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A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

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Editors:
  1. Stefania Boccia

    1. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Hygiene Faculty of Medicine, Rome, Italy

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  2. Paolo Villari

    1. Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  3. Walter Ricciardi

    1. Institute of Hygiene,Faculty of Medicine Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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  • Systematic reviews of best evidence health interventions
  • Global perspective, with a focus on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of health policy interventions
  • Provides a broad overview of the most important public health problems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems, conducting health impact assessments, and working with decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health, and improving quality of life, both locally and globally.

 

A sampling of the topics covered:

 

·         Health trends of communicable diseases.

·         Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention.

·         Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution.

·         Public health gerontology and active aging.

·         Migrant and ethnic minority health.

·         Public health genomics.

 

A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential future.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction and Global Burden of Disease

    • Andrea Silenzi, Maria Rosaria Gualano, Walter Ricciardi
    Pages 1-4

  3. Health Trends of Communicable Diseases

    • Alessio Santoro, Benedetto Simone, Aura Timen
    Pages 5-18

  4. Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable Diseases

    • Silvio Capizzi, Chiara de Waure, Stefania Boccia
    Pages 19-32

  5. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

    • Elvira D’Andrea, Iveta Nagyova, Paolo Villari
    Pages 33-64

  6. Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention

    • Stefania Boccia, Carlo La Vecchia, Paolo Boffetta
    Pages 65-87

  7. Obesity and Diabetes

    • Anna Maria Ferriero, Maria Lucia Specchia
    Pages 89-108

  8. Respiratory Diseases and Health Disorders Related to Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution

    • Francesco Di Nardo, Patrizia Laurenti
    Pages 109-127

  9. Public Health Gerontology and Active Aging

    • Andrea Poscia, Francesco Landi, Agnese Collamati
    Pages 129-151

  10. Some Ethical Reflections in Public Health

    • Maria Luisa Di Pietro
    Pages 153-167

  11. Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion

    • Johan Lund, Paolo Di Giannantonio, Alice Mannocci
    Pages 169-188

  12. Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health

    • M.L. Essink-Bot, C.O Agyemang, K Stronks, A Krasnik
    Pages 189-203

  13. Public Mental Health

    • Chiara Cadeddu, Carolina Ianuale, Jutta Lindert
    Pages 205-221

  14. Urban Public Health

    • Umberto Moscato, Andrea Poscia
    Pages 223-247

  15. Genomics and Public Health

    • Stefania Boccia, Ron Zimmern
    Pages 249-262

  16. Health Impact Assessment: HIA

    • Roberto Falvo, Marcia Regina Cubas, Gabriel Gulis
    Pages 263-276

  17. Health in All Policies

    • Agnese Lazzari, Chiara de Waure, Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat
    Pages 277-286

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 287-289
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Institute of Hygiene Faculty of Medicine, Rome, Italy

    Stefania Boccia

  • Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Paolo Villari

  • Institute of Hygiene,Faculty of Medicine Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

    Walter Ricciardi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health

  • Editors: Stefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13620-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13619-6Published: 27 March 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37482-6Published: 29 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13620-2Published: 13 March 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 289

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Health, Social Policy

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