Public Health Portal Research Guide

NCBI Bookshelf. From the World Bank Group. PMID: 21250309

Dissemination and implementation (DandI) research seeks to understand how to best apply scientific advances in the real world, by focusing on pushing the evidence-based knowledge base out into routine use.To help propel this crucial field forward, leading DandI scholars and researchers have collaborated to put together this volume to address a number of key issues, including: how to evaluate the evidence base on effective interventions; which strategies will produce the greatest impact; how to design an appropriate study; and how to track a set of essential outcomes.

ClinicalKey

ProQuest

Oxford Scholarship Online

Online via SpringerLink. Recommended for BIOS7400 & EPID 6910

ClinicalKey

Oxford Scholarship Online

ProQuest ebrary. Single user license - sign out when done. Create an account to download chapters (max. 60 pages).

The content is closely correlated with the 10 essential public health services to reflect the accepted definition of public health and illustrate the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for the broad practice of public health.

Using a straightforward systems approach, Public Health: What It Is and How It Works explores the inner workings of the complex, modern U.S. public health system--what it is, what it does, how it works, and why it is important.

Wiley Online Library. Recommended for BIOS 7250, EPID6260, GHSD7440.

Explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage. Online via NAP press.

Online via AccessMedicine
1st edition available Matas (Books Stacks)

R2 Digital Library. Single user license-log out when finished.

ProQuest ebrary. Multiple users.
Also available in Matas (books stacks)

AccessMedicine

ebrary. Print editions also available. WA 31 So6782

HCS Online is an easy-to-use, comprehensive guide to over 42,000 healthcare standards, practice guidelines, and other official documents. The scope of the database is broad. It includes standards issued by nearly 1300 medical societies, professional associations, government agencies, and other health-related organizations. The standards cover a wide range of subjects.

Online via Books@Ovid
Available Matas (General Reserve)

Online via R2 Digital library. Class Reserve for HSMG 6030. Single user license - sign out when done.
Available via Matas (books stacks)

ProQuest ebrary. Single user license - please sign out when done. Create an account to download chapters (max. 60 pages).

With contributions from 78 leading experts in climate change and in public health, this book contains a concise and comprehensive book that represents a core curriculum on climate change and public health, including key strategies for adaptation and mitigation.

Epidemiology Matters offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease - and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health.

Designed for new and seasoned public health workers alike, this user-friendly guide focuses on the day-to-day practical skills and competencies that are often not taught in educational or training programs. It is a how-to book with tools, techniques, tips, checklists, and other resources that will assist you in developing your competencies in the areas of communication, administration and management, and leadership.

he book covers the origins and development of the modern pubic health system; the relationship of public health to the overall health system; how the system is organized at the federal, state, and local levels; its core functions and how well these are currently being addressed; evidence-based practice and an approach to program planning and evaluation for public health interventions; public health activities such as epidemiological investigation, biomedical research, environmental assessment, policy development, and more.

ebrary. Print editions also available. WA 31 So6782

With contributions from leading experts in public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and other fields, this integrated book documents the adverse effects of social injustice on health and makes recommendations on what needs to be done to reduce social injustice and thereby improve the public's health.

Today the World Health Organization attributes 36% of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children's environmental health is a new and expanding discipline that studies the profound impact of chemical and environmental hazards on child health.
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