Western Public Health Casebook 2020
2020
This online book is the fifth annual collection of 16 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, including mental health support for LGBTQ+ Muslims, emerging zoonotic disease, health equity in school safety planning, combatting the opioid crisis, and more.
The introductory chapter reflects on public health during a pandemic, reflecting on expansive and intersectional role that the multiplicity of frameworks in graduate public health education -- social determinants, epidemiology, biostatistics—that can support professionals in addressing emerging problems. 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.
Explore the individual cases:
- Case 1 : Policy Change and Public Health: Obstacles to Advocating for Public Health Intervention
- Case 2: The Double Burden of Malnutrition: Challenges and Opportunities in Thailand
- Case 3 : Coming Together together to Promote Change: Best Practices to Prevent, Treat, and Manage Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Type in Indigenous Communities in Canada
- Case 4: Opioid Crisis in the Windsor-Essex Community: Time for Responsible Opioid Prescribing?
- Case 5: The Precision of Aid: Remembering the Forgotten Disease in the Horn of Africa
- Case 6: No Fixed Address: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Program to Prevent Psychiatric Discharge to Homelessness
- Case 7: Going Beyond Bike Racks and Pedestrian Crossovers: Achieving Health Equity in School Travel Planning
- Case 8: Is it too Late to Re-evaluate? Creating Client-centered Changes within Canada’s Medical Surveillance System
- Case 9: A Knot of Contradictions: Systems of Intersectionality and Muslim LGBTQ+ Mental Health Programs
- Case 10: Changing the Service Delivery Model: How to Make it Happen?
- Case 11: Going Beyond the Virus: Understanding the Drivers of the Ebola Virus Outbreak
- Case 12: Prioritizing Emerging and Re-Emerging Non-enteric Zoonotic Infectious Diseases: What Should we be Afraid of Next?
- Case 13: Preparing for the Tickpocalypse
- Case 14: A Sticky Situation: A Medical Problem with a Social Solution
- Case 15: Recovery Through Education: An Integrative Approach to Mental Health for the People, by the People
- Case 16: When the Midnight Train is the first of many: Dealing with Irregular and Unsafe Railway Crossings in the City of London
Western Public Health Casebook 2020
Source:
McKinley G, Speechley M, eds. Western Public Health Casebook 2020. Public Health Casebook Publishing 2020. https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/publichealth/cases/casebook_2020.html.