Public Health and Society: Current Issues

By Lillian D. Burke, Barbara Weill

Public Health and Society: Current Issues is a comprehensive guide that delves into the 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 include:

• 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 and alcohol and tobacco use.
• In the News: Articles bring public health topics up-to-date and underscore their modern relevance.
• Comprehensive Data: Up-to-date data and references are included throughout the text.
• Navigate eBook Access: Provides convenient online or offline access to the digital text from a computer, tablet, or smart phone.
• Teaching Resources: Invaluable resources help facilitate course preparation and include a helpful instructors manual with sample syllabus and course and lecture notes, chapter tests, and PowerPoint presentation slides.

Product Details

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning (April 3, 2023)

Language: English

Paperback: 544 pages

ISBN-10: 1284211304

ISBN-13: 978-1284211306