Full Description
"You won't find a better textbook on public health than this. Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, informative, and very readable. A must for all public health reading lists."
Emeritus Professor Mike Daube, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
"In Issues in Public Health you will find detailed, evidence-based, contemporary discussion about the wide range of public health challenges facing public health professionals around the world."
Mary Lyons, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
"An essential resource for anyone looking to understand the foundations of public health and its ongoing evolution."
Dr Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, USA
What is public health?
By looking at the foundations of public health, its historical and contemporary evolution, and the themes that underpin public health, this book provides detailed answers to this important question and encourages you to develop your critical thinking skills.
Written by experts in the field, the book discusses the core issues of modern public health, such as tackling vested interests head on, empowering people so they can make healthy decisions, and acknowledging the political nature of the issues. This new edition has a section on mental health, as well as five new chapters reflecting key contemporary and global issues:
• Commercial determinants of health
• Planetary health
• Conflict and health
• Ethics surrounding human rights and public health
• Information and public health
The third edition of Issues in Public Health provides a thorough overview of the key concepts, practices, and principles of public health. Timely and relevant examples have been used to illustrate the challenges and opportunities global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to the surface.
Understanding Public Health is an innovative series published by Open University Press in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where it is used as a key learning resource for postgraduate programmes. It provides self-directed learning covering the major issues in public health affecting low, middle and high income countries.
Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
Contents
List of FiguresList of Tables
Introduction to the Third Edition
Section 1: Foundation of modern public health
1. Population health: principles and concepts
Martin McKee, Fiona Sim and Alison Krentel
2. Describing the health of a population
Marina Karanikolos, Martin McKee
Section 2: Determinants of public health
3. Social determinants of health
Martin McKee
4. The political determinants of health
Nason Maani, May C.I. van Schalkwyk, Martin McKee
5. The Commercial Determinants of Health
May C.I. van Schalkwyk, Nason Maani, Martin McKee
6. Health care as a determinant of health
Marina Karanikolos, Ellen Nolte, Martin McKee, Fiona Sim
Section 3: Contemporary issues facing public health
7. Planetary Health
May C.I. van Schalkwyk, Mark Taylor, Martin McKee
8. The changing nature of infectious disease
Alison Krentel, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Chris Bonell, Fiona Sim and Martin McKee
9. Non-communicable diseases
Harry Rutter and Mark Taylor
10. Armed conflict and Public Health
Bayard Roberts
Section 4: Public health practice
11. Ethics and Public Health
Thomas E. Novotny
12. Information and public health
May C.I. van Schalkwyk, Charlotte McKee, Nason Maani, Alison Krentel, Martin McKee
Glossary of terms
Self-assessment
Index
