Prevention, Policy, and Public Health

by Ross C. Brownson

The greatest public health victories of the last century -- public sanitation, vehicle safety measures, limits on smoking and tobacco use -- have all been facilitated by public policies. While policy is an unparalleled tool for effecting change in public health, most professionals are unprepared to plan, apply, or study policy in a consequential way.

Prevention, Policy, and Public Health provides a basic foundation for students, professionals,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190224657
• ISBN13: 9780190224653
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"