The new public health / Fran Baum.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 670-737) and index.

Introduction -- 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. Ethics, politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health -- 5. Neo-liberalism, 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. Planning and evaluation of community-based health promotion -- Part 4: Health inequalities: profiles, patterns and explanations -- 11. Changing health and illness profiles in the twenty-first century: global and Australian perspectives -- 12. Patterns of health inequalities in Australia -- 13. The social determinants of health inequity -- 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: Creating healthy & equitable societies and environments -- 16. Healthy economic policies -- 17. Sustainable infrastructures for health, well-being and equity -- Part 7: Health promotion strategies for achieving healthy and equitable societies -- 18. Medical and health care service interventions -- 19. Changing behaviour: the limits of behaviourism and some alternatives 20. Participation and health promotion -- 21. Community development in health -- 22. Public health advocacy and activism -- 23. Healthy settings, cities, communities and organisations: strategies for the twenty-first century -- 24. Healthy public policy -- Part 8: Public health in the twenty-first century -- 25. Linking the local, national and global.

"This fourth edition of Fran Baum's The New Public Health is the most comprehensive book available on the new public health. It offers readers the opportunity to gain a sense of the scope of the new public health visions, and combines theoretical and practical material to assist with understanding the social and economic determinants of health. Based on the premise of previous editions that the new public health offers the chance of greatly improved equity by raising health world health standards, this new edition has been fully revised to reflect recent changes in the theory and practice of the new public health. The book is written primarily for public health and primary health care workers, health and environment planners and those people who are interested in creating communities that maximise health for people and the environment. Students undertaking health and public health degrees will also benefit from reading this comprehensive book for its currency, breadth of scope, and coverage of the most important health and environmental challenges facing humanity and health professionals from a range of practice fields."--Publisher description.