The New Public Health

Countries around the world are engaged in health reform, which places great demands on health care providers and systems managers. From the managed care revolution in the United States to the rebuilding of health systems in postcommunist Russia, these reforms impact millions of health care workers, government officials, patients, and the public alike. The New Public Health will help students and practitioners understand factors affecting the reform process of health care organization and delivery. It links the classic public health issues such as environmental sanitation, health education, and epidemiology with the new issues of universal health care, economics, and management of health systems for the new century. This text provides a comprehensive look at the issues facing undergraduate and graduate students as well as the new generation of physicians, nurses, health managers, and policy makers as they seek to define a new approach to public health and health service.

Theodore H. Tulchinsky is an MD from the University of Toronto with an M.P.H. degree from Yale University. He served as a Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development in the Province of Manitoba in Canada, Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health in Israel, and Director of Preventive Health Services and Coordinator for Health in the West Bank and Gaza. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and recent Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health Elena A. Varavikova is an MD from the First (Sechenov) Moscow Medical Academy. She completed her Ph.D. in Moscow, a M.P.H. degree at the School of Public Health at the State University of New York in Albany, and postdoctoral studies at Harvard University School of Public Health. She is Acting Director, Unit of Monitoring Preventable Deaths, Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health, Russian Federation, and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Moscow Medical Academy