Public Health: Building Innovative Practice

examines the main challenges facing public health today and fosters an informed and creative response by practitioners. It explores effectiveness in team working, communication, managing change and inter-agency working, ethics and reflective practice. It addresses the key areas of public health practice including:

analysis and use of information to improve health and wellbeing

collaborative working to plan and implement programmes and interventions

assessing evidence of effectiveness

managing risk and reducing health inequalities

reviewing and influencing public health policy

Public Health: Building Innovative Practice provides students with knowledge and skills from which to build innovative practice. It is an ideal text for courses on public health and health promotion.