DEPARTMENT OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND BIOSTATISTICS
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
2016PRE-FALL QUARTER TEXTBOOKS
July 7 – August 17, 2016
MISCELLANEOUS
The following texts will be needed throughout the year for various courses. It is recommended that you purchase them at the beginning of the year.
ISBN-13: 978-0781782104. SB Hulley, SR Cummings, WS Browner, DG Grady, TB Newman: Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach (3rd ed.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
ISBN 0-7817-9506-0. WS Browner: Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research(2nd edition), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
PMO401: SEMINAR IN HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY
No requiredtextbook
PM0505: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
No requiredtextbook
PM0530: THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES APPLIED TO PUBLIC HEALTH
There is no required text for the course, but these texts can provide more background reading on the topics in this course and are wonderful resources:
Edberg, M. (2007). Essentials of Health Behavior: Social and Behavioral Theory in Public Health. Jones and Bartlett.This is a fairly basic text, written for undergraduates. It provides a simple and clear overview of the behavior change theories and other concepts in SBS in public health.
Glanz, K., Rimer, B., & Viswanath, K. (Eds). (2008). Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Research, and Practice, 4th Edition, 2002, San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
This is a new edition of an old standard for courses like this. Each chapter provides a detailed overview of a theory.
Berkman, L. F. & Kawachi, I. (eds). (2000). Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press.This book covers many of the topics from the second half of the course in great detail.
PM0540: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Required: ISBN: 978-1-284-02633-7. Essentials of Environmental Health, 2ndEdition, (Essential Public Health Series), Robert H. Friis;APHA Press. Jones and BartlettLearning.
PMO558:FUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL OCCUPATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL & PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
No required textbook
PMO610: GENERAL ENTOMOLOGY
Recommended: The Insects: An Outline of Entomology, Gullan and Cranston, Wiley and Blackwell pub, 2014 edition.
PMO642 CLINICAL PREVENTIVE SERVICES AND SELECTED TOPICS IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Required: The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2010-2011: Recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (the abridged handbook). Text will be provided for free to all students.
Recommended: Environmental and Occupational Medicine, 4th Edition, Rom (ed). 2007. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine, 3rd Edition, by Jekel, Katz, Elmore, and Wild. 2007. Published by Saunders (Elsevier). ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-3496-4;
ISBN-10: 1-4160-3496-x.
Mayo Clinic Preventive Medicine and Public Health Board Review, by Varkey. 2010. Published by Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-974301-8.
PM0680: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH
No requiredtextbook
Recommended:
Turnock BJ. Essentials of Public Health. 2nd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones & BartlettLearning; 2012.
Institute of Medicine. The Future of Public Health. Washington DC, National AcademyPress, 1988.
Institute of Medicine. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century, WashingtonDC, National Academy Press, 2002.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services 2012, Recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force (abridged). Full up-to-daterecommendations available at
Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Introducing the Guide to CommunityPreventive Services: Methods, First Recommendations and Expert Commentary,American Journal of Preventive Medicine, January 2000. Full recommendationsavailable at
Healthy People 2020: available at
Katz DL, Elmore JG, Wild DMG, Lucan SC. Jekel’s Epidemiology, Biostatistics, andPreventive Medicine, 3rd ed., Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier Saunders, 2014.
PMO1010: DIVERSITY AND LEADERSHIP
Bell, Myrtle P. 2011. Diversity in Organizations (2nd Ed). South-Western College Publications.(Optional for Purchase)
PMO1011: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH LEASERS AND EXECUTIVES I
Dalgaard, P. Introductory Statistics with R (2nd ed). New York: Springer.
ISBN - 978-0-387-79053-4
Last Updated: July12, 2016