Policy and Strategy for Improving Health and Wellbeing [Paperback]

As health policy at a national level has ever increasing impact on local health services, it is essential that public health students understand how the development and implementation of policy and strategy provide the framework for improving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the delivery of healthcare.

The book is divided into two sections, with section one covering a strategic overview of national policies, and section two giving specific local implementation of policy examples to support section one. Case studies and examples will help the reader to understand the policy and strategy and to apply them to their local setting.The book will help the reader to understand the strategic context of policy, its development, implementation and impact on local services.Like: Relevance to current workforce needs. Dislike: nothing.A useful book with UK focus. Clear layout-thought provoking case studies and activities.The book is very well organised according to the competences for Public Health Practitioners which are at the core of the Nutrition Society competences for registered Public Health Nutritionist, then the book is very suitable to map the career framework. I personally found chapter 11 very suitable as an example for public health nutrition.
Just to clarify the programme in the menu doesn't fit into what I teach, we have a Masters in Human Nutrition with specialization in Public Health Nutrition.I think the linkage between the occupational standards and levels within the standards relaly assist the reader/practitioner. This is the only place I can find where this linkage is made between learning and examples of practice and the competency frameworks.
We will be using it on B.Sc. Env Health, B.Sc. Environmental and Public Health M.Sc. Environmental Health and M.Sc. Applied Public Health.
If I am honest some of the pagination set up ie boxed on more than one page make it morelóV