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Public Health
Local and Global Perspectives
Third Edition
THIRD EDITION PUBLIC HEALTH
Local and Global Perspectives
Edited by PRANEE LIAMPUTTONG
NEW
Available July 2022 254 x 203 mm, 472 pp 9781009048569 | Paperback (also available as an eBook)
Edited by Pranee Liamputtong, VinUniversity
Public Health: Local and Global Perspectives presents a comprehensive introduction to public health issues and concepts in the Australian and international contexts. It provides students with fundamental knowledge of the public health field, including frameworks, theories, key organisations and contemporary issues. The third edition features a new chapter on the public health workforce and the importance of advocacy in the profession and a thorough update that includes current research and case studies. Discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic and other contemporary public health issues offers students the opportunity to apply theory to familiar examples. Each chapter contextualises key concepts with spotlights and vignettes, reflective questions, tutorial exercises and suggestions for further reading. Written by an expert team of public health professionals, Public Health is an essential resource for public health students.
• Comprehensive introduction to public health issues • Provides students with fundamental knowledge of the public health field, including frameworks, theories, key organisations and contemporary issues • In-built pedagogy helps students link theory to practice and develop critical thinking skills
Contents
1. Public health: An introduction to local and global contexts Part I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives 2. Historical and contemporary principles and practices of public health 3. Health promotion principles and practice: Addressing complex public health issues using the Ottawa Charter 4. Primary health care and community health 5. Public health ethics 6. Advocacy and the workforc Part II. Determinants of Health 7. Social determinants of health 8. Behavioural, nutritional and environmental determinants and public health 9. Individual decision-making in public health 10. Political determinants of public health 11. Human rights, social justice and public health Part III. Public Health and Research 12. Qualitative research methodology and evidence-based practice in public health 13. Assessing the health of populations: Epidemiology in public health 14. Planning and evaluation of public health interventions Part IV. Public Health Issues and Special Populations 15. The health of children: The right to thrive 16. Adolescence, health, social problems and public health 17. Healthy ageing 18. The health inequities of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Strategies for change 19. The health of indigenous peoples 20. The health of migrants and refugees 21. Understanding health in rural settings 22. Drug use in Australia: A public health approach.
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Essential Epidemiology
Fourth Edition
Penelope Webb, Chris Bain and Andrew Page
ESSENTIAL Epidemiology
An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
FOURTH EDITION Available Now 2019, 255 x 190 mm, 512 pp 9781108766807 | Paperback (also available as an eBook)
Penelope Webb, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Chris Bain Andrew Page, Western Sydney University
Includes bonus enhanced eBook
Now in its fourth edition, Essential Epidemiology is an engaging and accessible introduction to the foundations of epidemiology. It addresses the study of infectious and chronic diseases, public health and clinical epidemiology, and the role of epidemiology in a range of health monitoring and research activities. Contemporary, historical and hypothetical examples enable students to engage with content, while mathematics is kept understandable with complex mathematics housed in optional material so the book remains accessible. With over ninety questions and answers to work through in the print book, and hundreds more in the interactive eBook, this book is an essential resource for students, practitioners and anyone else who needs to interpret health data in their studies or work. Epidemiology’s most important goal is to bring rigour to the collection, analysis and interpretation of health data to improve health on a global scale; Essential Epidemiology provides readers the tools to achieve that goal. • Authored by experienced epidemiologists and academics, this book introduces concepts logically and builds knowledge from chapter to chapter • Written with clarity for an undergraduate audience, the book explains complicated concepts without losing the nuance or depth required for postgraduates • Covers the foundations of public health epidemiology while also integrating clinical epidemiology
Contents
1. Epidemiology is... 2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency 3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology 4. Healthy research: study designs for public health 5. Why? Linking exposure and disease 6. Heads or tails: the role of chance 7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error 8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding 9. Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers 10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation 11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses 12. Surveillance: collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action 13. Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters 14. Prevention: better than cure? 15. Early detection: what benefits at what costs? 16. Epidemiology and the public’s health.
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