Full Description
This book presents public health as a method-driven integrative discipline, a dynamic field of science and practice, shaped by the interplay of knowledge, power and ideology. Global in scope and written from the perspective of those engaged in public health policy and implementation, it draws its deepest lessons from diverse, resource-poor settings to generate grounded insights and innovative analytical frameworks for understanding common and complex challenges.
Section I of the book unpacks the definitions and theoretical approaches to public health, including the biomedical, social and behavioural questions of political economy as they relate to each other in the era of globalisation. Section II takes up disease control programmes, illustrating how knowledge of epidemiology, health systems and political context come together to shape the programmes and their outcomes. Section III then focuses on the cross-cutting puzzles and problematics of organising healthcare and strengthening health systems, including financing, governance, informatics and building learning-adaptive systems in the 21st century.
The book will be useful to students, researchers and teachers of Public Health, Public Policy, Sociology, Social Work and Development Studies. This will also be an invaluable companion to policymakers, general administrators, activists in civil society, media persons, and agencies like World Health Organization (WHO) and other global health institutions as the book will provide a critical understanding of a wide variety of contemporary debates and issues in health policy.
Contents
SECTION I: Basics of Public Health
Introduction to Section I
1 Understanding Public Health
2 The Political Economy of Health
3 Health under Globalisation
4 The Political Economy of Healthcare
5 The Methods of Public Health
SECTION II: Re-thinking Disease Control
An Introduction to Section II
6 The Control of Communicable Diseases
7 Addressing Non-Communicable Diseases
8 Sexual and Reproductive Health
9 Injuries and Trauma
10 Pandemics - Prevention, Preparedness and Response
SECTION III: Health Policy and Health Systems Strengthening
An Introduction to Section III
11 Organisation of Health Services
12 Healthcare Financing
13 Public Health Informatics
14 Health Policy and Governance
15 Building Learning-Adaptive Health Systems - Knowledge Management in the 21st Century
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Index
