Essential public health : theory and practice / edited by Kirsteen Watson, Jan Yates, Stephen Gillam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Kirsteen, 1980- editor.

Yates, Jan, editor.

Gillam, Stephen, editor.

Series:

Cambridge medicine (Series)

Cambridge medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Health needs assessment / Stephen Gillam and Padmanabhan Badrinath

Health information / John Battersby

Epidemiology / Stephen Gillam and Mary Fortune

Evidence based health care / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam

Decision-making and priority-setting / Kirsteen Watson and Stephen Gillam

Improving quality of care / Nicholas Steel and Stephen Gillam

Management, leadership and change / Kirsteen Watson and Jan Yates

Improving population health / Peter Bradley and Jan Yates

Screening / Jan Yates and Sue Cohen

Health protection and communicable disease control / Beverley Griggs and Padmanabhan Badrinath

The health of children and young people / Rebecca Roberts and Rajalakshmi Lakshman

Adult public health and non-communicable disease / Sara Godward

Public health and ageing / Lincoln Sargeant and Louise Lafortune

Health inequalities and public health practice / Anne Swift

Health policy / Richard Lewis and Stephen Gillam

International development and public health / Gillian Turner and Jenny Amery

Planetary health / James Smith.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009378253

1009378252

9781009378284

1009378287

9781009378260

1009378260

OCLC:

1481784917