
The New Public Health
- 4th Edition - January 21, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova, Matan J. Cohen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 9 5 7 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 4 3 2 - 4
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Public Health**The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into seven langu… Read more

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The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into seven languages, this work distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting.
Fully revised, the Fourth Edition of The New Public Health provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for graduate students and advance undergraduate students especially for courses in MPH, community health, preventive medicine, community health education programs, community health nursing programs. It is also a valuable resource for health professionals requiring an overview of public health.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the field, illustrated with real-life specific examples
- Updated with new case studies and examples from current public health environment in North American and European regions
- Includes detailed Companion website (https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-companion/9780128229576) featuring case studies, image bank, online chapters, and video as well as an Instructors' guide
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Companion Website
- Copyright
- Authors' dedications
- In memoriam—dedication
- About the authors
- Foreword by Dr Peter J. Hotez
- Preface to the New Public Health, Fourth Edition, 2023—trial by fire and moving forward
- Preface to the New Public Health, Third Edition, 2014
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. A history of public health
- Introduction
- Prehistoric societies
- The ancient world
- The early medieval period (CE 5th to 10th centuries)
- The late medieval period (11th to 15th centuries)
- The Renaissance (1400 to 1600s)
- Enlightenment, science, and revolution (1600 to 1800s)
- Social reform and the sanitary movement (1830–75)
- Social security
- Hospital reform
- The bacteriological revolution
- Mental illness and mental health
- Maternal and child health
- Nutrition in public health
- Military medicine
- Globalization of health
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Expanding the concept of public health
- Introduction
- Concepts of public health
- Evolution of public health
- Health and disease
- The natural history of disease
- Society and health
- Modes of prevention
- Demographic and epidemiological transition
- Interdependence of health services
- Defining public health
- The World Health Organization’s definition of health
- Selective primary care
- The risk approach
- The case for action
- Political economy and health
- Social, behavioral, and political sciences
- Health and development
- Health systems: the case for reform
- Advocacy and consumerism
- Professional advocacy and resistance
- Consumerism
- The health field concept
- The value of medical care in public health
- Health targets
- Individual and community participation in health
- Human ecology and health promotion
- Defining public health standards
- Integrative approaches to public health
- Achievements of public health in the 20th century
- Public health in the 21st century
- Universal health coverage
- One Health
- The New Public Health
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 3. Measuring, monitoring, and evaluating the health of a population
- Introduction
- Demography
- Epidemiology
- Definitions and methods of epidemiology
- Sentinel events
- Years of potential life lost
- Measurement
- Standardization of rates
- Potential measurement errors
- Screening for disease
- Epidemiological studies
- Analytical studies
- Ecological studies
- Cross-sectional or prevalence studies
- Case–control studies
- Cohort studies
- Establishing causal relationships
- Disease notification
- Special registries and reporting systems
- Mortality data reporting
- Disease classification
- Hospital discharge information
- Health information systems (informatics)
- WHO European Health for All database
- Surveillance, reporting, and publication
- Assessing individual health
- Assessing population health
- Health care financing and organization
- From health information to knowledge and policy
- Epidemiological ethics
- Information for health planning and management
- Evidence-based public health
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Communicable diseases
- Introduction
- Public health and the control of communicable diseases
- The nature of communicable diseases
- Host–agent–environment triad
- Classifications of communicable diseases
- Modes of disease transmission
- Immunity
- Surveillance
- Health care-associated infections
- Endemic and epidemic diseases
- Control of communicable diseases
- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Connections between infectious and chronic diseases
- Control, elimination, and eradication of infectious diseases
- Inequalities in communicable disease control
- Communicable disease control in the New Public Health
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 5. Noncommunicable diseases and conditions
- Introduction
- The rise and spread of chronic disease
- Environment and lifestyle
- Global burden of mortality
- Risk factors, health promotion, and prevention of noncommunicable diseases
- The social and economic burden of noncommunicable diseases
- Health promotion and disease prevention
- Hypertension and cardiovascular diseases
- Diabetes mellitus
- Cancer
- Trauma, violence, and injury
- Chronic lung disease
- End-stage renal disease
- Disabling conditions
- Neurological disorders
- Visual disorders
- Hearing disorders
- Noncommunicable diseases and the New Public Health
- Integrated noncommunicable disease prevention and control
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 6. Family health and primary prevention
- Introduction
- The family unit
- Preventive health through life stages
- The family physician cannot do all this alone
- Maternal health
- Pregnancy care
- Labor and delivery
- Genetic and birth disorders
- Infant and child health
- Infant care and feeding
- Anticipatory counseling
- Documentation, records, and monitoring
- Preschool children (age 1–5years)
- School and adolescent health
- Adult health
- Women's health
- Men's health
- Older adult health
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 7. Special community health needs
- Introduction
- Mental health
- Oral health
- Physical disability and rehabilitation
- Special group health needs
- Military medicine
- Health in disasters
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 8. Nutrition and food safety
- Introduction
- Development of nutrition in public health
- Nutrition in a global context
- Nutrition and infection
- Functions of food
- Human nutritional requirements
- Growth
- Measuring body mass
- Recommended dietary intakes
- Disorders of undernutrition
- Diseases of overnutrition
- Nutrition in pregnancy and lactation
- Promoting healthy diets and healthy lifestyles
- Dietary guidelines
- Vitamin and mineral enrichment of basic foods
- Genetically modified foods
- Food and nutrition policy
- US department of agriculture federal nutrition assistance programs
- Nutrition monitoring and evaluation
- Global nutrition targets for 2030
- Food quality and safety
- Nutrition and the new public health
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 9. Environmental and occupational health
- Environmental health
- Occupational health
- Supplementary material
- Chapter 10. Organization of public health systems
- Introduction
- Government and health of the nation
- Professional functions of public health
- Nongovernmental roles in health
- Disasters and public health preparedness
- Medical practice and public health
- Incentives and regulation
- National government public health services
- State government public health services
- Local health authorities
- Accreditation of public health departments
- Monitoring health status
- National health targets
- Universal health coverage and the New Public Health
- Hospitals in the New Public Health
- Innovations in health care delivery
- The uninsured as a public health challenge
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 11. Measuring costs: the economics of health
- Introduction
- Economic issues in health systems
- Basic concepts of health economics
- Supply, need, demand, and utilization of health services
- Competition in health care
- Elasticity of demand
- Measuring costs
- Economic measures of health status
- Cost–benefit analysis
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Basic assessment scheme for intervention costs and consequences
- The value of human life
- Health financing: the macroeconomic level
- Costs of illness
- Medical and hospital care: microeconomics
- Health maintenance and managed care organizations
- District health systems
- Paying for hospital care
- Capital costs
- Hospital supply, utilization, and costs
- Modified market forces
- Economics of prevention
- Game theory, economics, and health policy
- Economics and the New Public Health
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 12. Planning and managing health systems
- Introduction
- Health policy and planning as context
- The elements of organizations
- Scientific management
- Bureaucratic pyramidal organizations
- Organizations as energy systems
- Target-oriented management
- Human relations management
- Network organization
- Total quality management
- Changing human behavior
- Empowerment
- Strategic management of health systems
- Health system organizational models
- Skills for management
- The chief executive officer of health organizations
- Community participation
- Integration: lateral and vertical
- Norms and performance indicators
- Health promotion and advocacy
- Philanthropy and volunteerism
- New organizational models
- New projects and their evaluation
- Competencies in health policy and management
- Systems approach and national planning
- Addressing future challenges
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 13. National health systems
- Introduction
- Health systems in high-income countries
- Health systems in developing countries
- Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Latin America
- Asia
- Comparing national health systems
- Reforming national health systems
- Pandemic COVID-19 and health systems
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 14. Human resources for health
- Introduction
- Overview of human resources
- Human resources planning
- Medical education
- Postgraduate medical training
- Specialization and family practice
- Training in preventive medicine
- Nursing education
- In-service and continuing education
- Accreditation of health professional educational and training facilities
- The range of health disciplines
- Licensure and supervision
- Constraints on health care providers
- Other health professions
- Expanding roles in primary care
- Alternative medicine
- Changing the balance
- Education for public health and health management
- Health policy and human resources management
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 15. Health technology, quality, law, and ethics
- Introduction
- Innovation, regulation, and quality control
- Appropriate health technology
- Dissemination of technology
- Diffusion of technology
- Quality assurance
- Organization of care
- Performance indicators
- Consumerism and quality
- The public interest
- Total quality management
- Public health law
- Ethical issues in public health
- Summary
- Note
- Chapter 16. Global health
- Introduction
- The global health situation
- Priorities in global health
- Development and health
- Organization of international health
- Trends in global health
- Emerging infectious disease threats
- Expanding national health capacity
- Top-down and bottom-up development
- Global epidemiology and the New Public Health
- Summary
- Note
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: January 21, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 1214
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128229576
- eBook ISBN: 9780323984324
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Theodore H. Tulchinsky
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Elena A. Varavikova
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