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Public Health 101
Erin Calderone · Glendale Community College
In the contents: 01: What is Public Health · 1.01: Introduction- Public Health in Daily Life · 1.02: What Does It Mean to Be Healthy
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Introduction to Public Health
Fabiane Morales · Coastline College
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Public Health in Pharmacy Practice 2e - A Casebook
Jordan R. Covvey, Vibhuti Arya, and Natalie A. DiPietro Mager · Milne Library Publishing at SUNY
In the contents: 1.02: Communicating health information- hidden barriers and practical approaches · 1.05: Interprofessional collaboration- transforming public health through team work · 1.07: Ethical decision-making in global health- when cultures clash
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Public Health Introduction
Janey Skinner · City College of San Francisco
In the contents: 01: Core Concepts and History of Public Health · 1.02: What Is Public Health · 1.04: Public Health and Medicine
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Introduction to Public Health
Fabiane Morales · Coastline College
In the contents: 01: What is Public Health · 1.01: What Exactly is Public Health · 1.02: History of Public Health
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Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action
Andrea Reed et al. · Virginia's Academic Library Consortium
In the contents: 01: Foundations of Community and Public Health Nursing · 1.01: Chapter One- Community and Public Health Policy · 1.02: Chapter Two- Health Disparities and Health Equity
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Statistics for Public Health (HLTH 10)
Silvie Grote · Irvine Valley College
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Statistics for Kinesiology and Public Health · 6.01: Research Methods for Kinesiology and Public Health
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Public Health Ethics - Cases Spanning the Globe
Drue H. Barrett, Angus Dawson & Leonard W. Ortmann · University of Sydney & CDC
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Public Health Ethics · 1.01: Public Health Ethics- Global Cases Practice and Context · 1.02: Essential Cases in the Development of Public Health Ethics
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Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action
Andrea Reed; Beth Tremblay; Chloe Gross; Felisa Smith · Virginia's Academic Library Consortium (VIVA) · 2024
Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action is a primer exploring the diverse roles of community and public health nurses through a social justice lens. Students will gain the fundamental knowledge and skills to work with community members and other stakeholders to promote health and well-being and to prevent disease. This textbook examines key issues such as health disparities, access to care, cultural competence, and the impact of social determinants on public health outcomes. Students will gain knowledge, practical skills, and insight into how nurses can improve community health, advocate for health-related policies, and promote health equity at the individual through systemic levels. The textbook also maps the content to the AACN New Essentials for Baccalaureate Nursing Education. The book is accompanied by a comprehensive Instructor’s Guide designed to support educators in meeting educational goals and developing competencies. The guide offers practical teaching strategies, such as role-playing communication exercises and simulation activities; suggests clinical activities to facilitate deeper understanding and classroom engagement; and includes NCLEX-style practice questions to reinforce key concepts, test critical thinking skills, and provide students valuable practice preparing for the NCLEX exam.
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Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook
Jordan Covvey; Vibhuti Arya; Natalie Mager · Milne Open Textbooks · 2021
This casebook, now in its second edition, is a collaboration of over 90 individuals with expertise and training in public health pharmacy. A total of 54 chapters are presented, covering a broad array of topics relevant to pharmacy applications of public health. These topics include, but are not limited to, cross-cultural care, health literacy and disparities, infectious disease, health promotion and disease prevention, medication safety, structural racism, advocacy/policy analysis, chronic disease, women’s health, rural health, travel medicine and more. The book is designed to allow educators/students to choose chapters of interest as they feel suited, as each chapter is independent from the others. Each chapter contains learning objectives and an introduction to the topic, followed by a case and questions. The chapter closes with commentary from the authors and patient-oriented considerations for the topic at hand.
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Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
Drue Barrett; Angus Dawson; Leonard Ortmann · Springer · 2016
Introducing public health ethics poses two special challenges. First, it is a relatively new field that combines public health and practical ethics. Its unfamiliarity requires considerable explanation, yet its scope and emergent qualities make delineation difficult. Moreover, while the early development of public health ethics occurred in a western context, its reach, like public health itself, has become global. A second challenge, then, is to articulate an approach specific enough to provide clear guidance yet sufficiently flexible and encompassing to adapt to global contexts. Broadly speaking, public health ethics helps guide practical decisions affecting population or community health based on scientific evidence and in accordance with accepted values and standards of right and wrong. In these ways, public health ethics builds on its parent disciplines of public health and ethics. This dual inheritance plays out in the definition the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers of public health ethics: “A systematic process to clarify, prioritize, and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information” (CDC 2011). Public health ethics shares with other fields of practical and professional ethics both the general theories of ethics and a common store of ethical principles, values, and beliefs. It differs from these other fields largely in the nature of challenges that public health officials typically encounter and in the ethical frameworks it employs to address these challenges. Frameworks provide methodical approaches or procedures that tailor general ethical theories, principles, values, and beliefs to the specific ethical challenges that arise in a particular field. Although no framework is definitive, many are useful, and some are especially effective in particular contexts. This chapter will conclude by setting forth a straightforward, stepwis
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Foundations of Epidemiology
Marit L. Bovbjerg · Oregon State University
Foundations of Epidemiology is an open access, introductory epidemiology text intended for students and practitioners in public or allied health fields. It covers epidemiologic thinking, causality, incidence and prevalence, public health surveillance, epidemiologic study designs and why we care about which one is used, measures of association, random error and bias, confounding and effect modification, and screening.
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Global Women's IssuesWomen in the World Today
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We cannot solve global challenges unless women participate fully in efforts to find solutions. Female participation in the private sector is a crucial economic driver for societies worldwide. Economic security benefits every facet of a woman’s life, with positive effects on the health, education and vitality of families. Learn about women who are changing their societies for the better.
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Introduction to General Chemistry
Muhammad Arif Malik · Hampton University
The purpose of this book is to teach introductory concepts of chemistry to undergraduates in one semester, assuming no prior knowledge of chemistry. It is intended for health sciences, like pre-nursing, psychology, kinesiology, and non-science majors. This book will hopefully give enough knowledge to prepare the students to understand basic chemistry used in their professional subjects, take additional chemistry courses if needed and appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life.
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Introduction to Biosystems Engineering
Nicholas M. Holden, Mary Leigh Wolfe, Jactone Arogo Ogejo, & Enda J. Cummins · University College Dublin and Virginia Tech
In the contents: 4.02: Water Quality as a Driver of Ecological System Health
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Field Trials of Health Interventions - A Toolbox (Smith, Morrow, and Ross)
Drue H. Barrett, Angus Dawson, Leonard W. Ortmann · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
In the contents: 01: Introduction to field trials of health interventions · 17.08: Laboratory health and safety · 19.04: Health intervention costs
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Introduction to Organic and Biochemistry
Muhammad Arif Malik · Hampton University
This book aims to teach undergraduates introductory concepts of organic and biochemistry in one semester, assuming introductory general chemistry knowledge. It is intended for health sciences, like pre-nursing, psychology, kinesiology, and non-science majors. This book will hopefully provide enough knowledge to prepare the students to understand basic organic and biochemistry used in their professional subjects and appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life. Homework is associated.
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Cases in California Politics and Administraton
Shelly Arsneault · California State University, Fullerton
In the contents: 1.05: In this Together Pandemics Politics and the Public Interest
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Social Science Research - Principles, Methods, and Practices
Anol Bhattacherjee · University of South Florida
This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any course on research methods.
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TIP 57: Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: A Practical Guide for the Provision of Behavioral Health Sciences · 02: An Implementation Guide for Behavioral Health Program Administers