Books in the Jossey-Bass Public Health series

The Intervention Mapping bible, updated with new theory, trends, and cases Planning Health Promotion Programs is the "bible" of the field, guiding students and practitioners through the planning process from a highly practical perspective.

Models of Physician Practice is a scholarly collection on an important part of the health care delivery system, physician group practices. This book shows that through new, cutting-edge research--pre-paid group practices are a cost-efficient, high quality alternative to the commercial HMO.

Health communications technologies such as telemedicine, online access to patient databases, and remote patient monitoring are the norm in all health care organizations. This book goes beyond clinical and technical description to provide a quantitative approach for evaluation and selection of appropriate technologies.

Now in its second edition, Health Communication: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to theory, intervention design, current issues, and special topics in health communication. The book also represents a hands-on guide to program development, implementation, and evaluation.

Measurement in Health Behavior offers faculty, students, researchers, and public health professionals the information they need to improve their knowledge of instrument development and testing and their understanding of reliability and validity testing discussed in articles and reports.

Presents the basic principles and practical design and management elements that are needed to create an effective community based health organization.

This book identifies the key challenges and solutions for public health issues that will affect the health, welfare, and lives of the billions of people throughout the world. * Includes information on innovative and cost-beneficial activities, such as public-private partnerships and programs focused on specific target groups.