Introduction to Public Health – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 128419759X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1284197594
• Author: Mary Louise Fleming, PhD, MA, BEd, Dip Teach and Louise Baldwin, PhD, MHSc (Health Promotion), B.Ed (Sec), FHEA

Includes newly updated bonus e-chapter on Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Offering a thorough, accessible and lively overview of public heath for students new to the field, Introduction to Public Health offers a broad-reaching, practical framework for understanding the forces and organizations of public health today. Through engaging, nontechnical language, illustrative real world examples, and the current political, economic, and cultural news of the day, students gain a clear understanding of the scope of today’s public health problems and possible solutions.

Table contents:

Section 1 Definitions, determinants and challenges
Introduction
1 Defining health and public health
2 Public Health Challenges
3 Epidemiology
4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
Section 2 Policy, Ethics and Evidence
Introduction
5 Public Health Policy
6 Public health and social policy
7 Ethics and public health
8 Evidence-based practice
Section 3 Public Health Strategies
Introduction
9 People
10 Place
11 Enabling Environments for health
Section 4 Contemporary issues
Introduction
12 Refocusing Public Health with a Health Promotion and Prevention Lens
13 Applying Contemporary Approaches to Planning, Implementation, Evaluation and Learning for Public Health
14 Global health
15 Disasters, Emergencies and Terrorism
16 Concluding Remarks