Issues in Public Health

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-335-22748-8
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pomerleau, Joceline

Mckee, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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