A systematic review of key issues in public health / Stefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boccia, Stefania, editor.

Villari, Paolo, editor.

Ricciardi, Walter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Medical policy.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2015.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems, conducting health impact assessments, and working with decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health, and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A sampling of the topics covered : · Health trends of communicable diseases. · Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention. · Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution. · Public health gerontology and active aging. · Migrant and ethnic minority health. · Public health genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential future.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction and Global Burden of Disease

Health Trends of Communicable diseases

Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable diseases

Cardiovascular diseases.-Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention

Obesity and Diabetes

Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution

Public health gerontology and active ageing

Some ethical reflections in public health

Injury prevention and safety promotion

Migrant and ethnic minority health

Public mental health

Urban public health

Public Health Genomics

Health Impact Assessment

Health in all Policies.

Notes:

Includes index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 17, 2015).

ISBN:

9783319136202

3319136208

3319136194

9783319136196

OCLC:

904978468

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.