Population Health: A Primer: A Primer - Softcover

Riegelman, Richard

 
9781284152227: Population Health: A Primer: A Primer

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Population Health: A Primer considers population health as an effort to bring together clinicians, health administrators, and public health professionals to address health problems of large groups or populations. This concise text provides an overview of population health, including the key concepts and approaches needed to build an educational foundation for this rapidly emerging field.Population Health: A Primer is organized into three units which address the following questions: What is population health and why does it matter? What is systems thinking and how can we get the job done? What are the tools of population health?Suitable for use in a wide variety of disciplines, including nursing, pharmacy, physician assistants and other clinical health professions as well as health administration and public health, this text offers: A concise and affordable option. This short, reasonably priced text provides an easy way to integrate a population health perspective into a variety of courses. Practical application. Case studies in each unit illustrate how these approaches can be applied in practice. Important pedagogical features including learning objectives, frameworks, case studies with discussion questions, glossary, tables and boxes that provide valuable guidance and resources for students. Helpful Instructor s Resources. Insightful instructor s guide and test bank provide additional resources for instructors and facilitate integrating the book into a range of courses. .

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Richard K. Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Founding Dean of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health'in Washington, DC. 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.Dr.'Riegelman has over 70 publications including 6 books for students and practitioners of medicine and public health. He is currently editor of the Jones and Bartlett book series Essential Public Health. The series provides books and ancillary materials for the full spectrum of curricula for undergraduate public health as well as the core and cross-cutting competencies covered by the Certification in Public Health examination of the National Board of Public Health Examiners. He has taken a lead role in developing the Educated Citizen and Public Health initiative which has brought together arts and sciences and public health education associations to implement the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommendation that “…all undergraduates should have access to education in public health.”. Dr. Riegelman also led the development of George Washington’s undergraduate major and minor and currently teaches “Public Health 101” and “Epidemiology 101” to undergraduates.

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ISBN 10:  1284216950 ISBN 13:  9781284216950
Verlag: JONES & BARTLETT PUB INC, 2020
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