National Prevention Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness

ISBN-10: 1437987621
ISBN-13: 9781437987621
Pages: 122
Language: English
Published: 2011
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Author: Regina M. Benjamin

Description

The Affordable Care Act, landmark health legislation passed in 2010, called for the development of the National Prevention Strategy to realize the benefits of prevention for all Americans¿ health. This Strategy builds on the law¿s efforts to lower health care costs, improve the quality of care, and provide coverage options for the uninsured. Contents: Nat. Leadership; Partners in Prevention; Healthy and Safe Community Environ.; Clinical and Community Preventive Services; Elimination of Health Disparities; Priorities: Tobacco Free Living; Preventing Drug Abuse and Excessive Alcohol Use; Healthy Eating; Active Living; Injury and Violence Free Living; Reproductive and Sexual Health; Mental and Emotional Well-being. Illus. A print on demand report.

Get the book

Similar books

Step It Up! the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities
By U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Step It Up! The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable Communities aims to get Americans walking and wheelchair rolling for the physical activity needed to help prevent and reduce their risk of chronic diseases and ...
Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span - E-Book
By Elizabeth C. Kudzma, Carole Edelman
Carole Lium Edelman, Elizabeth C Kudzma, Dnsc MPH Rnc ... Burnett, C., Crowder, J., Bacchus, L. J., Schminkey, D., Bullock, L., Sharps, P., & Campbell, J. (2019). ... Guthrie, M., Zubatsky, M., & Smith, C. W. (2017).
Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness
By David B. Nash, Raymond J. Fabius, Alexis Skoufalos
The new Third Edition of Population Health reflects this focus and evolution in today's dynamic healthcare landscape by conveying the key concepts of population health management and examining strategies for creating a culture of health and ...
Public Health Leadership
By Louis Rowitz
There is a leadership challenge in that environmental health needs to play a key role in the public health agency and in the public health system by showing other leaders how public health and environmental health need to be integrated.
Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Committee on Integrating Primary Care and Public Health
Primary Care and Public Health identifies the best examples of effective public health and primary care integration and the factors that promote and sustain these efforts, examines ways by which HRSA and CDC can use provisions of the ...
Primary Care: Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing
By Lynne M Dunphy, Jill Winland-Brown, Brian Porter
Retrieved from www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr61/nvrs61_61_06.pdf Chey, WD, and Wong, BCY. American College of Gastroenterology ... Retrieved from www.guideline.gove/summary/ summary.aspx?doc_id=9306&nbr=004976&string=p Ruttecki, GW.
Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse, Third Edition: Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes, and Interprofessionalism
By Susan McBride, FHIMSS, Mari Tietze
Additionally, the text stresses documentation challenges that relate to usability issues with EHRs and sub-par adoption and implementation.
Population-Based Public Health Clinical Manual, Third Edition: The Henry Street Model for Nurses
By Patricia M. Schoon, Carolyn M. Porta, Marjorie A. Schaffer
Selanders, L . C ., & Crane, ... Skemp, L . E ., Dreher, M . C ., & Lehmann, S . P . (2016) . Healthy places, healthy people (3rd ed .) . ... Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall . Watson, J . (2008) .
Law and Global Health: Current Legal Issues
By Michael Freeman, Belinda Bennett, Sarah Hawkes
... and coordination on national prevention activities throughout the federal government to improve public health and lower ... and Human Services, 'National Prevention Strategy: America's Plan for Better Health and Wellness' (2011) 26.
Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy
By James W. HolsingerJr.
With fresh historical and methodological analyses conducted by an impressive group of distinguished authors, this text is an essential resource for practitioners, health advocates, and students.