The new public health.

Abstract

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. Politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health 5. 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. Evaluation of community-based health promotion PART 4: PATTERNS OF HEALTH, ILLNESS AND MORTALITY 11. Changing health and illness profiles in the twentieth century: global and Australian perspectives 12. Social patterning of health 13. Health: an unequally distributed resource 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: HEALTHY CHOICES: INDIVIDUALS, BEHAVIOUR AND COMMUNITIES 16. Medical interventions 17. Behavioural health promotion and its limitations 18. Health development and empowerment: communities and individuals 19. Organisational development: towards health-promoting organisations 20. Public health policy PART 7: HEALTHY SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENTS 21. Healthy economic policies 22. Cities, suburbs, and communities: how might they change to support the environment and human health? 23. Towards a more equitable society 24. Healthy Cities, Local Agenda 21, and Healthy Settings 25. The politics, organisation, and sustainability of new public health initiatives PART 8: PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 26. Linking the local, national and global Appendix 1: Public health keywords Appendix 2: Public health websites