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âœYou wonât 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.â

Emeritus Professor Mike Daube, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

âœIn 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.â

Mary Lyons, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

âœAn essential resource for anyone looking to understand the foundations of public health and its ongoing evolution.â

Dr Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, USA


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Table of 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

Issues in Public Health Challenges for the 21st

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 24/03/2022
      ISBN13: 9780335249152, 978-0335249152
      ISBN10: 335249159

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      âœYou wonât 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.â

      Emeritus Professor Mike Daube, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

      âœIn 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.â

      Mary Lyons, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

      âœAn essential resource for anyone looking to understand the foundations of public health and its ongoing evolution.â

      Dr Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, USA


      What is public he

      Table of 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

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