Introduction to Public Health for Chiropractors

Public health is of concern to practicing chiropractors, as well as chiropractic students. The vast majority of chiropractors utilize public health concepts every day as an integral part of patient care. For instance, they give advice on risk factors that should be avoided and protective factors to be added by their patients to enhance healing and prevent illness. Pubic health is also part of the curriculum at all chiropractic colleges and is tested by the National Board. No public health textbooks are available that are specifically designed for the chiropractor. Consequently, college instructors are forced to make-do with class notes and generic texts that do not address the specific issues relevant to chiropractic. This book will not only be of interest to chiropractic students, but also practicing chiropractors because it will provide information they can utilize to provide better care by positively intervening with their patients and their communities regarding public health matters. 

Table of Contents

Chapter  1  Introduction to Public Health, Public Health Agencies, and the APHA
Chapter  2  Basic Concepts in Public Health
Chapter  3  Public Health Research Methods
Chapter  4  Environmental Health
Chapter  5  Food and Nutrition
Chapter  6  Care for Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Implications for Public Health 
Chapter  7  Unintentional and Intentional Injuries
Chapter  8  Infectious Disease
Chapter  9  Prevention of Chronic Diseases
Chapter  10  Physical Fitness
Chapter  11  Public Health Impact of Musculoskeletal Conditions
Chapter  12  Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Chapter  13  Pediatrics in Public Health
Chapter  14  Aging, Public Health and Chiropractic
Chapter  15  Population Health
Chapter  16  Health Care System
Chapter  17  Public Health- a Personal Responsibility?
Chapter  18  Integration of chiropractic into the public health system in the new millennium: Practical application of public health to chiropractic practice