A civically minded approach to public health, perfect for students on any career path
Understanding the Science and Practice of Public Health is an exciting new textbook designed specifically for introductory public health courses at the college level. In a world rapidly being challenged by climate change, starvation, water shortages, and epidemics―and in a nation plagued by obesity, diabetes, early onset cardiovascular disease, cancer, and gun violence―this book provides students with crucial information that they’ll need to understand what’s going on around them. Thematically, this book focuses on the viewpoint that “We the People” have the ultimate responsibility to collectively assure the conditions that allow people to successfully seek health and well-being. Public health is a public responsibility (a maxim often repeated in the book), and college and university students must be fully informed to optimally meet this vital civic obligation.
Written to be accessible to students in any major, this unique text prepares students to participate in the daily actions needed (including advocacy and support of health-related regulations and policy) to become participants in public health practice, rather than passive recipients. Readers will:
The science and practice of public health depends on a well-informed and highly engaged population of civic-minded adults. This book will enable students’ enthusiastic participation in savings lives and promoting health―no matter what career path they decide to pursue.
Foreword vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1 The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Portrait of an Epidemic 1
Chapter 2 Changing Lives a “Million at a Time”: Public Health Is Very Different Than the Medical Profession 25
Chapter 3 The Evolution of Public Health Practice 45
Chapter 4 How Does Public Health Work? The Example of Tobacco Control 63
Chapter 5 America’s Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Epidemics: Possible Public Health Solutions 83
Chapter 6 Preventing Diabetes: A Public Health Priority 105
Chapter 7 Averting Cancer Rather Than Waiting to Treat It 123
Chapter 8 Excessive Alcohol Use: How Can It Be Reduce data Population Level? 141
Chapter 9 Solving the U.S. Opioid Crisis: A Public Health Challenge 155
Chapter 10 HIV in the United States–What Else Can We Do? 173
Chapter 11 Preventing Gun Violence and Promoting Highway Safety: A Study of Stark Contrasts 195
Chapter 12 Climate Change: The Importance of Water 215
Chapter 13 Climate Change: Implications Regarding Food 233
Chapter 14 Over population and the Prevention of Unintended Pregnancy 255
Chapter 15 Emerging Diseases and the Need for Vaccine Research 271
Annotated Answers to Practice Questions 289
Epilogue 317
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