A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

ISBN-13: 9783319136196 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 289 str.

Walter Ricciardi; Stefania Boccia; Paolo Villari

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface.- Introduction and Global Burden of Disease.- Health Trends of Communicable diseases.- Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable diseases.-  Cardiovascular diseases.-Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention.- Obesity and Diabetes.- Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution.- Public health gerontology  and active ageing.- Some ethical reflections in public health.- Injury prevention and safety promotion.- Migrant and ethnic minority health.- Public mental health.- Urban public health.- Public Health Genomics.-  Health Impact Assessment.- Health in all Policies.