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Issues in Public Health

Issues in Public Health

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What is public health and why is it important? By looking at the foundations of public health, its historical evolution, the themes that underpin public health and the increasing importance of globalization, this book provides thorough answers to these important questions.

Written by experts in the field, the book discusses the core issues of modern public health, such as tackling vested interests head on, empowering people so they can make healthy decisions, and recognising the political nature of the issues. The new edition has been updated to identify good modern public health practice, evolving from evidence. New features include::

  • Two new chapters on the expanding role of public health, covering the issues of sustainability and climate change, human rights, genetics and armed conflict
  • Expanded UK and international examples
  • Examination of the impact of globalization on higher and lower income countries
  • Exploration of the tension between the population approach and the personal behaviour change model of health promotion
  • A variety of activities to help understanding and learning of the topics
Issues in Public Health is an ideal introductory text for higher education students studying public health in depth.

Series Editors:: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.

Product Details
Open University Press
50590
9780335244225
9780335244225

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Publication date
2011
Issue number
2
Cover
paperback
Pages count
296
Dimensions (mm)
67 x 95
Weight (g)
1

  • List of figures
    List of tables
    Overview of the book
    Introduction to the Second Edition

    Section 1: Foundation of modern public health
    The emergence of public health and the centrality of values
    Data on populations and mortality
    Understanding the burden of disease: using the available data
    Inequalities in health
    The impact of health care on population health
    Assessing the impact on population health of policies in other sectors

    Section 2: Major determinants of health
    The changing nature of infectious disease
    Tobacco: still a global public health priority
    Recognising contemporary determinants of public health: human rights, armed conflict and genetics
    Food, trade and health
    Drains, dustbins and diseases
    Sustainable development and climate change – the ‘new determinants of health

    Glossary
    Index

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