BookStefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi, editors.
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."--Publisher's website.
Contents:
1. Introduction and global burden of disease
2. Health trends of communicable diseases
3. Global burden and health trends of non-communicable diseases
4. Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
5. Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention
6. Obesity and diabetes
7. Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution
8. Public health gerontology and active aging
9. Some ethical reflections in public health
10. Injury prevention and safety promotion
11. Migrant and ethnic minority health
12. Public mental health
13. Urban public health
14. Genomics and public health
15. Health impact assessment: HIA
16. Health in all policies
Index.