Introduction to Community and Public Health

The only textbook that provides comprehensive coverage of all five core areas of community and public health while aligning with the most current CEPH guidelines and competencies The newly revised third edition of Introduction to Community and Public Health by Manoj Sharma and Paul W.Branscum delivers the definitive treatment of public health fundamentals.Dr. Sharma, a professor at Jackson State University's MPH and DrPH programs, and Dr. Branscum, an associate professor at Miami University, bring decades of combined expertise to address a critical challenge facing public health educators: the lack of a single comprehensive resource covering all essential areas.This extensively updated edition solves that problem by providing complete coverage of biostatistics, epidemiology, social and behavioral sciences, environmental health, and health policy and management - all aligned with current Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) competencies.This edition has been thoroughly reviewed