Edited by Linda Ewles, BSc, SRD, MSc, MA, Freelance Public Health Consultant and Writer, Bristol, UK
Description Key Topics is a short, easy-to-read text that provides basic information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer,
smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels. The twelve
topics are the 'must-dos' of public health action. They have been selected because they are those addressed in current national public
health strategies such as Saving Lives: our healthier nation , and comparable strategies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Many
are the subject of National Service Frameworks and other national policies and plans; they are often accompanied by targets which health
workers are expected to meet.
