Full Description
In the twenty-first century public health is under considerable threat. Environmental deterioration, terrorism and war, growing economic inequalities, declining social capital, neo-liberal economic policies and rapid economic globalisation all pose threats to health. Public health is concerned with reducing these threats and finding healthy solutions to them. In the past, public health was dominated by medical models of practice but is now increasingly multi-disciplinary that focuses on the social, economic and environmental basis of health. In the second edition of The New Public Health the comprehensive overview of contemporary public health practice is maintained but the content is updated to reflect the rapid changes that have affected public health in a global context. A chapter is dedicated to settings approach to health promotion including Healthy Cities. Other topics covered include: definitions and history; the political economy of public health; full spectrum of public health research methods; patterns of health, illness and mortality; the health of the environment and its impact on human health; practical public health strategies.
It argues that new approaches to promoting health, equity and sustainability are urgently needed.
Contents
PART 1: APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH; 1. Understanding health - definitions and perspectives; 2. A history of public health; 3. The new public health evolves; PART 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC HEALTH; 4. Politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health; 5. Globalisation and health; PART 3: RESEARCHING PUBLIC HEALTH; 6. Research for a new public health; 7. Epidemiology and public health; 8. Survey research methods in public health; 9. Qualitative research methods; 10. Evaluation of community-based health promotion; PART 4: PATTERNS OF HEALTH, ILLNESS AND MORTALITY; 11. Changing health and illness profiles in the twentieth century: global and Australian perspectives; 12. Social patterning of health; 13. Health: an unequally distributed resource; PART 5: UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: GLOBAL AND AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES; 14. Global physical threats to the environment and public health; 15. Urbanisation, population, communities and environments: global trends; PART 6: HEALTHY CHOICES: INDIVIDUALS, BEHAVIOUR AND COMMUNITIES; 16. Medical interventions; 17. Behavioural health promotion and its limitations; 18. Health development and empowerment: communities and individuals; 19. Organisational development: towards health-promoting organisations; 20. Public health policy; PART 7: HEALTHY SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENTS; 21. Healthy economic policies; 22. Cities, suburbs, and communities: how might they change to support the environment and human health?; 23. Towards a more equitable society; 24. Healthy Cities, Local Agenda 21, and Healthy Settings; 25. The politics, organisation, and sustainability of new public health initiatives; PART 8: PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 26. Linking the local, national and global; Appendix 1: Public health keywords; Appendix 2: Public health websites
