Western Public Health Casebook 2016
2016
This online book is a collection of 11 cases written by students in the MPH program of the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health at Western University, Canada. The cases touch on diverse topics in public health, from the effects of burning biomass fuel in cookstoves in Ghana, to the challenges of providing dental services to seniors on Ontario, Canada, to developing more effective leadership training tools for healthcare practitioners, and more. Explore the individual cases:
- Case 1: The Fire Under the Shed: The Cornerstone Fuelling Our Plight
- Case 2: Teleophthalmology Screening: Economic Evaluations in Health Care Decision Making
- Case 3: Ciguatera Fish Poison: An Emerging Risk Associated with Climate Change?
- Case 4: The Unique Role of Leadership in Public Health
- Case 5: Vaccination Under the Midnight Sun: Validation of an Immunization Registry in the Northwest Territories
- Case 6: Safe Needles Save Lives
- Case 7: What Do We Do About the Families?
- Case 8: iSMILE Project – Improving Seniors’ Mouthcare in Long-Term Care Establishments
- Case 9: Shifting Culture Between Patients and Health Care Teams to Impact Symptom Screen and Management
- Case 10: Babies and Budgets: Balancing Costs and Consequences in Postpartum Screening
- Case 11: The Case of the Long-Lived Orchestra Conductors
Each case includes guidance for instructors, including learning objectives and discussion questions. The cases (also available for individual download) may be freely copied and used for educational purposes by an accredited educational institution.
Western Public Health Casebook 2016
Source:
Terry A, John-Baptiste A, eds. Western Public Health Casebook 2016: Cases from the Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health. Public Health Casebook Publishing 2016. https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/publichealth/cases/Casebook2016.html.