Introduction -- Part 1: Approaches to public health -- 1. Understanding health -- definitions and perspectives -- 2. A history of public health -- 3. The new public health evolves -- Part 2: Political economy of public health -- 4. Ethics, politics and ideologies: the invisible hands of public health -- 5. Neo-liberalism, globalisation and health -- Part 3: Researching Public Health -- 6. Research for a new public health -- 7. Epidemiology and public health -- 8. Survey research methods in public health -- 9. Qualitative research methods -- 10. Planning and evaluation of community-based health promotion -- Part 4: Health inequalities: profiles, patterns and explanations -- 11. Changing health and illness profiles in the twenty-first century: global and Australian perspectives -- 12. Patterns of health inequalities in Australia -- 13. The social determinants of health inequity -- Part 5: Unhealthy environments: global and Australian perspectives -- 14. Global physical threats to the environment and public health -- 15. Urbanisation, population, communities and environments: global trends -- Part 6: Creating healthy & equitable societies and environments -- 16. Healthy economic policies -- 17. Sustainable infrastructures for health, well-being and equity -- Part 7: Health promotion strategies for achieving healthy and equitable societies -- 18. Medical and health care service interventions -- 19. Changing behaviour: the limits of behaviourism and some alternatives 20. Participation and health promotion -- 21. Community development in health -- 22. Public health advocacy and activism -- 23. Healthy settings, cities, communities and organisations: strategies for the twenty-first century -- 24. Healthy public policy -- Part 8: Public health in the twenty-first century -- 25. Linking the local, national and global.