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Systematic reviews of best evidence health interventions
Global perspective, with a focus on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health policy interventions
Provides a broad overview of the most important public health problems
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems, conducting health impact assessments, and working with decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health, and improving quality of life, both locally and globally.
A sampling of the topics covered:
· Health trends of communicable diseases.
· Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention.
· Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution.
· Public health gerontology and active aging.
· Migrant and ethnic minority health.
· Public health genomics.
A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential future.
Editors and Affiliations
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Hygiene Faculty of Medicine, Rome, Italy
Stefania Boccia
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Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Paolo Villari
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Institute of Hygiene,Faculty of Medicine Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
Walter Ricciardi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health
Editors: Stefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13620-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13619-6Published: 27 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37482-6Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13620-2Published: 13 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Social Policy