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Essentials of Public Health Management, Second Edition

Author(s): L. Fleming Fallon Jr., MD, DrPH, MBA, Bowling Green State University
Eric Zgodzinski, MPH, Toledo-Lucas County Health Department
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763756819
  • Paperback    509 pages      © 2009
Price: International Sales $115.95 US List
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This timely revision addresses all the important topics in the effective management of public health departments and agencies. Using a practical, non-theoretical approach, the book is ideal for the hands on management of these complex organizations and their daily operations.

The Second Edition has been thoroughly revised with all new case studies for each chapter as well as the most up-to-date information on critical, contemporary topics in management, human resources, operations, and more, all within the context of the public health department.

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Preface

Part I: Organizational Resources (Fundamentals of Management)
Chapter 1 Management Theory and Applications
Chapter 2 Organizational Behavior
Chapter 3 Money: Accounting, Finance and Budgets
Chapter 4 Community and Environmental Health
Chapter 5 Emergency Preparedness
Chapter 6 Ethics

Part II: Human Resources (People)
Chapter 7 Overview of Human Resources
Chapter 8 Position Descriptions
Chapter 9 Employee Recruitment and Selection
Chapter 10 Compensation
Chapter 11 Employee Training
Chapter 12 Rewarding Employees
Chapter 13 Problem Employees
Chapter 14 Mental Health Issues in the Workplace
Chapter 15 Union Management Issues

Part III: Operations of a Health Agency
Chapter 16 Configuring A Public Health Agency
Chapter 17 Agency Structure and Operations
Chapter 18 Public Health Constituencies
Chapter 19 Transforming the Practice of Public Health
Chapter 20 Interagency Cooperation
Chapter 21 Interactions with Local Government
Chapter 22 The Media

Part IV: Other Operations
Chapter 23 Assessing Community Health
Chapter 24 The Health Officer and Board Development
Chapter 25 Tax Levies
Chapter 26 Marketing Public Health
Chapter 27 Organizing and Operating Clinics

Part V: Miscellaneous
Chapter 28 History of Public Health
Chapter 29 The Legal Basis for Public Health Agencies
Chapter 30 State and National Associations
Chapter 31 Government Health Agencies

Appendix: Organizations


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L. Fleming Fallon Jr., MD, DrPH, MBA-Bowling Green State University

Fleming Fallon is Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He is also the Director of the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health, an accredited MPH degree program that is offered jointly by Bowling Green State University and the University of Toledo. He has many years of experience as a management consultant and has authored 6 books and more than 350 papers and book chapters on a variety of topics as well as making presentations throughout the world. Dr. Fallon has written a weekly newspaper column entitled “Health Thoughts” continuously since 1995. He was a consultant specializing in human resources with A. T. Kearney. He has served as both a member and president of a local board of health.

 

Dr. Fallon is a physician with residency training in occupational and environmental medicine. He received a DrPH degree in environmental health science from Columbia University, New York, his MD degree from St. Georges University School of Medicine, St. Georges, Grenada and an MBA from the University of New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.

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Eric Zgodzinski, MPH-Toledo-Lucas County Health Department

Eric Zgodzinski, MPH, RS, is currently a Supervisor of Community Services for the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, Toledo, Ohio.  He has previously served as a Registered Sanitarian in a large, urban department of health.  He has made many presentations on the subjects of food sanitation and bioterrotrism preparedness.  He is a member of the Toledo-Lucas County Metro Medical Response System committee and is active in the Ohio Environmental Health Association.

Mr. Zgodzinski received his MPH degree from the Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health and is a graduate of Thiel College, Greenville, Pennsylvania.  He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.

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  • “…a comprehensive, practical overview of crucial aspects of managing public health organizations.”

    ­—Katherine E. Stewart, UAMS College of Public Health

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