Issues in Public Health - Brossura

Pomerleau, Joceline; Mckee, Martin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0335227481 ISBN 13: 9780335227488

Casa editrice: Open University Press, 2005

Riassunto

This book is for those who want to answer the question 'What is public health?'. Much of modern public health is about tackling strong vested interests head on, empowering people so they can make healthy decisions, and recognising the political nature of the issues. If a society is to achieve these things, it needs public health practitioners with the necessary knowledge, skills and vision.

This book looks at the foundation of public health, its historical evolution, the themes that underpin public health, the increasing importance of globalization and the most important causes of avoidable disease and injury.

These include:

• Transport
• Tobacco
• Nutrition
• Infectious disease
• Waste disposal

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Joceline Pomerleau is Lecturer in Epidemiology and Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Contenuti:

Overview of the book
Section 1: Foundation of modern public health
The emergence of public health and the centrality of values
Data on populations and mortality
The burden of disease and other summary measures of population health
Inequalities in health
Impact of healthcare 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: a public health emergency
Food, trade and health
Drains, dustbins and diseases
Glossary
Index.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Open University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0335227481
• ISBN 13: 9780335227488
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile