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Fundamentals for Public Health Practice

First Edition
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September 2022 | 392 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the multifaceted nature of public health practice. It explores all aspects of public health from communities and wider society, child development and early relationships, inequalities in health, safeguarding, the rapidly changing nature of society and the significance of culture, equality and diversity.

The book takes a life-span approach and makes direct links to the UK health and social care context and has been written for an interprofessional audience. It will be essential reading for health and social care students including nurses and midwives, allied health care professionals, social care workers, qualified health and social care practitioners and anyone who plays a role in understanding, promoting, and protecting public health.

Key features:

  • Comprehensive, wide-ranging coverage
  • Addresses the realities of public health in a globalised world
  • Applied to the UK four nation context but also considers the global dimension of public health practice
Amanda Holland
Introduction: Overview of Global Health Policy and Health Policy Across the Four UK Nations
John Watkins & Dianne Watkins
The COVID-19 Pandemic – Lessons Learnt and Future Practice
 
Health Promotion And Prevention
Lorraine Joomun
Health Promotion
Lynette Harland Shotton & Emma Senior
Health Literacy
 
Early Intervention
Amanda Holland
Healthy Child Development
Amanda Holland & Kate Phillips
The Influence of Early Relationships on Child Development and Long-Term Health and Wellbeing
Jane Hanley
Perinatal Mental Health
 
Inequalities in Public Health
Linda Mages
Inequalities In Health
Linda Mages & Nadine Littler
The Obesity Epidemic
Shirley Willis & Cathryn Smith
Public Health and the Older Person
Iain McPhee & Ian Bond
Substance Use and Public Health
Alex Nute
Mental Health
Kate Phillips
Oral Health
David Evans
Sexual Health is Public Health
 
Safeguarding
Susan Greening & Philip Tremewan
Safeguarding Adults, 21st Century Issues
Michelle Moseley
Safeguarding Children and Young People
Caroline Bradbury Jones & Dana Sammut
Domestic Abuse
Joanne McEwan & Michelle Moseley
Honour Based Violence - A Public Health Issue: Protection, Promotion and Provision of Services
 
Culture, Equality And Diversity
Lorraine Joomun
Homelessness
Deb McNee
Gypsies and Travellers
Fatima Husain
Culture Competence in Care: Working with Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Faith Families
Professor Dave Clarke
Public health and the LGBTQ+ Community

This book provides an overview of the various dynamics of Public health. Each chapter is laid out in an easy to follow legible way. This is beneficial to learners of Public Health, as it breaks down complex subjects, into manageable pieces.

Mrs Fern Bentley
Nursing (Derby), University of Derby (Chesterfield)
May 8, 2023

links to one of the key modules within the SCPHN course

Mrs Deborah Ann Gee
School of Health & Social Care, Teesside University
October 21, 2023

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