College of Health Sciences - Open & Free Materials by Course: Public Health

Readers will learn about the nature of health, health education, health promotion and related concepts. This will help to understand the social, psychological and physical components of health.

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focuses on career skills required for students entering their respective health profession's program. This book is designed to help students be successful not only in their health profession's educational program, but also as they start to intern or work in healthcare settings. This resource is targeted for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students.

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Open textbook for Concepts of Fitness and Wellness at Georgia Highlands College.

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Focuses on breaking down, pronouncing, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of introductory anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students.

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Introduces students to foundational characteristics of the U.S. healthcare system. Ch 1: brief history and describes the current state of healthcare in the U.S. Ch 2: health delivery systems, including inpatient, outpatient, post-acute, long-term, palliative, and hospice care. Ch 3: health insurance basic concepts, private insurance, public insurance, and recent trends. Ch 4: issues related to the triple aim of improving access to care, increasing the quality of care, and lowering the cost of care. Ch 5: government interventions in healthcare and current policy issues related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and value-based contracting. Ch 6: overview of health information technology, health information legislation, emerging technologies, and the future of health information technology.

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This book is intended to provide a basic introduction to epidemiologic methods and epidemiologic thinking. It is written primarily for use in undergraduate, introductory epidemiology classes; however, graduate students, medical students, and professionals working in public or allied health fields may also find it useful either as an introduction or as a refresher.

Early childhood is a critical time in development. Many outcomes, both positive and negative, have their beginnings in these years. It is vital that children’s health and safety be protected. High-quality early care and education programs can play a valuable role in improving outcomes for children.

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Highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, but the casebook is also useful to public health students.

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focuses on career skills required for students entering their respective health profession's program. This book is designed to help students be successful not only in their health profession's educational program, but also as they start to intern or work in healthcare settings. This resource is targeted for Healthcare Administration, Health Sciences, and Pre-Professional students.

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Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation.

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Mathematical modelling plays an increasingly important role in life sciences, and this interactive textbook explores the areas of population ecology, infectious diseases, immunology and cell dynamics, gene networks and pharmacokinetics. Alex hopes that it will be useful for anyone who is interested in learning how to model biological systems, including undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics students, life-sciences students with an interest in modelling, and post-16 mathematics students interested in university-level material. Some mathematical knowledge is assumed, and the mathematical models used are all in the form of ordinary differential equations.

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