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Intro -- Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements: Behavior, Culture, and Environment -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Section A: Behavioral impact on public health -- Chapter 1: Intersecting global health metrics with personal change -- Focusing global data and risk behaviors on individual patients -- Where business, health care professionals, and social science data can converge -- Associated behaviors, metabolic risks, and your health -- Aggregated global behavior and metabolic risk factors on mortality -- United States national chronic disease indicators and mortality -- Local syndromic surveillance in Duval County, Florida, USA -- Discussion -- Recommendations: A place for new data models at the organization and practice level -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Supplementary reading recommendations -- Definitions -- Chapter 2: Dont sit this one out: Moderating the negative health impact of sedentary behavior at work -- Sitting to death -- General overview of applicable behavior change theories -- Research methodology -- Overview of methods -- Search protocol -- Findings, raw data, and behavior change implications -- Major goals and targeted behavior change (TBC) related to sedentary inactivity -- Intervention prescriptions (IPs) for sedentary behavior and interpretation -- Behavior change approaches (BCAs) related to sedentary inactivity and interpretation -- Major themes related to sedentary behavior change -- Outcome goal setting -- Environmental adaptation -- Self-monitoring of behavior -- Information on health consequences and social support -- Directions on how to perform behavior(s), and advice or feedback on behavior -- Minor, emerging, and outlier themes related to sedentary behavior change.

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: The Challenge of Implementing Macroeconomic Policy in an Increasingly Microeconomic World -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic Economics and Production Inputs -- 1.3 Striving for Innovation: Public Health and Socioeconomic Status -- 1.3.1 Money an Unnecessary Evil? -- 1.3.2 Thinking Beyond Boundaries -- 1.3.3 The Global Problem of Low SES -- 1.3.3.1 Africa, China, and India: Urbanization and Poor Health Outcomes -- 1.3.3.2 United States -- 1.4 The Changing Role of the Environment: Modeling Sustainable Human and Economic Development -- 1.5 Application and Discussion -- 1.6 Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Green Aid Flows: Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 International Aid Flows and Environmental Protection Goals -- 2.3 Aid Flows and Green Financing in Developing Countries -- 2.4 Conclusions and Policy Implications -- Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Food Sustainability Index Report on the United States: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 United States Food Sustainability -- 3.3 United States Environmental Land Use -- 3.4 United States Environmental and Nutritional Challenges -- 3.5 Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Planning Healthy Communities: Abating Preventable Chronic Diseases -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Theoretical Frameworks for Defining Healthy Communities -- 4.2.1 Defining Healthy Communities -- 4.2.2 Philosophical and Methodological Role of Communities in Determinants of Health -- 4.2.2.1 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion -- 4.2.2.2 The Salutogenesis Model -- 4.2.2.3 Social Epidemiology -- 4.3 Urban Planning and Public Health -- 4.4 Contemporary Urban Planning -- 4.5 The Legal Basis for Comprehensive Planning.

This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss hunger and food sustainability, land use, chronic and communicable diseases, child mortality, and global water quality. Interventions described are varied as well, from green technology breakthroughs to regulatory accountability, innovative urban planning and community policing programs. Chapters build and expand on each other's themes inspiring deeper understanding and critical thinking that further prompts readers to develop practical solutions leading to improvements in planetary and population health outcomes. Included in the coverage: · The challenge of implementing macroeconomic policy in an increasingly microeconomic world · Green aid flows: trends and opportunities for developing countries · Planning healthy communities: abating preventable chronic diseases · Foundations of community health: planning access to public facilities · International changes in environmental conditions and their personal health consequences Translating National Policy to Improve Environmental Conditions Impacting Public Health is developed for educators, students, and policymakers to generate awareness and review options to help create change in their communities. Federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the EPA, and Housing and Urban Development will also find it salient.

Health literacy involves more than the absence of reading skill. Additional dimensions include the comprehension and interpretation of information in order to make informed health decisions. We suggest that health care service providers must engage their patient population to improve their level of personal responsibility through the systematic process of selection, implementation, and critical evaluation of acknowledged tools of governance. To successfully increase health literacy in this complex and dynamic environment, this solution proposes an intensive strategy through the collective use of governance tools across multiple participants that include the health care sector, political representation, regulatory representatives, health insurance providers, Non-Government Organizations, patients, and the education system. We offer a detailed example of governance methods applied to healthcare and summarize these recommendations in a program logic model that provides a roadmap of planned events leading to problem resolution over time. The U.S. National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy using a multi-sectoral approach has been a model for other nations.