Understanding Public Health

'As the field of public health faces unprecedented challenges from evolving threats, the need for the development of a conceptual guide for action is great. Understanding Public Health arrives at just the right time, delivering a powerful guide to systematic thinking about how new ideas can be translated into effective actions that meet the moment.' Christopher Borick, Lehigh University
'This book is truly a text for the twenty-first century. The systems and determinants approach reflects best practice and underlies the knowledge base needed by today's students if they are to become future public health professionals and decision-makers. The context of public health is changing rapidly and future challenges will require the technical, intellectual approach this text offers, illustrated through the COVID-19 case study. In short, this textbook will serve as an important asset in training students in public health thinking that they will come to rely upon throughout their future career.' Rebecca Fanany, CQUniversity
'Frenk, Chaumont and Moon offer something rarer than another survey of the field: a textbook that treats public health, first, as a way of thinking. By defining the field through its level of analysis rather than its sector or its tools, Understanding Public Health gives readers a framework supple enough to hold what we actually do, from the determinants of health to the architecture of health systems, closing with a careful reckoning with COVID-19.' Sandro Galea, Washington University in St. Louis
'This authoritative textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to public health, encompassing the global and the local, and the definitional, conceptual, classification and measurement challenges. Particularly notable is its breadth, from health determinants, viewed historically, through the organized response in the form of health systems, to policy processes and the exercise of power, and finally leadership practices.' Anne Mills, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
'Understanding Public Health offers a clear macro perspective on health systems, grounded in robust frameworks and how systems can improve. It shows how population health and health equity can be advanced through action on determinants, prevention, health promotion and health services, helping students understand the system as a whole, not just its individual programs.' John-Arne Røttingen, Wellcome Trust