MPH Program Textbooks
Students are responsible for obtaining copies of required books for their courses in the Master of Public Health Degree Programs. You may acquire textbooks from local university bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. There are two booksellers who keep the required texts in stock.
OEM Health Information
8 West Street
Beverly Farms, Massachusetts 01915
(800) 533-8046 or (978) 921-7300
Fax (978) 921-0304
Matthews MCW Bookstore
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226-3548
(414) 456-8566 or (800)996-2665
Fax (414) 456-6635
Students are advised not to purchase books far in advance of enrollment as texts are frequently published in new editions or courses are revised to newer, more current texts.
Required Textbooks
Advanced Epidemiologic Methods (18258)
Koepsell, T. and Weiss, N. Epidemiologic Methods, Studying the Occurrence of Illness. Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN 0195150783.
Balancing Harms and Individual vs Community Interests: Moral Issues in Public Health (18250)
Gostin, L. Public Health Law: Power, Duty & Restraint. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2000. ISBN 0520226488. ($35.25)
Behavioral Science and Preventive Medicine (18212)
Stoudemire, A. Human Behavior: An Introduction for Medical Students. 3rd Edition. Lippincott, 1998. ($39.95)
Sarafino, E. Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions. 5th Edition Wiley, 2006. ISBN 0471691003. ($105.95)
Biostatistics (18204)
MJ Campbell, D Machin, and SJ Walters. Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences. 4th edition. Chichester, England: Wiley, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-470-02519-2. This book focuses on concepts and examples within each chapter, and relegates the details of calculations to the end of the chapter.
Computer software for PC Windows (Required):
Minitab Release 15-(Full version not the student version.) Available at http://www.e-academy.com/minitab
* 5-month rental - $25.99
* 12-month rental - $49.99
* Purchase of perpetual copy - $99.99
System Requirements
Processor: PC with 1 GHz 32-or 64-bit processor
Memory: 512 MB or more of available RAM
Disk Space: 125 MB free space available
Operating System: MS Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
Display: A display capable of 1024x768 or higher resolution
Software: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher for Meet Minitab
It is highly recommended that you purchase and install Minitab as soon as possible so that any technical difficulties encountered can be dealt with as soon as possible.
Additional Biostatistics Reference Texts (Optional):
TDV Swinscow, revised version by MJ Campbell. Statistics at Square One, available free on the internet at http://bmj.com/collections/statsbk BMJ Publishing Group, 1997. Revised versions also available for purchase.
Douglas G. Altman. Practical Statistics for Medical Research. New York, NY: Chapman and Hall, 1991.
Martin Bland. An Introduction to Medical Statistics, 3nd edition (ISBN 019-26-32698). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Beth Dawson-Saunders and Robert G. Trapp. Basic and Clinical Biostatistics, 4th edition (ISBN 0-8385-0510-4). Norwalk, Con. Appleton and Lange, 2004.
Challenges in Maternal & Child Health (18254)
Kotch, Jonathan, MD, MPH. Maternal & Child Health Programs, Problems and Policy in Public Health, 2nd edition. 2005. ISBN 0763731714.
Clinical Prevention (18213)
Course Materials found on-line.
Community Health Improvement: Health Disparities and Underlying Determinants of Health (19202B)
LaVeist, T, Race, Ethnicity & Health: A Public Health Reader. Jossey-Bass, 2002. ISBN 0787964514. ($69)
Environmental Health (18200)
Friis, Robert. Essentials of Environmental Health, 1st edition. Jones and Bartlett. 2007. ISBN: 9780763747626. ($70.95)
Epidemiology (18201)
Gordis, Leon, Epidemiology. 3rd Edition. Elsevier/Saunders, Inc. 2004. ($49.) ISBN 14160-25308
Executive Leadership (HA 18225)
Packet of Applied Cases in Leadership. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press. ($37.50 plus 2.10 tax = $39.60)
(Available only through the MCW MPH Degree Programs)
Pierce, JL and Newstrom, JW. Leaders and the Leadership Process: Readings, Self-Assessments, and Applications. Fourth edition. McGraw Hill/Irwin, 2006 ($80.)
Yukl, GA. Leadership in Organizations, 6th edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 2006. ISBN 0131494848. ($140.00)
Health Care Financial Management: Accounting (18207)
Finkler, S. Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers, 3rd edition. Prentice-Hall Trade, 2003. ($24.00) ISBN 0735546045. Order through Matthews MCW Bookstore.
Neumann, B and Boles, K. Management Accounting for Healthcare Organizations. 5th Edition. Precept Press, 1998. ($65.00) Currently, (8/05 - This text is currently out of print. May find at http://www.maaw.info/BooksSummariesMain.htm. E-mail mph@mcw.edu for updates.)
Gapenski, L. Understanding Health Care Financial Management, 4th edition. Health Administration Press, 2003. ISBN 1567932088. Order through Matthews MCW Bookstore.
Health Care Financial Management: Finance (18208)
Finkler, Steven A. Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers. 3rd edition. New York: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2003 ISBN #0735546045
Gapenski, L. Understanding Health Care Financial Management, 5th edition. Health Administration Press, 2007. ISBN #13: 9781567932645. The casebook is not needed.
Health Care Law (18222)
Furrow, BR, Greaney, TL, Johnson, SH, Jost, TS, and Schwartz, RL. Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems, 6th edition. St. Paul. West Group, 2008. ISBN 9-780-314184740. ($145.00). For West Group's direct order, call 1.800.328.9352.
Gifis, SH. Law Dictionary. 5th Edition. Barron's Educational Series, Inc., 2003. ISBN 0-7641-1997-4. (Available directly from Barron's at 1.800.645.3476.) ($13.95)
Infectious Diseases (18215)
Heymann, David, (ed). Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. 18th Edition. Washington DC: American Public Health Association, 2004. ($34.00) ISBN 0875530346.
Reese, Richard E and Betts, Robert R. (eds). A Practical Approach to Infectious Diseases. 5th Edition. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. ($79.95)
Occupational Health Law (18220)
Richards, Edward P., J.D., and Rathbun, Katharine C., M.D., Medical Care Law. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers, 1999.
Organizational Behavior and Design (18214)
Gordon, Judith R, Organizational Behavior: A Diagnostic Approach, 7th edition, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 0130328472. ($126.67) Check out amazon.com to find this text.
Practice of Public Health (18206)
Turnock, JT. Public Health--What It Is and How It Works. Third Edition. Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2004. ($60.95).
Scutchfield, FD, Keck, CW. Principles of Public Health Practice. Second Edition. Albany, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning, 2003. ($48.24).
Practice of Occupational Medicine (18205)
LaDou. Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 4th edition, McGraw Hill Co., 2007 ISBN 0071443134. ($63.95).
Project in Occupational Medicine or Public Health (18298/18299)
Public Health Administration (18203)
Novick, LF, Morrow, CB, and Mays, GP, Public Health Administration: Principles of Population-based Management. 2nd Edition, 2007. ISBN: 0763738425. ($100.95).
Public Health Law (18221)
Grad, FP. Public Health Law Manual. 3rd Edition. American Public Health Association, 2005. ISBN 0875530427. ($39.50)
Richards, Edward P, JD, and Rathbun, Katharine C., MD, Medical Care Law. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen Publishers, 1999. ($121.95)
Toxicology (Occupational Medicine 18202)
Williams, PL, James RC, and Roberts SM, Principles of Toxicology: Environmental and Industrial Applications, 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2000. ISBN 0-471-29321-0.
Sullivan JB, Krieger GR, (eds.), Clinical Environmental Health and Toxic Exposures. 2nd Edition. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2001. ISBN 0-683-08027-x