Full Description
The International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Third Edition, Seven Volume Set is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the major issues, challenges, methods, and approaches of global public health. Spanning across 7 volumes, 13 subject areas and 398 chapters, this new edition takes a multidisciplinary approach and presents the history, methodology, and latest advances in biomedical research and related scientific fields, including social sciences, life sciences, and bioengineering to address public health research, disease, health processes, and disciplines. The book offers readers evidence-based analysis and information on solutions to real-world problems in global and local health through a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach.
Covering all dimensions of the field, from the details of specific diseases, to the organization of social insurance agencies, the articles included comprise the fundamental research areas of global public health: historical roots, scientific research methodology and approaches, public health of vulnerable population subgroups (the aged, children and adolescents, at-risk populations), environmental and occupational epidemiology, and much more.
Contents
1. History of Epidemiology & Public Health
2. Methods and Measurement in Epidemiology and Public Health
3. Demography, Epidemiology and Public Health
4. Epidemiology of diseases
5. Sexual and Reproductive Health
6. Public Health of Population Subgroups
7. Behavioral factors in Public Health
8. Environmental and occupational Epidemiology
9. Health services
10. Health systems
11. Epidemiology and public policy
12. Ethical and professional issues in Epidemiology & Public Health and health inequalities
13. Public Health, Biotechnology, and Information & Communication Technology
