Lisa, Who is the author/your Dept Head? Thanks, Nancy -----Original Message----- From: Lisel O'Dwyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:03 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: New WHO Commissioner Dear Colleagues Further to the discussion on the Commissioners on the WHO Commission - my Head of Department is now also one of the Commissioners. Like Giovanni Berlinguer, she has also written a very relevant book that will inform the work of the Commission. A short description is below. Cheers Lisel O'Dwyer In the twenty-first century public health is under considerable threat. Environmental deterioration, terrorism and war, growing economic inequalities, declining social capital, neo-liberal economic policies, and rapid economic globalisation all pose threats to health. Public health is concerned with reducing these threats and finding healthy solutions to them. In the past public health was dominated by medical models of practice, however, now it is increasingly multi-disciplinary and focuses on the social, economic, and environmental bases of health. The comprehensive overview of contemporary public health practice in The New Public Health discusses the rapid changes that have affected public health in the early years of the new century. This second edition includes two new chapters: one on globalisation, which sets the new public health in a global context, and another dedicated to a settings approach to health promotion, including healthy cities. Also covered in these chapters are such topics as: * definitions and history * the political economy of public health * the full spectrum of public-health research methods * patterns of health, illness, and mortality * the health of the environment and its impact on human health, and * practical public-health strategies. This book is an invaluable resource for students of public health, primary healthcare workers, health and environmental planners, and everyone interested in creating healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. Contents: PART 1: APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH 1 Understanding health-definitions and perspectives 2 A history of public health 3 The new public health evolves PART 2: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC HEALTH 4 Politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health 5 Globalisation and health PART 3: RESEARCHING PUBLIC HEALTH 6 Research for a new public health 7 Epidemiology and public health 8 Survey research methods in public health 9 Qualitative research methods 10 Evaluation of community-based health promotion PART 4: PATTERNS OF HEALTH, ILLNESS, AND MORTALITY 11 Changing health and illness profiles in the twentieth century: global and Australian perspectives 12 Social patterning of health 13 Health: an unequally distributed resource PART 5: UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: GLOBAL AND AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES 14 Global physical threats to the environment and public health 15 Urbanisation, population, communities and environments: global trends PART 6: HEALTHY CHOICES: INDIVIDUALS, BEHAVIOUR, AND COMMUNITIES 16 Medical interventions 17 Behavioural health promotion and its limitations 18 Health development and empowerment: communities and individuals 19 Organisational development: towards health-promoting organisations 20 Public health policy PART 7: HEALTHY SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENTS 21 Healthy economic policies 22 Cities, suburbs, and communities: how might they change to support the environment and human health? 23 Towards a more equitable society 24 Healthy Cities, Local Agenda 21, and Healthy Settings 25 The politics, organisation, and sustainability of new public health initiatives PART 8: PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 26 Linking the local, national, and global Appendix 1: Public health keywords Appendix 2: Public health websites Acknowledgments References Index Oxford University Press 0195515528 - December 2002 - Paperback - 607 pages - A$79.95 / NZ$105.00 ------------------- Problems/Questions? 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