Oxford textbook of global public health edited by Roger Detels, Distinguished Research Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Associate Scientific Director, CAPRISA, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University, Pro Vice-Chancellor (African Health), University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Fran Baum, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Director of the Southgate Institute of Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, Australia, Liming Li, Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Alastair H. Leyland, Associate Director and Professor of Population Health Statistics, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, UK.

Revised edition of: Oxford textbook of global public health / edited by Roger Detels, Martin Gulliford, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Chorh Chuan Tan. Sixth edition. 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 1. The scope of public health -- Volume 2. The methods of public health -- Volume 3. The practice of public health.

"Public health is concerned with the process of mobilizing local, state/provincial, national, and international resources to assure the conditions in which all people can be healthy (Detels and Breslow 2002). To successfully implement this process and to make health for all achievable, public health must perform the functions listed in Box 1.1.1"