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• Cover image
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Online video—interviews
• Introduction
• Why is public health important?
• Defining and understanding ‘public health’
• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Reviewers
• Section 1 Definitions, determinants and challenges
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Defining health and public health
• Introduction
• Defining health and illness
• Defining ‘public health’: an art and a science?
• Public health vision and values
• Core functions of public health
• What do public health practitioners do?
• The World Health Organization agenda for public health
• Public health in the Australian context
• The future for public health?
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 2 Public health challenges
• Introduction
• Globalisation and health
• Public health challenges in Australia
• Grand challenges for public health: what is the future?
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful websites
• References
• Chapter 3 Epidemiology
• Introduction
• Defining epidemiology
• Objectives of epidemiological studies
• Measuring the occurrence of exposures of interest and of health outcomes
• Epidemiological study design
• Observational epidemiology
• Experimental epidemiology
• Measures of association
• Relative risk
• Odds ratios
• Sources of error in epidemiological studies
• Summing it up
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Acknowledgements
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 4 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Introduction
• Who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
• Government policy
• The National Aboriginal Health Strategy 1987
• Contemporary health policy
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today
• Community-controlled health service sector
• Research
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Section 2 Policy, ethics and evidence
• Introduction
• Chapter 5 Public health policy
• Introduction
• What is ‘policy’?
• Politics, social media and policy
• Values and policymaking
• Evidence in policy
• Types of public policy
• Health economics
• Health policy and health-care systems
• Management and reform of health care
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Endnote
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 6 Public health and social policy
• Introduction
• Health policy, social justice and risk
• History of Australian health policy—policy design and funding arrangements
• Disability and equity considerations
• Social determinants of health and environmental health discourses
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 7 Ethics and public health
• Introduction
• Normative ethics in public health
• The development of public health ethics
• Public health law and human rights
• Codes of ethics
• The application of ethics in public health practice
• Contemporary and future public health ethics
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• Acknowledgement
• References
• Chapter 8 Evidence-based practice
• Introduction
• The evolution: evidence-based medicine
• Defining ‘evidence, evidence-based practice’ and key concepts
• What is ‘evidence-based practice’?
• Key concepts of evidence-based practice
• Evidence and policy development
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Section 3 Public health strategies
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Chapter 9 Individual and interpersonal strategies for public health
• Introduction
• Defining ‘chronic condition’ and ‘chronic disease’
• Integrated approach to chronic disease care
• Chronic disease strategies across the continuum of care
• Defining ‘infectious disease’
• Models of infectious disease
• Infectious disease management
• Disease prevention
• Surveillance, early recognition and early intervention
• Infection control
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 10 Communities and organisational strategies
• Introduction
• What is a community?
• What are organisations and other societal contexts?
• Why work with communities, social structures and organisations?
• Social determinants of health
• What is community engagement, participation and empowerment?
• What is community capacity building?
• Community settings
• Working with communities
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 11 Enabling environments for health
• Introduction
• Development and definitions of environmental health
• Burden of environmental disease: opportunities for improvement
• Shifting the lens beyond the current burden of disease to future challenges
• Think global, act local
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Section 4 Contemporary issues
• Introduction
• Introduction
• Chapter 12 Refocusing public health
• Introduction
• Health education and health protection
• Evolution of, and evidence for, health promotion
• Levels of prevention in public health and health promotion
• Principles of health promotion
• Health promotion in practice: whole-of-system, collaborative approaches
• Health promotion in action: tobacco control
• Emerging challenges for health promotion
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 13 Contemporary practice
• Introduction
• Models of planning
• Evaluation methods
• Evaluation purpose
• Evaluation designs
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Endnote
• Useful Websites and Books
• References
• Chapter 14 Global health
• Introduction
• What is global health?
• Globalisation and health
• Global burden of diseases
• Migration and health
• Refugee and asylum seekers’ health
• Sustainable Development Goals and global health
• Global health and human rights
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 15 Disasters, emergencies and terrorism
• Introduction
• What are ‘disasters’?
• What causes disasters?
• What impacts do disasters have?
• Principles of disaster management
• Systems and structures
• Public health implications
• The role of the public health practitioner
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful Websites
• References
• Chapter 16 Concluding remarks
• Introduction
• Megatrends and their health impacts
• Public health in the 21st century
• A final word
• Review Questions
• Useful websites
• References
• Glossary
• Index