A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

Boccia, Stefania (Editor)/ Villari, Paolo (Editor)/ Ricciardi, Walter (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3319374826 / ISBN 13: 9783319374826

Published by Springer Verlag, 2016

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1st edition. 289 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319374826
• ISBN 13: 9783319374826
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.47 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.