An Introduction to Community Health, Seventh Edition, has been updated to reflect the latest trends and statistics in community health. With an emphasis on developing the knowledge and skills necessary for a career in health education, this best-selling introductory text covers such topics as epidemiology, community organization, program planning, minority health, health care, mental health, environmental health, drugs, safety, and occupational health. Short scenarios, key terminology, marginal definitions, and web activities are included in each chapter to make this an accessible and reader-friendly resource for the beginning community health student.
Key Features
- Each chapter includes a short scenario that helps students relate chapter content to their everyday lives, identifies key ideas in the chapter, and highlights learning objectives.
- Key terms are placed in boldfaced type and defined both in the margins of the text and in the glossary.
- Web activities encourage students to further explore content by visiting relevant community/public health websites.
- Suggested activities help students apply what they have learned in the text or research it further.
Contents
Unit 1 Foundations of Community Health
- Chapter 1 Community Health: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Chapter 2 Organizations That Help Shape Community Health
- Chapter 3 Epidemiology: The Study of Disease, Injury, and Death in the Community
- Chapter 4 Epidemiology: Prevention and Control of Diseases and Health Conditions
- Chapter 5 Community Organizing/Building and Health Promotion Programming
- Chapter 6 The School Health Program: A Component of Community Health
Unit 2 The Nation’s Health
- Chapter 7 Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
- Chapter 8 Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults
- Chapter 9 Elders
- Chapter 10 Community Health and Minorities
- Chapter 11 Community Mental Health
- Chapter 12 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs: A Community Concern
- Chapter 13 Health Care System
Unit 3 Environmental Health and Safety
- Chapter 14 Community Health and the Environment
- Chapter 15 Injuries as a Community Health Problem
- Chapter 16 Safety and Health in the Workplace
About the Authors
James F. McKenzie, PhD, MPH, CHES-Professor Emeritus, Ball State University
Jim McKenzie, Professor in the Department of Physiology and Health Science at Ball State University, earned his PhD from The Ohio State University, and a MPH from the University of Michigan. He has also served on the faculties at Bowling Green State University and Mankato State University. He is a certified health education specialist (CHES) and currently serves on NCHEC's Division Board for Certification of Health Education Specialists. He is co-author of four textbooks: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: A Primer (5th ed., in press, Benjamin Cummings), Introduction to Community Health (6th ed., in press, Jones & Bartlett Publishers), Principles and Foundations of Health Promotion and Education (4th ed., in press, Benjamin Cummings), and Research Methods in Health Promotion and Education (1st ed., 2005, Jones & Bartlett). He is a member of Society of Public Health Education, American Association for Health Education, American School Health Association, Eta Sigma Gamma, and the North American Primary Care Research Group.
Robert R. Pinger, PhD-Professor Emeritus, Ball State University
Robert R. Pinger is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Health Science at Ball State University and has been the Director of the Department’s Public Health Entomology Laboratory since 1977. He earned his MS and PhD from Iowa State University and completed postdoctoral training in medical entomology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He has taught at the Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil and Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of Korea. He is co-author of two textbooks: Drugs: Issues for Today (3rd ed., McGraw-Hill) and Introduction to Community Health (6th ed., in press, Jones & Bartlett Publishers) and more than 25 scientific articles. He is a member of American Public Health Association, the Entomological Society of America and Sigma Xi, the Research Society of America.
Jerome E. Kotecki, HSD-Ball State University
Jerome E. Kotecki is a Professor of Health Science in the Department of Physiology and Health Science at Ball State University. Dr. Kotecki earned his doctorate in health science and his masters’ degree in exercise science from Indiana University. Professor Kotecki has published over 30 scientific articles and is co-author of the best selling textbooks An Introduction to Community Health and Physical Activity and Health: An Interactive Approach. Dr. Kotecki’s current research is focused on the impact of lifestyle medicine on chronic diseases. He is the lead scientist on several large healthy lifestyle studies focusing on the role of health-care professionals in health counseling.
Product Details
- Paperback: 616 pages
- Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 7 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0763790117
- ISBN-13: 978-0763790110
- Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 1.3 inches
List Price: $119.95