ABSTRACT
Community health is an emerging and growing discipline of public health and it focuses on the physical, social, and mental well-being of the people of specific districts. This interdisciplinary field brings together aspects of health care, economics, environment, and people interaction. This handbook is a comprehensive reference on public health for higher education students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers of health care.
There are five key thematic sections in the book: perspectives in public health; community health in practise; planning, built, and social environment and community health; digital and mobile health; and, towards sustainable health in the community. Each theme explores the leading research and trends. This book aims to help achieve the shared goal of healthier communities and quality of life for the residents.
This collaborative work should be a very useful handbook to health professionals and government bodies in the planning of initiatives to improve population health, prevent chronic diseases, control infectious diseases and outbreaks, and prepare for natural disasters. This handbook integrates research and practise of public health in the community.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|73 pages
Perspectives in public health
part Section II|96 pages
Community health in practise
chapter 14|8 pages
Musculoskeletal health in the community
chapter 15|21 pages
COVID-19, social anxiety, and economic-political crisis in Hong Kong
part Section III|71 pages
Planning, built, and social environment and community health
chapter 16|13 pages
Urban planning and population health
chapter 18|16 pages
Shaping built environments for community health
chapter 20|10 pages
Healthy and green buildings in the community
part Section IV|70 pages
Digital and mobile health
chapter 26|16 pages
Community care
part Section V|64 pages
Towards sustainable health in the community