Jones & Bartlett Learning Public Health Blog

By Richard Riegelman MD, MPH, PhD, Professor and Founding Dean, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, author of Public Health 101, Third Edition and Population Health: A Primer

Topics: undergraduate public health, public health education, Richard Riegelman, NPHW, National Public Health Week (NPHW), Health foundations

Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics, Fourth Edition by Moyses Szklo and F. Javier Nieto just received a 4-star review from Doody's Review Service. According to Natalie J. Del Vecchio, MS, BS, from the University of Iowa College of Public Health, the text is,

Topics: Epidemiology, Doody's Review Service

By James Johnson, Author of Health Systems Thinking:  A Primer (with co-authors Douglas E. Anderson and Caren C. Rossow), Comparative Health Systems (with co-author Carleen Stoskopf and Leiyu Shi), and  Health Organizations (with co-author Caren C. Rossow).

Topics: systems thinking

Topics: health adminstration, publishing, Jones & Bartlett Learning

By Sharon Buchbinder, Author of Introduction to Health Care Management, Cases in Health Care Management, and Career Opportunities in Health Care Management

Topics: opioid epidemic, Sharon Buchbinder, student assignments

By Kathryn H. Jacobsen, MPH, PhD
Author of Introduction to Global Health,Third Edition

Topics: kathryn jacobsen, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

By Donna K. Hammaker, JD, MGA  

Topics: health care management, Donna Hammaker, health care records, blockchain

By Richard Skolnik, MPA (author of Global Health 101, 3rd Ed.)

http://www.globalhealth101.com/ 

In the Beginning of Time

Topics: Global health, Richard Skolnik

By Sharon Buchbinder, RN, PhD

Topics: Sharon Buchbinder, health care management

An Excerpt from the Foreword for
Health Behavior Theory for Public Health, 2nd Edition

by John S. Santelli, MD, MPH

Theory is essential in understanding health behaviors and is critical in guiding health research. Theory helps us organize and understand information; it focuses attention on key issues; and it helps us select constructs for questionnaires.  Theory is fundamental in designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions and in constructing policies to improve health and prevent disease. Thus, theory is essential to the work of public health. 

Topics: Health Behavior