The COVID-19 Response
The Vital Role of the Public Health Professional

Explores the role of public health in a pandemic emergency, including direct and indirect impacts, lack of trust in science, and public leadership

Jennifer Horney (Author)

9780323988100, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 27 September 2022

176 pages
23.5 x 19 x 1.3 cm, 0.25 kg

The COVID-19 Response: The Vital Role of the Public Health Professional explores population health during a pandemic and how is it different than clinical medicine. Other sections cover federal, state and local responses to COVID-19, testing for COVID-19, the implementation of public health control measures, the use of public health emergency powers, health equity, the resignation and firing of public health leaders, vaccination planning, and the future of public health post COVID-19. Leaders and practitioners working in public health practice and academia, as well as students in public health undergraduate and graduate level programs will find this book extremely useful.

1. What is a Population Health Approach
2. Federal, State, and Local Public Health Roles
3. Implementing Public Health Control Measures
4. Standing up Testing
5. Measuring the Impact of COVID-19
6. Equity
7. Vaccines vs. Vaccinations
8. Will the damage to public health be lasting?
9. The future of the public health workforce

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA]