Public Health Leadership and Management: Cases and ContextPublic Health leadership and Management offers students the opportunity to develop and practice the skills needed to make difficult public health decisions. It presents fifteen public health case studies that address a wide array of challenging and complex public health issues. These case studies attempt to vicariously place the reader into a position in which he or she is required to size up the situation and suggest some action for the organization. The first section of the book: * supplies the tools needed to research, analyze, and present cases orally * includes a helpful template that guides students through the process of thinking through and making decisions The second section: * information about the U.S. Health Care System |
Contents
INFORMATION SOURCES | 21 |
ORAL PRESENTATIONS | 35 |
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS | 55 |
Public HealthContext | 83 |
THE U S PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM | 109 |
Public HealthCases | 131 |
CASE 2AIDSCAP NEPAL | 155 |
CASE 3THE INDIANA STATE DEPARTMENT | 173 |
DESIGNING UNICEFS ORAL | 221 |
CASE 6THE NEW YORK STATE WEST NILE VIRUS | 237 |
CASE 8THREE VEXING CASES IN HEALTH CARE ETHICS | 285 |
CASE 11THE NEW MEXICO | 307 |
CASE 12C W WILLIAMS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | 319 |
CASE 13BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE | 339 |
CASE 15DESPIERTA A PHYSICIANS STARK ENCOUNTER | 379 |
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | 393 |
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