The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting.
Fully revised, the fourth edition of The New Public Health, Fourth Edition provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for graduate students and advance undergraduate students especially for courses in MPH, community health, preventive medicine, community health education programs, community health nursing programs. It is also a valuable resource for health professionals requiring an overview of public health.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Companion Website - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Authors' dedications - p. iii 7. In memoriam—dedication - p. vi 8. About the authors - p. vi 9. Foreword by Dr Peter J. Hotez - p. xix 10. Preface to the New Public Health, Fourth Edition, 2023—trial by fire and moving forward - p. xxiii 11. Preface to the New Public Health, Third Edition, 2014 - p. xxiii 12. Acknowledgments - p. xxix 13. List of Illustrations - p. xxix 14. List of Tables - p. xxix 15. Chapter 1: A history of public health - p. xxix 16. Chapter 2: Expanding the concept of public health - p. 51 17. Chapter 3: Measuring, monitoring, and evaluating the health of a population - p. 117 18. Chapter 4: Communicable diseases - p. 204 19. Chapter 5: Noncommunicable diseases and conditions - p. 342 20. Chapter 6: Family health and primary prevention - p. 448 21. Chapter 7: Special community health needs - p. 537 22. Chapter 8: Nutrition and food safety - p. 590 23. Chapter 9: Environmental and occupational health - p. 663 24. Chapter 10: Organization of public health systems - p. 745 25. Chapter 11: Measuring costs: the economics of health - p. 791 26. Chapter 12: Planning and managing health systems - p. 833 27. Chapter 13: National health systems - p. 871 28. Chapter 14: Human resources for health - p. 967 29. Chapter 15: Health technology, quality, law, and ethics - p. 1029 30. Chapter 16: Global health - p. 1088 31. Index - p. 1149
The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting.
Fully revised, the fourth edition of The New Public Health, Fourth Edition provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for graduate students and advance undergraduate students especially for courses in MPH, community health, preventive medicine, community health education programs, community health nursing programs. It is also a valuable resource for health professionals requiring an overview of public health.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Companion Website - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Authors' dedications - p. iii 7. In memoriam—dedication - p. vi 8. About the authors - p. vi 9. Foreword by Dr Peter J. Hotez - p. xix 10. Preface to the New Public Health, Fourth Edition, 2023—trial by fire and moving forward - p. xxiii 11. Preface to the New Public Health, Third Edition, 2014 - p. xxiii 12. Acknowledgments - p. xxix 13. List of Illustrations - p. xxix 14. List of Tables - p. xxix 15. Chapter 1: A history of public health - p. xxix 16. Chapter 2: Expanding the concept of public health - p. 51 17. Chapter 3: Measuring, monitoring, and evaluating the health of a population - p. 117 18. Chapter 4: Communicable diseases - p. 204 19. Chapter 5: Noncommunicable diseases and conditions - p. 342 20. Chapter 6: Family health and primary prevention - p. 448 21. Chapter 7: Special community health needs - p. 537 22. Chapter 8: Nutrition and food safety - p. 590 23. Chapter 9: Environmental and occupational health - p. 663 24. Chapter 10: Organization of public health systems - p. 745 25. Chapter 11: Measuring costs: the economics of health - p. 791 26. Chapter 12: Planning and managing health systems - p. 833 27. Chapter 13: National health systems - p. 871 28. Chapter 14: Human resources for health - p. 967 29. Chapter 15: Health technology, quality, law, and ethics - p. 1029 30. Chapter 16: Global health - p. 1088 31. Index - p. 1149
