Essentials
of Public Health Management
L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., MD, DrPH, MBA,
Bowling Green State University, Eric Zgodzinski, MPH, Toledo-Lucas
County Health Department
Softbound, 524 pages
ISBN 0763731536
9780763731533
Jones & Bartlett
September 2004 (click the button below for the very best available price)
In the wake of 9/11,
effective management of public health departments has become vitally
important, as these organizations and agencies will be in the front
line of any bioterror or chemical attack.
Written by practitioners
for other practitioners, professionals and students, Essentials
of Public Health Management provides a practical,
non-theoretical approach useful for the hands-on management of these
complex organizations and their daily operations. Topics fully
covered include:
History of Public Health -- Eric
Zgodzinski, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Department of Health Operations
Legal Basis for Local
Departments of Health -- Mark D. Tolles
Assessing Community Health
-- Ned E. Baker
Configuring the Department
-- Timothy Horgan, Eric Zgodzinski
Local Public Health
Operations -- Harvey Wallace
Acquiring and Managing Data
-- Pamela Butler, David Pollick
Public Health Constituencies
-- Eric Zgodzinski, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Interactions with Local
Government -- L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., Peter D. Schade, Eric
Zgodzinski
Managing Subordinates
Fundamentals of Management:
Theory and Applications -- L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Organizational Behavior --
L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Position Descriptions --
Joseph A. Diorio, Jr., L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Employee Recruitment and
Selection -- Diane Borst
Wage and Salary
Considerations -- Joseph A. Diorio, Jr., L. Fleming Fallon,
Jr.
Employee Training -- Charles
R. McConnell
Rewarding Employees -- Kip
E. Miller
Problem Employees -- Timothy
Horgan
Union Management Issues --
L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Relations with the Local Board
of Health
Daily Operations -- Eric
Zgodzinski, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Accounting and Finance -- L.
Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Budgets -- Virginia Cogar,
L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
The Health Officer’s Role in
Board Development -- Vaughn M. Upshaw
State and National
Associations -- Hans Schmalzried
Interactions with Colleague
Health Commissioners
Interagency Cooperation --
Timothy Horgan, Eric Zgodzinski
Sharing Resources -- Hans
Schmalzried
Emergency Preparedness:
Terrorism, Accidents and Natural Disasters
Emergency Preparedness --
Ronald Burger, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., Jay MacNeal, Diana
Wilde, Eric Zgodzinski
Integrated Crisis
Preparedness -- Ronald Burger, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., Jay
MacNeal, Eric Zgodzinski
Crisis Management -- Ronald
Burger, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., Jay MacNeal, Diana Wilde,
Eric Zgodzinski
Bioterrorism -- Ronald
Burger, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., Eric Zgodzinski
The Media
The Media: Cultivating
Contacts and Developing Relationships -- Jan Larson
Managing the Flow of
Information -- L. Fleming Fallon, Jr., Eric Zgodzinski
The General Public
Tax Levies -- Kimberly Moss
Marketing Public Health and
Pubic Health Departments -- Kathy S. Silvestri
Organizing and Operating
Clinics -- Adam Kinninger, L. Fleming Fallon, Jr.
Other Health Departments and
Jurisdictions
State Health Departments --
Gary Crum
Federal Departments and
Agencies -- Marie M. Fallon, Vonna J. Henry, Anthony J.
Santarsiero
With accessible writing and
many real life applications, this concise new volume serves
departments at all levels -- federal, state, city and county:
Written to
be accessible to all readers (jargon is avoided and all
technical terms are fully defined).
Each chapter is written
by a leading specialist in the subject area with practical and
extensive experience.
Meticulous editing by
the lead author has ensured that all chapters read in a
consistent manner.
Sections consider
interactions with the media, other agencies and jurisdictions
and the general public.
Each chapter begins
with a case study related to the material that follows. The case
study is resolved at the conclusion of the chapter.
Written by
practitioners for practitioners and students who want to enter
the field of public health.
A complete section --
consisting of four chapters -- is devoted to emergency
management and includes thorough, up-to-date coverage of
terrorism and bioterrorism preparedness.
In addition to chapter
references, a variety of valuable resources are provided at the
conclusion of each chapter.
Periodicals and
books direct readers to printed materials.
Internet sites
provide supplemental information in electronic form.
Organizations
connect readers with others having similar interests,
greater expertise or resources in areas related to the
topics of a given chapter.
The order of the
chapters can be changed with no loss of comprehension.
Portions of some
chapters have previously appeared in different form in state of
the art reviews in occupational health.
Fleming Fallon, MD, DrPH,
MBA, is a 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, the Medical College of Ohio and the University of
Toledo. He has many years of experience as a management
consultant and has authored more than 350 books, chapters and papers
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 has
served as both a member and president of a local board of health.
