Preamble: The release of "Global Public Health - Ecological Foundations", published byOxford University Press (New York), is imminent. This edition of PacificSci Global Perspectives offers a preview of this important new work by Franklin White, Lorann Stallones and John M Last.
This new book is written for students of public health, development studies and environmental studies. It should also interest many other people in the health sciences who are seeking a broader perspective on the global health and related environmental challenges that face us and our planet.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Amid ongoing shifts in the world economic and political order, the promise for future public health is tenuous. Will today's economic systems sustain tomorrow's health? Will future generations inherit fair access to health and health care?
An important hope for the health of future generations is the establishment of a well-grounded, global public health system. Global Public Health: Ecological Foundations addresses both the challenges and cooperative solutions of contemporary public health, within a framework of social justice, environmental sustainability, and global cooperation.
With an emphasis on ecological foundations, this book approaches public health principles-history, foundations, topics, and applications-with a community-oriented perspective. By achieving global reach through cooperative, community-based interventions, this text illustrates that the practical application of public health principles can help maintain the health of the world's people.
Blending established wisdom with new perspectives, Global Public Health will stimulate better understanding of how the different streams of public health can work more synergistically to promote global health equity. It is a foundation for future public health measures to be built and to succeed.
Features
- Ecological approach to public health
- Full global scope, including developing countries
- Describes integrative approaches that are locally applicable
- Community-centric approach to public health
1. History, Aims and Methods of Public Health
2. Scientific Basis of Public Health
3. Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Public Health
4. Community Foundations of Public Health
5. Health of Populations: health situation analysis & public health surveillance
6. An Integrated Approach to Disease Prevention and Control
7. Air, Water and Food Safety and Security
8. Public Health Organization and Function in Evolving Health Systems
9. Global Ecology and Emerging Health Challenges
Epilogue
Reviews
"Global Public Health: Ecological Foundations is stunning proof of the power of global thought and focused scholarship. It is simultaneously ambitious in scope and simple in approach, and the result is the definitive textbook for anyone studying public health at any level. I warmed to this book from the first page and could not put it down."
Professor of Public Health Leadership, Epidemiology, and Health Policy
Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina
"People across the globe are more connected now than ever before. This important new work by White, Stallones, and Last clearly articulates the power of this connectedness and the potential to improve health across the levels of an ecological framework. The authors effectively communicate the core principles of public health and relate these to a variety of critical global health issues."
Professor and co-director, Prevention Research Center in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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About the Author(s)
Franklin White, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC, FFPH, is President of Pacific Health & Development Sciences, Inc., in Victoria, British Columbia, and Adjunct Professor at University of Victoria and Dalhousie University.
Lorann Stallones, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Psychology and Director, Graduate Degree Program in Public Health at Colorado State University, Colorado School of Public Health.
John M. Last, MD, DPH, FRACP, FRCPC, FFPH, FACPM is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa; he is the author of Public Health and Human Ecology and A Dictionary of Public Health, and former editor in chief of Public Health and Preventive Medicine ("Maxcy-Rosenau-Last"), and A Dictionary of Epidemiology .
Acknowledgement: This information has been copied from the Oxford University Press (New York) site: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Medicine/EpidemiologyBiostatistics/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780199751907 Accessed January 14, 2013.
