| Case Studies in Community Health Contributor(s): Fairbanks, Jo (Author), Candelaria, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761914056 ISBN-13: 9780761914051 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 Annotation: Case Studies in Community Health presents 14 classroom-tested case study scenarios, including background information and discussion questions. Written for students in public health and community health courses, these cases help integrate the basic concepts of public health into an applied setting. The case studies provide an opportunity for students to apply those basic concepts to a "real-life" situation. The overall purpose of the book is to help students understand that public health practice occurs in a social context and therefore is subject to all the complexities of a social environment. The cases explore a broad range of topics in three critical areas of public health: epidemiology, health administration, and health program planning. This text will be of interest students and professionals in family studies, family therapy, gerontology, health communication, medical sociology, nursing, nursing administration, nursing health, nursing research and theory, patient care, public administration, public health, quantitative research and methods, school counseling, social work, and sociology. A brief instructor??'s web page addressing problem-based learning and providing additional information concerning the cases for instructors adopting Case Studies in Community Health is available at www.sagepub.com/instructor_fairbanks.htm |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Epidemiology - Medical | Public Health - Health & Fitness |
| Dewey: 614.4 |
| LCCN: 98008878 |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.34 lbs) 88 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Case Studies in Public and Community Health presents 14 classroom-tested case study scenarios, including background information and discussion questions. The overall purpose of the book is to help students understand that public health practice occurs in a social content, and is subject to all the complexities of a social environment. The book can be used as a textbook supplement to Jo Fairbanks William H Wiese′s, The Public Health Primer (SAGE, 1997); it can also be used on its own, or as a supplement to other textbooks in the field. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fairbanks, Jo: - Jo Fairbanks, Ph.D., is Professor emeritus with a doctorate in Community Health Education, and has more than 20 years of experience as a public health practitioner in New Mexico. She is also the Director of the Public Health Outreach Education Program (PHOEP), which provides off-campus education in the basics of public health agencies and communities throughout the Southwest. Dr. Fairbanks is very active in community based projects including efforts to build local public health capacity through grants in education and training. She provides courses in Rural Health Issues, Public Health Program Planning and Proposal Writing, US/ Mexico Border Health, and the Final Integrative Experience course to the university, agencies, etc. She co-authored two public health books: The Public Health Primer and Case Studies in Community Health, and has authored several articles on health professional shortages and health care utilization on the border. She developed a web based course in the fundamentals of public health for MCH students that can be accessed through the University of Utah. |