Main description:

The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into seven languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting.

Fully revised, The New Public Health, Fourth Edition provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for graduate students and advance undergraduate students especially for courses in MPH, community health, preventive medicine, community health education programs, community health nursing programs. It is also a valuable resource for health professionals requiring an overview of public health.

Contents:

1. A history of public health
2. Expanding the concept of public health
3. Measuring, monitoring, and evaluating the health of a population
4. Communicable diseases
5. Non-communicable diseases and conditions
6. Family health and primary prevention
7. Special community health needs
8. Nutrition and food safety
9. Environmental and occupational health
10. Organization of public health systems
11. Measuring costs: The economics of health
12. Planning and managing health systems
13. National health systems
14. Human resources for health
15. Health technology, quality, law, and ethics
16. Global health