Books in the Jossey-Bass Public Health series

This title combines a detailed introduction to transdisciplinary methods with a description of how to apply these methods to problem-solving in public health research and practice.

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.

A compendium of health care quantitative techniques based in Excel Analytics and Decision Support in Health Care Operations is a comprehensive introductory guide to quantitative techniques, with practical Excel-based solutions for strategic health care management.

The Updated and Extensively Revised Guide to Developing Efficient Health Information Management SystemsHealth Information Management is the most comprehensive introduction to the study and development of health information management (HIM). Students in all areas of health care gain an unmatched understanding of the entire HIM profession and how it currently relates to the complex and continuously evolving field of health care in the United States.This brand-new Sixth Edition represents the most thorough revision to date of this cornerstone resource. Inside, a group of hand-picked HIM educators and practitioners representing the vanguard of the field provide fundamental guidelines on content and structure, analysis, assessment, and enhanced information. Fully modernized to reflect recent changes in the theory and practice of HIM, this latest edition features all-new illustrative examples and in-depth case studies, along with:* Fresh and contemporary examinations of both electronic and print health records, data management, data privacy and security, health informatics and analytics, and coding and classification systems* An engaging and user-friendly pedagogy, complete with learning objectives, key terms, case studies, and problems with workable solutions in every chapter* Ready-to-use PowerPoint slides for lectures, full lesson plans, and a test bank for turnkey assessmentsA must-have resource for everyone in health care, Health Information Management, Sixth Edition, puts everything you need at your fingertips.

Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, 2nd Edition provides a practical orientation to conducting effective qualitative research in the public health sphere.

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.

Learn how to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate health programs Health Program Management: From Development Through Evaluation, Second Edition is a practical and useful introduction to the management of health programs.

Helps you learn the essentials of finance theory and practice with the tools needed in day-to-day practice. This book offers a practical step-by-step approach to understanding the fundamental theories and relationships guiding financial decisions in health care organization.

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.

Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It collects 16 speeches given over a period of 10 years by Donald M.

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.

Implement change that fosters sustainable growth and better patient care Health care projects depend on astute management of change. But more than anything else, they depend on leaders who pay attention, who understand the importance of starting right, and who know how to launch projects that succeed.

The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issues Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior, core tenets of the public health role.

This groundbreaking book is based on an innovative model developed by David Shore that serves as the foundation for his Forces of Change program. Forces of Change offers an invaluable guide and sourcebook for the latest thinking on how organizations and their leaders can navigate an ever-changing health care marketplace.

Answers 'why not' and 'how to' for health care accreditation bodies, quality experts, and frontline professionals, moving the reader from timely information, to inspiration, and through patient-centered action with practical tools and potent case studies.

This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields.

* This edited collection brings together leading health services researchers on health reform and its impact on the essential hospital-physician relationship. * Contributors include UC Berkeley's Stephen Shortell, Wharton's Robert Burns, Health Affairs' Fitzhugh Mullan and John Iglehart, and other notable scholars and writers.

This volume comprises the very essential elements of The Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Organizations, Fifth Edition , providing a complete and comprehensive overview of risk management in health care, including all the necessary foundations and applications to start a career or enhance current practice.

Advancing Health Literacy: A Framework for Understanding and Action examines the critical role both basic literacy and health literacy play in public health. The book develops an elaborated model of health literacy addressing the roles of fundamental, civic, science and cultural literacy.

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.

A comprehensive text and reference that offers practical fundamentals and valuable insights into various aspects of medical practice management: operations, financial management, strategic planning, regulation and risk management, human resources, and community relations.

Introduction to Global Health Promotion addresses a breadth and depth of public health topics that students and emerging professionals in the field must understand as the world's burden of disease changes with non-communicable diseases on the rise in low- and middle-income countries as their middle class populations grow.