Public Health Practice in Australia: The Organised Effort [Hardcover]

The new edition of Public Health Practice in Australia has been written as the impact and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are starting to be fully understood.

Introduction.  Part I Background: The basics.  1.What is public health? Definitions and applications.  2.The historical development of public health: Landmarks in the field.  3.Health and wellbeing in Australia today: Health status, the healthcare system, and the place of public health.  Part II Conceptual and analytical toolkit: key concepts and frameworks.  4.Distribution of health and its determinants: Changing concepts and models.  5.Explaining differences and determinants: environment, society, and behaviour.  6.Public health interventions: From quarantine to the rise of evidence-based practice.  7.Health systems and policy: Making sense of the complex mosaic.  8.Ethical foundations for public health practice.  Part III Public health infrastructure: building blocks and the system of delivery.  9.Who delivers public health? Contemporary policies and players.  10.Legislative authority for public health action: How governments and societal expectations intersect.  11.Public health intelligence: Its production and use for action.  12.Human and financial resources: Essential foundations for action.  Part IV Public health action: Key interventions from past to present.  13.Disease control: from surveillance to interventions.  14.Health protection: From the physical environment to ecological health.  15.Preventive services: Linking public health and personal health care.  16.Health promotion: From lifestyles to societal, commercial, and environmental determinants of health.  17.Health maintenance and improvement for vulnerl#g