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Managerial Epidemiology: Practice, Methods and Concepts

Author(s): G. E. Alan Dever, PhD, MT, MT, Mercer University School of Medicine
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763731656
  • ISBN-10:076373165X
  • Hardcover    598 pages      © 2006
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Overview

Managerial Epidemiology: Practice, Methods and Concepts offers the most comprehensive overview of the practical application of epidemiology to managerial problems in public and private healthcare settings. The author’s broad-based, holistic approach makes this a unique text on the subject. Each chapter provides specific and practical steps with concrete examples for applying the latest epidemiological methods to analyze and solve problems in healthcare management and administration.

 

It covers basic epidemiological concepts as applied to:

  • Management issues
  • Marketing
  • Small area analysis
  • Geographical Information Systems
  • Primary prevention
  • Health policy models in management problems

ShowKey Features

Focuses on health promotion and disease prevention

Encourages health care providers to broaden their understanding of patients' health issues

Provides a means to improve the health of a geographical area or population group

Basic epidemiological concepts applied to:
• Management issues
• Marketing
• Small area analysis
• GIS
• Primary prevention
• Health policy models in management problems

Unique features include:
• Broad-based holistic perspective
• Marketing
• Utilizing epidemiological measures to analyze and solve problems
• The importance of a geographical information system (GIS) in the evaluation of health problems
• The analysis of problems involving small numbers and small areas.  Small area analysis is defined for the manager to handle typical yet frustrating administrative problems.

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ShowTable of Contents

Chapter 1. Epidemiological Prentive Care:  Health Services Management   

Chapter 2.  Managerial Epidemiology and Health Policy   

Chapter 3.  Epidemiology - Population Health in Health Services Management   

Chapter 4.  Epidemiological Measurements   

Chapter 5.  Identifying Problems, Determining Priorities   

Chapter 6.  Descriptive Epidemiology:  Person   

Chapter 7.  Descriptive Epidemiology:  Place and Time   

Chapter 8.  Demographics:  Epidemiological Tools   

Chapter 9.  Evidence-Based Health Services Management - A Practice Approach    

Chapter 10.  Epidemiological Assessment:  Small Area Analysis   

Chapter 11.  The Epidemiology of Health Services Utilization   

Chapter 12.  Geographic Information System (GIS)


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ShowAbout the Author(s)

G. E. Alan Dever, PhD, MT, MT-Mercer University School of Medicine

GE Alan Dever, PhD, MT, MD (hon), has been at MUSM since 1979 and has served as Associate Dean for Primary Care; Chair, Department of Community Medicine; Grassmann Chair of Rural Medicine; and, Director, Master of Public Health Program at Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM) in Macon, Georgia.  From 1974-1978 he was the State Epidemiologist for Georgia.  He has held positions at Emory, University of Maryland, and University of Michigan.  He has authored several books, the latest being Improving Outcomes in Public Health Practice:  Strategy and Methods.  His books have been translated into Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, and Chinese.  Dr. Dever has written numerous articles in refereed journals and is active in many professional organizations serving on a number of editorial boards such as the Journal of Rural Health, The American Journal of Medicine, Journal of Agromedicine, et al.

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