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 ofhealthy 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 includingthose 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, and community 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. INDICE: 1: John Walley: Public Health and the burden of disease 2: John Walley: Public Health interventions 3: John Wright: Epidemiology in practice 4: John Wright: Assessing health needs 5: John Walley: Choosing the best Public Health interventions 6: John Hubley, Sylvia Tilford and John Walley: Planning, implementing and managing interventions 7: Sophie Witter: Understanding and using health economics and financing 8: John Hubley and Sylvia Tilford: Health promotion 9: Andrew Green: Health policy and systems 10: John Walley and Sarah Escott: Developing a district health care service 11: John Walley and Nancy Gerein: Maternal neonatal and child health 12: Kathy Holloway: Essential drugs 13: Martin Schweiger: Communicable disease control principles and toolkit 14: John Walley, Roger Webber and Andrew Collins: Controlling major communicable diseases 15: Kamran Siddiqi: Non-communicable diseases 16: John Wright: Quality control, safety and better practice 17: John Wright and John Walley: Future trends in global public health
- ISBN: 978-0-19-923893-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 356
- Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés