Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century
eBook - PDF

Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

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  1. 537 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century

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About this book

The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nations public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report.The Future of the Publics Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nations health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the publics health.Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement.The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system.The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation.Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2003
eBook ISBN
9780309506557
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contents
  5. Executive Summary
  6. 1 Assuring America’s Health
  7. 2 Understanding Population Health and Its Determinants
  8. 3 The Governmental Public Health Infrastructure
  9. 4 The Community
  10. 5 The Health Care Delivery System
  11. 6 Employers and Business
  12. 7 Media
  13. 8 Academia
  14. APPENDIXES
  15. A Models of Health Determinants
  16. B Models for Collaborative Planning in Communities
  17. C Recommendations from The Future of Public Health
  18. D Healthy People 2010 Objectives for the Public Health Infrastructure
  19. E Competencies for Public Health Workers: A Collection of Competency Sets for Public Health-Related Occupations and Professions
  20. F Data-Gathering Activities
  21. G Agendas for Public Committee Meetings
  22. H Committee Biographies
  23. Index