Oxford Textbook of Public Health - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199693471 ISBN 13: 9780199693474

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2011

Riassunto

This fifth edition of the ever-popular Oxford Textbook of Public Health has been thoroughly updated, and remains the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. Two new editors, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Gulliford, join the established editor team of Roger Detels and Robert Beaglehole, representing a truly global outlook from four continents. The contributors are drawn from across the world, offering perspectives from vastly different health systems, with ranging public health needs and priorities. With contributors including Dr Margaret Chan, Director of the World Health Organization, this book offers a globally comprehensive picture of modern health.

Now available in paperback and condensed into a single volume, the book retains its approach of dividing the complex, dynamic subject of public health into three topics. First, the scope of public health is covered, looking at the development of the discipline, determinants of health and disease, public health policies, and law and ethics. The textbook then focuses on the methods of public health, including the main science behind the discipline - epidemiology. Environmental factors, information systems, and social science techniques are also considered. Finally, theory is put into practice, examining specific public health problems and options for prevention and control. As well as identifying these issues by system or disease, there is also an awareness of the unique needs of particular population groups. The book concludes with an analysis of the functions of public health, and a look at the future of public health in the 21st century.

The picture of world health has moved on dramatically since the publication of the fourth edition in 2002. This new edition includes substantial new material on the impact of private support of public health; globalization; water and sanitation; leadership; community-intervention trials; disease and infection; gene environment interactions; obesity and physical inactivity; urbanization; minorities and indigenous populations; health needs assessment; clinical epidemiology; and the practice of public health. This ensures that the Oxford Textbook of Public Health remains the most comprehensive, accessible text for both students and practitioners in public health and epidemiology.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

Reviews from the previous edition

...a must in any library of a public health department...we do need the Oxford textbook of Public Health, and we are grateful to the editors who collect and synthesize the amounts of knowledge included in these three volumes. (European Journal of Public Health)

The new edition...continues an admirable tradition of comprehensive and authoritative overviews of contemporary public health research and practice. This textbook will continue to be an invaluable resource for practioners, researchers and students working across the range of the discipline. (Journal of Public Health)

...as comprehensive coverage of public health as one can hope to find in a modern textbook. (Occupational Medicine)

L'autore:

Roger Detels M.D., M.S., Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, received his training at Harvard College, New York University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Washington. In 1971, he moved to the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, his current affiliation. During his tenure at UCLA, he has served as Chair of Epidemiology and as Dean of the School of Public Health. Professor Detels was one of the three editors for the first and second editions of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health and senior editor for the third, fourth and forthcoming fifth editions of the Textbook, which he expanded to include public health issues in developing countries. He has published more than 350 research papers on various aspects of public health. Professor Detels continues to be very active in HIV/AIDS and public health research in both the United States and Asia.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199693471
• ISBN 13: 9780199693474
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 1808
• Redattore: Detels Roger, Beaglehole Robert, Lansang Mary Ann, Gulliford Martin