Public Health and Society: Current Issues
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Product details
- ISBN 9781284211306
- Weight: 680g
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2023
- Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Public Health and Society: Current Issues analyzes current public health issues in a historical context, while relating them to individual lives. The text emphasizes the social determinants of health, social justice, and the climate crisis, by leading off with these important topics and then integrates them where appropriate throughout the text. Subsequent chapters explore gun violence, the opioid epidemic, tobacco, vaping, and alcohol use, COVID-19, mental health, environmental health chronic disease, emerging and reemerging diseases, and more.
Key features
- Personal vignettes humanize public health issues and make them resonate for readers.
- Short histories put current issues into historical context, for example, the opioid epidemic (Ch. 5) and alcohol and tobacco use (Ch.6)
- “In the News” articles bring public health topics up-to-date and underscore their modern relevance.
- Comprehensive and up-to-date data and references are included throughout the text.
- Navigate eBook access (included with he printed text) provides convenient online or offline access to the digital text from a computer, tablet, or smart phone.
- Invaluable teaching resources help facilitate course preparation and include a helpful instructor’s manual with sample syllabus and course and lecture notes, chapter tests, and PowerPoint presentation slides.
