Contributors  
Preface  
Foreword  
Prologue  
How to Use This Text: Key To Chapter Format  
Part I  Concepts of Health and Disease in Public Health
  Introduction  
  Chapter 1  Essay: The Origins And Achievements Of Modern Science
  Chapter 2  Biochemistry: A Foundation For Health Sciences
  Chapter 3  Genetics And Public Health
  Chapter 4  The Public Health Triad
  Chapter 5  Epidemiological And Public Health Perspectives On Aging In America
  Chapter 6  Drug-Induced Diseases And Safe Medication Use
  Chapter 7  Disease Versus Disease: How Some Diseases Ameliorate Others
  Chapter 8  Behavioral Determinants Of Health
Part II  Using Public Health To Address Behavioral Change
  Introduction
  Chapter 9  Understanding Nutrition For The Public’s Health
  Chapter 10  The Nutrition Transition: Changes In Eating Patterns And The Relationship To Chronic Illness
  Chapter 11  Exercise: The Vaccine And Antidote For Obesity
  Chapter 12  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Lifespan Perspective
  Chapter 13  Smoking, Nicotine And Addiction: Tobacco Or Health?
  Chapter 14  Pathophysiology Of Injury: Why Gravity Is Your Enemy
  Chapter 15  Oral Health: The Neglected Epidemic In Public Health
III  Concepts of Pathophysiology
  Introduction  
  Chapter 16  Immunizations And Immunity
  Chapter 17  Inflammation: Understanding Its Role In Acute And Chronic Disease
  Chapter 18  Why We Stay Well: Stress, Allostasis, And Scientific Integrative Medicine
  Chapter 19  Cancer Prevention From A Biologist’s Perspective
  Chapter 20  Colon Cancer: A Common, And Yet Preventable, Cancer
Part IV  The Public Health Burden of Infectious Disease
  Introduction  
  Chapter 21  Soil-Transmitted Helminths: Worms – The Most Common Pathogens of Humankind
  Chapter 22  Malaria: The Challenge Of Scaling-Up Multiple Effective Tools
  Chapter 23  Tuberculosis: The Deadly Comeback Of An Old Infectious Disease
  Chapter 24  Acquired Immune Deficieny Syndrome (AIDS): History And Timeline
  Chapter 25  HIV:Biology, Transmission, And Natural History In Humans
  Chapter 26  Afterword: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic
  Chapter 27  Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA): A Deadly Superbug
  Chapter 28  Meningococcal Meningitis: It Strikes Without Warning!
  Chapter 29  Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection And Immunization
  Chapter 30  Helicobacter Infection And Peptic Ulcer
  Chapter 31  Avian And Seasonal Influenza
  Chapter 32  Bioterrorism: Medical And Public Health Implications
Part V  The Public Health Burden of Chronic Disease
  Introduction  
  Chapter 33  Hypertension And The Kidney
  Chapter 34  Epidemiology Of Atherosclerosis
  Chapter 35  Stroke: A Guide For Prevention For Patients And Families
  Chapter 36  Diabetes: A Public Health Pandemic
  Chapter 37  Chronic Kidney Disease: The New Epidemic
  Chapter 38  Achieving Asthma Control
  Chapter 39  Arthritis: The Nations Most Common Cause Of Disability
  Chapter 40  Osteoporosis:A Significant Cause Of Disability And Mortality
  Chapter 41  Alzheimer’s Disease: A Slow Death
  Chapter 42  Perinatal Depression: A Worldwide Problem In Women’s Health
  Chapter 43  The Science Of Sleep
Part VI  Skills and Tools of Public Health
  Introduction  
  Chapter 44  Information-Seeking Strategies In Public Health
  Chapter 45  Communicating Public Health Information