Essentials of Global Community Health

Section  I  Principles of Global Community Health
  Chapter  1  Meaning and Definitions of Community Health
  Chapter  2  Community Health Interventions
  Chapter  3  History and Principles of COPC
  Chapter  4  The Methodology of the Community Oriented Primary Care – COPC – Process
  Chapter  5  Community Oriented Public Health (COPH)
  Chapter  6  Community Participation in Community Health
  Chapter  7  Integration of Health Services in Community Health
  Chapter  8  Epidemiology as a Tool for Community Health
Section  II  Global Application of Community Health: Case Studies
  Case  1  Developing Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in Contemporary Rural South Africa: The Case of Stroke
  Case  2  COPC and Refugee Participation in a Humanitarian Crisis: The Chad Experience
  Case  3  Multi-Sector and Coordinated Intervention to Reduce Child Trafficking in Benin-West Africa
  Case  4  Averting Childhood Deaths in Resource-Constrained Settings through Engagement with the Community: An Example from Cambodia
  Case  5  Common Pathways: Worcester’s Healthy Community Initiative
  Case  6  Parkland Health & Hospital System: Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in Action
  Case  7  Preventing Diabetes in American Indians: Cherokee Choices
  Case  8  The Health Commons: An Expansion of the Community Health Center Concept, in New Mexico, USA
  Case  9  Addressing Health Disparities in Hispanic Elders in the United States. A Community Oriented Primary Care Approach
  Case  10  A Community Oriented Multi-Sector Intervention to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reduce Violence in Moldova – Eastern Europe
  Case  11  Community Oriented Public Health: The Case of Catalonia, Spain
  Case  12  Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) – Atencion Primaria Orientada a la Comunidad (APOC) – and the Development of a Network of Community Oriented Health Services: The Case of Catalonia, Spain.
  Case  13  Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in Maternal and Child Health: The Jerusalem experience
  Case  14  A Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Program on the Control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Family Practice: The Jerusalem Experience
  Case  15  The Healthy Municipalities Movement in Nocaima- Cundinamarca, Colombia: Academia-Community Partnership in Action
  Case  16  Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in the Integrated Health Care System of Uruguay

Jaime Gofin, MD, MPH-Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social, and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Professorial Lecturer Prevention and Community Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington D.C.

 

Jaime Gofin,

 

born in Uruguay, got his MD from the Universidad de la República of Uruguay and his MPH from the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a public health expert in community health and epidemiology.

Dr.Gofin is a professor of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.During the time this book was written, he was visiting professor at the Department of Prevention and Community Health of the School of Public Health and Health Services of the George Washington University as the director of the MPH Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Program.

During 1975–2003, Professor Gofin was a member of the Department of Social Medicine of the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem, academic director of the MPH Program, director of the Hadassah Community Health Center and director of the COPC Teaching Programs.He co-directed the 1-year International Certificate Distance Learning Program on COPC (a joint program of the George Washington University and the Jerusalem School). Professor Jaime Gofin has developed COPC capacity programs in Portugal; Spain; Turkey; United Kingdom; Washington, DC; Argentina; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Uruguay; South Africa; and Vietnam. He is a consultant and advisor for international organizations, academic institutions, and governments, including the PAHO/WHO; the Catalonian Health Department; the Medical School of the Universided de la República in Montevideo; and the Ministry of Health of Uruguay.He is a founding member of the COPC Working Group of the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine in Catalonia. He is also the chairman of the task force on Integrating Medicine and Public Health of The Network: Towards Unity for Health. Dr. Gofin has delivered lectures on COPC at International Health Organizations and published articles about the practice, teaching and evaluation of COPC.

Professor Jaime Gofin was the recipient of the 2007 Gordon Wyon Award of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) for his “outstanding leadership and contribution to Community-Oriented Primary Health Care.”

Rosa Gofin, MD, MPH-Associate Professor of Social Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel, Professor, Department of Health Promotion, Social, and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Adjunct Professor, Department of Prevention and Community Health, School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University, Washington D.C.

 

Rosa Gofin,

 

born in Uruguay, got her MD from the Universidad de la República of Uruguay and her MPH from the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Jerusalem, Israel. She is an expert in public health in the areas of mother and child health, community health, and epidemiology.

She is an associate professor of social medicine in the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, where she was in charge of the Mother and Child Health Unit, and the MCH clinic at the Hadassah Community Health Center. She is a professor in the College of Public Health of the University of Nebraska  Medical Center in Omaha, NE. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health of t School of Public Health and Health Services of George Washington University.

Professor Rosa Gofin has published on the subjects of community program development and evaluation, mainly in the areas of mother and child health care, the conceptual frameworks of community health and its teaching, the evaluation of health services, and injury and violence in childhood and adolescence.

Professor Rosa Gofin has extensive international experience in service, capacity building, and research on communityoriented primary care (COPC) and mother and child health. She has served as a consultant for international organizations, governments, and academic institutions in the development of school health services and strategic planning for injury control and in the development of curricula related to primary care in schools of medicine and family medicine residency programs.