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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319374826
• ISBN13: 9783319374826
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"