A Population Health Approach to Health Disparities for Nurses

Care of Vulnerable Populations

A Population Health Approach to Health Disparities for Nurses
Faye Gary, Marilyn Lotas
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h254 x 178mm - 400pg
28 Oct 2022 US
9780826185037
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Offers vivid narratives illuminating the challenges and opportunities health professionals and policymakers faceDistinguished by abundant patient and health provider narratives highlighting the impact of health disparities on health outcomes worldwide, this scholarly yet practical text prepares RN-BSN, DNP, and PhD students to work toward improving community health for a variety of underserved and vulnerable populations. Grounded in the population health approach addressed in AACN Essentials, the text delivers practical steps nurses can take to address population health goals, including the improvement of quality of care, access to healthcare, improved outcomes, and cost management. The resource is also unique in its reflection of the interconnected points of view of the patient, the provider, and the health system. Written by lawyers, physicians, social workers, statisticians and economists, psychologists, ethicists, finance experts, population health specialists, anthropologists, and nurses, the text emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to learning and all components of health care-delivery of care, policy, research, and teaching. It examines demographic differences, chronic and acute health conditions, and the health needs of the unserved/underserved across the life cycle. The book emphasizes the importance of understanding the social determinants of health and discusses ways to address health disparities through changes in public policy, attitudes, beliefs, education, research, and advocacy. Objectives, key terms, discussion questions, and exercises facilitate group discussion about best practices. Key Features:Delivers practical knowledge with detailed narratives and case studies of specific populations from experienced interprofessional authorsHighlights the interwoven perspectives of patients, health providers, and health systems to promote cultural competencePinpoints health disparities including a discussion of COVID-19Presents selected historical landmarks and cases that influence population health outcomes among vulnerable groupsInterdisciplinary approach includes the perspectives of other health and social science disciplines
Raised in the Jim Crow south and deeply influenced by segregation and discrimination in every facet of her existence, Dr. Faye A. Gary, EdD, MS, RN, FAAN, has dedicated her life to eradicating health disparities among vulnerable populations. Dr. Gary is a Distinguished University Professor and the Medical Mutual of Ohio and Kent W. Clapp Endowed Chair and Professor of Nursing at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. She is also a Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Florida. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Dr. Gary has helped develop and oversee research and training grants totaling more than $24 million. She is the visionary behind the Provost Scholars Program established in 2013. This innovative project pairs secondary students with Case Western Reserve University mentors and tutors. Dr. Gary was appointed to serve on several federal committees, including the National Advisory Committees on Rural Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. She was the executive consultant of the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association. As a W. K. Kellogg Fellow, she has collaborated with fellows from across the nation. She was a member of the board of directors of Mental Health America. She has served on the Task Force on Ethics and Professional Conduct for the United Nations Commission on Refugees. She has functioned as a consultant to Ministries of Health and other organizations across six continents. Most recently, she has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the International Network of Doctoral Education in Nursing. A relentless innovator, trailblazer, and impactful scholar with a career spanning a half-century, Dr. Gary' s practice, research, scholarship, and prolific publication history have shaped and extended well beyond the field of psychiatric nursing and behavioral health in local and global communities. Informing health policy related to child and adolescent mental health, health disparities, domestic violence, and social justice is the foundation of her legacy. Dr. Marilyn J. Lotas, PhD, RN, FAAN, received her BSN and MEd in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University and her MSN in Psychiatric Nursing and PhD in Nursing with concentrations in Family Functioning and Child Development from the University of Michigan. She completed two years of post-doctoral education at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar focusing on environmental factors influencing the development of preterm infants. At the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, she served as Professor, Assistant Dean and Department Chair of Target Populations. She established a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program which was implemented in Houston and in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley, an economically depressed, medically underserved area. At Emory University she served as Professor, the Alberta Dozier Williamson Chair in Nursing and the Director of the Office of Research Administration. While there she took leadership in successfully getting approval and funding for a PhD program. From 2000-2020 she served on the faculty of the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing as an Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Nursing, and Program Director of the BSN. Within the BSN program, she established a Semester Abroad program encompassing sites on six continents and including two-way exchanges with universities in Hong Kong, Wuhan China, and the American Virgin Islands. She re-designed the community health content in the curriculum with courses beginning in the Freshman year and culminating in the Senior year with coursework on Global Health and a 300 hour capstone practicum including sites in Cleveland, other areas of the US and internationally through the Semester Abroad Program. She established a 17 year partnership with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District School Nurses directing projects related to childhood obesity, childhood hypertension and established a lead screening program to address the high rates of lead poisoning in Cleveland' s children. From 2011-2012 she held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship at the Lebanese American University working with a newly established School of Nursing. She has consulted widely in the Middle East. She serves on the Editorial Board of Neonatal Network and reviews for multiple journals.

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