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Public health : An action guide to improving health locally and globally / Edited by John Walley, John Wright, Ian Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Developing countries.
- Public health.
- Medical care--Developing countries.
- Medical care.
- World health.
- Health promotion.
- Electronic books.
- Global Health.
- Public Health.
- Health Promotion.
- Medical Subjects:
- Global Health.
- Public Health.
- Health Promotion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xl, 426 pages) : illustrations, charts, color photographs
- Edition:
- Third Edition.
- Other Title:
- Action guide to improving health locally and globally
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; ǂa New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- System Details:
- datafile html
- datafile pdf
- text file PDF
- text file html
- Summary:
- It is essential to build effective health systems to deliver universal health coverage, especially for low-middle income countries. This action guide presents key practical actions within primary health care that contribute to promote public and community health, prevent disease, improve living conditions, water, sanitation, nutrition, immunization, and encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Written with a particular focus on low-middle income countries, it explains key approaches and provides practical methods to developing effective health services and preventive programmes, including for hospitals, health centres, and community services, and particularly for mother, neonatal, and child health. It also explores the operational, gender, social, and economic influences on health and how to choose the best intervention strategies. This third edition has been thoroughly updated on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including new and revised chapters on health systems based on the World Health Organization (WHO) 'building blocks'. It contains real examples, illustrations, and case histories to bring the subject to life for the reader. The book covers key services and programmes including those for tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, and the integrated management of childhood and adult diseases. Throughout the book the editors ensure that key public health skills are described clearly and comprehensively, such as epidemiology, managing medicines, disease control, health financing, and implementing health services and programmes. This book ensures this valuable information is easily accessible for all doctors, community nurses, managers, and other professionals in public health, whether in training or in practice. -- Publisher
- Contents:
- Section 1 Assessing health needs: Public health and the burden of disease
- Public health interventions
- Epidemiology in practice
- Assessing health needs
- Choosing the best intervention and delivery strategies
- Health economics
- Building sustainable health systems for universal health coverage: Leadership and governance
- Health financing to support universal health coverage
- Health workforce
- Managing medicines
- Health promotion
- Ensuring quality, safety, and better practice
- Developing a district health system
- Plan, implement, manage, and evaluate interventions
- Section 3 Delivering public health programmes and services: Non-communicable diseases
- Maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health
- Communicable disease control principles and toolkit
- Controlling major communicable diseases
- Notes:
- Previous edition: published as by John Walley, John Wright. 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 12, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Also issued in print: Public health: An action guide to improving health locally and globally
- ISBN:
- 9780192597410 (pdf)
- 0192597418 (pdf)
- 9780192597427 (epub)
- 0192597426 (epub)
- 9780198855187 (paperback)
- 0198855184 (paperback)
- OCLC:
- 1513422880
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