Bookedited by Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates, Padmanabhan Badrinath.
Summary: This second edition has been fully updated with contemporary examples and includes new chapters on sustainability and change, management and leadership. An internet companion includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions.
Contents:
Part I: The Public health toolkit
Chapter 1.
Management, leadership and change / Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates
Chapter 2.
Demography / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam
Chapter 3.
Epidemiology / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam
Chapter 4.
The Health status of the population / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Jan Yates
Chapter 5.
Evidence-based health-care / Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam
Chapter 6.
Health needs assessment / Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath
Chapter 7.
Decision making in the health-care sector
the role of public health / Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam
Chapter 8.
Improving population health / Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates
Chapter 9.
Screening / Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam
Chapter 10.
Health protection and communicable disease control / Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath
Chapter 11.
Improving quality of care / Nicholas Steel and Stephen Gillam. Part II: Contexts for public health practice.
Introduction to part 2
what do we mean by contexts in public health? / Jan Yates
Chapter 12.
The Health of children and young people / Kirsteen L. Macleod, Rachel Crowther and Sarah Stewart-Brown
Chapter 13.
Adult public health / Veena Rodrigues
Chapter 14.
Public health and ageing / Lincoln Sargeant and Carol Brayne
Chapter 15.
Health inequalities and public health practice / Chrissie Pickin and Jennie Popay
Chapter 16.
Health policy / Richard Lewis and Stephen Gillam
Chapter 17.
International development and public health / Jenny Amery
Chapter 18.
Sustainable development
the opportunities and the challenges for the public's health / David Pencheon.