The New Public Health (PDF)

Theodore H. Tulchinsky (MD from the University of Toronto; M.P.H. degree from Yale University) served as a Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health in Israel, and Director of Preventive Health Services and Coordinator for Health and supervisor of health in the West Bank and Gaza (development of immunization, nutrition, primary care for maternal and child health especially). He is Associate Professor at the Braun School of Public Health at the Hebrew University, and was Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health. He has published extensively on public health topics including on infectious diseases, nutrition and environmental health. He is active in promoting new schools of public health in Countries of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Central Asia, served on the Executive Board of the European Association of Schools of Public Health. He is lead author on the textbook The New Public Health (three editions in 1999, 2005, 2014); NPH has been translated into Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Moldovan, Romanian, Mongolian, Georgian and Turkish languages. Ted was awarded the Andija Stampar Medal in 2010 for "excellence in promoting public health education in Europe, and has been Deputy Editor of Public Health Reviews from 2010 to 2017.

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In general, the book is easy to read, and the language is not likely to be a major problem for those readers whose first language is not English. In addition, there is a good key to abbreviations and an extensive glossary of terminology, which is likely to be helpful both to beginning public health students in English-speaking countries and to those who are not native English speakers or who are unfamiliar with some of the terminology specific to the United States.

Another important plus are the multiple references and recommended readings and other resources at the end of each chapter. Many of these are Internet sites, which may be more readily available than the suggested books and periodicals, at least in some areas of the world.

In summary, this book is a very ambitious attempt to define an expanded concept of public health and to give an overview of all its components. It is likely to be useful for beginning students but may not be very satisfying for practicing public health professionals, given its very brief treatment of many subjects.