Introduction to Community and Public Health provides students in community health, public health, and health education with basics in the five core areas of community and public health as identified by the Association of Schools of Public Health.  The book includes perspectives in epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioural sciences, environmental health and health policy and management. The text emphasizes essentials of community and public health and includes: -Descriptive and analytical epidemiology -Descriptive and inferential biostatistics -Social and behavioural sciences -Models, methods and theories in health education and health promotion -Population dynamics and control -Air, water and noise pollution -Injury control and other environmental issues -Organization, financing and delivery of health services and public health systems in the US -Program planning, budgeting, management and evaluation in community initiatives -Systems thinking and leadership in community and public health