Essentials for Health Protection - Four Key Components

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Core Principles of Public Health in Health Protection Practices


• 3: Climate Change and Health


• 4: Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response


• 5: Communicable Disease and Control


• 6: Environmental Health


• 7: Planetary Health and Sustainability


• 8: Challenges and Opportunities of Health Protection in the Twenty-First Centuries


• 9: Conclusion

About the author

Emily Ying Yang Chan, MBBS (HKU), BS (Johns Hopkins), SM PIH (Harvard), MD (CUHK), DFM (HKCFP), FFPH, FHKAM (Community Medicine), FHKCCM, serves as Professor and Assistant Dean (Global Engagement) at Faculty of Medicine, and Head of Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine and Associate Director (External Affairs and Collaboration) at JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her research interests include disaster and humanitarian medicine, climate change and health, global and planetary health, Human Health Security and Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM), remote rural health, implementation and translational science, ethnic minority health, injury and violence epidemiology, and primary care.

Summary

By introducing the four key areas covering both medical and environmental health protection-namely climate change, communicable disease, emergency, and environmental health-and supplemented with appropriate examples, this book aims to help strengthen regional, subnational, national and global health protection.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Ying Yang Chan, Emily Ying Yang (Professor Chan, Chan Emily Ying Yang
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2019
• EAN: 9780198835479
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883547-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Environmental factors, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, MEDICAL / Environmental Health