Public Health
An action guide to improving health locally and globally
3rd Edition
Published on 2. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
472 pages
978-0-19-885518-7 (ISBN)
Description
It is essential to build effective health systems to deliver universal health coverage, especially for low-middle income countries. This action guide presents key practical actions within primary health care that contribute to promote public and community health, prevent disease, improve living conditions, water, sanitation, nutrition, immunization, and encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Written with a particular focus on low-middle income countries, it explains key approaches and provides practical methods to developing effective health services and preventive programmes, including for hospitals, health centres, and community services, and particularly for mother, neonatal, and child health. It also explores the operational, gender, social, and economic influences on health and how to choose the best intervention strategies.
This third edition has been thoroughly updated on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including new and revised chapters on health systems based on the World Health Organization (WHO) 'building blocks'. It contains real examples, illustrations, and case histories to bring the subject to life for the reader. The book covers key services and programmes including those for tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, and the integrated management of childhood and adult diseases.
Throughout the book the editors ensure that key public health skills are described clearly and comprehensively, such as epidemiology, managing medicines, disease control, health financing, and implementing health services and programmes. This book ensures this valuable information is easily accessible for all doctors, community nurses, managers, and other professionals in public health, whether in training or in practice.
This third edition has been thoroughly updated on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including new and revised chapters on health systems based on the World Health Organization (WHO) 'building blocks'. It contains real examples, illustrations, and case histories to bring the subject to life for the reader. The book covers key services and programmes including those for tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, and the integrated management of childhood and adult diseases.
Throughout the book the editors ensure that key public health skills are described clearly and comprehensively, such as epidemiology, managing medicines, disease control, health financing, and implementing health services and programmes. This book ensures this valuable information is easily accessible for all doctors, community nurses, managers, and other professionals in public health, whether in training or in practice.
Reviews / Votes
'The authors tackle the daunting field of public health with verve and intelligence... a very practical and readable work... a reliable and realistic introduction to the subject of helping to improve the health of all our communities.' * Tropical Doctor *More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
814 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-885518-7 (9780198855187)
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John Walley lived and worked in Africa and Asia, with international agencies and ministries of health: in Vietnam with Swedish aid; in Switzerland, Malawi and Uganda with the World Health Organisation; in Ethiopia at a regional health office, and in Zimbabwe as a provincial medical officer of health. I've been responsible for maternal and child health, TB and HIV and non-communicable diseases, while strengthening systems and service delivery. Since 1993, I've been a Clinical Professor in International Public Health at the Nuffield Centre for Health, LIHS, Medical School, Leeds, UK, including leading the GBP20 million COMDIS health service delivery research programme in 7 African and Asian countries over 12 years - leading to policy change and national scale improvement in the quality of health services.
John Wright is a doctor and epidemiologist with a background in hospital medicine and public health in the UK and in southern Africa. He established and leads the Bradford Institute for Health Research and Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, working to speed-up the translation of medical research into practice and policy. He is Visiting Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Universities of York, Leeds and Bradford and has authored of over 500 papers and three textbooks and been awarded over GBP150 million in research award funding, GBP50 million as chief investigator.
Ian Smith was senior advisor to the World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, having served as Executive Director and Advisor to the two previous Director-Generals, Dr Margaret Chan and Dr Lee Jong-wook. Prior to joining WHO, Ian and his wife worked in Nepal for 16 years as medical missionaries, in a remote rural hospital, community health project, district TB control project, and the National Tuberculosis Programme. Ian qualified from Leeds Medical School, holds a Masters of Public Health (with distinction), was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, and is an honorary assistant professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong.
John Wright is a doctor and epidemiologist with a background in hospital medicine and public health in the UK and in southern Africa. He established and leads the Bradford Institute for Health Research and Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, working to speed-up the translation of medical research into practice and policy. He is Visiting Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Universities of York, Leeds and Bradford and has authored of over 500 papers and three textbooks and been awarded over GBP150 million in research award funding, GBP50 million as chief investigator.
Ian Smith was senior advisor to the World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, having served as Executive Director and Advisor to the two previous Director-Generals, Dr Margaret Chan and Dr Lee Jong-wook. Prior to joining WHO, Ian and his wife worked in Nepal for 16 years as medical missionaries, in a remote rural hospital, community health project, district TB control project, and the National Tuberculosis Programme. Ian qualified from Leeds Medical School, holds a Masters of Public Health (with distinction), was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, and is an honorary assistant professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong.
Editor
Clinical Professor of International Public HealthClinical Professor of International Public Health, University of Leeds, LIHS, Nuffield, Centre for International Health, Leeds, UK
DirectorDirector, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford, UK
Former Executive Director; Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Medicine; Honorary Assistant ProfessorFormer Executive Director; Visiting Associate Professor in the School of Medicine; Honorary Assistant Professor, Office of the Director General, World Health Organization, Geneva; Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, UK; School of Public Health, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Content
1: Public Health and the burden of disease by John Walley
2: Public health interventions by John Walley
3: Epidemiology in practice by John Wright
4: Assessing health needs by John Wright
5: Choosing the best Public Health interventions by John Walley
6: Health Economics by Sophie Witter
7: Leadership, governance and policy by Ian Smith
8: Health financing by Sophie Witter
9: Health workforce by Silvia Tilford and John Walley
10: Managing medicines by Kathy Holloway
11: Health promotion by Silvia Tilford, Rebecca King and John Hubley
12: Ensuring quality, safety and better practice by Ian Smith
13: Developing a district health system by John Walley
14: Planning and managing interventions by Silvia Tilford and John Walley
15: Non-communicable diseases by John Walley & Andy Snell
16: Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health by John Walley and Laura French
17: Communicable disease control principles by Laura French, Martin Schweiger and John Walley
18: Controlling major communicable diseases by John Walley & Roger Webber
2: Public health interventions by John Walley
3: Epidemiology in practice by John Wright
4: Assessing health needs by John Wright
5: Choosing the best Public Health interventions by John Walley
6: Health Economics by Sophie Witter
7: Leadership, governance and policy by Ian Smith
8: Health financing by Sophie Witter
9: Health workforce by Silvia Tilford and John Walley
10: Managing medicines by Kathy Holloway
11: Health promotion by Silvia Tilford, Rebecca King and John Hubley
12: Ensuring quality, safety and better practice by Ian Smith
13: Developing a district health system by John Walley
14: Planning and managing interventions by Silvia Tilford and John Walley
15: Non-communicable diseases by John Walley & Andy Snell
16: Maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health by John Walley and Laura French
17: Communicable disease control principles by Laura French, Martin Schweiger and John Walley
18: Controlling major communicable diseases by John Walley & Roger Webber