TY - CHAP
T1 - The Practice of Public Health
AU - Laar, Amos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This introductory chapter presents relevant concepts and principles in public health. It highlights relevant historical, extant, and emerging approaches in public health – emphasizing their application (in subsequent chapters) to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Concepts covered range from prevention, control, elimination, eradication, surveillance, and quarantine to social public health (including advocacy, community engagement, and empowerment, responding to political controversies, countering misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories). The chapter also takes a peek into the future of public health practice. The final section of the chapter presents the plan for the book and summarizes the substance of its chapters.
AB - This introductory chapter presents relevant concepts and principles in public health. It highlights relevant historical, extant, and emerging approaches in public health – emphasizing their application (in subsequent chapters) to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Concepts covered range from prevention, control, elimination, eradication, surveillance, and quarantine to social public health (including advocacy, community engagement, and empowerment, responding to political controversies, countering misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories). The chapter also takes a peek into the future of public health practice. The final section of the chapter presents the plan for the book and summarizes the substance of its chapters.
KW - Future of public health
KW - History of public health
KW - Public health
KW - Public health practice
KW - Social public health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134184801&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-09191-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-09191-9_1
M3 - Chapter
C2 - 35043713
AN - SCOPUS:85134184801
T3 - SpringerBriefs in Public Health
SP - 1
EP - 17
BT - SpringerBriefs in Public Health
PB - Springer
ER -