INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH - 6.ª ED. 2021

Offering a thorough, yet accessible overview of public health for readers new to the fieId, Introduction to Public Health, Sixth Edition provides a broad-reaching, practical framework for understanding the forces and organizations of public health today. Through
comprehensible, nontechnical language, this user-friendly text clearly explains the multi-disciplinary strategies and methods used for measuring, assessing, and promoting public health. Illustrative real-world examples along with the current political, economic, and cultural news of the day, engage readers in understanding the scope of today's public health problems and exploring possible solutions.

Preface
Prologue: Public Health In the News
About the Authors

PART I
WHAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH?

CHAPTER 1
Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention

CHAPTER 2
Why Is Public Health Controversial?

CHAPTER 3
Powers and Responsibilities of Government

PARTE II
ANALYTICAL METHODS OF PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 4
Epidemiology: The Basic Science
of Public Health

CHAPTER 5
Epidemiologic Principies and Methods

CHAPTER 6
Problems and Limits of Epidemiology

CHAPTER 7
Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty

CHAPTER 8
The Role of Data in Public Health

PART III
BIOMEDICAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 9
The "Conquest" of Infectious Diseases

CHAPTER 10
The Resurgence of Infectious Diseases

CHAPTER 71
The Biomedical Basis of Chronic Diseases

CHAPTER 12 Cenetic Diseases and Other inborn Errors

PART IV
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL FACTORS IN HEALTH

CHAPTER 13
Do People Choose Their Own Health?

CHAPTER 14
How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior

CHAPTER 15
Public Health Enemy Number One: Tobacco

CHAPTER 16
Public Health Enemy Number Two—and Growing: Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity

CHAPTER 17
Injuries Are Not Accidente

CHAPTER
18 Maternal and Child Health as a Social Problem

CHAPTER 19
Mental Health: Public Health Includes Healthy Minds

PART V
ENVIRONMENT ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 20
A Clean Environment: The Basis of Public Health

CHAPTER 21
Clean Air: Is It Safe to Breathe?

CHAPTER 22
Clean Water: A Limited Resource

CHAPTER 23
Solid and Hazardous Wastes: What to Do with the Garbage?

CHAPTER 24 Safe Food and Drugs: An Ongoing
Regulatory Battle

CHAPTER 25
Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health issue

PART VI
MEDICAL CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 26
Is the Medical Care System a Public Health Issue?

CHAPTER 27
Why the U.S. Medical System Needs Reform

CHAPTER 28
Health Services Research:Finding What Works

CHAPTER 29
Public Health and the Aging Population

PART VII
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

CHAPTER 30
Emergency Preparedness, Post-9/11

CHAPTER 31
Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: Achievements and Challenges

Glossary
Index
Bonus Material in the eBook: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemia