Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Essential Public Health

Theory and Practice

Av Kirsteen Watson, Jan Yates, Stephen Gillam

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How can society most effectively prevent disease and promote health and wellbeing? That is the challenge addressed by this textbook. This new edition equips readers with a toolkit of key public health skills and approaches to improve health and wellbeing for different populations. It considers how to tackle perennial public health challenges, effectively address the wider determinants of health, navigate health systems and engage in partnership working. Fully updated with contemporary examples, this new edition includes new content on sustainability and climate change, global health, leadership and management, mechanisms for measuring health and healthcare, addressing inequalities and promoting inclusivity. Essential reading for all those training and working in healthcare, social care and related disciplines, this book also shines a light on the work undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic by those working in public health. Online material includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions to test understanding and aid learning.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2023-12-14
Mått: 189 x 246 x 18 mm
Vikt: 810 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 360
Upplaga: 3
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009378291

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Dr Kirsteen Watson is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine who trained for several years in Paediatrics in New Zealand and Scotland, before gaining an MPH from Harvard. She is currently a Public Health Training Programme Director in the East of England, with service experience of innovative commissioning and service development for Older People, and for Children and families. She has a Masters degree in Medical Education and teaches Public Health, Leadership and Management in health, and Medical Education at the University of Cambridge. Jan Yates is Regional Head of Screening Quality Assurance, NHS England and Jan is a Consultant in Public Health and independent Consultant at Bernache Leadership Ltd where she undertakes private consulting and leadership courses for postgraduate trainee doctors and other managers. Professor Stephen Gillam, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPH began his career running mother child health programmes for the Save the Children Fund. He worked as a consultant in public health before joining the King's Fund where he was Director of Primary Care. Latterly, he directed public health teaching at the Cambridge Clinical School combined with urban general practice. He worked as a specialist adviser to NICE and the CQC. Stephen continues part-time clinical work.

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