Author: W. Sinclair HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Public Health Practice in the Eastern Health District of the Baltimore City Health Department
Author: W. Sinclair HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Public Health Service Publication
Author: Baltimore Health News...
Author: Baltimore (Md.) Health DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
First Thirty-five Annual Reports
Author: Baltimore. Health DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Schools of Public Health
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Annual Report of the Sub-department of Health, Dept. of Public Safety (slight Variations)
Author: Baltimore. Health DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Report on Schools of Public Health in the United States
Author: Leonard S. RosenfeldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Annual Report of the Health Department of the City of Baltimore, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Author: Baltimore (Md.). Health DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Health and Humanity
Author: Karen Kruse ThomasPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421421097
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The mid-twentieth-century evolution of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Between 1935 and 1985, the nascent public health profession developed scientific evidence and practical know-how to prevent death on an unprecedented scale. Thanks to public health workers, life expectancy rose rapidly as generations grew up free from the scourges of smallpox, typhoid, and syphilis. In Health and Humanity, Karen Kruse Thomas offers a thorough account of the growth of academic public health in the United States through the prism of the oldest and largest independent school of public health in the world. Thomas follows the transformation of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (JHSPH), now known as the Bloomberg School of Public Health, from a small, private institute devoted to doctoral training and tropical disease research into a leading global educator and innovator in fields from biostatistics to mental health to pathobiology. A provocative, wide-ranging account of how midcentury public health leveraged federal grants and anti-Communist fears to build the powerful institutional networks behind the health programs of the CDC, WHO, and USAID, the book traces how Johns Hopkins helped public health take center stage during the scientific research boom triggered by World War II. It also examines the influence of politics on JHSPH, the school’s transition to federal grant funding, the globalization of public health in response to hot and cold war influences, and the expansion of the school’s teaching program to encompass social science as well as lab science. Revealing how faculty members urged foreign policy makers to include saving lives in their strategy of “winning hearts and minds,” Thomas argues that the growth of chronic disease and the loss of Rockefeller funds moved the JHSPH toward international research funded by the federal government, creating a situation in which it was sometimes easier for the school to improve the health of populations in India and Turkey than on its own doorstep in East Baltimore. Health and Humanity is a comprehensive account of the ways that JHSPH has influenced the practice, pedagogy, and especially our very understanding of public health on both global and local scales.
Communities in Action
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309452961
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.