Essentials of Global Community Health
| Author(s): | Jaime Gofin, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social, and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Professorial Lecturer Prevention and Community Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Rosa Gofin, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel, Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social, and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Adjunct Professor, Department of Prevention and Community Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington D.C. |
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Instructor Resources: Instructor's Manual, TestBank, PowerPoints
Student Resources: Companion Website with Interactive Glossary, Flashcards, WebLinks, Crosswords, Matching Questions
Essentials of Global Community Health offers current and future clinicians, public health professionals, and administrators a comprehensive resource on providing community-oriented health care.
This essential reference delves into the individual, family, social, and global determinants that shape a community’s health. Combining theory with practical application, Essentials of Global Community Health provides step-by-step guidance on interventions that promote health and prevent disease at the community level.
With 16 structured case studies that span the globe—from Cambodia and Chad, to Moldova, Israel, Spain, and others—Essentials of Global Community Health explains and illustrates how principles of Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) and Community-Oriented Public Health (COPH) work in diverse settings worldwide.
Jaime and Rosa Gofin bring 40 years of academic and field experience to bear in this text by offering a complete framework for putting community health into practice.
Essentials of Global Community Health features
• A step-by-step framework for integrating individual care and public health
• A comprehensive resource on COPC and COPH
• Illustrative examples and summary tables, plus study and review questions to reinforce concepts
• A complete package of instructor and interactive student resources available online.
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Chapter 1 Meaning and Definitions of Community Health
Chapter 2 Community Health Interventions
Chapter 3 History and Principles of COPC
Chapter 4 The Methodology of the Community Oriented Primary Care – COPC – Process
Chapter 5 Community Oriented Public Health (COPH)
Chapter 6 Community Participation in Community Health
Chapter 7 Integration of Health Services in Community Health
Chapter 8 Epidemiology as a Tool for Community Health
Section II Global Application of Community Health: Case Studies
Case 1 Developing Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in Contemporary Rural South Africa: The Case of Stroke
Case 2 COPC and Refugee Participation in a Humanitarian Crisis: The Chad Experience
Case 3 Multi-Sector and Coordinated Intervention to Reduce Child Trafficking in Benin-West Africa
Case 4 Averting Childhood Deaths in Resource-Constrained Settings through Engagement with the Community: An Example from Cambodia
Case 5 Common Pathways: Worcester’s Healthy Community Initiative
Case 6 Parkland Health & Hospital System: Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in Action
Case 7 Preventing Diabetes in American Indians: Cherokee Choices
Case 8 The Health Commons: An Expansion of the Community Health Center Concept, in New Mexico, USA
Case 9 Addressing Health Disparities in Hispanic Elders in the United States. A Community Oriented Primary Care Approach
Case 10 A Community Oriented Multi-Sector Intervention to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reduce Violence in Moldova – Eastern Europe
Case 11 Community Oriented Public Health: The Case of Catalonia, Spain
Case 12 Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) – Atencion Primaria Orientada a la Comunidad (APOC) – and the Development of a Network of Community Oriented Health Services: The Case of Catalonia, Spain.
Case 13 Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in Maternal and Child Health: The Jerusalem experience
Case 14 A Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Program on the Control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Family Practice: The Jerusalem Experience
Case 15 The Healthy Municipalities Movement in Nocaima- Cundinamarca, Colombia: Academia-Community Partnership in Action
Case 16 Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in the Integrated Health Care System of Uruguay
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