"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health; Division of Health Care Services
1 Front Matter; 2 Summary and Recommendations; 3 1. The Disarray of Public Health: A Threat to the Health of the Public; 4 2. A Vision of Public Health in America: An Attainable Ideal; 5 3. A History of the Public Health System; 6 4. An Assessment of the Current Public Health System: A Shattered Vision; 7 5. Public Health As A Problem-Solving Activity: Barriers to Effective Action; 8 6. Conclusions and Recommendations; 9 Supplementary Statements; 10 Appendix A: A Summary of the Public Health System in the United States; 11 Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members; 12 Appendix C: Model Standards; 13 Appendix D: Site Visits: Site Selection and Methodology; 14 Index
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, and Families Board on Children, Youth, Steve Olson
Institute of Medicine, Board on the Health of Select Populations, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Division of International Health
Institute of Medicine, Committee to Develop Methods Useful to the Department of Veteran Affairs in Estimating Its Physician Requirements, Joseph Lipscomb
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Health Care Services, Panel on the National Health Care Survey
Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Care Services, Committee on Medicare Coverage Extensions, Lee Zwanziger, Robert L. Lawrence, Marilyn J. Field
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Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Division of Health Care Services, Committee on Immunization Finance Policies and Practices