A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the multifaceted nature of public health practice. It explores all aspects of public health from communities and wider society, child development and early relationships, inequalities in health, safeguarding, the rapidly changing nature of society and the significance of culture, equality and diversity.The book takes a life-span approach and makes direct links to the UK health and social care context and has been written for an interprofessional audience. It will be essential reading for health and social care students including nurses and midwives, allied health care professionals, social care workers, qualified health and social care practitioners and anyone who plays a role in understanding, promoting, and protecting public health.Key features:

Introduction: Overview of Global Health Policy and Health Policy Across the Four UK Nations - Amanda HollandThe COVID-19 Pandemic - Lessons Learnt and Future Practice - John Watkins & Dianne WatkinsHealth Promotion And PreventionHealth Promotion - Lorraine JoomunHealth Literacy - Lynette Harland Shotton & Emma SeniorEarly InterventionHealthy Child Development - Amanda HollandThe Influence of Early Relationships on Child Development and Long-Term Health and Wellbeing - Amanda Holland & Kate PhillipsPerinatal Mental Health - Jane HanleyInequalities in Public HealthInequalities In Health - Linda MagesThe Obesity Epidemic - Linda Mages & Nadine LittlerPublic Health and the Older Person - Shirley Willis & Cathryn SmithSubstance Use and Public Health - Iain McPhee & Ian BondMental Health - Alex NuteOral Health - Kate PhillipsSexual Health is Public Health - David EvansSafeguardingSafeguarding Adults, 21st Century Issues - Susan Greening & Philip TremewanSafeguarding Children and Young People - Michelle MoseleyDomestic Abuse - Caroline Bradbury Jones & Dana SammutHonour Based Violence - A Public Health Issue: Protection, Promotion and Provision of Services - Joanne McEwan & Michelle MoseleyCulture, Equality And DiversityHomelessness - Lorraine JoomunGypsies and Travellers - Deb McNeeCulture Competence in Care: Working with Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Faith Families - Fatima HusainPublic health and the LGBTQ+ Community - Professor Dave Clarke