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New Textbook Includes Work by
Public Health Faculty Members
A new textbook, Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation (Jossey-Bass, 2005), includes several University of Texas School of Public Health contributors. It offers guidance for translating the growing body of research on the fundamental social, economic and ecological determinants of health into innovative programs and policies to improve the health of Americans.
Lu Ann Aday, Ph.D.
“The book offers a comprehensive science-based synthesis of public policies and contributes powerful ideas for public policy formulation, teaching and research,” said Lu Ann Aday, Ph.D., the Lorne D. Bain Distinguished Professor in Public Health and Medicine at the UT School of Public Health and editor of the 400-page textbook. “I anticipate the work will be widely adopted as a textbook in schools of public health across the globe.”
The book not only provides solid guidance to public health students and professionals on how to translate the emerging public health system perspective into practice, but also stimulates public health researchers to look at the broader policy implications of their work. It encourages looking at the impacts professionals in other fields – such as business, education, urban planning, and economic and community development – have on the health of a population.
To effectively improve population health and reduce health disparities, policymaking in a variety of domains must be taken into account,” Aday said. The new title is the 15th book to Aday’s credit.
A team of current and former UT School of Public Health faculty members collaborated in writing the textbook. Contributors include: Charles E. Begley, Ph.D.; Dan V. Culica, Ph.D.; Luisa Franzini, Ph.D.; Carl S. Hacker, Ph.D., J.D.; Hardy D. Loe Jr., Ph.D.; M. David Low, M.D., Ph.D. ; Sondip K. Mathur, Ph.D.; Beth E. Quill; William D. Spears, Ph.D.; J. Michael Swint, Ph.D.; and visiting professor Cynthia Warrick, Ph.D.
By Melanie Hillis, Public Affairs