Public Health
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 216
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Without Public Health civilization might not exist. Where people cluster together they improve their ability to communicate, create and advance. They share ideas that become the cornerstones of cities and civilizations. They also share disease. They create the conditions where diseases can take hold and propagate. Then they die. Public Health is about the prevention of those conditions. Public Health is the fence at the top of the cliff not the ambulance at the bottom. Public Health makes it possible for people to live together without the likelihood of creating cesspools of disease. This book is about the basic concepts behind Public Health programs, whether they be directed at disaster prevention, refugee relief, environmental clean-up or lifestyle alteration. The principles in these chapters are broadly applicable. They offer an understanding of the social, scientific and technical alternatives to walking blindly off the cliff of disease. Public Health is meant to be a primer but the application of the principles contained in it can be extensive and even eye opening. Keep it by your side through the next pandemic.
Chapter 1 What Is Public Health?
1.1 History of Public Health
1.2 Principles of Public Health
1.3 The Practice of Public Health
Chapter 2 Principles of Epidemiology
2.1 Sentinel Events, Outbreak Assessment, and Clusters
2.2 Study Design
2.3 Relative Risk, Odds Ratios, and Bias
2.4 Clinical Trials
2.5 Bias
Chapter 3 The Use and Limits of Epidemiology
3.1 Observation
Chapter 4 The Basics of Biostatical Analysis – Distribution Statistics and Testing Methods
4.1 Probability and Odds
4.2 Establishing Distributions
4.3 Tests of Significances
4.4 Sensitivity and Specificity
Chapter 5 Data, Risk, and Public Health
5.1 Definition of Risk and Acceptance of Risk
5.2 Risk Rates
5.3 Control of Risk
Chapter 6 Toxicology and Accidental Injury
6.1 Principles of Toxicology
6.2 Toxic Effects of Chemicals
6.3 Toxicological Testing
6.4 The Actions of Toxic Agents – It is a War Out There!
Chapter 7 Ambient Environment: Air, Water, Solid Waste
7.1 Air Pollution Sources
7.2 Solid Waste
7.3 Water
Michael McCawley, M.S.E., Ph.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor in the WVU School of Public Health’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health. Dr. McCawley spent over 27 years as a Public Health Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He retired from the US Public Health Service in 2001 to teach and continue doing research working on projects as diverse as the toxicity of moon dust and occupational exposures in unconventional natural gas drilling. He was appointed to the Public Water Supply Study Commission in West Virginia after the Elk River Chemical spill and served on a Federal Commission to oversee government efforts to assist people harmed by the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse as well as on panels for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. He is the author of over 60 peer reviewed publications. He has been awarded the US Public Health Service’s Commendation Medal, two Unit Citation Medals and a Foreign Service Medal as well the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s David L. Swift Award for Outstanding Aerosol Paper of the year, and the NIOSH Alice Hamilton Award for Engineering and Physical Sciences research.