Comprehensive: Baum is known as the most comprehensive book on new public health - it integrates knowledge from a range of disciplines, methodologies and perspectives as they relate to public health. With its broad scope, students can use it as a reference through the upper years of a degree and beyond into practice as public health workers.
Currency: Most current text on the market all chapters have been revised and data/figures updated
Cross-disciplinary: inclusion of multidisciplinary perspectives and broad scope of the book enables it to be used by students from different disciplines across allied and public health
Authorative with expert author: Fran Baum is extremely well-known and regarded in the area of public health