Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control

✍ Scribed by Ed. Remington, Patrick L.

• Publisher: American Public Health Association
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1168
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Control, Fourth Edition provides an overview of current knowledge and best practices in the prevention and control of major chronic diseases and their risk factors. Chapter authors highlight many public health successes in which evidence-based interventions have resulted in improved health and the reduction or elimination of disparities. This book tackles some of the most important and vexing public health problems of our time, including how to cope with the rising tide of chronic illness.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
1 CURRENT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
2 CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY
3 CHRONIC DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
4 COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS
5 THE ROLE OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
6 THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF CHRONIC DISEASE
7 TOBACCO USE
8 DIET AND NUTRITION
9 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
10 ALCOHOL USE
11 OBESITY
12 DIABETES
13 HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
14 DYSLIPIDEMIA
15 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
16 CANCER
17 CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES
18 MENTAL DISORDERS
19 NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
20 ARTHRITIS AND OTHER MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES
21 CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE
22 CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX