Baum, F: New Public Health

PART ONE - APPROACHES TO PUBLIC HEALTH ; 1. Understanding health - definitions and perspectives ; 2. A history of public health ; 3. The new public health evolves ; PART TWO - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PUBLIC HEALTH ; 4. Politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health ; 5. Globalisation and health ; PART THREE - RESEARCHING PUBLIC HEALTH ; 6. Research for a new public health ; 7. Epidemiology and public health ; 8. Survey research methods in public health ; 9. Qualitative research methods ; 10. Planning and evaluation of community-based health promotion ; PART FOUR - HEALTH INEQUITIES: PROFILES, PATTERNS AND EXPLANATIONS ; 11. Changing health and illness profiles in the twenty first century: Global and Australian perspectives ; 12. Patterns of Health Inequities in Australia ; 13. The social determinants of health inequity ; PART FIVE - UNHEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: GLOBAL AND AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES ; 14. Global physical threats to the environment and public health ; 15. Urbanisation, population, communities and environments: Global trends ; PART SIX - HEALTHY SOCIETIES AND ENVIRONMENTS ; 16. Healthy economic policies ; 17. Sustainable infrastructure for health and well-being ; 18. Creating more equitable societies ; PART SEVEN - HEALTH PROMOTION STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING HEALTHY AND EQUITABLE SOCIETIES ; 19. Medical interventions ; 20. Behavioural health promotion and its limitations ; 21. Participation and health promotion ; 22. Community development in health ; 23. Healthy settings, cities, communities and organisations: Strategies for the twenty-first century ; 24. Public health policy ; PART EIGHT - PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ; 25. Linking the local, national and global ; Appendix: Public health keywords

Fran Baum is Professor and Head of the Department of of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University. Fran is also Director of South Australian Community Health Research Unit, a past National President of the Public Health Association of Asutralia and has been apppointed by the World Health Organization as a Commissioner on the Commission on the social determinants of health.