Description
Book SynopsisâœThis excellent book could not be more timely. It must now be apparent to almost everyone that we cannot go on as we have done in the past â The authors set out a vision of a future in which we have rebalanced our relationship with the world around us. They give us a sense of purpose and reason for hope that, together, we might be able to attain it.â
Professor Martin McKee CBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
âœThis book grounds the new approach to public health in systems thinking, challenges mantras of modernity and prioritizes sustainability and well-being. Read it and take the third public health revolution the next step forward.â
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Director Global Health Programme, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
âœWith the emerging evidence from the Human Genome Project that genes play little part in the genesis of most illness, this is a particularly timely book: it shows the central part that public healt
Table of Contents
Part 1 Public Health Past and Present
Chapter 1 - Towards the Future Public Health
Chapter 2 - Development of Public Health in the UK
Chapter 3 - Public Health Today
Part 2 Modern Public Health Challenges
Chapter 4 - Inequalities in Health - an Enduring Problem
Chapter 5 - Public Health, Modern Culture and Wellbeing
Chapter 6 - Emerging Public Health Challenges - Obesity and Addictions
Chapter 7 - Population Growth and Ageing
Chapter 8 - Public Health and the Challenge of Sustainability
Part 3 The Future Public Health
Chapter 9 - An Integrative Framework for the Future Public Health
Chapter 10 - Applying the Integrative Framework to the Major Public Health Challenges and the Future NHS
Chapter 11 - A Fifth Wave for Public Health and the Future Public Health Practitioner
