The Third Edition of this popular text continues to provide students with a clear view of the complex modern U.S. public health system—what it is, what it does, how it works, and why it is important. Using a straightforward systems approach, this text will give your students a solid grounding in the essential concepts of public health, and the relationship of public health to the health care delivery system as a whole.
Public Health: What It is and How It Works presents a uniquely comprehensible framework for understanding the inner workings of public health by examining:
The origins and development of the modern public health system.
The relationship of public health to the overall health system and its intervention strategies.
How the U.S. public health system is organized at the federal, state, and local levels.
Its core functions, how, and how well these are currently being addressed.
Evidence-based public health practice and an approach to program planning and evaluation for public health interventions.
Public health activities, such as epidemiological investigations, biomedical research, environmental assessment, policy development, and more.
