How can society most effectively prevent disease and promote health and wellbeing? That is the challenge addressed by this textbook. This new edition equips readers with a toolkit of key public health skills and approaches to improve health and wellbeing for different populations. It considers how to tackle perennial public health challenges, effectively address the wider determinants of health, navigate health systems and engage in partnership working. Fully updated with contemporary examples, this new edition includes new content on sustainability and climate change, global health, leadership and management, mechanisms for measuring health and healthcare, addressing inequalities and promoting inclusivity. Essential reading for all those training and working in healthcare, social care and related disciplines, this book also shines a light on the work undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic by those working in public health. Online material includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions to test understanding and aid learning.
Author(s): Kirsteen Watson, Jan Yates, Stephen Gillam
Edition: 3
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Tags: Public Health; Epidemiology; Disease Prevention
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 The Public Health Toolkit
1 Health Needs Assessment
2 Health Information
3 Epidemiology
4 Evidence-Based Health-Care
5 Decision-Making and Priority Setting
6 Improving Quality of Care
7 Management, Leadership and Change
8 Improving Population Health
9 Screening
10 Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control
Part 2 Contexts for Public Health Practice
Introduction to Part 2: What Do We Mean by Contexts in Public Health?
11 The Health of Children and Young People
12 Adult Public Health and Non-Communicable Diseases
13 Public Health and Ageing
14 Health Inequalities and Public Health Practice
15 Health Policy
16 International Development and Public Health
17 Planetary Health
Glossary
Index
