The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st CenturyInstitute of Medicine, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century National Academies Press, 2003. febr. 1. - 536 oldal The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's 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 Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's 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 public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses:
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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... Behavior, Thomas Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Harvard University JUDYANN BIGBY, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Director, Community Health Programs, School of Medicine, Harvard ...
... behavior, as well as on the promotion of healthy public policy (Chapter 7). Academia Finding: Academia provides degree and continuing education to a significant proportion of the public health workforce. Consistent with the previous ...
... behavioral and environmental (social, economic, cultural, physical) factors associated with primary and secondary ... behaviors, and resources affecting health. Governmental public health agencies have the responsibility to facilitate ...
... behavior and environment are responsible for more than 70 percent of avoidable mortality (McGinnis and Foege, 1993), and health care is just one of several determinants of health (McGinnis et al., 2002). It then follows that the ...
... behavior (e.g., tax inducements to employers who provide health care benefits) and disincentives for engaging in risk behavior (e.g., taxes on cigarettes). Furthermore, the interest in and civic role for private- and nonprofit sector ...
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3 The Governmental Public Health Infrastructure | 96 |
4 The Community | 178 |
5 The Health Care Delivery System | 212 |
6 Employers and Business | 268 |
7 Media | 307 |
A Models of Health Determinants | 403 |
B Models for Collaborative Planning in Communities | 406 |
C Recommendations from The Future of Public Health | 411 |
D Healthy People 2010 Objectives for the Public Health Infrastructure | 421 |
A Collection of Competency Sets for Public HealthRelated Occupations and Professions | 423 |
F DataGathering Activities | 441 |
G Agendas for Public Committee Meetings | 461 |
H Committee Biographies | 465 |