Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This book is dedicated to and honors the signal career accomplishments and the large professional and personal impact F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, MPH has had on medicine and public health.Holsinger describes Scutch as a "doctor's doctor and a public health practitioner's practitioner."In many ways Scutch has become an icon in medicine and public health, a larger than life innovator and tour-de-force much like his early mentor and hero, William R. Willard, MD.This book contains 11 crisply written, comprehensive, and very interesting substantive chapters.The first chapter by Steven Woolf and Paula Braveman provides a cogent overview of the role of social determinants on health disparities.Anyone reading this chapter will come away with a much better understanding of how macro-level factors frame the issues that must be dealt with to constructively address a health/sick care system that is unacceptably costly, inefficient, and often irrational.Ingram, Costich, and Perez describe in elegant detail the factors influencing poor health in marginalized populations and geographic places that have shaped the life and work of Doug Scutchfield (i.e., Appalachia where he born and raised, the Black Belt of Alabama, and Barrio Logan in San Diego).These authors conclude with a clinical and socioecological perspective and a description of a solution to the health of marginalized populations crafted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation under the leadership of Debra Perez.For significant reductions in indices of morbidity and mortality, the health of various population groups require an educated public health workforce.Evashwick in Chapter 3 discusses the recent growth in the number of schools of public www.frontiersin.org
Source: Frontiers in Public Health
Author: Richard Reid Clayton
Institution: University of Kentucky
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,801
OpenAlex ID: W2022967217