Description
By (author) Kruger, Jessica; By (author) Moralez, Andy; By (author) Siqueira, C. Eduardo
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A lively exploration of modern public health that blends practical frameworks with real-world examples on issues like COVID-19, climate change and mental health. Diverse perspectives stress social determinants and life course experiences, illuminating today’s challenges and guiding potential solutions.
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Offering a thorough, accessible and lively overview of public health for students new to the field, Schneider”s Introduction to Public Health offers a broad-reaching, practical framework for understanding the forces and organizations of public health today. Through engaging, nontechnical language, illustrative real-world examples, and the current political, economic, and cultural news of the day, students gain a clear understanding of the scope of today”s public health problems and possible solutions.
Building on Schneider”s engaging and easy-to-read narrative approach, new author team Kruger, Moralez, and Siqueira draw on their diverse perspectives for the Seventh Edition to bring a greater focus on the social determinants of health, ecological approach, and life course experiences as a framework to understand public health in the 21st century.
Key Features:
•Updated statistics and information in every chapter illustrate the current state of public health.
•Streamlined organization to better align with a traditional 16-week semester course.
•New chapters addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and mental health.
•New chapter on research methods, that includes qualitative data.
•Timely examples, including links to videos and websites, cover public health issues discussed in the text.
•Alignment with Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) criteria for undergraduate public health.
Biographical note:
Jessica S. Kruger, PhD, MCHES, is a health educator whose research focuses on consumption and addictive behaviors, health behavior decision-making and pedagogy in public health. She collaborates with a wide variety of community-based organizations and advises students at the Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic and the Seneca-Babcock Community Center, both in the Western New York area. Kruger is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the Society of Student-Run Clinics and focuses on increasing the interprofessional collaboration in free clinics around the U.S. She also serves as a member of the leadership team of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice at UB. Most recently, Kruger has been named a 2021 SUNY Online Ambassador for her enthusiastic, effective virtual teaching and advocacy of online education in the SUNY community. She recently joined the editorial board for the journal Pedagogy and Health Promotion.
E. Andy Moralez, Ph.D., MPH, CHES, earned his doctorate from the University of Colorado Denver in Health and Behavioral Science and his MPH from New Mexico State University specializing in community health education. He also served as a faculty member at the Southern New Mexico Family Residency Program in New Mexico, and as a Research Project Lead with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Dr. Moralez”s research collaborations focus on the intersection of public health and clinical medicine, working in interprofessional groups (e.g., medical anthropologists, social workers, and clinical psychologists) to improve patient care and community health. This included his doctoral research, which examined the impact of chronic illness severity on depression outcomes in primary care settings among low-income, complex patients. His most recent clinical-based research focused on training family medicine residents in communication strategies to discuss chronic pain and treatment management and integrate social determinants of health into the
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