Public Health. An action guide to improving health locally and globally Third Edition

It is essential to build effective health systems to deliver universal health coverage, especially for low-middle income countries. This action guide presents key practical actions within primary health care that contribute to promote public and community health, prevent disease, improve living conditions, water, sanitation, nutrition, immunization, and encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Written with a particular focus on low-middle income countries, it explains key approaches and provides practical methods to developing effective health services and preventive programmes, including for hospitals, health centres, and community services, and particularly for mother, neonatal, and child health. It also explores the operational, gender, social, and economic influences on health and how to choose the best intervention strategies.

This third edition has been thoroughly updated on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including new and revised chapters on health systems based on the World Health Organization (WHO) ‘building blocks’. It contains real examples, illustrations, and case histories to bring the subject to life for the reader. The book covers key services and programmes including those for tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, and the integrated management of childhood and adult diseases.

Throughout the book the editors ensure that key public health skills are described clearly and comprehensively, such as epidemiology, managing medicines, disease control, health financing, and implementing health services and programmes. This book ensures this valuable information is easily accessible for all doctors, community nurses, managers, and other professionals in public health, whether in training or in practice.

• Contains real examples, illustrations and case histories to bring this important subject to life for the reader
• An essential action guide to improving public/community health, with practical methods for assessing health needs and working with communities to develop health services
• Clear language is used throughout the book to describe key public health skills to all readers whether in training or in practice as health officers and mangers of health services and programmes
• Written by experts with many years field experience
• The book covers the essential health services and programmes including those for tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases and the integrated management of childhood and adult diseases.

New to this Edition:

• This third edition has been thoroughly updated on communicable and noncommunicable diseases
• Includes new and revised chapters on health systems based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) ‘building blocks’

CONTENTS

1:Public Health and the burden of disease by John Walley
2:Public health interventions by John Walley
3:Epidemiology in practice by John Wright
4:Assessing health needs by John Wright
5:Choosing the best Public Health interventions by John Walley
6:Health Economics by Sophie Witter
7:Leadership, governance and policy by Ian Smith
8:Health financing by Sophie Witter
9:Health workforce by Silvia Tilford and John Walley
10:Managing medicines by Kathy Holloway
11:Health promotion by Silvia Tilford, Rebecca King and John Hubley
12:Ensuring quality, safety and better practice by Ian Smith
13:Developing a district health system by John Walley
14:Planning and managing interventions by Silvia Tilford and John Walley
15:Non-communicable diseases by John Walley & Andy Snell
16:Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health by John Walley and Laura French
17:Communicable disease control principles by Laura French, Martin Schweiger and John Walley
18:Controlling major communicable diseases by John Walley & Roger Webber