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Public Health 101, Second Edition

Transition Guide

Transition Guide

Public Health 101: Healthy People-Healthy Populations, 2ndEdition

The Second Edition of Public Health 101: Healthy People- Healthy Populations retains the same basic format and organization as the first edition, including use of introductory vignettes, a question/answer format, boxes for more information and for in-depth examples, and case study exercises as the end of each section.

The Second Editionwill add approximately 100 pages including new boxes, tables, and case studies in each section. Two new chapters will expand section 5 on Public Health Institutions and Systems including a chapter on Food and Drugs as Public Health Issues and Systems Thinking and the Future of Population Health. The entire text has been updated and 10 engaging case studies have been added.

The following briefly describes the additions and changes that have been made to each section and chapter.

Section I Principles of Population Health

Chapter 1

  • Addition ofdemographic, epidemiologic, and nutritional transitions moved from chapter 13 of the 1st edition

Chapter 2

  • Addition of Evaluation to the PERI framework to make the framework PERIE and integrate the RE-AIM evaluation approach

Case Studies

  • New Case Studies:Sudden Infant Death Syndrome(SIDS) and Oxygen Use in Premature Infants and Blindness

Section II Evidence-Based Public Health

Chapter 3

  • Addition of health literacy and decision trees/ decision analysis material. Additional Boxes on qualitative data and the SUCCESs approach to successful communications.

Chapter 4

  • Addition of materials on social determinants of health drawn from the PDF Express which accompanied the 1st edition;new materials on mental health;presentation anddiscussion of several additional theories of behavioral change;and introduction to the PRECEDE-PROCEED framework

Chapter 5

  • Addition of material on public health ethics and Healthy People 2020

Case studies

  • New Case Studies: The Obesity Epidemic in American and A New Disease Called SADS-A Decision Analysis

Section III Tools of Population Health

Chapter 6

  • Additional material on Alzheimer's disease and screening for disease

Chapter 7

  • Additional material on causation and transmission of communicable disease

Chapter 8

  • Additional material on small particle air pollution plus intentional and unintentional injuries.Inclusion ofclimate change, successes of outbreak investigations, and bioterrorismpreviously in chapter 13 of the 1st edition. Material on systems thinking moved to chapter 14.

Case Studies

  • New Case Studies: Drug that Kill: Death from Prescription Drug Overdoses and H-Pylori as a Cause of Peptic Ulcers

Section IV Health Professionals, Healthcare Institutions, and Health Systems

Chapter 9

  • Additional material on the continuum of public health education;changes in the MCAT examination;nursing education and the nursing shortage.

Chapter 10

  • Additional material on impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on healthcare delivery

Chapter 11

  • Additional material on the impact of the ACA on health insurance including and updating materials from the Health Reform 101 PDF Express chapter which accompanied the first edition.

Case Studies

  • New Case: Excess Healthcare Costs

Section V Public Health Institutions and Systems

Chapter 12

  • Additional material on accreditation of health departments andcommunity-based participatory research

Chapter 13

  • New chapter on Food and Drugs incorporating material from the Drug Safety and Public Health PDF Express which accompanied the first edition.New discussion of the range of impacts of food on health including food borne outbreaks and their investigation.

Chapter 14

  • New chapter on systems thinking including some materials from chapter 8 and chapter 13 of the 1st edition. Chapter includes new materials on translational research, systems diagrams, plus extensive examples of the application of systems thinking to complex public health problems.

Case Studies

  • New Case Studies: Lung Cancer: Old Disease and New Approaches,Restorital- How do we establish safety? and The Future of HIV/AIDS

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