A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

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.

Systematic reviews of best evidence health interventions Global perspective, with a focus on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health policy interventions Provides a broad overview of the most important public health problems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

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.