Public Health Practice in Australia
The Organised Effort
3rd Edition
Published on 28. July 2025
648 pages
978-1-040-37015-5 (ISBN)
Description
The third 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.
The book takes a systems approach to public health, examining the impact of historical, social, economic, environmental, and political factors on the health of individuals, communities, and populations. Linking theoretical issues to contemporary practice, it highlights common threads that underlie seemingly disparate activities, ideas, and entities that comprise the organised effort of public health practice. As well as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the health inequalities that it has highlighted, the new edition also emphasizes the importance of ecological health and the impact of climate change on public health.
Timely and comprehensive, and including case studies throughout to bring key concepts to life, this is an invaluable resource for students and professionals across the health sciences, including public health, medicine, environmental health, health promotion, health information management, and health administration.
The book takes a systems approach to public health, examining the impact of historical, social, economic, environmental, and political factors on the health of individuals, communities, and populations. Linking theoretical issues to contemporary practice, it highlights common threads that underlie seemingly disparate activities, ideas, and entities that comprise the organised effort of public health practice. As well as the COVID-19 pandemic, and the health inequalities that it has highlighted, the new edition also emphasizes the importance of ecological health and the impact of climate change on public health.
Timely and comprehensive, and including case studies throughout to bring key concepts to life, this is an invaluable resource for students and professionals across the health sciences, including public health, medicine, environmental health, health promotion, health information management, and health administration.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
62 Tables, black and white; 37 Halftones, black and white; 37 Illustrations, black and white
File size
17,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-37015-5 (9781040370155)
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Persons
Vivian Lin is Adjunct Professor of Public Health at La Trobe University and Honorary Professor at LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong (HKU). She was Executive Associate Dean and Professor of Public Health at HKU from 2019 to 2024, Director of Health Systems at the Regional Office for the Western Pacific of the World Health Organization from 2013 to 2018, and previously Chair of Public Health at La Trobe.
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 Professor, Environmental Health (Practice) in the College of Science & Engineering, Flinders University, where he teaches in the postgraduate environmental health program and researches public health regulatory policy, local state public health policy implementation, and environmental health practice.
Sally Fawkes is Independent Consultant and Researcher in public health fields spanning foresight/futures studies, urban health and healthy cities, health promoting, health systems and services, and leadership development. She has been a technical advisor/consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1995. She held academic leadership and teaching roles at La Trobe University from 2010 to 2021 before taking up a Adjunct Senior Academic role. 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.
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 Professor, Environmental Health (Practice) in the College of Science & Engineering, Flinders University, where he teaches in the postgraduate environmental health program and researches public health regulatory policy, local state public health policy implementation, and environmental health practice.
Sally Fawkes is Independent Consultant and Researcher in public health fields spanning foresight/futures studies, urban health and healthy cities, health promoting, health systems and services, and leadership development. She has been a technical advisor/consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1995. She held academic leadership and teaching roles at La Trobe University from 2010 to 2021 before taking up a Adjunct Senior Academic role. 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.
Content
Introduction. Part I Background: The basics. 1.What is public health? Definitions and 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?
