address some of the most high-profile and contested subjects in the arenas of public health and medicine, and approach these topics from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Despite public health being a critical part of a larger set of social welfare activities that are centrally responsible for reducing illness, suffering, and death and improving society's quality of life, it still remains largely misunderstood by society. At different points of history, legitimate targets for public health professionals have included housing reform, education about nutrition, sex, and drugs, hospital and clinic care, gun violence, and even bioterrorism. This collection of essays explores the seemingly straightforward question that is central to debates about how best to prevent illness and enhance the well-being of society: What are the boundaries of public health today and how have they changed over time? The collection of essays stem from a diverse group of scholars involved in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They approach the conceptual and professional boundaries of public and population health in a descriptive and analytical context with the common goal of attempting to understand what are, and what should be, the field's chief goals and activities.

Hives of Sickness

Author : David Rosner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813521589
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Hives of Sickness written by David Rosner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An 1865 report on public health in New York painted a grim picture of "high brick blocks and closely-packed houses . . . literally hives of sickness" propagating epidemics of cholera, smallpox, typhoid, typhus, and yellow fever, which swept through the whole city. In this stimulating collection of essays, nine historians of American medicine explore New York's responses to its public health crises from colonial times to the present. The essays illustrate the relationship between the disease environment of New York and changes in housing, population, social conditions, and the success of medical science, linking such factors to New York's experiences with smallpox, polio, and AIDS. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in American public health and the social history of New York. The contributors are Ronald Bayer, Elizabeth Blackmar, Gretchen A. Condran, Elizabeth Fee, Daniel M. Fox, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Alan M. Kraut, Judith Walzer Leavitt, and Naomi Rogers. David Rosner is a professor of history at Baruch College and The Graduate School of the City University of New York. Robert R. Macdonald is the director of the Museum of the City of New York. A publication of the Museum of the City of New York Choice Reviews 1995 November This is one of a series of books focusing on the impact of disease intended to enhance the understanding of both past and present regarding reactions to periodic epidemics. Robert B. Macdonald, director of the Museum of the City of New York, which supports this series, states: "The individual and collective responses to widespread sickness are mirrors to the cultural, religious, economic, political, and social histories of cities and nations." Rosner selected eight renowned and respected individuals to describe the reactions and responses to smallpox, polio, and AIDS epidemics in New York City since 1860, and the efforts of officials and professionals to deal with the impact of disease. Essayists present disease broadly from economic, social, political, and health perspectives. Causes of epidemics include the expected and usual: thousands of immigrants pouring into the city, inadequate water and food supplies, lack of sewage disposal, unemployment leading to poverty. An unexpected cause was the avarice of real estate investors, inexorably driving up housing costs. Highly recommended for all students of history, public health, health policy, and sociology. Upper-division undergraduate through professional. Copyright 1999 American Library Association

Shifting Boundaries of Public Health

Author : Susan Gross Solomon
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580462839
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Boundaries of Public Health written by Susan Gross Solomon and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impulses throughout the twentieth century. In the 1920s, international agencies were established with great fanfare and postwar optimism to serve as the watchtower of health the world over. Within less than a decade, local-level institutions began to emerge as seats of innovation, initiative, and expertise. But there was continual counterpressure from nation-states that jealously guarded their policymaking prerogatives in the face of the push for cross-national standardization and the emergence of original initiatives from below. In contrast to histories of twentieth-century public health that focus exclusively on the local, national, or international levels, Shifting Boundaries explores the connections or "zones of contact" between the three levels. The interpretive essays, written by distinguished historians of public health and medicine, focus on four topics: the oscillation between governmental and nongovernmental agencies as sites of responsibility for addressing public health problems; the harmonization of nation-states' agendas with those of international agencies; the development by public health experts of knowledge that is both placeless and respectful of place; and the transportability of model solutions across borders. The volume breaks new ground in its treatment of public health as a political endeavor by highlighting strategies to prevent or alleviate disease as a matter not simply of medical techniques but political values and commitments. Contributors: Peter Baldwin, Iris Borowy, James A. Gillespie, Graham Mooney, Lion Murard, Dorothy Porter, Sabine Schleiermacher, Susan Gross Solomon, Paul Weindling, and Patrick Zylberman. Susan Gross Solomon is professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Lion Murard and Patrick Zylberman are both senior researchers at CERMES (Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société), CNRS-EHESS-INSERM, Paris.

Leading Public Health

Author : James W. Begun
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826199062
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Leading Public Health written by James W. Begun and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Structural Approaches in Public Health

Author : Marni Sommer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136766197
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Structural Approaches in Public Health written by Marni Sommer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors – social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental – are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of health-related challenges from a structural paradigm, including individual and population vulnerability to infection with HIV and AIDS, injury-prevention, obesity, and smoking cessation. Recognising the inadequacy of public health responses that focus solely on individual behaviour change to improve population health outcomes, this text promotes a more holistic approach. Discussing the structural factors related to health and well-being that are both within and outside of an individual’s control, it explores what form structural approaches can take, the underlying theory of structure as a risk factor and the local realities, environments, and priorities that public health practitioners need to take into consideration. Anchored in empirical evidence, the book provides case studies of innovative and influential interventions – from the 100% condom program, to urban planning, injury prevention, and the provision of adequate clean drinking water and sanitation systems – and concludes with a section on implementing and evaluating structural public health programs. This comprehensive text brings together a selection of internationally-recognised authors to provide an overview for students and practitioners working in or concerned with public health around the globe.

A History of Public Health

Author : George Rosen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416026
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book A History of Public Health written by George Rosen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Rosen's wide-ranging account of public health's long and fascinating history is an indispensable classic. Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he assesses the public health landscape of health education, public health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical geography. Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization, antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the reemergence of old ones, have returned public health efforts to the basics: preventing and controlling chronic and communicable diseases and shoring up public health infrastructures that provide potable water, sewage disposal, sanitary environments, and safe food and drug supplies to populations around the globe. A revised introduction by Elizabeth Fee frames the book within the context of the historiography of public health past, present, and future, and an updated bibliography by Edward T. Morman includes significant books on public health history published between 1958 and 2014. For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.

Exhibiting Health

Author : Jennifer Lisa Koslow
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978803281
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Exhibiting Health written by Jennifer Lisa Koslow and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, they believed they could make systemic issues visual to masses of people. Embedded within these visual displays were messages about individual action. In some cases, this meant changing hygienic practices. In other situations, this meant taking up action to inform public policy. Reformers and officials hoped that exhibits would energize America's populace to invest in protecting the public's health. Exhibiting Health is an analysis of the logic of the production and the consumption of this technique for popular public health education between 1900 and 1930. It examines the power and limits of using visual displays to support public health initiatives.

A Global History of Medicine

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803184
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book A Global History of Medicine written by Mark Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume exploring the history of medicine across continents and countries from ancient to modern times, examining the changing systems of medicine in Eastern and Western traditions, comparing alternative medical practices, and introducing readers to how historians have captured the multiple approaches to healing adopted by different cultures.

Health Care in America

Author : John C. Burnham
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416093
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Health Care in America written by John C. Burnham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of sickness, health, and medicine in America from Colonial times to the present. In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health care at the turn of the twenty-first century. From the 1600s through the 1990s, Americans turned to a variety of healers, practices, and institutions in their efforts to prevent and survive epidemics of smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, influenza, polio, and AIDS. Health care workers in all periods attended births and deaths and cared for people who had injuries, disabilities, and chronic diseases. Drawing on primary sources, classic scholarship, and a vast body of recent literature in the history of medicine and public health, Burnham finds that traditional healing, care, and medicine dominated the United States until the late nineteenth century, when antiseptic/aseptic surgery and germ theory initiated an intellectual, social, and technical transformation. He divides the age of modern medicine into several eras: physiological medicine (1910s–1930s), antibiotics (1930s–1950s), technology (1950s–1960s), environmental medicine (1970s–1980s), and, beginning around 1990, genetic medicine. The cumulating developments in each era led to today's radically altered doctor-patient relationship and the insistent questions that swirl around the financial cost of health care. Burnham's sweeping narrative makes sense of medical practice, medical research, and human frailties and foibles, opening the door to a new understanding of our current concerns.

Encyclopedia of Health Economics

Author :
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0123756790
Total Pages : 1663 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Health Economics written by and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 1663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Health Economics offers students, researchers and policymakers objective and detailed empirical analysis and clear reviews of current theories and polices. It helps practitioners such as health care managers and planners by providing accessible overviews into the broad field of health economics, including the economics of designing health service finance and delivery and the economics of public and population health. This encyclopedia provides an organized overview of this diverse field, providing one trusted source for up-to-date research and analysis of this highly charged and fast-moving subject area. Features research-driven articles that are objective, better-crafted, and more detailed than is currently available in journals and handbooks Combines insights and scholarship across the breadth of health economics, where theory and empirical work increasingly come from non-economists Provides overviews of key policies, theories and programs in easy-to-understand language

Schools and Public Health

Author : Michael Gard
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073917259X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Schools and Public Health written by Michael Gard and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools and Public Health is a meditation on the past, present, and future of the relationship between public health and American public schools. Gard and Pluim begin by developing a historical account of the way schools have been used in the public health policy arena in America. They then look in detail at more contemporary examples of school-based public health policies and initiatives in order to come to a judgment about whether and to what extent it makes sense to use schools in this way. With this is as the foundation, the book then offers answers to the question of why schools have so readily been drawn into public health policy formulations. First, seeing schools as a kind of ‘miracle factory’ is a long standing habit of mind that discourages careful consideration of alternative public health strategies. Second, schools have been implicated in public health policy in strategic ways by actors often with unstated political, cultural, ideological, and financial motivations. Finally, the authors call for a more sophisticated approach to public health policy in schools and suggest some criteria for judging the potential efficacy of school-based interventions. In short, the potential effectiveness of proposed interventions needs to be assessed not only against existing historical evidence, but also against the competing roles society expects schools to play and the working-life realities for those charged with implementing public health policies in schools.

Medicine Over Mind

Author : Dena T. Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813598664
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Over Mind written by Dena T. Smith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era in which the medicalization of mental health troubles and treatment has been settled for several decades, little is known about how this biomedical framework affects practitioners' experiences. This book explores how practitioners make sense of a field that has shifted rapidly in just a few decades.

Health Care for Some

Author : Beatrix Hoffman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226348059
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Health Care for Some written by Beatrix Hoffman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Skillfully chronicles America’s struggles to make health care a right from the Depression through Obamacare. . . . beautifully written [and] compelling.” —Jonathan Oberlander, author of The Political Life of Medicare Named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging, in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Health Care for Some shows that the haphazard way the US system allocates medical services—using income, race, region, insurance coverage, and many other factors—is a disorganized, illogical, and powerful form of rationing. And unlike rationing in most countries, which is intended to keep costs down, rationing in the United States has actually led to increased costs, resulting in the most expensive health care system in the world. While most histories of US health care emphasize failed policy reforms, Health Care for Some looks at the system from the ground up in order to examine how rationing is experienced by ordinary Americans and how experiences of rationing have led to claims for a right to health care. By taking this approach, Hoffman puts a much-needed human face on a topic that is too often dominated by talking heads. “A well-researched, readable primer on the development of the complex, fragmented US medical system.” —Times Higher Education

The Love Surgeon

Author : Sarah B. Rodriguez
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978800975
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Love Surgeon written by Sarah B. Rodriguez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. James Burt believed women’s bodies were broken, and only he could fix them. In the 1950s, this Ohio OB-GYN developed what he called “love surgery,” a unique procedure he maintained enhanced the sexual responses of a new mother, transforming her into “a horny little house mouse.” Burt did so without first getting the consent of his patients. Yet he was allowed to practice for over thirty years, mutilating hundreds of women in the process. It would be easy to dismiss Dr. Burt as a monstrous aberration, a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein. Yet as medical historian Sarah Rodriguez reveals, that’s not the whole story. The Love Surgeon asks tough questions about Burt’s heinous acts and what they reveal about the failures of the medical establishment: How was he able to perform an untested surgical procedure? Why wasn’t he obliged to get informed consent from his patients? And why did it take his peers so long to take action? The Love Surgeon is both a medical horror story and a cautionary tale about the limits of professional self-regulation.

When the Air Became Important

Author : Janet Greenlees
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813587964
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book When the Air Became Important written by Janet Greenlees and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Greenlees examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. She contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.

From Residency to Retirement

Author : Terry Mizrahi
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570026
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book From Residency to Retirement written by Terry Mizrahi and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Residency to Retirement tells the stories of twenty American doctors over the last half century, which saw a period of continuous, turbulent, and transformative changes to the U.S. health care system. The cohort’s experiences are reflective of the generation of physicians who came of age as presidents Carter and Reagan began to focus on costs and benefits of health services. Mizrahi observed and interviewed these physicians in six timeframes ending in 2016. Beginning with medical school in the mid-1970s, these physicians reveal the myriad fluctuations and uncertainties in their professional practice, working conditions, collegial relationships, and patient interactions. In their own words, they provide a “view from the front lines” both in academic and community settings. They disclose the satisfactions and strains in coping with macro policies enacted by government and insurance companies over their career trajectory. They describe their residency in internal medicine in a large southern urban medical center as a “siege mentality” which lessened as they began their careers, in Getting Rid of Patients, the title of Mizrahi’s first book (1986). As these doctors moved on in their professional lives more of their experiences were discussed in terms of dissatisfaction with financial remuneration, emotional gratification, and intellectual fulfillment. Such moments of career frustration, however, were also interspersed with moments of satisfaction at different stages of their medical careers. Particularly revealing was whether they were optimistic about the future at each stage of their career and whether they would recommend a medical career to their children. Mizrahi's subjects also divulge their private feelings of disillusionment and fear of failure given the malpractice epidemic and lawsuits threatened or actually brought against so many doctors. Mizrahi’s work, covering almost fifty years, provides rarely viewed insights into the lives of physicians over a professional life span.

False Dawn

Author : Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978808747
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book False Dawn written by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society.