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With increasing numbers training and practicing public health across a range of organisations, and policy continuing to drive the public health agenda forward, the need for expertise is greater than ever. 'Professional Practice in Public Health' will provide students and practitioners with a comprehensive and contemporary overview of public health. It is written by respected academics and practitioners drawing from their wide range of experiences in environmental and public health. The book emphasises the importance of reflective practice in developing and administering increasingly relevant policy and strategy.
Each chapter takes account of the framework of competencies required by the UK Public Health Voluntary Register and aims to help students and practitioners work toward these requirements. The book’s main market will be Masters students but the accessible style means that undergraduate students, students on Foundation Degree courses and practitioners will also find this book a useful learning resource.
This book provides an interactive approach that includes case studies, activities and reflection points so that readers are encouraged to engage with the theory, practice, knowledge and skills. Overall the book seeks to help raise the professional stakes in delivering effective public health interventions to tackle health inequalities where they are at their most acute.
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Suitable for:
* Students on MA/MSc Public Health courses
* Environmental Health Departments at local authorities
* Primary Care Trusts (NHS) – public health specialists, health visitors, community & district nurses, community development workers
* Housing departments in local authorities and Social housing organisations
* Political decision-makers (e.g. GLA)
* Social workers
* Voluntary workers
This book includes:
* Case studies;
* Activities;
* Reflection points;
* Glossary.
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| Author
Biographies |
Dr Jill Stewart is Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich.
Dr Yvonne Cornish is Principal Lecturer at the University of Greenwich.
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| Reviews |
This is a useful and timely reference book, published at an important period for an often under-valued subject. One of its two editors, Jill Stewart, senior lecturer at Greenwich University's School of Health and Social Care, is an expert and writer on environmental health and the foreword is by Stephen Battersby, CIEH president. Nine of the book's 23 contributors are chartered EHPs, or CIEH members. Clearly-written and illustrated with well-chosen case studies, the book's 20 themed chapters cover the recent history and organisation of public health, its methodology and some of the problems it addresses. Not surprisingly, environmental health has a prominent role. Medics generally eschew politics but this perspective on public health takes a refreshingly bold stance. For example, Stephen Battersby, in his foreword, regrets that a 'better regulation' agenda has been imposed on environmental health. He calls on practitioners to help reduce inequality and address social injustice....
...For I50 years, EHPs and their predecessors have been intervening in the environment to make it more healthy. And they continue to do so. Chapter 20, written by EHPs Paul Mishkin and Russell Moffat, with Jill Stewart, gives some excellent examples in private housing. It is a tragedy of social policy that so little financial and public resources go into the regeneration of the UK's decrepit housing stock. EHPs, too, as Nargis Kayani says in chapter 19, could have a bigger role in ensuring nutritious, sustainable food for disadvantaged communities. This broad-brush study is a well-considered, skillfully-edited and lucid introduction to a complex, multi-faceted subject. It should become a standard work for students. It is not the authors' fault that the skills of the environmental health profession are spread so thinly. Many students, and practitioners, will be energised by this book and encouraged to try to make a difference.
(William Hatchett, Environmental Health News, Issue 01, 15.01.2010)
'Clear and concise - a well-referenced text which integrates theory and practice in a meaningful way.' (Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University)
'Excellent book. Very current and well set out. Good activity exercises and case studies.' (Lecturer, West Nottinghamshire College)
'A comprehensive and wide-ranging book that is useful for all public health practitioners.' (Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University)
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| Contents
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1: Introduction
PART 1: AN OVERVIEW
2: Theory and practice in public health
3: Evidence based practice
4: Organisation and delivery of the PH agenda
5: Developing and implementing policy
PART 2: BACKGROUND, POLICY AND PROCESSES
6: Environment, health and sustainability
7: Poverty, inequality and social exclusion
8: Health promotion
9: Health protection
10: Health Needs Assessment
11: Health Impact Assessment
12: Community development and leadership for health
13: Digital technology in health
14: Leadership and change management in public health
15: Ethics in public health
16: Equality, equity, diversity and culture
17: Global health
PART 3: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH IN PUBLIC HEALTH
18: Environmental health
19: Food and health
20: Housing and health
21: Conclusions
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1 |
| Price: |
£18.50 |
| Pub. Date: |
30 October 2009 |
| ISBN: |
978 1 906052 20 1 |
| No. of Pages: |
368 |
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Published and Available to Buy
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