Essential Public Health: Theory and Practice

Essential Public Health is ideally placed to be added to booklists of undergraduate and introductory postgraduate public health courses. It has a table of Contents, List of contributors, a Foreword by Professor JohnDaneshfromtheUniversityofCambridge, a second Foreword by Tony Jewell - Wales' Chief Health Officer, Acknowledgements, an Introduction, two main Parts, 17 Chapters, an epilogue, a Glossary and a comprehensive Index. Essential Public Health is presented as an 18.5 x 24.5 x 1.5 cm paperback publication, which could easily fit in the briefcase or student's backpack. The textbook has a simple but attractive coloured cover. The back cover gives brief details of the book and of the editors. The stated primary aim of the textbook is "to capture both the art and science in the field". The stated target audience is "all those training in health care, social care and related disciplines such as environmental health". However, the book will appeal to all academic