Preface -- Introduction and Global Burden of Disease -- Health Trends of Communicable diseases -- Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable diseases --  Cardiovascular diseases.-Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention -- Obesity and Diabetes -- Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution -- Public health gerontology  and active ageing -- Some ethical reflections in public health -- Injury prevention and safety promotion -- Migrant and ethnic minority health -- Public mental health -- Urban public health -- Public Health Genomics --  Health Impact Assessment -- Health in all Policies.

This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems, conducting health impact assessments, and working with decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health, and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A sampling of the topics covered : ·         Health trends of communicable diseases. ·         Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention. ·         Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution. ·         Public health gerontology and active aging. ·         Migrant and ethnic minority health. ·         Public health genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential future.