Donaldsons' Essential Public Health

This comprehensive fourth edition of Donaldsons' presents the main challenges encountered in managing population health, the tools used to explore these and the strategies to tackle them. This edition focuses on public health in the UK but places this within a new global health context.

Liam J. Donaldson, Paul Rutter

Preface 1 Health in a Changing World 2 Epidemiology 3 Communicable Diseases 4 Non-Communicable Disease 5 Social Determinants of Health 6 Health Systems 7 Quality and Safety of Health Care 8 Maternal and Child Health 9 Mental Health 10 Disability 11 Health in Later Life 12 Environment and Health 13 History of Public Health References and Further Reading