Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements: Behavior, Culture, and Environment

Three Facets of Public Health and Paths to Improvements provides an overview on how specific indicators like the environment, culture and behavior play a role in developing improved outcomes for public health in local, regional, national and global health policy and concerns. Divided into three sections, the book examines the impact of the environment and social determinants on public health. It also illustrates the interrelation of these facets as predictors of public health, explores their institutional, organizational and individual impacts, and considers the way multiple stakeholders must engage to improve conditions that impact health.

The book utilizes various research methods, including fundamental, systematics, qualitative and quantitative. Readers can use the information to inform future research and better understand an existing health problem and outcomes.

Offers a multisectoral (MSA) approach to understanding environmental, behavioral and social facets of public healthIncludes an expert analysis (e.g., qualitative, quantitative) approach in relation to policy and existing problemsCombines an analytic approach with educational presentation to engage diverse readership

Section 1: Behavioral impact on public 1. Intersecting global health metrics with personal change 2. Don’t Sit This One Out: Moderating the Negative Health Impact of Sedentary Behavior at Work 3. Prevention of alcohol-related harms among college students: Past issues and future directions 4. Impacting healthcare outcomes connecting digital health within the Veteran's Health Administration Home Based Primary Care Program 5. The Power of Peer Support in Family/Youth Serving Systems 6. Sustainability education, not just STEM but the root of business?

Section 2: Cultural impact on public health 7. Culture, Cultural Diversity, and Enhanced Community Health 8. Culture, Language and Health Care Practitioners 9. Acts and Actions: The Church as an Institution of Cultural Change 10. A Woman’s (Unpaid) Work: Global Perspectives on Gender and Healthcare 11. Criminal Justice Research: Incorporating a Public Health Approach

Section 3: Environmental impact on public 12. Environmental Perspectives from the Ground Up: The Cost of Poor Environmental Health on Human Health 13. Structural Racism and Social Environmental Risk: A Case Study of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Louisiana 14. Improving Health through a Home Modification Service for Veterans 15. Infectious ecology: a new dimension in understanding the phenomenon of infection 16. Why Energy Resources Must Change: Ukrainian energy sector in transformation 17. Promoting Healthcare Access and Addressing Systemic Health Disparities in Toxic Environments