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Book SynopsisChild Health Services Research offers a practical introduction to the foundations, primary methods, and applications of children''s health services research. This valuable resource describes various approaches to children''s health services research, shows how these approaches differ from methods used in relation to adult health, and demonstrates the value that can be added by outcomes research. In doing so, Child Health Services Research also examines various aspects of child health in the context of the household, hospital, health system, community, and policy arenas.Table of ContentsForeword (James Perrin). Preface (Elisa J. Sobo & Paul S. Kurtin). Note to the Reader (Blair L. Sadler). The Editors. The Contributors. Part I: Child Health Services: Setting an Accountability Agenda. 1) An Introduction to Applied Child Health Services Research: Connecting Knowledge and Action (Paul S. Kurtin). 2) Laying the Foundation: Identifying Major Issues in Applied Child Health Services Research (Pradeep Gidwani, Elisa J. Sobo, Michael Seid, and Paul S. Kurtin). Part II: Child Health in Context: Home, Neighborhood, Community, Culture. 3) Prevention and healing in the Household: The Importance of Socio-Cultural Context (Elisa J. Sobo). 4) Documenting Child Health: The Community Indicators Movement (Diana Simmes, Lillian Lim, and Kim Dennis). 5) Partnering with the Community: Implementation, Evaluation, and Impact (Kim Dennis and Diana Simmes). Part III: Child Health in Conventional Healthcare Settings: Improving Organizational Performance. 6) Health Related Quality of Life (Tara Knight, Tasha Burwinkle, and James Varni). 7) Conceptual Models of Quality of Care and Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) for Vulnerable Children (Michael Seid, Elisa J. Sobo, Mirjana Zivkovic, Maryam Davodi-Far, and Melissa Nelson). 8) Standardized Approaches to Clinical Care: Pathways and Disease Management (Pat Richardson, Elisa J. Sobo, and Erin Stuckey). Part IV: Child Health Outcomes: Broadening Applied Research's Reach. 9) Translating Research into Practice: Planning Research to Inform Policy and Program Development (Kim Dennis). 10) Looking to the Future: The Need for Applied Child Health Services Research (Paul S. Kurtin and Blair L. Sadler). Glossary. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Trustee Handbook for Health Care Governance, Second Edition, is a completely revised and updated second edition of the classic resource that was created for health care executives and board members who must lead their organizations through the maze of complex and ongoing change. Written by James E. Orlikoff and Mary K. Totten--two experts in the field of health care leadership this hands--on guide shows health care leaders how to strengthen their foundations of governance. Step by step they reveal how boards can focus on the most important issues, gain access to vital information and practical tools, and create effective alliances with other leadership programs.Table of ContentsForeword by Connie R. Curran. Preface. About the Authors. PART ONE: BOARDROOM BASICS. 1 Board Composition and Trustee Selection. 2 Board Job Descriptions. 3 Orientation: Basic Building Blocks of an Effective Board. PART TWO: BOARD ACCOUNTABILITY. 4 Assessing and Improving Your Community's Health. 5 Board Oversight of Quality. 6 Self-Evaluation: The Mark of Good Governance. PART THREE: STRATEGIC PLANNING AND INFORMATION. 7 Developing a Community-Focused Mission. 8 Strategic Planning by the Board. 9 Information and the Effective Board. PART FOUR: BOARD RELATIONS. 10 CEO Evaluation and Compensation. 11 New Relationships with Physicians: An Overview forTrustees. 12 The Board-Physician Relationship: Enhancing LeadershipPotential. PART FIVE: GOVERNANCE IN THE INTERNET AGE. 13 Stewardship in the New Age. 14 The Role of the Board in the New Health Economy. 15 Information, E-health, and the Board. PART SIX: THE TRUSTEE AS LEADER. 16 Principle-Based Governance: An Approach to IntegratedLeadership. 17 The Role of the Board Chair. 18 The Board Leader's Role in Building and Maintaining Trust. PART SEVEN: GOVERNANCE IN TRANSFORMATION. 19 Systems Thinking in Governance. 20 Redesigning Governance for Success. 21 Governing a Conversion Foundation: A Practical Guide forTrustees. Part Eight: Growing the Best Board. 22 Developing the Individual Trustee. 23 Building Effective Board Committees. 24 Community Representation and the Effective Board. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis revised and updated edition explores negotiation in situations where unacknowledged inequities may unfairly influence the outcome. Ten methods of dealing with inequalities and diversities open the mind and balance the process. This should be a useful book for healthcare professionals.Table of ContentsPreface to the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. The Author. Prologue. PART ONE: CREATING THE CONTEXT FOR A DIALOGUE. Initiating the Dialogue. Approaching an Uneven Table. The Roots of Our Distortions. Recognizing an Uneven Table. The Persistent Fixation on Dominance Power. Imagining Alternatives. Illusions We Live By. Beyond Appearances. PART TWO: TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO AN UNEVEN TABLE. Manipulation as Tradition. Masks of Manipulation. Traditional Methods of Maneuvering. Children at an Uneven Table. Evolution at an Uneven Table. Imagining New Approaches to an Uneven Table. PART THREE: CONSTRUCTIVE WAYS OF BEING AT AN UNEVEN TABLE. The Shift to New Ways of Being. A Model of Paradigm Shift for the Millennium. Way of Being Number One: Find and Inhabit the Deepest and Surest Human Space That Your Capabilities Permit. Way of Being Number Two: Be a Truth Teller. Way of Being Number Three: Honor Your Integrity, Even at Great Cost. Way of Being Number Four: Find a Place for Compassion at the Table. Way of Being Number Five: Draw a Line in the Sand Without Cruelty. Way of Being Number Six: Expand and Explicate the Context. Way of Being Number Seven: Innovate. Way of Being Number Eight: Know What You Do and Do Not Know. Way of Being Number Nine: Stay in the Dialogue. Way of Being Number Ten: Know When and How to Leave the Table. Some Antidotes and Precautions. A Progress Report. Imagining the Future: An Invitation to Continue the Dance. Postscript: September 11, 2001. Recommended Readings. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSince 1972, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation''s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, it provides funds for demonstration projects, educational and communications activities, training, policy analysis, and research. As part of the Foundation''s efforts to inform the public, To Improve Health and Health Care, the fifth volume in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Written for policy makers and practitioners as well as interested members of the public, the series offers useful lessons for leaders and educators developing plans for the coming years. This volume includes chapters on: * The Nurse Home Visitation Program * Strategies to treat tuberculosis * Health of Native Americans * Service credit banking * Consumer choice in long-term care * The Health PoTrade Review"The book succeeds well in what it sets out to do..." (Doody's Review, September 2002)Table of ContentsForeword (Steven A. Schroeder). Editors Introduction: Strategies for Improving Access to Health Care Observations from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology Series (Stephen L. Isaacs and James R. Knickman). Acknowledgments. Part One: Programs. 1. The Nurse Home Visitation Program (Joseph Alper). 2. Tuberculosis: Old Disease, New Challenge (Carolyn Newbergh). 3. Programs to Improve the Health of Native Americans (Paul Brodeur). 4. Service Credit Banking (Susan Dentzer). 5. Consumer Choice in Long-term Care (A. E. Benjamin and Rani E. Snyder). 6. The Health Policy Fellowships Program (Richard S. Frank). Part Two: A Closer Look. 7. Recovery High School (Digby Diehl). 8. On Doctoring: The Making of an Anthology of Literature and Medicine (Richard C. Reynolds and John Stone). Part Three: A Look Back. 9. The Foundation and AIDS: Behind the Curve But Leading the Way (Ethan Bronner). Part Four: Inside the Foundation. 10. Program-Related Investments (Marco Navarro and Peter Goodwin). 11. Tending Our Backyard: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation s Grantmaking in New Jersey (Pamela S. Dickson). The Editors. The Contributors. Index. Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 1997. Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 1998 1999. Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 2000. Table of Contents, To Improve Health and Health Care 2001.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes the United States' health care supply chain. This book offers an examination of how the health care supply chain helps create value and competitive advantage. It presents an examination of the trading relationships among the manufacturers of health care products, the distributors, the hospital customers and end users of those products.Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. About the Author. Part I: Value Chain Basics. 1. The Wharton School Study of the HealthCare Value Chain (Lawton R. Burns, Robert A. DeGraaff, Patricia M. Danzon,John R. Kimberly, William L. Kissick, and Mark V. Pauly). 2. Importance of the Health Care Value Chain (Lawton R. Burns and Robert A. DeGraaff). 3. How the Health Care Value Chain Operates (Lawton R. Burns). Part II: The Intermediaries. 4. Role of Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) (Lawton R. Burns). 5. Role of Wholesalers and Distributors (Lawton R. Burns and Robert A. DeGraaff). 6. Threats of Disintermediation Facing Distributors (Robert A. DeGraaff and Lawton R. Burns). Part III: The Manufacturers. 7. Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (Lawton R. Burns and Patricia M. Danzon). 8. Medical Device Manufacturers (Robert A. DeGraaff and Mark V. Pauly). 9. Medical-Surgical Manufacturers (Lawton R. Burns). Part IV: E-Commerce. 10. E-Commerce in Health Care Manufacturers,Distributors, and GPOs (Lawton R. Burns and Robert A. DeGraaff ). 11. E-Commerce and Integrated DeliveryNetworks (IDNs) (Lawton R. Burns). Part V: Conclusion. 12. Conclusion (Lawton R. Burns and John R. Kimberly). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised and updated second edition of When Health Care Employees Strike is an essential survival guide for health care administrators who must plan for and cope with the inevitable labor dispute. Written by Kenneth Kruger and Norman Metzger-- two experts in the field of health care labor relations-- this much-needed resource includes the critical information and useful strategies health care executives must have in order to be properly prepared. The authors provide detailed information on labor law, an analysis of the different types of disputes, advice on how to use mediation effectively, suggestions for assessing manpower needs before a strike occurs, and ideas for preparing contingency plans. In addition to presenting information on ways to prevent strikes, the book also contains a comprehensive step-by-step manual to ensure health care organizations can continue operation during a labor dispute.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix About the Authors xi Introduction xiii Part 1 Health Care Strikes: Legal and Moral Implications 1 The Impact of Labor Legislation on the Health Care Industry 3 2 Types of Strikes: Causes and Characteristics 19 3 Strike-Related Actions: Union and Management 29 4 Nursing Strikes: A Breed Apart 45 5 The Future: Proposals for Change 59 Appendix A: Ashtabula General Hospital Nurse Strike Chronology 74 Appendix B: The Use of Interest Arbitration in the Public Sector 81 Part 2 Sample Strike Plan Strike Planning Committees 95 Human Resource Policies 97 Financial Policies and Procedures 101 Personnel Plan 105 Patient Care Services 110 Food Services 126 Accommodations 128 Engineering and Plant Operations 130 Supplies Subcommittee 136 Security 138 Labor-Employee Relations 141 Morale Committee 142 Communication 145 Index 149

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Book SynopsisDennis D. Pointer and James E. Orlikoff, two of the most experienced and highly regarded governance consultants in the country, have written a definitive guide for health care boards that want to maximize their performance and help their organizations reach full potential. Getting to Great presents a set of easily applied principles and best practices based on a model that has been proven to strengthen health care governance. Filled with tools and techniques, this practical guide includes * A model of health care governance used by the best health care boards * Seventy-two governance principles and associated practices and tips on helping the board to use them * Checkups for assessing a board * Guidelines for implementing principle-based governance This guide will be an invaluable resource for health care board members and executives who are committed to investing in their organization''s future.Trade Review"They do not waste time beating around the bush; they jump right into the information they are trying to disseminate." (E-Streams, 4/15/03)Table of ContentsThe Authors. 1. Introduction. 2. Board and Governance Basics. 3. Obligations. 4. Functioning: Responsibilities. 5. Functioning: Roles. 6. Structure. 7. Composition. 8. Infrastructure. 9. Implementing Principle-Based Governance. Appendix A: Sample Board Policies. Appendix B: Sample Committee Charters. Appendix C: Sample Governance Principles. Appendix D: Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisSponsored by the Picker/Commonwealth Program for Patient-Centered CareIn this comprehensive, research-based look at the experiences and needs of patients, the authors explore models of care that can make hospitalization more humane. Through the Patient''s Eyes provides insights into why some hospitals are more patient-centered than others; how physicians can become more involved in patient-centered quality efforts; and how patient-centered quality can be integrated into health care policy, standards, and regulations. The authors show how, by bringing the patient''s perspective to the design and delivery of health services, providers can improve their ability to meet patient''s needs and enhance the quality of care.Table of ContentsPreface The Editors Other Contributors 1 Introduction: Medicine and Health from the Patient's Perspective 1 2 Treating Patients as Individuals 19 3 Coordinating Care and Integrating Services 45 4 Overcoming the Barrier of Words 72 5 Innovations in Patient-Centered Education 96 6 Enhancing Physical Comfort 119 7 Providing Effective Emotional Support 154 8 Involving and Supporting Family and Friends 178 9 Facilitating the Transition Out of the Hospital 204 10 Culture, Leadership, and Service in the Patient-Centered Hospital 227 11 Promoting the Doctor's Involvement in Care 260 12 Rebuilding Public Trust and Confidence 280 Afterword 299 Name Index 301 Subject Index 311

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Book SynopsisCommunity-Based Health Organizations presents the basic principles and practical design and management elements that are needed to create an effective community-based health organization. Once in place, these institutions provide a viable health delivery alternative to traditional, mainstream health care organizations.This important resource includes a historical and theoretical overview of the development of community-based health care organizations and offers guidance for developing the structure and capacity of CBHOs to effectively meet the health needs within their communities.Filled with illustrative examples and case studies, Community-Based Health Organizations is designed to be a practical resource. The authors show how to develop leadership and strategic plans, strengthen management, leverage and maximize resources, evaluate programs, and position a CBHO in a changing and competitive health care environment.Table of ContentsTables, Figures, and Exhibits. Foreword (Mary E. Northridge). Preface. Acknowledgments. Part One: The Context of Community-Based Health Organizations (CBHOs). 1. Historical and Organizational Frameworks of Community-Based Health Organizations in the United States (Marcia Bayne Smith). 2. CBHOs: Improving Health Through Community Development (Marcia Bayne Smith) Part Two: Community-Based Health Organizations: Essential Functions and Ongoing Challenges. 3. CBHOs: A Research Report (Marcia Bayne Smith, Sally Guttmacher). 4. Case Study: The Health Keepers Model of Service Delivery (Yvonne J. Graham). Part Three: The CBHO Environment and Models for the Future 201 5. The Political and Economic Management of CBHOs (Marcia Bayne Smith). 6. Planning for Sustainability (Yvonne J. Graham). 7. The Future of CBHOs: Improving Health Outcomes for Everyone (Marcia Bayne Smith, Yvonne J. Graham). The Authors. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisProvides a practical approach for dealing with the legal and regulatory compliance issues involved in human research. Covering a range of topics, such as consent, confidentiality, subject recruitment and selection, and Institutional Review Board, this book offers useful strategies for achieving regulatory compliance while reducing liability.Trade Review"Ideal for anyone who wants a comprehensive understanding of clinical research…" (Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices)

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Book SynopsisIdentifies and offers an examination of critical health issues that affect Latinas health and health care within United States.Table of ContentsTables, Figures, and Exhibits. Sources. The Authors. The Editors. Preface. Acknowledgments. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: OVERVIEW AND CRITICAL ISSUES AFFECTING LATINA HEALTH. 1. The State of the Art: Latinas in the Health Literature (Marilyn Aguirre-Molina, Noilyn Abesamis, Michelle Castro). 2. Public Health Needs and Scientific Opportunities in Research on Latinas (Hortensia Amaro, Adela de la Torre). PART TWO: RISK FACTORS AND DISPARITIES AMONG LATINAS. 3. Disparities in Health Indicators for Latinas in California (Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Carmen J. Portillo, James A. Garbanati). 4. The Role of Health Insurance on Latinas’ Health (Estelamari Rodriguez, Olveen Carrasquillo). PART THREE: SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ISSUES. 5. The Reproductive Years: The Health of Latinas (Aida L. Giachello). 6. Agency and Constraint: Sterilization and Reproductive Freedom Among Puerto Rican Women in New York City (Iris Lopez). 7. Subverting Culture: Promoting HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Puerto Rican and Dominican Women (Blanca Ortiz-Torres, Irma Serrano-García, Nélida Torres-Burgos). PART FOUR: CHRONIC CONDITIONS: HEART DISEASE, CANCER, AND DIABETES. 8. Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Disease Among Adult U.S. Hispanics: Findings from the National Health Interview Survey (1986 to 1994) (Youlian Liao, Richard S. Cooper, Guichan Cao, Jay S. Kaufman, Andrew E. Long, Daniel L. McGee). 9. Use of Cancer Screening Practices by Hispanic Women: Analyses by Subgroup (Ruth E. Zambrana, Nancy Breen, Sarah A. Fox, Mary Lou Gutierrez-Mohamed). 10. Risk Factors for Invasive Cervical Cancer in Latino Women (Anna Nápoles-Springer, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, Eugene Washington). 11. Perspectives of Pregnant and Postpartum Latino Women on Diabetes, Physical Activity, and Health (Edith C. Kieffer, Sharla K. Willis, Natalia Arellano, Ricardo Guzman). PART FIVE: ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND OTHER DRUGS. 12. Alcohol Use and Misuse Among Hispanic Women: Selected Factors, Processes, and Studies (Glorisa Canino). 13. The Treatment of Alcohol Dependency Among Latinas: A Feminist, Cultural, and Community Perspective (Juana Mora). 14. Tobacco Use Among Multiethnic Latino Populations (Jon F. Kerner, Nancy Breen, Mariella C. Tefft, Joscelyn Silsby). 15. Illicit Drug Use Among Mexicans and Mexican Americans in California: The Effects of Gender and Acculturation (William A. Vega, Ethel Alderete, Bohdan Kolody, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola). 16. Substance Abuse Treatment: Critical Issues and Challenges in the Treatment of Latina Women (Hortensia Amaro, Rita Nieves, Sergut Wolde Johannes, Nirzka M. Labault Cabeza). PART SIX: MENTAL HEALTH. 17 Latinas (Melba J. T. Vasquez). PART SEVEN: THE NEXT GENERATION: LATINA ADOLESCENTS. 18. The Protective Role of Social Capital and Cultural Norms in Latino Communities: A Study of Adolescent Births (Jill Denner, Douglas Kirby, Karin Coyle, Claire Brindis). 19. Smoking Acquisition Among Adolescents and Young Latinas: The Role of Socioenvironmental and Personal Factors (Celia P. Kaplan, Anna Nápoles-Springer, Susan L. Stewart, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable). 20. The Role of Intergenerational Discrepancy of Cultural Orientation in Drug Use Among Latina Adolescents (María Félix-Ortiz de la Garza, Alicia Fernandez, Michael D. Newcomb). 21. Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation Among Mexican-Origin and Anglo Adolescents (Robert E. Roberts, Yuan-Who Chen). PART EIGHT: RURAL AND MIGRANT FARMWORKER LATINAS. 22. Cancer-Screening Determinants Among Hispanic Women Using Migrant Health Clinics (Tracy L. Skaer, Linda M. Robison, David A. Sclar, Gary H. Harding). 23. Lifetime Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders Among Mexican Migrant Farmworkers in California (Ethel Alderete, William A. Vega, Bohdan Kolody, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola). 24. Intimate Victimization of Latina Farmworkers: A Research Summary (Joe Gorton, Nikki R. Van Hightower). PART NINE: SPECIAL ISSUES. 25. Relation of Demographic and Lifestyle Factors to Symptoms in a Multiracial/Ethnic Population of Women Forty- to Fifty-Five Years of Age (Ellen B. Gold, Barbara Sternfeld, Jennifer L. Kelsey, Charlotte Brown, Charles Mouton, Nancy Reame, Loran Salamone, Rebecca Stellato). 26. Lesbian Women of Color: Triple Jeopardy (Beverly Greene). 27. Prevalence and Predictors of Physical Partner Abuse Among Mexican American Women (E. Anne Lown, William A. Vega). 28. Acculturation and Disordered Eating Patterns Among Mexican American Women (Rebeca Chamorro, Yvette Flores-Ortiz). 29. Welfare Reform and Its Impact on Latino Families (Diana Romero). Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat Do I Say? Communicating Intended or Unanticipated Outcomes in Obstetrics will help physicians and other health care professionals improve their communication skills with patients and their family members. Written by James R. Woods, a perinatologist, and Fay A. Rozovsky, an attorney, risk management consultant, and authority on informed consent, What Do I Say? explores how to explain risk to patients, how to obtain patient consent, and how to talk with patients when adverse events occur. What Do I Say? is a comprehensive book that Explains consent as a foundation of the caregiver-patient relationship Explains the legal context for disclosing bad news Outlines the practical issues associated with OB consent In addition to the information, research, and practical advice contained in this helpful volume, What Do I Say? is filled with useful case examples that can prepare physicians and other health care professionals for handTable of ContentsForeword (David S. Guzick). Preface. The Authors. 1. The Legal Context for Disclosing Bad News. 2. Consent as a Process. 3. The Challenge of Full Disclosure. 4. Conversations to Diffuse Anger. 5. Conversations to Educate. 6. Conversations to Improve Quality of Care. 7. Where Do We Go from Here? Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten in a concise and easy to follow format, this book presents a review of the enormous breadth of the health care industry. It is full of reliable descriptions and guidance on the major topics and issues that challenge health care leaders.Trade Review"The authors have succeeded in writing a primer targeting new and long-tenured board members." (Journal for Healthcare Quality, May/June 2004)Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures. Preface. About the Authors. 1. Foundations. At a Glance. Some History. Health and Disease. Health Service Need, Demand, and Utilization. Boards and Governance. 2. Health Care Organizations and Services. Distinctive Characteristics. Ambulatory Care. Hospital Care. Long-Term Care. Mental Health Care. Health Systems. Public Health Services. 3. Health Care Financing. Changing Economic Dynamics. Flow of Funds Through the System. Health Insurance. Types of Health Insurance Plans. Voluntary Health Insurance. Social Health Insurance (Medicare). Welfare Insurance (Medicaid). Health Maintenance Organizations. 4. Health Care Personnel. Physicians. Nurses. Ancillary Nursing Personnel. Dentists. Pharmacists. Other Health Professionals. 5. Predictions and Challenges. Appendixes. A. Glossary of Health Care Terms. B. Medical Specialties. C. Recommendations for Learning More. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisHealth care premiums in the U.S. are escalating from twelve to twenty percent a year with no end in sight. The impact of those cost increases on both employers and employees will be huge. Workers will see a direct cut in their take-home pay. Millions will lose health insurance coverage completely. Senior citizens on fixed incomes will be hit particularly hard, as premiums for their Medicare supplement plans and prescription drug costs climb. Frustrated and angry, people will soon be demanding a solution from their elected officials, and, for the first time in recent memory, the size of our unemployed population will become a real political issue rather than just the subject of energetic rhetoric. It is time to recognize that we are moving into a major health care crisis in this country, a crisis driven by the way we deliver, receive, and pay for care. Epidemic of Care offers a comprehensive assessment of the factors behind the cost crisis, how the crisis will escalate, aTrade Review“ This well-written book describes…in great depth the many problems that health care in the United States encounter…” (International Journal of Integrated Care, 2 August 2004) "...one of the more lucid explanations of what is going on in US health care...the authors are well qualified to do the explaining..." (British Medical Journal, 12 July 2003) "There is much to like about this book. Everyone can have a role in Halvorson and Isham's plan." (New England Journal of Medicine, August 28, 2003) "The authors don't miss a trick; they have covered all the bases." (Inquiry, Fall 2003) "...the writing style is very accessible, and the discussion includes points that may not be as commonly discussed outside of medical schools." (E-Streams, December 2003)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. Foreword. Introduction: What Happened to My Paycheck? The Authors. 1. Miracles Cost Money. 2. Unsafe at Any Cost. 3. Who Really Pays for All of That Care? 4. If It Works or Might Work, You Owe It to Me: How Americans’ Entitlement to Care Drives Up Costs. 5. Care Monopolies. 6. Does the United States Pay Fair Prices by World Standards? 7. How the Internet Is Changing Health Care: I Learned About My Prosthesis on the Web. 8. The Coming Crunch in Health Care Workers. 9. Medical Necessity Calls, Fee Cuts, and PR Errors—Not a Good Start. 10. So Why Don’t We Just Go to a Single-Payer System and Save Bucks Like the Brits? 11. Where Do We Go from Here? A Call for a National Health Strategy. 12. Patients Deserve Safe Care. 13. 401(k) Equivalent Choices in Health Care. 14. Most Health Care Costs Are the Result of Bad Health. 15. Caregiver Monopolies Should Not Be Our Care Model of Choice. 16. Cut the Number of Uninsured in Half. 17. Training Tomorrow’s Caregivers and Reengineering Care Delivery. 18. A Call to Action. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten for public health professionals and students, the Dictionary of Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Second Edition, includes definitions for terms and concepts frequently used in public health education and promotion. The book offers both students and professionals a handy resource and contains a wide range of health educationrelated terminologies and effectively eliminates the need for wading through scores of books or articles to find a definition. The book also provides an easily used reference for those working in research or design of public health interventions and Offers a reference list of the terms found most often in the professional literature Includes key terms used in related public health disciplines such as epidemiology, health administration, biostatistics, environmental health, and behavioral sciences Presents terms relevant to the four settings of health promotion and educationcommunity, workplace, primary care, andTable of ContentsForeword (Helen Hopp Marshak). Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part One: Terms. Part Two: Health and Professional Organizations. References. Recommended Reading. About the Authors.

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Book SynopsisMeasurement in Health Behavior offers faculty, students, researchers, and public health professionals the information they need to improve their knowledge of instrument development and testing and their understanding of reliability and validity testing discussed in articles and reports.Table of ContentsTables, Figures, and Exhibits. Preface. The Author. 1. Introduction to Measurement. 2. Types of Measures. 3. Measurement Error. 4. Survey Development. 5. Knowledge Tests. 6. Theory and Measurement. 7. Item Writing and Scaling. 8. Review of Statistical Concepts. 9. Fundamentals of Reliability. 10. Reliability Assessment and Item Analysis. 11. Validity. 12. Factor Analysis. 13. Item Response Theory. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book identifies the key challenges and solutions for public health issues that will affect the health, welfare, and lives of the billions of people throughout the world. * Includes information on innovative and cost-beneficial activities, such as public-private partnerships and programs focused on specific target groups.Table of ContentsAbout the Global Health Council. Foreword (David Rockefeller). Preface (William H. Foege). Acknowledgments. Editors. Contributors. Part One: Identifying Challenges and Developing and Managing Policy. 1. First Annual Gates Award for Global Health (Melinda French Gates). 2. A New Role for Corporate America: Partners in Global Health and Development (Raymond V. Gilmartin). 3. From Challenges to Policy (Lee Jong-wook). 4. Managing Health, Health Care, and Aging (William D. Novelli). Part Two: Developing Strategies, New Pathways, and Solutions. 5. Leadership, Equity, and Global Health (Harlan Cleveland). 6. HIV/AIDS: Lessons from Brazil (Susan Dentzer). 7. Corruption and Health Care: Need for New Solutions (Peter Eigen). 8. Business Approach to HIV/AIDS Crisis in Africa (Spencer T. King). 9. Health in the Developing World: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (Jeffrey D. Sachs). Part Three: Creating Networks and Partnerships and Planning Change from Within. 10. Leadership and Management for Improving Global Health (Frances Hesselbein). 11. Creating Public Health Alliances: The American Cancer Society Experience (John R. Seffrin). Part Four: Learning from Experience and Building a Generation of Leaders. 12. Leadership Development for Global Health (Jo Ivey Boufford). 13. Challenges to Health in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Decade of Experience (Martin McKee). 14. Building the Next Generation of Leaders (Joy Phumaphi). 15. Creating Public Health Leaders: Public Health Leadership Institutes (William L. Roper and Janet Porter). Part Five: Leading and Managing Teams While Recognizing and Celebrating Success. 16. Leading for Success (Nils Daulaire). 17. Epilogue: The Road Ahead (Kofi A. Annan). Index.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive text and reference that offers practical fundamentals and valuable insights into various aspects of medical practice management: operations, financial management, strategic planning, regulation and risk management, human resources, and community relations.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgments. Preface. PART ONE: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. 1. Budgeting for Physician Practices (Marci S. Thomas). 2. Revenue Cycle (Lou Porn, Polly Minugh). 3. Understanding the Cost of Providing Services (Suriya H. Grima, John A. Grima). 4. Taxation and Physician Practices (Anne M. McGeorge). 5. Capital Investment Decisions (Marci S. Thomas, Elisabeth Fowlie Mock). 6. Monitoring Financial Performance (Teresa L. Edwards). PART TWO: REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT AND RISK MANAGEMENT. 7. Negotiating Managed Care Contracts and Contract Management (Beacham Wray). 8. Federal and State Regulations (Bruce A. Johnson). 9. Corporate Compliance in a Medical Practice Setting (Bruce A. Johnson). 10. Risk Management (Kathryn Johnson). PART THREE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. 11. Governance and Leadership in a Medical Practice (Blair A. Keagy). 12. Human Resource Management (Bruce J. Fried, Marci S. Thomas, Lisa L. Goodrich). 13. Physician Compensation (Lou Porn). 14. The Role of Nonphysician Clinicians in Medical Practice (Blair A. Keagy). 15. Impact of Nursing Workforce Issues on the Physician and Practice Manager (Elizabeth A. Arsenault). PART FOUR: STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS: PLANNING, MARKETING, AND MANAGEMENT. 16. Developing a Business Plan (Lou Porn). 17. Adding a New Service or Program to a Medical Practice (Blair A. Keagy). 18. Marketing a Practice (Karen McCall, Dan Dunlop). 19. Integrating a Clinical Research Program into a Medical Practice (William A. Marston). 20. Relationships Between Medical Practices and Community Hospitals (Blair A. Keagy). 21. Academic Medical Centers (Mary Jane Kagarise, Anthony A. Meyer). PART FIVE: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT. 22. Information Systems (David D. Potenziani). 23. Performance Improvement, Teamwork, and Monitoring Outcomes (Bette G. Brotherton, Larry Mandelkehr). 24. The Twenty-First-Century Medical Environment (George F. Sheldon). The Editors. The Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book for faculty, students, and researchers in public health and the social sciences addresses health disparities based on race and racism, and classism and gender and sexism. This edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of social scientists and public health scholars to examine these issues.Trade Review"…pathbreaking in clarifying how and why intersectional approaches to health research will best allow us to understand and formulate applied solutions to address health disparities." (Gender and Society) "…coherent illustration of potential contribution of qualitative social science to debates on disparities in health." (New England Journal of Medicine, January 18, 2007)Table of ContentsTables and Figures. Acknowledgments. The Editors. The Process. The Contributors. PART ONE: INTERSECTIONALITY AND HEALTH. 1. Intersectionality and Health: An Introduction (Leith Mullings, Amy J. Schulz). PART TWO: RACE, CLASS, GENDER, AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION. 2. Reconstructing the Landscape of Health Disparities Research: Promoting Dialogue and Collaboration Between Feminist Intersectional and Biomedical Paradigms (Lynn Weber). 3. Moods and Representations of Social Inequality (Emily Martin). 4. Constructing Whiteness in Health Disparities Research (Jessie Daniels, Amy J. Schulz). PART THREE: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS. 5. The Intersection of Race, Gender, and SES: Health Paradoxes(Pamela Braboy Jackson, David R. Williams). 6. Identity Development, Discrimination, and Psychological Well-Being Among African American and Caribbean Black Adolescents (Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Barbara J. Guthrie, James S. Jackson). 7. Disparities in Latina Health: An Intersectional Analysis (Ruth E. Zambrana, Bonnie Thornton Dill). 8. Immigrant Workers: Do They Fear Workplace Injuries More Than They Fear Their Employers? (Marianne P. Brown). PART FOUR: STRUCTURING HEALTH CARE: ACCESS QUALITY AND INEQUALITY. 9. Health Disparities: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Know? What Should We Do? (H. Jack Geiger). 10. From Conspiracy Theories to Clinical Trials: Questioning the Role of Race and Culture versus Racism and Poverty in Medical Decision Making (Cheryl Mwaria). 11. Whose Health? Whose Justice? Examining Quality of Care and Forms of Advocacy for Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer (Mary K. Anglin). PART FIVE: DISRUPTING INEQUALITY. 12. Resistance and Resilience The Sojourner Syndrome and the Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem (Leith Mullings). 13. Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Public Health Interventions (Amy J. Schulz, Nicholas Freudenberg, Jessie Daniels). 14. Movement-Grounded Theory: Intersectional Analysis of Health Inequities in the United States (Sandi Morgen).

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Book SynopsisInjury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications is a cutting-edge volume that provides a comprehensive understanding of injury and violence prevention. This detailed resource draws on the breadth and depth of many scientific disciplines and public health practice experiences.Trade Review"This text presents an opportunity for a cleaver reappraisal of the imperative to improve and the health outcomes of the next generations . . ." (Australian and New Zealand of Public Health, August-Sept 2007) "Should be on the bookshelf of every researcher, practitioner, and advocate striving to reduce the public health burden of injury and violence. This well-written, comprehensive, and compelling book has a great deal to teach students and professionals about the theories underpinning the design, implementation, and evaluation of behavioral change strategies." — American Journal of Preventive Medicine "This book would be an excellent resource for classroom teaching. The authors have provided thought-provoking examples of ‘real-life’ interventions. The book would be useful not only in a topical class on the issue of injury and violence but also in classes focused on behavior change theories and theory-based intervention development. I found new and innovative examples of interventions that I will use in classroom teaching. I would recommend this book to public health professionals and to teachers working with students of public health, health education, nursing and medicine. The clarity of the writing and the excellent examples make this book appropriate for both graduate- and undergraduate-level students" — Health Education Research "The cohesive textbook Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications offers the reader a solid foundation for the involvement of psychology in the field." — Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books "I highly recommend this book. It sets a new standard for the next generation of injury and violence prevention programs." — American Journal of Health Behavior “The outstanding new text Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications is the first to focus on the application of behavioral science to the problem of injury. — Journal of the American Medical AssociationTable of ContentsForeword (Martin Fishbein). Foreword (David C. Grossman). Preface. The Editors. The Contributors. 1 Injury Prevention and Behavior: An Evolving Field (Andrea Carlson Gielen, David A. Sleet). PART ONE: BEHAVIOR CHANGE THEORIES AND MODELS. 2 Individual-Level Behavior Change Models: Applications to Injury Problems (David A. Sleet, Lara B. Trifiletti, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Bruce Simons-Morton). 3 The Application of Social Cognitive Theory to Injury Prevention (Bruce Simons-Morton, Tonja Nansel). 4 Community Models and Approaches for Interventions (Andrea Carlson Gielen, David A. Sleet, Lawrence W. Green). 5 Health Risk Communication and Injury Prevention (Deborah C. Girasek). 6 Ecological Models for the Prevention and Control of Unintentional Injury (John P. Allegrante, Ray Marks, Dale W. Hanson). 7 Planning Models: PRECEDE-PROCEED and Haddon Matrix (Kimberley Freire, Carol W. Runyan). PART TWO: RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE INTERVENTIONS. 8 Study Methods for Understanding Injury Behavior (Nancy J. Thompson). 9 Intervention Research and Program Evaluation (John B. Lowe, Jingzhen Yang, Erin Heiden, Ralph J. DiClemente). PART THREE: BEHAVIOR CHANGE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE INJURY RISK. 10 Behavior Change Interventions in Road Safety (Lawrence P. Lonero, Kathryn M. Clinton, David A. Sleet). 11 Modifying Alcohol Use to Reduce Motor Vehicle Injury (Ralph Hingson, David A. Sleet). 12 Behavioral Considerations for Sports and Recreational Injuries in Children and Youth (Morag MacKay, Karen Liller). 13 House Fires and Other Unintentional Home Injuries (Eileen M. McDonald, Andrea Carlson Gielen). 14 Occupational Injury Prevention and Applied Behavior Analysis (E. Scott Geller). 15 Intimate Partner Violence (Karen A. McDonnell, Jessica G. Burke, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Patricia J. O'Campo). 16 Applying Behavioral Theory to Self-Directed Violence (Alex E. Crosby, David W. Coombs, Leigh Willis). 17 Youth Violence Prevention: Theory and Practice (Darrell Hudson, Marc A. Zimmerman, Susan Morrel-Samuels). PART FOUR: CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES. 18 Supervision as a Behavioral Approach to Reducing Child-Injury Risk (Barbara A. Morrongiello, Jennifer Lasenby). 19 Reducing Posttraumatic Stress After Individual and Mass Trauma (Courtney Landau Fleisher, Nancy Kassam-Adams). 20 Law, Behavior, and Injury Prevention (Frederic E. Shaw, Christopher P. Ogolla). 21 Human Factors in Product and Environmental Design for Injury Control (Bryan E. Porter, James P. Bliss). 22 Behavioral Sciences, Injury, and Violence Prevention: Synthesis and Future Directions (Ralph J. DiClemente, Andrea Carlson Gielen, David A. Sleet). Appendix: Federal Injury and Violence-Related Data Systems (Joseph L. Annest, David A. Sleet). Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisCommunity-Based Health Interventions covers the skills necessary to change health in a community setting through the reduction of disease, disease conditions, and risks to health, as well as create a supportive environment for the maintenance of the behavior changes. The first section provides background information about why interventions in communities are important, the history of several major community interventions, ethical issues in the design and implementation of interventions and the different types of interventions. The second section covers planning and activities needed to complete an intervention, along with the theoretical basis of interventions. The third section shows how to assess the needs and strengths of a particular community, gain community support, define the goals of an intervention and get started. This section also contains information on obtaining material and financial support and on strategies for continuing the intervention beyond its initial phase. The fTable of ContentsTables, Figure, and Exhibit ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii The Authors xv PART ONE introducing community-based interventions 1 1 IMPROVING HEALTH IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS 3 Defining Community 4 Ecological Theory and Levels of Prevention 5 2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS 11Diana Silver Community-Based Health Interventions: An Instrument for Change 12 Early Community-Based Health Interventions 15 Assessing the Evidence from Early Community-Based Health Interventions 18 The Evolution of Community-Based Health Interventions 19 3 ETHICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS 25 The Integration of Ethics into Public Health Practice 26 Institutional Review Boards 28 Vulnerable Populations 29 Permission and Consent 30 Protection for Research Participants 33 Ensuring Research Quality 34 Maintaining the Integrity of Research 35 4 LEVELS AND TYPES OF COMMUNITY-Based INTERVENTIONS 39 An Ecological Focus on Types of Prevention 40 Selecting a Goal for the Intervention 42 Examples of Interventions at Different Levels of Prevention 45 PART TWO developing the intervention 51 5 A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING COMMUNITY-Based INTERVENTIONs 53 Theoretical Guidance for Health Interventions 54 Examples of Theories Used at the Four Ecological Levels 56 6 COLLECTING AND MANAGING DATA 65 Data: A Crucial Component of Research 66 Collecting Quantitative Data 67 Collecting Qualitative Data 73 After Data Collection 75 PART THREE working through the intervention 81 7 ASSESSING COMMUNITY NEEDS 83 Basic Components of a Community Assessment 84 Strengthening Your Findings 87 8 PLANNING A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION 95 Intervention Content and Format 96 A Logic Model as an Organizing Strategy 101 A Fictional Community Assessment: Adolescent Tobacco Use 104 9 IMPLEMENTING A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION 115 Implementation at the Four Ecological Levels 116 Interventions at the Community or Policy Level 123 10 EVALUATING A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION 127 Reasons for Evaluation 128 Preparing for an Evaluation 130 Designing the Evaluation 130 Flexibility: An Essential Skill in Evaluation 135 PART FOUR learning from the past and adapting to the future 137 11 FUNDING AND SUSTAINABILITY 139 Financing Community-Based Health Interventions 140 Components of the Proposal for Funding 143 Components of the Budget 150 Continuing and Sustaining an Intervention 155 12 IMPLEMENTATION PITFALLS 157 Things Happen 158 13 THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS 165 Adapting Methods of Intervention to Twenty-First–Century Communities 166 A Challenge and an Opportunity for Public Health Practitioners 169 A Limitation of the New Technologies 173 14 COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE 177 Arthritis 178 Asthma 179 Adult Vaccinations 181 Alcohol Use 182 Cardiovascular Disease 183 Childhood Vaccinations 184 Injuries from Motor Vehicle Accidents 185 Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence 186 Smoking 187 Glossary 191 References 203 Index 211

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Book SynopsisThis invaluable guide shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the various performance measurement methods used in health care and shows their practical impact on clinical patient outcomes.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables. Preface. The Author. Introduction. 1 Overview: What Measures Measure. Measures and the Medical Staff. Measures and Patients. Measures and Health Care Leaders. Measures and Money. Measures and Evaluating Care. Summary. Things to Think About. 2 Fundamentals of Data. Quality and Finance: A Perfect Fit. Quality and Accountability. Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down. Finding Answers. Objectifying the Delivery of Care. Case Example: Cardiac Mortality. Case Example: Intensive Care Units. Defining Goals. Nothing New Under the Sun. Case Example: Falls. Communicating Information from Quality Measures. Leadership Defines the Level of Quality. Finding Questions. Summary. Things to Think About. 3 Using Data to Improve Organizational Processes. Satisfying the Demanding Consumer. Offering Value. Showing the Numbers. Measures Are Good Business. Managing with Measures. The Value of Measures. Measures and Organizational Processes. Case Example: Nutrition. Case Example: Housekeeping. Monitoring Performance. Measures Promote Knowledge. Lack of Measures Leads to Poor Resource Management. Measures and Evaluating Services. Summary. Things to Think About. 4 What to Measure—and Why. Leadership Determines What to Measure. Measures Define Quality Care. Measures Inform Financial Decisions. Measures and Purchasing Decisions. Measures and Patient Safety. Quality Methodology for Performance Improvement. Developing a Performance Improvement Plan. Case Example: Plan Do Check Act for Bariatric Surgery. Monitoring Variation from the Standard. Case Example: Moving Between Levels of Care. Understanding Patient Flow. Summary. Things to Think About. 5 Promoting Accountability Through Measurements. Measures and Organizational Goals. Justifying Expenses. Case Example: Self-Extubations. Getting the Doctors on Board. Case Example: Wrong-Site Surgery. Analyzing Errors. Changing the Culture. Asking Questions. Evaluating Information and Communicating Results. Summary. Things to Think About. 6 The Rationale for External Drivers of Quality. The Government Takes the Lead. Monitoring Quality for Changed Practices. The Media Carry the Message. Public Pressure Forces Change. Quality and Community Relations. Truth or Consequences. Quality Data Force Change. Case Example: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft. Make the Regulations Work for You. Summary. Things to Think About. 7 Integrating Data for Operational Success. Different Data Tell Different Stories About Care. Working with Administrative Data. Working with Primary Data. Case Example: Stroke. Operational Decisions and Quality Data. Quality and Risk. Case Example: FMEA and Blood Transfusions. Communicating Quality Data. Case Example: Decubiti. Measures Tell the Truth. Summary. Things to Think About. 8 Internal Drivers of Quality. Using Guidelines to Drive Quality. Ensuring That the Standard of Care Is Met. CareMaps Promote Standardized Care. Variance Data Help Drive Quality. Dealing with Resistance to CareMaps. Implementing Guidelines to Drive Quality Care. Everyone Benefits from CareMaps. Documenting the Delivery of Care. Case Example: Detoxification Guidelines. Summary. Things to Think About. 9 Using Data for Performance Improvement. Aggregated Data Offer a Different Perspective. Case Example: Using Quality Methods to Ensure Consistency of Care. Case Example: Increasing Access to Care. Case Example: Improving Sterilization Across the System. Collaboration Works. Summary. Things to Think About. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a step-by-step guide to the theoretical basis and practical implementation of coalitions and partnerships. Written by a uniquely qualified author, with deep roots in research and practice, the book provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining and nurturing these complex organizations.Trade Review"This comprehensive text will be an invaluable resource not only for the practitioner and researcher practicing in all segments of public health but also for the academician preparing our future health educators. The rich experience of the author of more than 15 years of building, leading, evaluating, and consulting on coalitions and partnerships is evident as she combines her practical experience and insights with the published sources to make her points. . . . This book achieves the stated goal of being a one-stop shop that provides not only a philosophical and theoretical basis but also practical guidance and tools on how to develop and sustain successful partnerships and coalitions."-- Health Promotion Practice, April 2008Table of ContentsPreface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii About the Author xxv Part I: Making the Case for Coalitions and Partnerships 1 1 Historical Perspective of Coalitions 3 Cooperation and Settlement in Early America 3 The Development of Associations 4 Community Organizing for Social Change: Trade Unions, Settlement Houses, and Neighborhood and Community Development 5 Social Work Approach 6 Political Activist Approach 7 Neighborhood-Maintenance, or Community-Development, Approach 8 Contemporary Efforts and Models of Social Action Community Organizing 10 Contemporary Roots of Coalitions and Partnerships for Health Promotion 12 Community Development 12 Citizen Participation 12 Empowerment 13 Community Capacity 14 Community Competence 15 Social Capital 15 Coalitions: A Public Health Strategy to Build Capable, Competent Communities 16 The Rise of Coalitions (1990–2006) 17 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Abuse Prevention 17 Immunization Promotion 19 Oral Health Promotion 19 Teen Pregnancy Prevention 20 Injury Prevention 20 HIV/AIDS Prevention 20 Promoting Health Insurance 21 Prevention of Chronic Disease: Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and Diabetes 21 Asthma 22 Multiple Health Issue Coalitions: Turning Point Initiative 23 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010 23 Steps to a HealthierUS 24 Summary 24 Questions for Review 25 2 Principles of Collaboration and Partnering: Coalitions Defined 26 Defining Collaboration 26 Intensity and Levels of Collaborative Work 27 What’s in a Name? 29 Models of Collaboration 30 What Makes a Coalition a Coalition? 31 Types of Coalitions 32 How Community Coalitions Differ from Other Types of Coalitions 34 Community Coalitions 34 State Coalitions 34 Regional or National Coalitions 36 Competing Coalitions 36 Coalition Spotlight: Changing with the Times—The Consortium for Infant and Child Health (CINCH) 37 Summary 38 Questions for Review 38 3 Why Coalitions? 49 Why Coalitions Form 49 The Importance of Community Context 51 Benefits of a Coalition Approach 53 Challenges of a Coalition Approach 55 Applying Democratic Principles to Coalition Building 57 When Coalitions Are Not the Solution 58 To Be or Not to Be? Should Coalitions Ever Disband? 59 Summary 60 Questions for Review 60 4 The Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT) 61 The Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT): Origin and Roots 62 Coalition Frameworks and Models 62 Community Organization and Development Model 62 Framework for Partnerships for Community Development 63 Framework of Organizational Viability 64 Community Coalition Model 65 Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development Model 67 The Collaboration Framework 68 Typology of Community Organization and Community Building 69 The Conceptual Framework for Coalition Assessment 69 Model of Community Health Governance 69 Community Coalition Action Theory: Assumptions and Constructs 71 Outline of the CCAT Theory 71 Empirical Support for the CCAT Theory 76 Stages of Development 76 Community Context 77 Lead Agency or Convener Group 77 Coalition Membership 78 Coalition Operations and Processes 78 Leadership and Staffing 80 Coalition Structures 81 Pooled Member and External Resources 81 Member Engagement 82 Assessment and Planning 82 Implementation of Strategies 83 Community Change Outcomes 83 Health and Social Outcomes 83 Community Capacity 84 Application of CCAT: Consortium for the Immunization of Norfolk’s Children (CINCH) 84 Stages of Development 85 Community Context 85 Lead Agency or Convener Group 85 Coalition Membership 86 Coalition Operations and Processes 86 Leadership and Staffing 86 Coalition Structures 87 Pooled Member and External Resources 87 Member Engagement 87 Assessment and Planning 87 Implementation of Strategies 88 Community Change and Health Outcomes 88 Community Capacity 88 Strengths and Limitations of the Theory, or Model 89 Future Directions 90 Summary 91 Questions for Review 91 Part II: Building Effective Coalitions and Partnerships 93 5 Lead Agency, Coalition Staff, and Leadership 95 Who is the Lead Agency? 96 Types of Lead Agencies 96 The Role of Lead Agencies 97 What Makes a Good Lead Agency? 97 Coalition Staff 98 Staff Roles 99 Coalition Leadership 108 Collaborative, or Transformational, Leaders 109 Leadership Recruitment 117 Leadership Styles 118 Leadership Traits, Skills, and Roles 121 Team Leadership 126 Training, Technical Assistance, and Orientation 126 Training 127 Technical Assistance 128 Trainers’ and Technical-Assistance Consultants’ Roles, Responsibilities, and Characteristics 129 Coalition Roles, Responsibilities, and Characteristics 129 Building and Sustaining Technical-Assistance Consultant–Coalition Relationships 129 Training and Technical Assistance Venues 130 Summary 134 Questions for Review 135 Resources 135 6 Coalition Membership and Teamwork 138 Member Organizations versus Individual Members 138 Categories of Membership 139 Member Characteristics, Capacities, and Skills 140 Member Responsibilities 142 Member Roles 144 Member Recruitment 144 Investing in Recruitment 148 Building Member Diversity 149 Member Retention 158 Does Size Matter? 162 Building Effective Teams and Work Groups 163 Stages of Team Development 164 Traits of Teams and Work Groups 165 Team and Work Group Roles 174 Building Community Ownership of the Coalition 175 Summary 176 Questions for Review 177 Resources 177 Organizations 177 Publications 179 7 Essential Coalition Processes 181 Communication 182 The Communication Process 183 Miscommunication 185 Communication Channels 185 Features of Effective Group Communication 186 Problem Solving 190 Effective Decision Making 195 Decision-Making Styles 196 Techniques for Building Majority-Rule Decisions 199 Techniques for Building Consensus 199 Prioritizing 200 Multi-Voting 201 Zero to Ten Rating 201 Ethical Decision Making 202 Resolving Conflict 203 Types of Conflict 204 General Conflict Resolution Strategies 207 Conflict Management Skills 208 Turfism 212 Types of Turf Issues That Coalitions Face 213 Avoiding and Resolving Turf Battles 213 Effective Turf Management Tips 215 Coalition Spotlight: Virginians for a Healthy Future 216 Summary 217 Questions for Review 218 Resources 219 General 219 Decision Making 219 Conflict Resolution 219 8 Coalition Infrastructure 222 Formalized Rules and Procedures 223 Coalition Vision and Mission Statements 223 SWOT Analysis 224 Vision Statements 224 Mission Statements 225 Slogans or Bylines 225 Roles and Job Descriptions 225 Organizational Charts 227 Steering Committees and Governance 229 Work Groups and Subgroups 230 Bylaws and Guidelines for Operations 231 Coalition Meetings 240 Meeting Basics 241 Timing of Meetings 242 Ground Rules 243 Meeting Process 244 Meeting Roles 244 Common Meeting Challenges 245 Agenda 249 Minutes 250 Parliamentary Procedure 250 Coalition Spotlight: Conducting Empowering Meetings 255 Summary 256 Questions for Review 256 Resources 256 Part III: Sustaining Effective Coalitions and Partnerships 259 9 Marketing the Coalition and Its Agenda 261 Marketing or Promoting the Coalition 262 Developing an Effective Organizational Message 262 Developing a Business Plan 265 Coalition Branding: Logo and Name 267 Promotional Materials 267 Brochures 268 Newsletters 270 Websites 273 Coalition Spokespersons 275 Summary 276 Questions for Review 276 Resources 277 10 Funding, Resource Development, and Sustainability 278 Sources of Coalition Funds 279 Sustainability 279 Social Enterprise 280 Social Entrepreneurs 281 Funding Characteristics 281 To Incorporate or Not? 282 Developing the Coalition Budget 285 Steps in the Budgeting Process 287 Fund-Raising 290 The Resource Development Team 292 The Resource Development Plan 293 Resource Planning Steps 293 Obtaining Corporate, Foundation, and Government Grants 298 Identifying and Researching Grant Funding Sources 299 Contacting the Funder 301 Building Support for the Grant Proposal 301 Requests for Proposals 302 Proposal Timelines 303 Writing a Grant Proposal 303 Reviewing Process for Competitive Grant Applications 304 Letters of Intent 305 The Grant Application 305 Dealing with Rejection 309 Improving Competitive Applications 310 Coalition Spotlight: Arkansas Oral Health Coalition 314 Summary 316 Questions for Review 316 Resources 316 Part IV: Coalitions and Partnerships in Action 319 11 Community Assessment 321 Choosing Coalition Issue(s) That Resonate with the Community 322 Framing the Issue to Build Support 323 Impact of the Issue on the Coalition 326 Priority Populations 326 Involving the Priority Population in the Work 327 An Asset-Based Approach to Community Assessments 328 Benefits and Challenges of Conducting Assessments 330 Conducting the Assessment 331 Determining the Assessment’s Purpose and Scope 332 Defining the Assessment’s Goals and Objectives 332 Selecting the Approach and Methods for Collecting Data 332 Designing and Pilot-Testing the Instruments and Procedures 347 Preparing a Timeline and Budget 348 Collecting the Data 348 Analyzing the Data 348 Preparing and Disseminating the Findings 349 Evaluating the Assessment’s Merit and Worth 351 Coalitions and Assessments: Issues and Lessons Learned 351 Coalition Spotlight: Community Assessment with the Metropolitan Boston Haitian HIV Prevention Coalition 352 Summary 352 Questions for Review 353 Resources 353 12 Coalitions and Planning 356 Public Health Planning Models 357 Getting To Outcomes: Methods and Tools for Planning, Evaluation and Accountability (GTO) 359 The Strategic Planning Process 361 Evaluating Strategic and Action Plans and the Planning Process 371 Coalition Spotlight: Strategic Planning with the Decade of Hope Coalition in Dulce, New Mexico 379 Summary 389 Questions for Review 390 Resources 390 13 Coalition Activities and Interventions 391 Phases of Program Implementation 392 Selecting and Implementing Projects 392 The Project Team 394 Assessing Promising Practices and Interventions 395 Characteristics of Successful Interventions 399 Implementing Community-Based Strategies 401 Levels of Intervention 401 Replicating Community-Based Strategies 402 Types of Intervention Strategies 403 Social Marketing 407 Essential Elements of Social Marketing 407 Features of Social Marketing 408 Creating a Social Marketing Plan 409 Media Advocacy 411 How Does Media Advocacy Work? 412 Media Advocacy Strategies 413 Interview Basics 416 Developing an Advocacy Strategy 417 The Advocacy Team 418 Coalition Spotlight: Media Advocacy with Los Angeles County Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Policy Coalition 419 Legal and Ethical Issues in Community Interventions 421 Liability 422 Confidentiality 422 Informed Consent 423 Disclosure 424 Competence 424 Conflict of Interest 424 Coalition Spotlight: Comprehensive Community Interventions—Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Philadelphia 425 Summary 426 Questions for Review 427 Resources 428 Examples of Social Marketing Campaigns 428 Other Social Marketing and Media Advocacy Resources 428 Ethics Websites 431 14 Evaluating Coalitions and Partnerships 433 Evaluation Paradigms 435 Coalition Evaluation: Promoting Self-Reflection and Improvement 436 Key Concepts and Levels of Coalition Evaluation 437 Key Terms of Coalition Evaluation 438 Ecological Levels of Outcomes 439 Levels of Coalition Evaluation 440 Evaluation Frameworks and Models 442 Kansas University Work Group’s Framework for Participatory Evaluation of Community Initiatives 443 CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health 444 The Kellogg Foundation’s Steps to Program Evaluation 446 Evaluation Steps 447 Coalition Measures 470 Level 1. Measures of Coalition Infrastructure, Function, and Processes 470 Level 2. Measures of Coalition Programs and Interventions 474 Level 3. Measures of Health Status and Community Change Outcomes 475 Coalition Evaluation Instruments 476 Challenges of Evaluating Community-Based Initiatives 486 The Challenges of Coalition Evaluation 487 Solving the Coalition Evaluation Dilemma 490 Coalition Spotlight: The California Coalition for Childhood Immunization 492 Summary 493 Questions for Review 493 Resources 494 General Evaluation Instruments 494 Other Resources 497 15 Coalitions and Partnerships: Their Promise and Future 501 Reflections on the Power of Working in Partnership 501 Lessons Learned from Coalition Evaluations 502 Summing Up: Factors That Promote Coalition Success 505 Implications and Future Research 507 References 511 Name Index 553 Subject Index 561

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Book SynopsisTools for Teaching Health presents classroom-tested, ready to use activities and lessons developed and written by highly acclaimed health educators. This much-needed resource provides any health educator who works with various populations with the strategies that will enhance the health education experience and make learning fun. Designed to be practical, all the book's proven activities are reproducible, hands-on, student-centered, and interactive.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix About the Authors xi Notes to Teacher xiii CHAPTER 1 TOBACCO Icebreaker: Tobacco People Hunt 1 Lesson 1: Tobacco Grab Bag 5 Lesson 2: Demonstration of Tobacco’s Harmful Effects 7 Lesson 3: Tobacco No-No 14 Lesson 4: Tobacco Decision Making 18 Lesson 5: Tobacco Talk Show 22 Home–School Connection: Smoking Interview 24 Project: Multiple Intelligence Tobacco Project 27 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 31 CHAPTER 2 ALCOHOL Icebreaker: Concentric Circles 39 Lesson 1: Alcohol Concept Splash 42 Lesson 2: Alcohol Simulation Stations 45 Lesson 3: Drinking and Driving Timeline 53 Lesson 4: Dysfunctional Families—An Alcohol Story 56 Lesson 5: Pick-and-Choose Refusal Skills 62 Home–School Connection: Contract for Life 70 Project: Show Us the Money! Alcohol Grant Writing 73 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 79 CHAPTER 3 DRUGS Icebreaker: Raise Your Hand If You Take Drugs 87 Lesson 1: Paper Plate Pharmacology 89 Lesson 2: Refusal Skills and Marijuana 91 Lesson 3: How Social Is Norm? 97 Lesson 4: The “I’s” Have It 101 Lesson 5: Up Close and Personal 109 Home–School Connection: Talking About Marijuana 112 Project: What’s Up in Health? 116 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 120 CHAPTER 4 NUTRITION Icebreaker: Toilet Paper Game 127 Lesson 1: Puzzling Pieces 129 Lesson 2: Did I Eat That? How to Read a Food Label 147 Lesson 3: What’s That? 151 Lesson 4: Hearty Appetites 154 Lesson 5: Positive and Negative Weight Loss Cards 157 Home–School Connection: Favorite Family Recipe Conversion 162 Project: Food Diary and Reflection Paper 166 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 173 CHAPTER 5 SEXUALITY EDUCATION Icebreaker: Abstinence Bingo 179 Lesson 1: Sexuality Brainstorm 182 Lesson 2: That’s My Line 185 Lesson 3: Raw Oysters Have Feelings, Too! 188 Lesson 4: Contraception Commercials 191 Lesson 5: What Are They Selling? 195 Home–School Connection: Hopes and Fears 198 Project: Music with a Message 201 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 206 CHAPTER 6 VIOLENCE PREVENTION Icebreaker: Tie Activity—What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? 213 Lesson 1: Violence Match Game 217 Lesson 2: Where Do You Stand? 219 Lesson 3: Managing Anger Round Robin 221 Lesson 4: Crossing the Line 225 Lesson 5: Conflict Resolution 228 Home–School Connection: Television Violence 234 Project: Production Company 237 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 245 CHAPTER 7 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Icebreaker: Who’s Who on the Playground? 251 Lesson 1: The Secret Magic Super Pill for Good Health 253 Lesson 2: Disco Aerobics 258 Lesson 3: Physical Activity and Goal Setting 262 Lesson 4: “Counterfeit Fitness”—The Dangers of 272 Using Anabolic Steroids and Other Performance-Enhancing Substances Lesson 5: A Pound of Fat—Doing the Weight-Loss Math 277 Home–School Connection: Physical Activity 283 Project: Student-Created Public Service Announcements 286 Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 294

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Book SynopsisThis text explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-20th century US. It was in the workplace of this era, the author argues, that our contemporary understanding of environmental health dangers first took shape.

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Book SynopsisAdvocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials and monitoring systems in the US and Germany.Trade ReviewThis clear and persuasive book is the first to provide a detailed cross-national comparison of the politics of pharmaceutical drug regulation. Anyone concerned with understanding how governments, social movements, professional groups, and corporations determine which drugs end up on our pharmacy shelves should read this book carefully.(Steven Epstein, University of California, San Diego, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge)|Daemmrich uses a comparative study of pharmaceutical regulation in the U.S. and Germany to show that in order for medical globalization to be successful, it must accommodate persisting social and political variation even when technical standardization has been achieved. He looks at the relationships among governments, doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, and patients in case studies of an antibiotic, a sedative, a heart medication, a cancer therapy, and an AIDS drug.

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Book SynopsisTaking a look at the work of war writers and examining public records, journalism, and medical writing, this book brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with the critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.Trade Review"This cleverly-written volume offers a fresh and sophisticated analysis of Civil War writing and of American medical and historical discourse."" * American Literary Realism *"Theoretically sophisticated and historically provocative, Rehabilitating Bodies successfully lays bare 'the theoretical connection between corporeality and history as a field of discourse.'" * Clio *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me Chapter 1. Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering Chapter 2. Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven Chapter 3. Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul-Sickness Chapter 4. Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work Chapter 5. Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle Chapter 6. Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration Chapter 7. Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History Epilogue. Conjuring Civil War Bodies Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThere are approximately seven million adult gay and bisexual men in the United States and 120 million adult gay and bisexual men globally. This highly readable volume of original essays explores the cultural dimensions of AIDS among men who have sex with men (MSM).

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Book SynopsisThis text takes a balanced approach in analyzing the emotionally charged debate of euthanasia, viewing the dispute from public policy and international perspectives. The author offers an interdisciplinary study in medicine, law, religion and ethics.

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Book SynopsisA history of women's health care in the USA between 1969 and 1990. It is based on: research, including interviews with over 40 movement activists; documentary material; ethnographic fieldwork; and scholarship. It also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class.Trade ReviewThis is an analytically sophisticated and engaging contribution to our understanding of the feminist health movement. -- Karen Brodkin * professor of anthropology and womenÆs studies, UCLA *In Into Our Own Hands, Sandra Morgen shows us, not just how the womenÆs health movement started, but how it weathered adversity. This book is important reading for everyone who cares about the future of womenÆs health as defined by women themselves. -- Cynthia A. Pearson * executive director, National WomenÆs Health Network *The strength of the book . . . lies in its attention to the organizational politics of the feminist health clinic as workplace, tracing how clinics struggled with very few resources to organize themselves as microcosms of the more equitable society they hoped for. The most important contribution the book makes is in the second half, when it describes the fates of feminist womenÆs health clinics in the 1970s and 1980s. . . . An important first overview for the many students eager to work on this topic. * Isis *Table of ContentsIn the beginning. One conceiving history Foundational stories and movement making On their own women of color and the women's health movement Into our own hands : feminist health clinics as feminist practice The politics of change in women's health movement organizations. Against the odds : patterns of organizational change in feminist clinics in the 1970s and 1980s The changer and the changed : the women's health movement, doctors, and organized medicine Neither friend nor foe : the state, the movement, and the changing political landscape The three Rs : Reagan, retrenchment, and operation rescue in the 1980s The politics of race and class : dreams of diversity, dilemmas of difference Afterword: The movement in the 1990s : accomplishmentsand continuing challenges

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Book SynopsisHomeopathy, as a medical system, presented a significant institutional and economic challenge to conventional medicine in the 19th century. In this study, Anne Taylor Kirschmann explores the strategic choice and consequences for women practitioners.

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Book SynopsisDisability and gender are becoming increasingly complex in light of recent politics and scholarship. This volume provides findings not only about the discrimination practised against women and people with disabilities, but also about the productive parallelism between the two categories.Trade Review"This compilation is a pioneering study of the 'borderlands' of the body. The diverse chapters speak to activists and scholars, as well as those less familiar with the issues of disability studies and gender studies. It will serve the academic and activist communities well, encouraging new insights into the ways we define ourselves and others." -- Susan Burch * author of Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War *"Gendering Disability is among the most intellectually stimulating books I have read in years. The stunning breadth of the discussion evokes personal experience with disability, elucidates the historical and social meanings of bodily differences, and places disability within other theoretical frameworks." -- Alice Kessler-Harris * author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizens *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / BONNIE G. SMITH PART I. Positions Critical Race Theory, Feminism, and Disability: Reflections on Social Justice and Personal Identity / ADRIENNE ASCH Why the Intersexed Shouldn't Be Fixed: Insights, from Queer Theory and Disability Studies / SUMI COLLIGAN Interpreting Women / BRENDA JO BRUEGGEMANN Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Theory / ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON PART II. Desire and Identity Inseparable: Gender and Disability in the Amputee-Devotee Community / ALISON KAFER Fighting Polio Like a Man: Intersections of Masculinity, Disability, and Aging / DANIEL J. WILSON "Disability" and "Divorce": A Blind Parisian Cloth Merchant Contemplates His Options in 1756 / CATHERINE J. KUDLICK Bodies in Trouble: Identity, Embodiment, and Disability / KRISTIN LINDGREN Disabled Masculinity: Expanding the Masculine Repertoire / RUSSELL P. SHUTTLEWORTH PART III. Arts and Embodiment Helen Keller's Love Life / GEORGINA KLEEGE Feeling Her Way: Audre Lorde and the Power of Touch / SARAH E. CHINN Disability, Gender, and National Identity in the Painting of Frida Kahlo / ROBIN AD��LE GREELEY "But, Mother I'm crippled!": Tennessee Williams, Queering Disability, and Dis/Membered Bodies in Performance / ANN M. Fox PART IV. Citizens and Consumers Is There Still a "Double Handicap"?: Economic, Social, and Political Disparities Experienced by Women with Disabilities / LISA SCHUR Integrating Consumer Disabilities into Models of Information Processing: Color-vision Deficiencies and Their Effects on Women's Marketplace Choices / CAROL KAUFMAN-SCARBOROUGH Women and Emerging Disabilities / MELISSA J. MCNEIL AND THILO KROLL The Sexist Inheritance of the Disability Movement / CORBETT JOAN O'TOOLE Notes on Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis18th-century natural historians created a peculiar but durable vision of nature, embodying the sexual and racial tensions of that era. Plants were found to reproduce sexually, and great apes were just becoming known. This text uncovers the ways in which assumptions about sex, and race have shaped scientific explanations of nature.Trade Review"[Nature’s Body] is so wonderfully humorous and is done with such careful attention to detail, the reader cannot help but see the profound implications of the history of science for modern science. Indispensable for all anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and practitioners of science." -- Emily Martin * author of The Woman in the Body *"Schiebinger lays bare the cultural narratives that mix so easily with science. They are at the same time hilarious and eerie, silly and profoundly disturbing. Schiebinger is brilliant in showing how tales of gender and race are told in other guises." -- Thomas Laqueur, * author of Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud *Table of ContentsThe private lives of plants Why mammals are called mammals The gendered ape The anatomy of difference Theories of gender and race Who should do science?

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Book SynopsisSince their creation during the 1960s, community health centers have served the needs of the poor in the tenements of New York, the colonias of Texas, and the dirt farms of the South. This book tells the story of one groundbreaking approach to medicine that attacks the problem by focusing on the wellness of whole neighborhoods.Trade ReviewThis lyrical book offers an intimate view of the role of community leadership in the creation of health centers, one of the most important chapters in the history of U.S. health policy for the medically underserved. Bonnie Lefkowitz's examination of health centers and community leadership should be required reading in public health leadership programs everywhere. -- Sara Rosenbaum,J.D. * Hirsh Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, George Washington Univer *This lyrical book offers an intimate view of the role of community leadership in the creation of health centers, one of the most important chapters in the history of U.S. health policy for the medically underserved. Bonnie Lefkowitz's examination of health centers and community leadership should be required reading in public health leadership programs everywhere. -- Sara Rosenbaum,J.D. * Hirsh Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, George Washington Univer *Table of ContentsHeroes of community health Mississippi: where it all began Boston: the way democracy ought to work The South Carolina low country: a homegrown black power structure New York: health care is a right The Rio Grande valley of Texas: steps from the third world The health center legacy

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Book SynopsisPresents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.Trade Review"Warin has taken the topic of anorexia, which many of us feel that we know something about, and brilliantly cast a whole new light on it. Through vivid ethnography and evocative prose, she ensures that you won't think about anorexia or those affected by it in quite the same way ever again."— C. H. Browner, UCLA School of Medicine "Anthropologist Megan Warin combines rich multi-sited ethnographic research on anorexic women's lived experiences with a sophisticated theoretical approach based on concepts of abjection and relatedness to offer fascinating and original insights into anorexia nervosa."— Carole M. Counihan, author of The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power "Warin's book is an experientially grounded, theoretically sophisticated, and accessible account of anorexia that is unique and compelling."— Signs "An intensive, wide-ranging study, the author investigates the meanings of anorexia and the everyday lives of those who suffer from it. Warin offers a brilliant study that departs from conventional psychotherapeutic perspectives and places anorexia in an intriguing sociocultural context. Highly recommended."— ChoiceTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Steering a Course Between Fields 3 Knowing Through the Body 4 'True Anas' and Outside Anorexics 5 Abject Relations with Food 6 'Me and My Disgusting Body' 7 Be-coming Clean 8 Conclusions and Future Directions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHighlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane Katrina. It discusses how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region.Trade Review"This book is the best treatment we have of the American catastrophe called Katrina. These sophisticated views and powerful voices constitute the most formidable challenge to each of us in regards to race and justice!" -- Cornel West * Princeton University *"The intent [of Katrina's Imprint] is to reveal the human consequences of the city's devastation and to offer a moral perspective on what has been viewed too often as a failure of government, a 'natural' breakdown of technological systems. This volume reminds us of the persistence of racial divisions in American society and the many ways that African Americans are vulnerable to harm. Recommended." * Choice *"Katrina's Imprint is a unique book that makes critical contributions to our understanding not only of the event itself but also of the ongoing production of social inequalities in our society as a whole. The strong blend of empirically-based social science and textual and cultural analyses of Katrina's Imprint leads to a holistic understanding of the ways that structural inequalities are reproduces, but also resisted and challenged." * Contemporary Sociology *"Katrina's Imprint provides some of the most valuable scholarly insights yet published regarding the 2005 disaster. It serves as an exemplary record of interdisciplinary scholars whose research illuminates Katrina's larger lessons." * Journal of Southern History *"With skilled use of primary and secondary sources, Katrina's Imprint effectively shakes us out of our 'blissful ignorance' and fulfills its stated aim to broaden and deepen our understanding of Katrina. Katrina's Imprint is important reading." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Katrina's Imprint by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd Part One: The Tangled Logic of Vulnerability 1. Who Sank New Orleans? How Engineering the River Created Environmental Injustice by Karen M. O'Neill 2. Invisible Tethers: Transportation and Discrimination in the Age of Katrina by Mia Bay 3. A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America by Keith Wailoo 4. The Ship of State: Framing an Understanding of Federalism and the Perfect Disaster by Roland Anglin Part Two: Cultural and Psychic Legacies 5. Seeing Katrina's Dead by Ann Fabian 6. Second-Lining the Jazz City: Jazz Funerals, Katrina, and the Reemergence of New Orleans by Richard Mizelle Jr. 7. Racism, Trauma, and Resilience: The Psychological Impact of Katrina by Nancy Boyd-Franklin 8. The Haunted Houses of New Orleans: Gothic Homelessness and African American Experience by Evie Shockley Part Three: "Starting Over" in Post-Katrina America 9. Rebroadcasting Katrina: Blame, Vulnerability, and Post-2005 Disaster Commentary by Keith Wailoo and Jeffrey Dowd 10. Protecting Our Assets: Private and Public Responses to Katrina by John R. Aiello and Lyra Stein 11. The Labor Market Impact of Natural Disasters by William M. Rodgers III 12. The Katrina Diaspora: Dislocation and the Reproduction of Segregation and Employment Inequality by Niki T. DIckerson Part Four: Tragedy, Recovery, and Myth 13. Katrina and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency by David Dante Troutt 14. Race, Vulnerability, and Recovery by Keith Wailoo, Karen M. O'Neill, and Jeffrey DowdNotes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAssesses the state of women’s healthcare today by analysing popular media representations - television, print newspapers, websites, advertisements, blogs, and memoirs - in order to understand the ways in which breast cancer, postpartum depression, and cervical cancer are discussed in American public life.Trade Review"Dubriwny clearly explains the connections between neoliberal and postfeminist ideologies and effectively illustrates the ways in which these ideologies work in specific healthcare contexts. Her work is an original contribution to an important and growing conversation." -- Kelly Pender * Virginia Tech *"This important critique convincingly problematizes the increased visibility of women's health in U.S. culture. A crucial text for scholars and activists committed to moving beyond postfeminist appropriations of women's lives." -- Samantha King * author of Pink Ribbons, Inc. *"This focused volume critiques three discourses on women's health issues situated in personal empowerment narratives. This will be valuable for advanced scholars both within biomedicalization-oriented research and outside it. Recommended." * Choice *"The Vulnerable Empowered Woman is an obvious choice for gender and race courses, particularly dealing with health, but also neoliberalism. Beyond the obvious audience, this book is a good choice for an academic who wishes to better understand the 'language' of a colleague who studies postfeminism and related topics. The three contemporary topics covered in the case studies are highly accessible to the reader and Dubriwny’s careful attention to define terms that may be unfamiliar, often with examples, helps the reader move through each chapter." * World Medical and Health Policy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public Discourse and the Representation of the Vulnerable Empowered Woman1. Theorizing Postfeminist Health: Risk and the Postfeminist Subject2. Genetic Risk: Prophylactic Mastectomies and the Pursuit of Cancer-Free Life3. Postfeminist Risky Mothers and Postpartum Depression4. The Postfeminist Concession: Young Women, Sex, and Paternalism5. Feminist Women's Health Activism in the Twenty-first CenturyAfterword: From Martin to CenterNotesBibliographyIndex

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Trade Review"The South has been the epicenter of the U.S. HIV epidemic for the last decade, and the authors have used a balanced set of information from both surveys and personal observations to present a poignant and accessible portrait of the complexities of human health and disease." -- John A. Bartlett * MD, Duke Global Health Institute *"Expertly linking patients’ pasts to their current struggles to obtain health care and support, the stories related here contextualize AIDS within the lived experiences of the poor and marginalized communities that bear the greatest burden of HIV in the American South. This book offers indispensable insight into the ways that large-scale social forces shape the lives of those facing AIDS." -- Paul Farmer * Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard University *Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgments1. Setting the Stage2. Voices of the Past3. Enter HIV4. Abuse, Trauma, and HIV5. Distrust, Conspiracy, Confidentiality, and Provider Relationships6. Benefit Systems7. The Importance of Children8. Sex, Love, Family, and Other Support9. Theoretical Framework10. The FutureAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CRead by Interviewer to RespondentReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the tradition of Oliver Sacks and House, Dr. Stuart Mushlin portrays cases from the common to the obscure. Along the way, we learn about a physician from the start of his career to its peak, learning, helping, and sometimes failing.Trade Review"Puzzling patients, detective work, and a dedicated doctor nicely packaged in one small, fascinating volume." * Booklist *"Captivating vignettes from a master clinician, illuminating the profound intellectual and emotional dimensions of medicine, it's demands and its joys. Medical professionals and the public at large will delight in these tales." -- Jerome E. Groopman, M.D. * author of How Doctors Think *"This lovely patient-centered memoir combines the best of the medical problem-solving of Berton Roueche with the human warmth and wryly benevolent amusement of James Herriot. It will be enjoyed by students, residents, and physicians who want to remind themselves of the ideals that brought them to medicine." -- Daniel M. Goodenberger, M.D., MACP * Chief of Medicine, St Louis VA Medical Center *"An articulate, authoritative, and fascinating guided tour through the joys and intricacies of the diagnostic process, therapeutic challenges, and human interactions at the core of medical practice with an articulate, compassionate, and accomplished physician." -- Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D. * President Emeritus, New York Academy of Medicine *"This book is a fascinating examination of the challenges in the doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Mushlin's caring and holistic approach to patients is inspiring. His moving stories will help readers become wiser patients. I highly recommend it." -- Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. * Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School *"Stuart Mushlin captures eloquently the essential attributes of the complete physician: empathy, patience and open-mindedness matched to curiosity, scientific inquiry and determination to provide the best care possible. The lessons evoked are timeless and formulate a Hippocratic Oath for our times." -- Joseph B. Martin, M.D., PhD * Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus, and former dean, Harvard Medical School *Table of ContentsIntroduction Back Pain It’s a Small World Everything Really Can Go Wrong in the Hospital Friday Night at Five Learning from the Patient Explosive Illnesses Don’t Respond to Homeopathy Sometimes, All We Get Is Close Thinking Can Sometimes Make a Difference The CPC Let the Facts Speak for Themselves Cough Great Imitators Great Imitator Part 2 Playing the Ponies Who’s the Greatest of Them All? Making a List and Checking It Twice Moonlighting POEMS Iron Man An Octopus Pot, Voodoo, and Chang and Eng

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Book SynopsisHuman Oral Mucosa: Development, Structure and Function is a new text that reflects the considerable increase in knowledge of oral mucosa that has occurred in recent years. Our understanding of the structure of oral mucosa is now established at a molecular rather than a tissue or cellular level.Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 The functions of oral mucosa 3 1.1 Oral mucosa: What is it and what does it do? 3 1.2 Functions of the oral mucosa 5 References 7 2 The organization of oral mucosa 9 2.1 Clinical features 10 2.2 Component tissues and glands 14 References 16 3 Oral epithelium 19 3.1 Histological structure of oral epithelium 20 3.2 Epithelial proliferation and turnover 24 3.3 Molecular and cellular organization of oral epithelium 29 3.4 Non-keratinocytes in the oral epithelium 41 References 50 4 The interface between epithelium and connective tissue 53 4.1 Organization of the normal interface 55 4.2 Immune-mediated subepithelial blistering diseases (IMSEBDS) 57 References 58 5 Connective tissue 59 5.1 Lamina propria 59 5.2 Blood supply 68 5.3 Nerve supply 70 References 74 6 Regional differences in the oral mucosa 77 6.1 Structural variations in different regions 77 6.2 Junctions in the oral mucosa 85 References 97 7 Development and aging of the oral mucosa 99 7.1 Developmental stages of oral mucosa 100 7.2 The control of mucosal development: epithelial–mesenchymal interaction 104 7.3 Aging 106 References 109 8 Barrier functions of oral mucosa 113 8.1 The permeability barrier 114 8.2 Immunologic barrier function of oral mucosa 122 References 135 9 Homologies in structure and function among mucosae: oral, esophageal, and vaginal mucosa 145 9.1 Esophagus 145 9.2 Vagina 147 9.3 Organization of the tissues of esophagus and vagina 147 9.4 Non-keratinocytes in esophageal and vaginal mucosa 153 9.5 Infl ammatory cells 154 References 154 Index 159

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Book SynopsisDemystifies the clinical practice of removable partial prostheses Systematic, practical instruction on diagnosis, treatment planning, and manufacture of RPDs Specifically tailored to practicing dentists Highlights useful literature and explains biological principles.Table of ContentsContributors vii Foreword by Dr. Robert P. Renner ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1. The Need for Removable Partial Prosthodontics 3 Chapter 2. Diagnosis of the Partially Edentulous Patient 11 Chapter 3. Decision Making in RPD Design 39 3.1 Principles of Design 39 3.2 Kennedy Class I Analysis and Design 51 3.3 Kennedy Class ii Analysis and Design 57 3.4 Kennedy Class iii Analysis and Design 68 3.5 Kennedy Class iv Analysis and Design 73 Chapter 4. Clinical Care of the Patient 79 4.1 Preparation of the Mouth to Receive an RPD 79 4.2 The Master Impression 81 4.3 Fitting the Framework 86 4.4 The Trial Appointment 94 Chapter 5. Postinsertion Patient Care 105 5.1 Prosthesis Insertion and Maintenance 105 5.2 Repairs and Relines 118 Chapter 6. Alternative Removable Partial Dentures 137 6.1 Acrylic Resin RPDs 137 6.2 Attachments for RPDs 145 6.3 Dental Implants in RPDs 156 6.4 Alternative RPD Designs 162 Chapter 7. Geriatrics and Removable Partial Dentures 171 Chapter 8. Clinical Patient Scenarios 179 8.1 Clinical Patient Scenario #1: Maxillary FPD and Mandibular Class II RPD with Survey Crowns 179 8.2 Clinical Patient Scenario #2: Maxillary Complete Denture and Mandibular Class I RPD with Runner Bar 183 8.3 Clinical Patient Scenario #3: Maxillary Full-Arch Reconstruction with Survey Crown and FPD and Class I Removable Partial Overdenture with Internal Attachment 188 8.4 Clinical Patient Scenario #4: Maxillary Immediate Complete Denture and Mandibular Class I Removable Partial Overdenture with Natural Tooth Abutments 193 8.5 Clinical Patient Scenario #5: Maxillary Class iii RPD and Mandibular Class III RPD 199 8.6 Clinical Patient Scenario #6: Maxillary Class ii RPD and Mandibular Class IV Rotational Path Rpd 203 8.7 Clinical Patient Scenario #7: Mandibular Class I Removable Partial Overdenture with Cast Metal Dowel and Coping Abutments 207 8.8 Clinical Patient Scenario #8: Full-Mouth Reconstruction with Mandibular Class iii Rpd 211 8.9 Clinical Patient Scenario #9: Maxillary Complete Denture and Mandibular Class I RPD 214 8.10 Clinical Patient Scenario #10: Maxillary Complete Denture and Mandibular Class I Acrylic Resin RPD with Labial Wrought Wire for Orthodontic Stabilization 216 8.11 Clinical Patient Scenario #11: Maxillary Complete Denture and Mandibular Class I RPD with Composite Resin to Restore and Maintain Occlusal Vertical Dimension 220 8.12 Clinical Patient Scenario #12: Maxillary Immediate Complete Denture and Mandibular Class I RPD with Composite Resin for Facial Surfaces and Cingulum Rest Seats 224 8.13 Clinical Patient Scenario #13: Full-Mouth Reconstruction with Mandibular Class II RPD 227 Index 233

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