Section I: Introduction to public health practice 1. Principles and approaches in public health practice Rajavel Saranya and Soundappan Kathirvel 2. Principles of public health research and writing Periyasamy Gandhi Aravind and Soundappan Kathirvel 3. Evidence-based public health practice Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader 4. Applying evidence-based strategies for public health preparedness and emergency management Vinayagamoorthy Kalaiselvi and Jaya Prasad Tripathy
Section II: Case studies of public health practice 5. How the public health practice changes clinical practice and vice versa Kathiresan Jeyashree 6. Effect of public health research on policy and practice Punam Bandokar and Madhur Verma 7. Public health policy for social action to ensure better population health Kalaiselvi Selvaraj 8. Democratization of health care in hospital settings: An integral part of public health practice Ishwarpreet Kaur and Amarjeet Singh 9. Community participation for improving the coverage and quality of evidence-based public health practice Hemant Shewade, Deepak H.J. Murthy and Seetharam Mysore 10. Intersectoral coordination for concerted efforts to improve the population health using evidence-based public health practice Seetharam Mysore, Deepak H.J. Murthy and Hemant Shewade 11. Public health approaches to address substance use: An urgent need of multisectoral engagement Cristina Rabadan-Diehl 12. Healthy aging and quality of life of the elderly Amarjeet Singh, Soundappan Kathirvel and Arun Chockalingam
Section III: Future of public health practice 13. The need for a paradigm shift to ensure adequate skilled human resources for effective public health practice Myo Minn Oo 14. Effective use of information technology for the quality of public health practice Palanivel Chinnakali and Swetha S. Kumar 15. Sustaining population benefit using evidence-based public health Rama Shankar Rath and Aysuh Lohiya 16. Precision medicine and public health practice Gomathi Ramaswamy 17. Public health practice: A futuristic perspective Patricio V. Marquez and Arun Chockalingam