Public Health Australia: An Introduction

James S.Lawson is Emeritus Professor and past Head of the School of Health Services Management at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has extensive experience as a clinician, particularly in the field of child health, and as a senior health service manager. He has been a hospital medical director, the head of a state health department and a director of a state health policy and planning division. He is an international health service consultant for the World Health Organisation and the Asian Development Bank. He has published widely. In 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia 2003 for his service to medical administration and to the community, particularly through programmes aimed at health improvement. Adrian E. Bauman is Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at the School of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Epidemiology Unit at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. He is also Research Director of the Australian Centre for Health Promotion and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health and Behavioral Sciences at Deakin University. He has written extensively for journals, monographs and contributed chapters on public health.

• Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations used in this book Introduction: The contributions of public health Section One The principles of public health Chapter 1 Public health definitions and values Chapter 2 The history of public health Chapter 3 Major public health problems Chapter 4 Public health research Chapter 5 Epidemiological methods: uses in public health Chapter 6 Epidemiology for planning health services Chapter 7 Determinants of health Chapter 8 Prevention Chapter 9 Developing public health priorities Chapter 10 Evidence-based public health Section Two Risk factors for health and disease Chapter 11 Behavioural risk factors Chapter 12 Health and socioeconomic status Chapter 13 Health and the physical environment Chapter 14 Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use Chapter 15 Nutrition and physical activity Section Three The causes of most Australian deaths Chapter 16 Cardiovascular diseases Chapter 17 Cancer Chapter 18 Trauma Section Four Conditions responsible for widespread acute and chronic disability Chapter 19 Mental ill health Chapter 20 Communicable disease and sexually transmitted infections Chapter 21 Respiratory diseases Chapter 22 Musculoskeletal disorders, and arthritis Chapter 23 Diabetes Chapter 24 Dental health, eye health and other problems of public health importance Section Five The health problems affecting special populations Chapter 25 Adolescent health, maternal and child health, and health of the aged Chapter 26 Aboriginal health Chapter 27 Migrant health Chapter 28 Occupational health Conclusion Index