Public Health: An Action Guide to Improving HealthJohn Walley, John Wright Many of the health problems in the developing world can be tackled or prevented through public health measures such as essential health care, improved living conditions, water, sanitation, nutrition, immunization, and the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Public Health is an action guide to improving public/community health, with a particular focus on low-middle income countries. It explains public health approaches to developing effective health services and preventive programmes.This Second Edition contains real examples, illustrations and case histories to bring an important subject to life for the reader. The book covers the essential clinical services and preventive programmes including those for TB, HIV/AIDS, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases and the integrated management of childhood and adult illnesses. Practical methods are given for assessing health needs and working with communities to develop health services, and the development of hospital, health centre, andcommunity health services, particularly mother, neonatal and child health services are explained. Additionally gender, social and economic influences on communities' health are explored.The clear language that is used throughout the book to describe the key public health skills (such as epidemiology, managing medicines, communicable and non communicable disease control, health financing, and implementing health services and programmes), will be accessible and highly valuable to doctors, community nurses, and other health professionals, whether in training or in practice as health officers and mangers of health services and programmes. |
Contents
1 Public health and the burden of disease | 1 |
2 Public health interventions | 11 |
3 Epidemiology in practice | 21 |
4 Assessing health needs | 35 |
5 Choosing the best public health interventions | 49 |
6 Planning implementing and managing interventions | 65 |
7 Understanding and using health economics and financing | 87 |
8 Health promotion | 115 |
11 Maternal neonatal and child health | 181 |
12 Essential drugs | 213 |
13 Communicable disease control principles and toolkit | 239 |
14 Controlling major communicable diseases | 259 |
15 Noncommunicable diseases | 287 |
16 Quality control safety and better practice | 309 |
17 Future trends in global public health | 319 |
Glossary | 333 |
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