Dear Hussenini,

I'll give you a ready made curriculum and some other links ;hopefully make you happy;

http://www.jbpub.com/essentialpublichealth/101_approach.cfm

also see the attachment

The New Public Health (3rd edn) - Fran Baum

Thank you Khalid and Samantha for your answers

I would recommend The New Public Health by Fran Baum, Public Health in Australia by Vivian Lin et al and Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach by Talbot and Verrinder. All good for undergradaute students.

Introduction to Public Health by Mary-Jane Schneider is a good choice too

A very good modern and complete textbook is "Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation. L. Aday, ed. Jossey- Bass, San Francisco, 2005

Gordis is an excellent book, but it covers epidemiology and there are many other public health concepts and sciences that are not covered in it.

As mentioned above, the Public Health 101 Series and Schneider's text are excellent for undergrads. Here are two others:

Essentials of Public Health, 2nd Ed. ISBN-13: 9781449600228

Community and Public Health, 8th Ed. ISBN-13: 9781284036596

All of these are published by Jones & Bartlett: www.jblearning.com

Thank you for the book titles.

Susan

Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine by K Park, 22nd Edition, published by M/s Banarsidas Bhanot, Publishers, 1167, Prem Nagar, Jabalpur, 482001, MP, India Email: [email protected]

I have been involved in the production of a new text in this area which is has just been published through Cambridge University Press. It is called 'An introduction to community and primary health care', which you may find useful.

Diana,

Is the book useful to overseas students?

Susan

It is being marketed in the UK and Europe, and although most of the examples have an Australian context, the principles they illustrate are universal. The book is presented in three sections. The first section explains the theoretical concepts, so relevant globally. The second present skills for practice, such as how to work with groups, motivational interviewing, programme planning, needs assessment etc, so again globally relevant. The final section presents examples of practice, the focus is nursing practice, however the roles discussed are included to demonstrate how the principles discussed have been implemented, so exploring this within this context is relevant to any discipline or locale. I would suggest that asking the students to explore how the principles are enacted in local policy and service provision would be an excellent educational activity which would complement use of this text.

Susan you can use this link to have a look at this text in the Cambridge catalogue -

www.cambridge.org/9781107633094

cheers,

Diana

It is very difficult to get a comprehensive book on Public Health especially for developing countries. Most of the books written will focus on local problems and issues for developed countries. For people in the developing countries I find the Parks Text book recommended by Gumashta to be very useful. However for I prefer to use separate books for each topic like Epdiemiology. Biostatistics, Environmental health, Occupational health etc.

I have just looked at "Public Health 101: Healthy People-Healthy Populations" for Reigleman. It seems like a good introductory book.

Public health and preventive medicine

By Jhon M Last

Maxy and Rosaneu

Understanding Health from OUP-eds Keleher and MacDougall

Here is useful one:

http://members.chello.nl/j.n.zonjee/bijlagen/MRL_23CD.pdf

To repair the world by Paul Farmer

9780520275973

UCL press

2013

and Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health