This third edition of Fran Baum's The New Public Health is the most comprehensive book available on the new public health. It offers students the opportunity to gain a sense of the scope of the new public health visions, and combines theoretical and practical material to assist students to understand the social and economic determinants of health. Based on the premise of previous editions – that the new public health offers the chance of greatly improved equity by raising health world health standards — this new edition has been fully revised to reflect recent changes in the theory and practice of the new public health.

• Revised chapter structure reflects recent changes in the theory and practice of the new public health, and allows for clearer progression of arguments
• Expanded coverage of the role of medicine and behavioural change in delivery of public health services
• Increased emphasis on the inequalities of public health care provision
• Consideration of the effects of global warming on health
• New boxes with up-to-date case examples

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 wellbeing

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 1: Public health keywords

Acknowledgments

References

Index

Fran Baum is Professor and Head of the Department 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 Australia and has been appointed by the World Health Organisation as a Commissioner on the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.

The New Public Health Image Gallery, containing figures and tables from the text for lecturers to download for use in lectures and presentations.