|
Selected Publications by UCLA School of Public Health Faculty (organized by Department)
The School of Public Health has five departments representing the core disciplines in public health. (Note: Biostatistics is not listed)*
|
Community
Health Sciences
|
Environmental Health
|
Epidemiology
|
Health Services
|
|
Community
Health Sciences explores how health-related behaviors
interact with conditions in the social, cultural, physical
and biological environments. Assessment, planning and
evaluation are common themes in the Department's programs.
The faculty is multidisciplinary and includes those
whose primary training is in the social and behavioral
sciences, medicine, nutrition, demography, economics
and health education.
|
Environmental Health Sciences identifies, measures,
and controls biological, chemical, and physical hazards
in the environment for the promotion and protection
of human and ecological health. The Department’s
graduates are highly trained scientists and professionals
capable of identifying and measuring agents of environmental
concern; evaluating the health, environmental, and
all other aspects of such agents; developing means
for their effective management; and evaluating alternative
policies directed at improving and protecting environments.
|
Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and injury in human populations. Epidemiologists study variations of disease in relation to such factors as age, sex, race, occupational and social characteristics, place of residence, susceptibility, exposure to specific agents, or other pertinent characteristics. The scope of the field includes the study of the patterns of disease, the causes of disease, and the control or prevention of disease. |
Health Services examines the organization,
financing, and delivery of services to prevent and treat
disease. This includes public activities at local, state,
and federal levels as well as the activities of private
organizations. Faculty members come from such diverse
fields as economics, history, law, management, medicine,
planning, political science, sociology, and statistics.
The common bond among faculty is a steadfast commitment
to solving problems and developing innovations related
to the access, cost, and quality of health services
from a population-based rather than an individual patient
perspective.
|
*Description of each department obtained from: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/departments.html
|
_________________________________________________________________________________ Send
|
to