Community Based Health Interventions: Principles and Application is a completely modern approach to worst problems in community health: diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, HIV, asthma, and obesity. Following the trend begun by CDC and other agencies, the book takes a proactive and evidence-based approachreducing risk for individuals and communities. In a step by step approach, the book teaches how to design interventions, how to pick methods, how to assessthe interventions' effects, and how to identify and address ethical challenges. The book refers constantly to real-world examples from across the US and also includes international examples of public health issues facing our communities today, and what to do about them. Part I of the book covers the fundamentals of interventions: Intervention rationale, Target population, Community setting, Design, Collaborations and partnerships, Political and organizational influence, Evaluation, Ethics, and Resources. Part II of the book covers types ofinterventions: formative intervention, informational intervention, social/behavioral, and environmental/policy. Most funding for community-based public health efforts is determined by categorical programs. Therefore, part III of the book is organized by major catagories: Type II Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, obesity, infectious disease, substance abuse, injury and violence, reproductive and sexual health, cancer, and maternal/child health The book's web site will include links to databases; links to agency and public health resources; intervention tools; instructor guides, slides, assignments; and additional case examples.Sally Guttmacher, PhD, is Professor, New York University, Department of Health Studies, and Director of its MPH Program in Community Public Health. In 1998, she was selected by Columbia University School of Public Health as one of its 75 Heros of Public Health. An internationally reknown researcher and consultant, in 1984, she was invited by the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Havana, Cuba to examine preventive health care initiatives. She is currently developing and supervising an academic program at the University of Cape Town in South Africa on Health Care in a Transitional Society for MPH students at U.S. universities. Patricia J. Kelly, PhD, MPH, APRN is Professor at the University of Missouri, School of Nursing. Her clinical and research work has focused on improving the conditions of health for women and children in underserved populations. Dr. Kelly has conducted a number of NIH, state and foundation- funded community-based research studies in Hispanic and African-American communities. Herwork has focused on reproductive health and violence prevention and has used a a variety of research and evaluation methodologies, including community-based participatory action research. Yumary Ruiz-Janecko is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health and the Public Health Internship Director in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University (NYU). She has taught and developed numerous graduate and undergraduate coursesand as a public health practitioner, she has coordinated and implemented health programs using multi-component, multi-sectoral, and multi-setting approaches.
- ISBN: 978-0-7879-8311-6
- Editorial: Jossey Bass
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 10/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés