Issues in Public Health - Softcover
Book 8 of 121: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare
Synopsis
This book is for those who want to answer the question 'What is public health?'. Much of modern public health is about tackling strong vested interests head on, empowering people so they can make healthy decisions, and recognising the political nature of the issues. If a society is to achieve these things, it needs public health practitioners with the necessary knowledge, skills and vision.
This book looks at the foundation of public health, its historical evolution, the themes that underpin public health, the increasing importance of globalization and the most important causes of avoidable disease and injury.
These include:
- Transport
- Tobacco
- Nutrition
- Infectious disease
- Waste disposal
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About the Author
Joceline Pomerleau is Lecturer in Epidemiology and Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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