Population Health: A Primer
Author: Richard RiegelmanOVERVIEW
Population Health: A Primer considers population health as an effort to bring together clinicians, health administrators, and public health professionals to address health problems of large groups or populations. This concise text provides an overview of population health, including the key concepts and approaches needed to build an educational foundation for this rapidly emerging field.
The eBook is organized into three units which address the following questions:
• What is population health and why does it matter?
• What is systems thinking and how can we get the job done?
• What are the tools of population health?
Features and Benefits
- A concise and affordable option. This short, reasonably priced text provides an easy way to integrate a population health perspective into a variety of courses.
- Practical application. Case studies in each unit illustrate how these approaches can be applied in practice.
- Important pedagogical features including learning objectives, frameworks, case studies with discussion questions, interactive glossary, tables and boxes that provide valuable guidance and resources for students.
- Enriched eBook that offers interactive digital lessons with knowledge checks, interactive glossary, and flashcards.
- Helpful Instructor’s Resources. Insightful instructor’s guide and test bank provide additional resources for instructors and facilitate integrating the book into a range of courses.
NOTE: Population Health: A Primer includes important background for understanding COVID-19 including:
- Unit 1: Ro (R naught) its meaning and importance for predicting and controlling a pandemic
- Unit 2: One Health and the emergence of pandemics such as SARS and influenza from animals including an influenza pandemic case study
- Unit 3: Pandemics and WHO authority to declare a “public health emergency of international concern”
Population Health: A Primer is part of the Jones & Bartlett Learning Population Health Series. To learn more about the series and access population health resources, visit: https://www.jblearning.com/populationhealth
