Introduction 1. Advocacy 2. Behaviour Change 3. Causality 4. Climate Change and Sustainable Development 5. Community 6. Demography 7. Deprivation and Poverty 8. Determinants of Health 9. Economic and Human Development 10. Education 11. Epidemiology 12. Ethics 13. Evaluation 14. Evidence 15. Global health and Globalization 16. Health 17. Health Education 18. Health Literacy 19. Health Needs 20. Health Promotion and the New Public Health 21. Inequalities in Health 22. Lifecourse 23. Lifestyle 24. Medicine 25. Official Statistics 26. Partnerships and Partnership Working 27. Place 28. Policy 29. Prevention 30. Primary Health Care 31. Risk 32. Screening 33. Settings 34. Social Capital 35. Social Marketing 36. Socialization 37. The Welfare State
Biography
Miranda Thurston is Professor of Public Health at Hedmark University College, Norway.
'Miranda Thurston’s book is a series of introductory essays exploring key themes and concepts in public health. It is arranged in alphabetical order (from ‘Advocacy’ to ‘The welfare state’) for easy reference and each of the themes are highlighted when mentioned in other parts of the book for easy cross-reference. This work is therefore a mini encyclopaedia of public health, but such a description does not diminish its use in any way, as all the concepts, facts and research are incredibly well referenced for further indepth reading.' – Ian Brown, Occupational Medicine Volume 65 Issue 1 January 2015
‘The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating. Miranda Thurston has succeeded in producing something which strikes the right note. It is wide ranging in scope without being superficial and is accessible to the young learner. It is a sort of 'Wiki'. Just what the aspiring public health practitioner ordered.’ – Professor John R. Ashton C.B.E., President of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
