A systematic review of key issues in public health

Boccia, Stefania, editor; Ricciardi, Walter, editor; Villari, Paolo, editor (Springer International Publishing, 2015)

This book is in many ways a manual for the public health decathlete, although

the editors have gone much further by including 15, not 10, items. These items cover

many of the contemporary challenges confronting population health. Seven chapters

review the changing burden of disease and injury, providing many examples of

the tremendous successes of the public health community. The most celebrated have

been those in the struggle against communicable disease, with the authors noting

achievements in transforming acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) into

a condition that those infected die with rather than from. However, there are others,

less well-recognised, such as the 50 % decline in mortality from cardiovascular

disease in North Western Europe in the past four decades. Yet, as the authors of all

of these chapters note, progress is not inevitable. Communicable diseases that once

seemed to be coming under control are reappearing, such as tuberculosis, but now

in a much more alarming drug-resistant form. Indeed, antimicrobial resistance is

now recognised as a global threat, potentially posing an existential threat to humanity,

just like climate change. Failure by governments to act against the vectors of

non-communicable disease, and especially the major corporations that profit from

sales of unhealthy products, for example by placing considerations of health above

those of trade liberalisation, has permitted the spread of obesogenic and alcogenic

environments, with profound consequences for our future health.

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Entri tambahan-Nama orang :	Boccia, Stefania, editor Ricciardi, Walter, editor Villari, Paolo, editor


Subjek :	Medicine systematic review Public health
Penerbitan :	Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2015

No. Panggil	No. Barkod	Ketersediaan
e20528445	20-22-54772640	TERSEDIA

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