A comprehensive guide to proposing, implementing, and evaluating necessary changes to health policies and systems.
Around the world and for a variety of reasons, health systems are facing challenges that are straining their organizations, financing, and founding principles. Public health—defined as “the sum of knowledge, skills, practices, and legal rules aimed at understanding, explaining, preserving, protecting, and promoting the health of people”—seeks to promote the health of all people through an approach that must be equitable and fair in terms of access to care.
The need to assess the challenges ahead and recent developments has guided the drafting of this new edition. The foundations and main functions of public health, the current situation and organizations in France and internationally, the different approaches based on risk factors and pathologies, and preventive measures are all covered in detail in this collective work, which provides healthcare professionals, those involved in governance and decision-making bodies, researchers, and students with the keys to understanding public health in the 21st century.
This book is an indispensable tool for working to improve the health of populations.
SUMMARY
- PART I. BASIC PRINCIPLES
- PART II. THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- PART III. THE STATE OF HEALTH IN FRANCE
- PART IV. ORGANIZATION OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM
- PART V. RISK FACTOR APPROACH NEW PART
- PART VI. PATHOLOGY APPROACH NEW PART
- PART VII. PREVENTION
- PART VIII. GLOBAL HEALTH
- François Bourdillon est médecin de santé publique. Il a été Directeur général de Santé publique France. Il enseigne à Sciences-Po-Paris et est président d’honneur de la Société française de santé publique.
- Gilles de Brucker est Professeur des Universités en Santé publique. Il est actuellement expert pour les projets de développement en santé au sein de AP-HP International, chargé du développement des programmes de coopérations internationales hospitalières à la Direction des relations internationales de l’AP-HP.
- Didier Tabuteau est un spécialiste des questions de santé et sécurité sociale. Ancien président de la Section sociale du Conseil d’État, il est actuellement vice-président du Conseil d'État.