Description
- Part I What Is Public Health?
- Chapter 1 Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention
- Chapter 2 Why Is Public Health Controversial?
- Chapter 3 Powers and Responsibilities of Government
- Part II Analytical Methods of Public Health
- Chapter 4 Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
- Chapter 5 Epidemiologic Principles and Methods
- Chapter 6 Problems and Limits of Epidemiology
- Chapter 7 Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty
- Chapter 8 The Role of Data in Public Health
- Part III Biomedical Basis of Public Health
- Chapter 9 The “Conquest” of Infectious Diseases
- Chapter 10 The Resurgence of Infectious Diseases
- Chapter 11 The Biomedical Basis of Chronic Diseases
- Chapter 12 Genetic Diseases and Other Inborn Errors
- Part IV Social and Behavioral Factors in Health
- Chapter 13 Do People Choose Their Own Health?
- Chapter 14 How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior
- Chapter 15 Public Health Enemy Number One: Tobacco
- Chapter 16 Public Health Enemy Number Two and Growing: Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity
- Chapter 17 Injuries Are Not Accidents
- Chapter 18 Maternal and Child Health as a Social Problem
- Chapter 19 Mental Health: Public Health Includes Healthy Minds
- Part V Environmental Issues in Public Health
- Chapter 20 A Clean Environment: The Basis of Public Health
- Chapter 21 Clean Air: Is It Safe to Breathe?
- Chapter 22 Clean Water: A Limited Resource
- Chapter 23 Solid and Hazardous Wastes: What to Do with the Garbage?
- Chapter 24 Safe Food and Drugs: An Ongoing Regulatory Battle
- Chapter 25 Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health Issue
- Part VI Medical Care and Public Health
- Chapter 26 Is the Medical Care System a Public Health Issue?
- Chapter 27 Why the U.S. Medical System Needs Reform
- Chapter 28 Health Services Research: Finding What Works
- Chapter 29 Public Health and the Aging Population
- Part VIII The Future of Public Health
- Chapter 30 Emergency Preparedness, Post-9/11
- Chapter 31 Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: Achievements and Challenges
