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

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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:

  • 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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Executive Summary
1
1 Assuring Americas Health
19
2 Understanding Population Health and Its Determinants
46
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

8 Academia
358
APPENDIXES
401
Index
475
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5. oldal - NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on emerging technology in areas such as xenotransplantation, cell and gene therapies, and tumor vaccines.
412. oldal - The committee recommends that each public health agency involve key policymakers and the general public in determining a set of high-priority personal and communitywide health services that governments will guarantee to every member of the community. This guarantee should include subsidization or direct provision of high-priority personal health services for those unable...
265. oldal - The registered nurse population: findings from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses.
94. oldal - Prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus by changes in lifestyle among subjects with impaired glucose tolerance.
xxii. oldal - Committee, who were responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered.
99. oldal - Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
320. oldal - A public service announcement is an announcement for which no charge is made and which promotes programs, activities, or services of Federal, State or local Governments (eg, recruiting, sales of bonds, etc.) or the programs, activities or services of nonprofit organizations (eg, UGF, Red Cross Blood Donations, etc.), and other announcements regarded as serving community interests, excluding time signals, routine weather announcements and promotional announcements.
xii. oldal - These activities are administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the...
411. oldal - The report defines the mission of public health as "fulfilling society's interest in assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.

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