The New Public Health
by Baum, FranEdition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-02-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Fran Baum, Professor and Director, Southgate Institute, Flinders University
Fran Baum is a public health researcher, teacher and advocate. She is the Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Director of the Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Approaches to Public Health
1. Understanding Health - Definitions and Perspectives
2. A History of Public Health
3. The New Public Health Evolves
Part 2: Political Economy of Public Health
4. Ethics, Politics and Ideologies: The Invisible Hands of Public Health
5. Neo-liberalism, Globalisation and Health
Part 3: Researching Public Health
6. Research for a New Public Health
7. Epidemiology and Public Health
8. Survey Research Methods in Public Health
9. Qualitative Research Methods
10. Planning and Evaluation of Community-based Health Promotion
Part 4: Health Inequalities: Profiles, Patterns and Explanations
11. Changing Health and Illness Profiles in the Twenty-first Century: Global and Australian Perspectives
12. Patterns of Health Inequalities in Australia
13. The Social Determinants of Health Inequity
Part 5: Unhealthy Environments: Global and Australian Perspectives
14. Global Physical Threats to the Environment and Public Health
15. Urbanisation, Population, Communities and Environments: Global Trends
Part 6: Creating Healthy & Equitable Societies and Environments
16. Healthy Economic Policies
17. Sustainable Infrastructures for Health, Well-being and Equity
Part 7: Health Promotion Strategies for Achieving Healthy and Equitable Societies
18. Medical and Health Care Service Interventions
19. Changing Behaviour: the limits of behaviourism and some alternatives
20. Participation and Health Promotion
21. Community Development in Health
22. Public health Advocacy and Activism *NEW*
23. Healthy Settings, Cities, Communities and Organisations: Strategies for the Twenty-first century
24. Healthy Public Policy
Part 8: Public Health in the Twenty-first Century
25. Linking the Local, National and Global
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