Public Health: Building Innovative Practice - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1446207730 ISBN 13: 9781446207734

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Public Health: Building Innovative Practice examines the main challenges facing public health today and fosters an informed and creative response by practitioners. It explores effectiveness in team working, communication, managing change and inter-agency working, ethics and reflective practice. This text addresses the key areas of public health practice including analysis and use of information to improve health and well-being, collaborative working to plan and implement programs and interventions, assessing evidence of effectiveness, managing risk and reducing health inequalities, and reviewing and influencing public health policy.

Public Health: Building Innovative Practice provides students with knowledge and skills from which to build innovative practice. It is an ideal text for courses on public health and health promotion.

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Contenuti:

PART ONE: THE SCOPE AND FOCUS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduction
Structure, focus, themes and learning in Part 1
Public Health in Context
The Public Health Challenge
PART TWO: DEVELOPING WORKFORCE CAPABILITIES
Introduction
Structure, focus, themes and learning in Part 2
Working in Organisations:
Skills and approaches
Developing as a Reflective Practitioner
Ethical Issues in Public Health
Building Evidence-Based Practice
Statistics and epidemiology
Building Evidence-Based Practice
Qualitative approaches and triangulation
Using Evidence in Public Health Planning
Understanding and Using Theories and Models
Educating for Health
PART THREE: WORKING AND PARTNERING FOR HEALTH
Introduction
Structure, focus, themes and learning in Part 3
Working at the Local Level
Settings for Promoting Health
Building Partnerships and Alliances
Evaluating Public Health Interventions
PART FOUR: ADDRESSING THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduction
Structure, focus, themes and learning in Part 4
Understanding and Influencing Policy Change
Building Healthy Futures
Barriers and Enablers

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1446207730
• ISBN 13: 9781446207734
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 507
• Redattore: Jones Linda, Douglas Jenny