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Public Health 101: Improving Community Health by Richard Riegelman

Richard Riegelman . Unknown Year . English

From clean drinking water, to seat belts, to immunizations, the impact of public health on every individual is undeniable. For undergraduates, an understanding of the foundations of public health is an essential step toward becoming an educated citizen. Public Health 101: Improving Community Health, Fourth Edition by Riegelman and Kirkwood provides a big-picture, population perspective on the determinants of health and disease and the tools available to protect and promote health. Now with a greater emphasis on community involvement and providing community based-services, the fourth edition examines the full range of options for intervention including use of the healthcare system, the public health system, and society-wide systems such as laws and taxation. Through a unique set of case studies, vignettes, and extensive examples, readers will come away with a clear understanding of how public health affects their everyday lives. They will learn and apply frameworks for thinking about public health issues and gain a deeper understanding about the health news they are exposed to each day. Updated throughout, Public Health 101, Fourth Edition offers: • New case studies on folic acid and spina bifida, the opioid epidemic, athletic health injuries, mPox, and the patient safety movement. • Interactive COVID-19 case studies revised and consolidated to take an historical perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic. • Updated materials for each chapter including Healthy People 2030, pandemic prevention, new vaccines, environmental justice and climate change, and academic health departments. • New Boxes in each chapter including misinformation/disinformation, suicide, health advocacy, national dietary guidelines, and open notes. • Improving Population Health interactive exercises retained from 3rd edition • Updated faculty resources, including Instructor’s Manual with sample answers to most case studies, test bank, sample examinations, sample syllabus, PowerPoint slides, and videos with annotations for each chapter. • Navigate Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools.

Categories: Health & Wellness

About the Author

Richard Riegelman MD, MPH, PhD Richard Riegelman is Professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics and Medicine and Founding Dean of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. His education includes an M.D. from the University of Wisconsin plus a M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Riegelman practiced primary care internal medicine for over 20 years. Richard Riegelman has over 70 publications including 6 books for students and practitioners of medicine and public health. Studying a Study and Testing a Test: Reading Evidence-based Health Research now in its 6th edition is widely used to teach evaluation of the health research literature. It has been translated into Spanish and Japanese. His e-book Studying a Study P.R.E.P. Practice Reading Evidence-based Publications is his newest effort to help undergraduates, health professions students, medical students and residents read the clinical research. Dr. Riegelman is editor of the Jones and Bartlett Learning's book series Essential Public Health which includes over 20 textbooks, casebooks, and readers designed to provide texts and ancillary materials for the full range of undergraduate public health courses as well as core masters level courses. His book Public Health 101: Healthy People-Healthy Populations is available as a text, an e-book, and as the interactive Navigate Public Health 101. He has been a member of National Board of Medical Examiners' Task Forces which have worked to include literature reading in the USMLE examination. He was also a member of the MCAT review committee which recommended inclusion of Scientific Inquiry and Reasoning Skills (SIRS) in all the content components of the new MCAT. Dr. Riegelman currently teaches public health, epidemiology, and clinical epidemiology to undergraduates, medical students and masters and doctoral students at The George Washington University.

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