This book offers an easily understandable and practice based introduction to the field of public health It is designed for students of human medicine and public health as well as related fields including nursing science healthcare science health economics and population sciences Aside from covering fundamental concepts and terms in public health it provides a basic treatment of preventative medicine health promotion epidemiology biostatistics and healthcare systems Environmental medicine and international health are two additional topical subjects that are covered by the book Covers key foundations in public health Geared toward the Swiss Catalogue of Learning Objectives for Undergraduate Medical Training and the German State Medicine Examination Easy to read with a variety of figures and tables Up to date website