Lippincott Williams & Wilkins JPHMP's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration

JPHMP's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy & Administration, compiled by the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, provides you with real-life examples of how to strategize and execute policies and practices when confronted with issues such as disease containment, emergency preparedness, and organizational, management, and administrative problems. Feautures: Each case is co-written by a professional writer and tells a "story," using characters, conflicts, and plot twists designed to compel you to keep reading. Case elements include the core problem, stakeholders, steps taken, challenges, results, conclusions, and discussion questions for analysis. More than 60 contributors-experts in public policy, clinical medicine, pediatrics, social work, pharmacy, bioethics, and healthcare management. Ideal for public health practitioners as well as students in graduate and undergraduate public health and medical education programs. Tracks 2016 CEPH (Council on Education for Public Health) accreditation criteria. These cases can be used as tools to develop competencies designated in the new CEPH (Council on Education for Public Health) accreditation criteria. Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience with Enhanced Video, Audio and Interactive Capabilities! Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer, tablet, or smartphone Customize for your language, including right-to-left reading, vertical writing, and enhanced annotation in over 30 languages Easily convert to audiobook, powering your content with natural language text-to-speech Adapt for unique reading needs, supporting learning disabilities, visual/auditory impairments, second-language or literacy challenges, and more Review Amy Hagopian, University of Washington The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice's 21 Public Health Case Studies on Policy and Administration, by Lloyd Novick, Cynthia Morrow and Carole Novick, editors. Wolters Kluwer, publisher, 2018, p 1-368. Book includes complimentary access to electronic versions of the cases and supplementary material. The editors (Novick, Morrow, and Novick) present a collection of 21 cases covering a wide variety of public health topics--for study in the classroom, or by public health practitioners in the workplace, or those simply curious. The table of contents presents the titles, but a cross-walked guide links each case to one or more of the new (2016) competencies named as graduation requirements for Master of Public Health Students by the Council for Education for Public Health. The 64 contributing writers, who come from health departments, universities, government policy offices, think tanks and other settings, have assembled stories from their experiences and observations, all well-cited, and averaging about 15 pages each. Most cases have an epilogue, describing where the story stood at the time of publication. Questions for the reader follow the case, to stimulate critical analysis and discussion. The cases are mostly success stories. For example, containing Ebola in Nigeria against the odds, the nearly 10-year struggle to pass a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Philadelphia (and another story about NY City's journey on the same path), and how public health officials solved a riveting typhoid outbreak mystery among Hasidic Jews in New York City (and managed the press). There are also some cautionary tales among these cases, though: attracting a full-service grocery store to a neglected Syracuse neighborhood ended the local small Lebanese grocery that had helped build community there for 98 years, and an effort in London to bring bicycle infrastructure to increase physical activity and reduce car use didn't really move the needle on the city's cycling rates. The cases provide excellent fodder for classroom discussion. Each case features a protagonist leading a team, which offers students an opportunity to critique their cho