Public Health Practice
What Works
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2012
368 pages
978-0-19-989277-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Public Health Practice: What Works, the leaders of LA County's Department of Public Health compile the lessons and best practices of working in a complex and evolving public health setting. Through stories of success (and challenges) from practice, this book offers a practical guide to effective health policy and program interventions for individuals, teams, practitioners, and departments on any scale.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acronyms
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction and History of Public Health in Los Angeles County
- PART ONE: Core Capacities
- 2 Measuring Population Health: The Los Angeles County Health Survey
- 3 Strategic Planning: Visioning the New Public Health Agency
- 4 Programs and Policies That Work: How Evidence Can Drive Action
- 5 From Direct Service to Community Orientation: Transformation of Nursing Practice
- 6 Assuring Competence: Credentialing and Privileging of Public Health Physicians
- 7 Performance Improvement: Using Rapid-Cycle Improvement Techniques to Improve Public Health Services
- 8 The Medium and the Message: Strategies for Effective Communication
- 9 Understanding Birth Outcomes and Adverse Birth Events: LAMB and LA HOPE
- PART TWO: Health Promotion
- 10 Underlying Determinants of Health: Putting Local Data to Work
- 11 Tackling Toxic Food Environments: A Response to the Obesity Epidemic
- 12 Enticing People Out of Their Cars: Promoting Active Living
- 13 From Health Education to Health Policy: A Paradigm Shift in Tobacco Control
- 14 Reaching Underserved Populations: Influenza Vaccination in the African American Community
- 15 The Asthma Coalition: Effective Prevention and Control Through Collaboration
- PART THREE: Health Protection
- 16 101 Deadly Days: Listeria monocytogenes Associated with Mexican-Style Cheese
- 17 Infection Control: Public Health Outreach to Hospitals
- 18 Reducing Zoonoses: Controlling Animal Importation
- 19 Safe Food Facilities: Reestablishing Public Confidence Through Letter Grades
- 20 Food Product Recalls: Effective Local Response
- 21 Sewage Discharge Response: Reforms in Reporting and Public Notification
- 22 Contaminated Fish: Protecting Communities Through Community Education and Reducing Availability
- PART FOUR: Emergency Response
- 23 Emergency Management: Building an Effective Structure for Local Public Health
- 24 Employees as First Responders: A Framework for Emergency Readiness
- 25 Responding to Potential Emergencies: The Threat Assessment Unit
- 26 Radiation Risk: Development of a Multi-Agency Radiation Response Plan
- 27 Dispensing Emergency Medications and Supplies: Points of Dispensing
- 28 Real Time Information in Emergencies: Automating Medication Data Collection
- PART FIVE: Service Delivery
- 29 Reducing Drug Use among Nonviolent Offenders: The Drug Court Program
- 30 Preventing Opiate Overdose Deaths: Legal Challenges and Effectiveness of Prevention Education and Naloxone Distribution
- 31 Increasing Accountability among Substance Abuse Treatment Providers: Development of a Performance Management System
- 32 Preconception Health: A Life Course Perspective for Maternal and Child Health
- 33 Narrowing the Infant Mortality Gap: Data Tools and Strategies for Improved Birth Outcomes
- 34 Assuring Medical Coverage: An Effective Outreach Initiative for Children and Families
- 35 Partnering with Families: A New Service Delivery Model for Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy
- 36 Reducing Cases of HIV: Implementation of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
- 37 STDs/HIV in the Adult Film Industry: Public Health, Workplace Hazards, and the Need for Worker Protection
