James Smith, Sally Fawkes, Vivian Lin

Public Health Practice in Australia

The Organised Effort

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Produktbeschreibung

The new edition of Public Health Practice in Australia has been written as the impact and effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are starting to be fully understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041008439
• ISBN-10: 1041008430
• Artikelnr.: 72804031

Autorenporträt

Vivian Lin is Executive Associate Dean at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, and Professor of Public Health Practice at the University of Hong Kong, as well as Adjunct Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University. She was Director of Health Systems at the Western Pacific Regional Office of the World Health Organization from 2013-2018, and Chair of Public Health at La Trobe between 2000-2013. James Smith has been a community-based public health practitioner and risk management consultant for over 40 years. This has involved him working actively alongside and supporting practitioners in health protection and applied environmental health service delivery and planning, and in public health emergency management preparedness and response planning. He is a Professor, Environmental Health (Practice) in the College of Science & Engineering, Flinders University where he teaches in the post-graduate environmental health program and researches public health regulatory policy, local-state public health policy implementation, and environmental health practice. Sally Fawkes is an Independent Consultant and Researcher in fields spanning foresight and futures thinking, urban health governance and health promoting health systems. She has been a technical advisor/ consultant to WHO since 1995. She held public health academic leadership roles at La Trobe University from 2010-2021 before taking up a Senior Adjunct position. Governance appointments have included Deputy Chair, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Board and Vice Chair, International Network of Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services Governance Board.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I Background: The basics. 1.What is public health?
Definitions & applications. 2.The historical development of public health:
Landmarks in the field. 3.Health and wellbeing in Australia today: Health
status, the healthcare system and the place of public health. Part II
Conceptual and analytical toolkit: key concepts and frameworks.
4.Distribution of health and its determinants: Changing concepts and
models. 5.Explaining differences and determinants: environment, society and
behaviour. 6.Public health interventions: From quarantine to the rise of
'evidence-based practice'. 7.Health systems and policy: Making sense of the
complex mosaic. 8.Ethical foundations for public health practice. Part III
Public health infrastructure: building blocks and the system of delivery.
9.Who delivers public health? Contemporary policies and players.
10.Legislative authority for public health action: How governments and
societal expectations intersect. 11.Public health intelligence: Its
production and use for action. 12.Human and financial resources: Essential
foundations for action. Part IV Public health action: Key interventions
from past to present. 13.Disease control: from surveillance to
interventions. 14.Health protection: From the physical environment to
ecological health. 15.Preventive services: Linking public health and
personal health care. 16.Health promotion: From lifestyles to societal,
commercial and environmental determinants of health. 17.Health maintenance
and improvement for vulnerable populations: From needs to rights. Part V
Public health challenges: Emerging issues and responses18.Public health
governance: Politics of participation, decision-making and accountability.
19.Futures of public health: Where to now for the organised effort?