Public Health: An action guide to improving health locally and globally, Edition 3
John Walley · John Wright · Ian Smith
Mar 2025 · Oxford University Press
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It is essential to build effective health systems to deliver universal health coverage, especially for low-middle income countries. This action guide presents key practical actions within primary health care that contribute to promote public and community health, prevent disease, improve living conditions, water, sanitation, nutrition, immunization, and encourage the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Written with a particular focus on low-middle income countries, it explains key approaches and provides practical methods to developing effective health services and preventive programmes, including for hospitals, health centres, and community services, and particularly for mother, neonatal, and child health. It also explores the operational, gender, social, and economic influences on health and how to choose the best intervention strategies. This third edition has been thoroughly updated on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including new and revised chapters on health systems based on the World Health Organization (WHO) 'building blocks'. It contains real examples, illustrations, and case histories to bring the subject to life for the reader. The book covers key services and programmes including those for tuberculosis, HIV, malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, and the integrated management of childhood and adult diseases. Throughout the book the editors ensure that key public health skills are described clearly and comprehensively, such as epidemiology, managing medicines, disease control, health financing, and implementing health services and programmes. This book ensures this valuable information is easily accessible for all doctors, community nurses, managers, and other professionals in public health, whether in training or in practice.
About the author
John Walley lived and worked in Africa and Asia, with international agencies and ministries of health: in Vietnam with Swedish aid; in Switzerland, Malawi and Uganda with the World Health Organisation; in Ethiopia at a regional health office, and in Zimbabwe as a provincial medical officer of health. I've been responsible for maternal and child health, TB and HIV and non-communicable diseases, while strengthening systems and service delivery. Since 1993, I've been a Clinical Professor in International Public Health at the Nuffield Centre for Health, LIHS, Medical School, Leeds, UK, including leading the £20 million COMDIS health service delivery research programme in 7 African and Asian countries over 12 years - leading to policy change and national scale improvement in the quality of health services. John Wright is a doctor and epidemiologist with a background in hospital medicine and public health in the UK and in southern Africa. He established and leads the Bradford Institute for Health Research and Wolfson Centre for Applied Health Research, working to speed-up the translation of medical research into practice and policy. He is Visiting Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Universities of York, Leeds and Bradford and has authored of over 500 papers and three textbooks and been awarded over £150 million in research award funding, £50 million as chief investigator. Ian Smith was senior advisor to the World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, having served as Executive Director and Advisor to the two previous Director-Generals, Dr Margaret Chan and Dr Lee Jong-wook. Prior to joining WHO, Ian and his wife worked in Nepal for 16 years as medical missionaries, in a remote rural hospital, community health project, district TB control project, and the National Tuberculosis Programme. Ian qualified from Leeds Medical School, holds a Masters of Public Health (with distinction), was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, and is an honorary assistant professor at the School of Public Health of the University of Hong Kong.
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