Preface -- Introduction and Global Burden of Disease -- Health Trends of Communicable diseases -- Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable diseases --  Cardiovascular diseases.-Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention -- Obesity and Diabetes -- Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution -- Public health gerontology  and active ageing -- Some ethical reflections in public health -- Injury prevention and safety promotion -- Migrant and ethnic minority health -- Public mental health -- Urban public health -- Public Health Genomics --  Health Impact Assessment -- Health in all Policies.