Essentials Of Global Community Health (Essential Public Health) Paperback - 2010

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Essentials of Global Community Health offers current and future clinicians, public health professionals, and administrators a comprehensive resource on providing community-oriented health care.

This essential reference delves into the individual, family, social, and global determinants that shape a community's health. Combining theory with practical application, Essentials of Global Community Health provides step-by-step guidance on interventions that promote health and prevent disease at the community level.

With 16 structured case studies that span the globe--from Cambodia and Chad, to Moldova, Israel, Spain, and others--Essentials of Global Community Health explains and illustrates how principles of Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) and Community-Oriented Public Health (COPH) work in diverse settings worldwide.

Jaime and Rosa Gofin bring 40 years of academic and field experience to bear in this text by offering a complete framework for putting community health into practice.

Essentials of Global Community Health features

- A step-by-step framework for integrating individual care and public health
- A comprehensive resource on COPC and COPH
- Illustrative examples and summary tables, plus study and review questions to reinforce concepts
- A complete package of instructor and interactive student resources available online.

Looking for more real-life evidence? Check out Cases 3, 7, 13, 17, & 20 in Essential Case Studies in Public Health, Putting Public Health into Practice.