A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

by Stefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319374826
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/02/2016
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Pages:	289
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction and Global Burden of Disease.- Health Trends of Communicable diseases.- Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable diseases.- Cardiovascular diseases.-Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention.- Obesity and Diabetes.- Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution.- Public health gerontology and active ageing.- Some ethical reflections in public health.- Injury prevention and safety promotion.- Migrant and ethnic minority health.- Public mental health.- Urban public health.- Public Health Genomics.- Health Impact Assessment.- Health in all Policies.