Full Description
Offering a concise yet comprehensive overview, this textbook explains the fundamental concepts and frameworks that underpin the field of public health. Chapters define key terms and cover topics such as measuring health, technology, equity, leadership, health systems and reform. Real-world health issues, including COVID-19, obesity, HIV/AIDS and climate change, are used to make abstract ideas more easily digestible. Designed for students and professionals interested in public health, it includes learning objectives, illustrative examples, summaries of key takeaways, and comprehension and discussion questions to aid navigation and learning. An instructor manual and test bank are available as supplementary resources.
Contents
Foreword Gro Harlem Brundtland; Preface: the appeal of public health; Part I. Thinking About Health: 1. What is public health?; 2. What is global health?; Part II. Health: Definitions, Domains and Determinants: 3. Health conditions; 4. Conceptual basis for measuring health; 5. Determinants of health; 6. Health dynamics: how health conditions and needs change; Part III. Health Systems: The Organized Social Response: 7. Understanding complex systems; 8. Technology and health; 9. Health system performance; 10. Health system dynamics; 11. Challenges of health system reform; 12. The global health system: extending the organized social response; 13. The imperative of leadership; Part IV. Synthesis and Conclusions: 14. Applying the frameworks to the COVID-19 pandemic; Final thoughts: public health after the pandemic; References; Index.
