Haire-Joshu / McBride Transdisciplinary Public Health

Research, Education, and Practice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-41534-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Jossey-Bass Public Health / Health Services Text

"This book makes a great leap in the conceptualization oftransdisciplinary approaches, as well as provides concrete examplesin practice, teaching, policy, and research."
--From the Foreword by Edward F. Lawlor, dean and theWilliam E. Gordon Distinguished Professor, the Brown School; andfounding director, Institute for Public Health at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis
The complexity of public health and social problems is becomingmore challenging. Understanding and designing solutions for theseproblems requires perspectives from multiple disciplines and fieldsas well as cross-disciplinary research and practice teams.Transdisciplinary Public Health fills a void in theliterature and offers a comprehensive text that introducestransdisciplinary methods as a means for providing an innovativetool set for problem-solving in public health research andpractice.
With contributions from leading experts, TransdisciplinaryPublic Health offers an understanding of interactions among thebiological, behavioral, social, and public health sciences; shareddisciplinary frameworks in analyzing health problems; and theintegration and evaluation of transdisciplinary solutions toalleviate complex public health issues. Use of this importantresource will promote transdisciplinary research and practice,resulting in novel solutions that positively impact humanhealth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haire-Joshu, Debra

McBride, Timothy D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables ix
Foreword xi
Edward F Lawlor
Preface xiii
Debra Haire-Joshu and Timothy D McBride
The Editors xix
The Contributors xxi
Part 1 Defining Transdisciplinary Research and Education1
1 Transdisciplinary Public Health: Definitions, CoreCharacteristics, and Strategies for Success 3
Daniel Stokols, Kara L Hall, Amanda L Vogel
2 Transdisciplinary Training and Education 31
Sarah Gehlert, Teri Browne
3 Competencies in Transdisciplinary Public Health Education53
Lauren D Arnold, J Aaron Hipp, Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, ElizabethBudd
4 Measuring Success: An Evaluation Framework forTransdisciplinary Public Health 79
Douglas A Luke, Sarah Moreland-Russell, StephanieHerbers
Part 2 Cross-Cutting Themes in Transdisciplinary Research99
5 Transdisciplinary Approaches: Sorting Out the SocioeconomicDeterminants of Poverty and Health 101
Timothy D McBride, Lisa M Pollack, Abigail R Barker, Leah MKemper
6 Transdisciplinary Public Policy: The Roles of Law and PublicHealth in Creating Public Policy 125
Sidney D Watson
7 Sociocultural Perspectives Applied to Transdisciplinary PublicHealth 141
Bradley P Stoner
8 Evidence-Based Decision Making: Transdisciplinary ProblemSolving to Improve the Health of the Public 155
Ross C Brownson
Part 3 Transdisciplinary Practice: Case Studies in DomesticHealth 187
9 Transdisciplinary Methods in the Prevention and Control ofMaternal-Child Obesity 189
Debra Haire-Joshu
10 Transdisciplinary Approaches to Violence and InjuryPrevention and Treatment among Children and Youth 217
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Nancy Weaver, Brett Drake, JohnConstantino
11 Transdisciplinary Problem Solving for Integrating PublicHealth and Social Service Systems to Address
Health Disparities 249
Matthew W Kreuter, Debbie Pfeiffer
Part 4 Transdisciplinary Practice: Case Studies in GlobalHealth 265
12 Transdisciplinary Problem Solving for Global Hunger andUndernutrition 267
Lora Iannotti
13 Implementing Public Health Interventions in DevelopingCountries: A Transdisciplinary Solution for Safe Drinking Water inRural India 297
Ramesh Raghavan, Ravikumar Chockalingam, Zeena Johar
14 Indoor Air Pollution and Respiratory Health: ATransdisciplinary Vision 319
Gautam Yadama, Kenneth B Schechtman, Pratim Biswas, MarioCastro, Nishesh Chalise
Name Index 341
Subject Index 363

Über Autor(innen)

Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, is the Joyce Wood Professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Timothy D. McBride, PhD, is a professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.