Key Topics in Public Health Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion

• Other Authors: Ewles, Linda (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh New York Elsevier Churchill Livingstone 2005
• Subjects: Health promotion; Public health; Primary Prevention; Health Promotion; Public Health
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• Physical Description: xviii, 292 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780443100260; 0443100268

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