| Contents |
Chapter 1. Public Health: Science, Politics, and Prevention -- Chapter 2. Why Is Public Health Controversial? -- Chapter 3. Powers and Responsibilities of Government -- Chapter 4. Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health -- Chapter 5. Epidemiologic Principles and Methods -- Chapter 6. Problems and Limits of Epidemiology -- Chapter 7. Statistics: Making Sense of Uncertainty -- Chapter 8. The Role of Data in Public Health -- Chapter 9. The "Conquest" of Infectious Diseases -- Chapter 10. The Resurgence of Infectious Diseases -- Chapter 11. The Biomedical Basis of Chronic Diseases -- Chapter 12. Genetic Diseases and Other Inborn Errors -- Chapter 13. Do People Choose Their Own Health? -- Chapter 14. How Psychosocial Factors Affect Health Behavior -- Chapter 15. Public Health Enemy Number One: Tobacco -- Chapter 16. Public Health Enemy Number Two--and Growing: Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity -- Chapter 17. Injuries Are Not Accidents -- Chapter 18. Maternal and Child Health as a Social Problem -- Chapter 19. Mental Health: Public Health Includes Healthy Minds -- Chapter 20. A Clean Environment: The Basis of Public Health -- Chapter 21. Clean Air: Is It Safe to Breathe? -- Chapter 22. Clean Water: A Limited Resource -- Chapter 23. Solid and Hazardous Wastes: What to Do with the Garbage? -- Chapter 24. Safe Food and Drugs: An Ongoing Regulatory Battle -- Chapter 25. Population: The Ultimate Environmental Health Issue -- Chapter 26. Is the Medical Care System a Public Health Issue? -- Chapter 27. Why the U.S. Medical System Needs Reform -- Chapter 28. Health Services Research: Finding What Works -- Chapter 29. Public Health and the Aging Population -- Chapter 30. Emergency Preparedness, Post-9/11 -- Chapter 31. Public Health in the Twenty-First Century: Achievements and Challenges |
| General note | Previous edition: fifth, 2017. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed on March 18, 2020). |
| ISBN | 1284197646 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781284197648 (electronic book) |
| Stock number | 6037687 Proquest Ebook Central |
