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Fleming / Parker

Introduction to Public Health

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-7295-4091-9
Verlag: Elsevier Australia
Erscheinungstermin: 25.11.2011
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This text introduces students to the core concepts and principles of public health: the nature and scope of public health; its history; an introduction to health determinants and epidemiology; evidence-based practice in public health and understanding public health data plus more.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780729540919
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-7295-4091-9
  • Verlag: Elsevier Australia
  • Erscheinungstermin: 25.11.2011
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2. Auflage 2011
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Seiten: 400
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Vorauflage: 978-0-7295-3890-9
  • Nachauflage: 978-0-7295-4203-6
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Professor Mary Louise Fleming is Head of the School of Public Health at the Queensland University of Technology. She has over 20 years' experience in teaching and research in higher education as well as public health and health promotion. Her research experience is in action research; process, impact and outcome evaluation in health promotion; and public health interventions. Mary Louise has worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization and Commonwealth and state health departments and has sat on National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) public health project grant review panels. She has been widely published in the area of health promotion.

Elizabeth Parker is an Adjunct Associate Professor, and formerly Director of Academic Programs, in the School of Public Health at the Queensland University of Technology. She has teaching and research experience in public health and health promotion, and was a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. She worked as a senior manager in the Toronto Department of Public Health, and has acted as a consultant on projects for the Australian Government and Queensland Health.

Introduction

Section 1: History and Definitions of Public Health

Introduction

1. Defining health and public health

2. History and development of public health

3. Contemporary public health policy

Section 2: Risk and Determinants of Health

Introduction

4. Epidemiology

5. Biological and environmental determinants

6. Social and emotional determinants

Section 3: Ethics, Evidence and Practice

Introduction

7. Ethics and public health  

8. Evidence-based practice

9. Planning and evaluation

Section 4: Public health interventions

Introduction

10. Disease control and management

11. Environmental Health

12. Emergency Planning and Response

13. Health promotion

Section 5: Contemporary issues

Introduction

14. Health and globalisation

15. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

16. The future for public health

Reflection: Public Health Achievements and Challenges in the 21st Century

Glossary