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Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion
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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.
Audience
The market for this book comprises four groups:
1. Students on basic training in health and allied professions: all those who are part
of the wider multi-professional public health workforce. This includes nurses in hospital and community (including midwives, school nurses
and health visitors); doctors and dentists; other health professionals such as dietitians; community development and community health
workers; social workers and youth workers.
2. Professionals in post-basic training/professional development courses in public health,
such as those studying for the many master's degree and post-graduate diploma courses in health promotion and public health.
3. Health
and social services managers who need a basic understanding of health topics in order to plan and manage services.
4. Community health
workers and community development workers, and informed lay people in voluntary and community groups, who need a basic understanding
of health issues.
Hot Topics is aimed solely at the UK readership (not suitable for overseas because of the strong link in
with UK national public health strategies).
Contents
1. Cancer
2. Coronary heart disease and stroke
3. Diabetes
4. Smoking
5. Obesity
6. Physical
activity
7. Injury prevention
8. Teenage pregnancy
9. Sexually transmitted infections
10. Alcohol
use and misuse
11. Drug use and misuse
12. Mental health and mental health promotion
13. Tackling inequalities
in health
14. Helping individuals to change behaviour
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 314 pages, publication date: MAY-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-10026-0
ISBN-10: 0-443-10026-8
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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