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Preface Acknowledgments Case Study Podcasts Connect(TM) Resources Abbreviations and Common Definitions SECTION I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. The Origins of Public Health Chapter 2. Understanding the Global Burden of Disease and Disability Chapter 3. At the Heart of Public Health: Prevention Chapter 4. At the Heart of Public Health: Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity Chapter 5. What Causes Health of Populations? A Social Ecological and Life Course Approach SECTION II: A SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL APPROACH: WHAT CAUSES HEALTH AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT Chapter 6. Individual Behavior Chapter 7. Families, Social Networks, Neighborhoods, and Cities Chapter 8. Countries, Policies, and Health SECTION III: ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE: WHAT CAUSES HEALTH AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT Chapter 9. The Perinatal Period, Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence Chapter 10. Adulthood Chapter 11. Older Age SECTION IV: THE METHODS OF PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 12. Analytic Approaches and The Evidence-Base for Public Health Chapter 13. The Practice of Public Health Chapter 14. Community Engagement and Advocacy to Promote and Protect Health Chapter 15. Public Health in a Complex World: Systems Thinking and Implementation Science
James M. Shultz, PhD, MS is Associate Professor, Director of P3H: Protect & Promote Population Health in Complex Crises, and Director of the Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. Lisa M. Sullivan, PhD, MA is the Associate Dean for Education, and former Chair and Professor of Biostatistics at the Boston University School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH is a physician, epidemiologist, and author, along with Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.