{"product_id":"essentials-for-health-protection-four-key-components-9780198835479","title":"Essentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components","description":"The aim of health protection is to prevent and manage outbreaks of communicable and environmental diseases, and to make us better at responding to emergencies and disasters. This includes working with diseases and injuries from environmental hazard exposures and climate change.\u003cem\u003e Essentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components\u003c\/em\u003e is a guide to the reality of the field, and a discussion of how we can improve our present and future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on public health theories and illustrated by relevant examples, this book is founded on the experience gained from the long-established CCOUC Ethnic Minority Health Project in China. It covers the four key areas identified by the Commonwealth Secretariat in its 'Health Protection Policy Toolkit'; climate change adaptation and mitigation, communicable disease control, emergency preparedness, and environmental health. With the aim to strengthen regional, subnational, national and global health protection, it also looks at health impact assessment in these areas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiscussing the health protection spectrum from mitigation, interventions and response, this book is a current and comprehensive guide to the field. Looking forwards, it discusses the latest controversies and dynamics and how they might change the reality of health protection practices and development. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components\u003c\/em\u003e is the ideal introductory to intermediate level textbook and reference book for healthcare professionals, fieldworkers, volunteers and students who are interested in promoting health and emergency and disaster risk reduction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Ying Yang Chan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.10h x 6.70w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198835479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Chan, \u003cem\u003eProfessor, Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response (CCOUC), JC School of Public Health, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmily Ying Yang Chan, MBBS (HKU), BS (Johns Hopkins), SM PIH (Harvard), MD (CUHK), DFM (HKCFP), FFPH, FHKAM (Community Medicine), FHKCCM, serves as Professor and Assistant Dean (Global Engagement) at Faculty of Medicine, and Head of Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine and Associate Director (External Affairs and Collaboration) at JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her research interests include disaster and humanitarian medicine, climate change and health, global and planetary health, Human Health Security and Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM), remote rural health, implementation and translational science, ethnic minority health, injury and violence epidemiology, and primary care.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43048347533427,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":94.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_03a54790-391e-4220-a422-f24c1e923d88.jpg?v=1746882548","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/essentials-for-health-protection-four-key-components-9780198835479","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}