A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health
Overview
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.
A sampling of the topics covered:
- Health trends of communicable diseases.
- Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention.
- Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution.
- Public health gerontology and active aging.
- Migrant and ethnic minority health.
- Public health genomics.
A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential future.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9783319374826
- ISBN-10: 3319374826
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: October 2016
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.64 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
- Page Count: 289
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