Guthrie S. Birkhead - Essentials of Public Health, 4E

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Birkhead, Guthrie S., author. | Morrow, Cynthia B., author. | Pirani, Sylvia, author. | Riegelman, Richard, editor. Essentials of public health.

Title: Essentials of public health / Guthrie S. Birkhead, Cynthia B. Morrow, Sylvia Pirani.

Other titles: Essential public health.

Description: Fourth edition. | Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2021] | Series: Essentials of public health | Preceded by Essentials of public health / Bernard J. Turnock. Third edition. 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019045708 | ISBN 9781284173253 (paperback)

Subjects: MESH: Public Health Administration | Public Health Practice | United States

Classification: LCC RA418 | NLM WA 540 AA1 | DDC 362.1dc23

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From the impact of AIDS to the cost of health care, this unique series will introduce you to the full range of issues that impact the publics health.

Current and Forthcoming Titles in The Essential Public Health Series:

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Richard K. Riegelman, MD, MPH, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Medicine, and Health Policy, and Founding Dean of The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, DC. He has taken a lead role in developing the Educated Citizen and Public Health initiative which has brought together arts and sciences and public health education associations to implement the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies recommendation that all undergraduates should have access to education in public health. Dr. Riegelman also led the development of The George Washingtons undergraduate major and minor and currently teaches Public Health 101 and Epidemiology 101 to undergraduates.

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As editor of Jones and Bartlett Learnings Essential Public Health series, I am very pleased to welcome three new authors to our series. Guthrie Birkhead MD, MPH, Cynthia Morrow MD, MPH, and Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS are new to our series but not to public health. They have all had long standing connections with the state and local public health system in New York State, where they helped develop a 21st century approach to governmental public health.

In addition to their public health practice experience they have had academic teaching and writing experience that broadens the vision and accessibility of their writing. Cynthia Morrow, for instance, has been an editor of Jones and Bartlett Learnings now classic textbook Novick and Morrows Public Health Administration.

Essentials of Public Health is the fourth edition of the textbook begun by Bernard Turnock MD, MPH. It continues Dr. Turnocks groundbreaking efforts to introduce undergraduate public health students to governmental public health and to careers in public health.

The authors have worked closely together on the fourth edition building on the structure and approach of the earlier editions. They have expanded on the content and bring a new vision to the work of governmental public health. Public Health 3.0, a future oriented framework for governmental public health, forms the basis for much of the expanded approach.

As the authors write in the Preface: Public Health 3.0, with its new set of recommendations for updated public health practice in the 21st century, forms a unifying thread through the first six chapters of the book. Their approach emphasizes health equity and the expanded role of governmental public health in relating to community organizations as well as other governmental agencies.