SCHNEIDER, MARY JANE
Preface
Prologue: Public Health In the News
About the Authors
PART I
WHAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH?
CHAPTER 1
Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention
CHAPTER 2
Why Is Public Health Controversial?
CHAPTER 3
Powers and Responsibilities of Government
PARTE II
ANALYTICAL METHODS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 4
Epidemiology: The Basic Science
of Public Health
CHAPTER 5
Epidemiologic Principies and Methods
CHAPTER 6
Problems and Limits of Epidemiology
CHAPTER 7
Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty
CHAPTER 8
The Role of Data in Public Health
PART III
BIOMEDICAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 9
The "Conquest" of Infectious Diseases
CHAPTER 10
The Resurgence of Infectious Diseases
CHAPTER 71
The Biomedical Basis of Chronic Diseases
CHAPTER 12 Cenetic Diseases and Other inborn Errors
PART IV
SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL FACTORS IN HEALTH
CHAPTER 13
Do People Choose Their Own Health?
CHAPTER 14
How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior
CHAPTER 15
Public Health Enemy Number One: Tobacco
CHAPTER 16
Public Health Enemy Number Twoand Growing: Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity
CHAPTER 17
Injuries Are Not Accidente
CHAPTER
18 Maternal and Child Health as a Social Problem
CHAPTER 19
Mental Health: Public Health Includes Healthy Minds
PART V
ENVIRONMENT ISSUES IN PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 20
A Clean Environment: The Basis of Public Health
CHAPTER 21
Clean Air: Is It Safe to Breathe?
CHAPTER 22
Clean Water: A Limited Resource
CHAPTER 23
Solid and Hazardous Wastes: What to Do with the Garbage?
CHAPTER 24 Safe Food and Drugs: An Ongoing
Regulatory Battle
CHAPTER 25
Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health issue
PART VI
MEDICAL CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 26
Is the Medical Care System a Public Health Issue?
CHAPTER 27
Why the U.S. Medical System Needs Reform
CHAPTER 28
Health Services Research:Finding What Works
CHAPTER 29
Public Health and the Aging Population
PART VII
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 30
Emergency Preparedness, Post-9/11
CHAPTER 31
Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: Achievements and Challenges
Glossary
Index
Bonus Material in the eBook: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemia
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