TY  - BOOK
AU  - Somerville,Margaret
AU  - Kumaran,K.
AU  - Anderson,Rob
TI  - Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance
T2  - At a glance series
SN  - 9781118999349
AV  - RA651 .S66 2016
U1  - 614.4 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Public health
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Needs assessment
KW  - MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine
KW  - MEDICAL / Public Health
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements About the authors 1. Introduction to Public Health 2. Public Health Old and New 3. Incidence and prevalence 4. Risks and Odds 5. Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation 6. Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies 7. Standardisation 8. Ecological and cross-sectional studies 9. Case-control studies 10. Cohort studies 11. Trials (experimental studies) 12. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis 13. Diagnostic tests 14. Developing Guidelines 15. Health and illness 16. Demographic and epidemiological transitions 17. Health Information 18. Measuring population health status 19. Determinants of Health 20. Lifestyle determinants of health 21. Social determination of health 22. Environmental determinants of health 23. Inequalities in health 24. Health needs assessment 25. Maternal and Infant health 26. Health of older people 27. Disease prevention 28. Principles of disease transmission 29. Communicable disease control 30. Surveillance 31. Immunisation 32. Screening principles 33. Screening programmes 34. Health promotion 35. Changing behaviour 36. Economic perspectives on health 37. Economic evaluation 38. Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes 39. Economics of public health problems 40. Health care systems 41. Planning health services 42. Improving services 43. Health care evaluation Self-Assessment Self-assessment Questions Self-assessment Answers Appendix- Practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies Further reading Index; Includes bibliographical references and index; <p>Preface to the Second Edition</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p> <p>About the authors</p> <p>1. Introduction to Public Health</p> <p>2. Public Health Old and New</p> <p>3. Incidence and prevalence</p> <p>4. Risks and Odds</p> <p>5. Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation</p> <p>6. Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies</p> <p>7. Standardisation</p> <p>8. Ecological and cross-sectional studies</p> <p>9. Case-control studies</p> <p>10. Cohort studies</p> <p>11. Trials (experimental studies)</p> <p>12. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis</p> <p>13. Diagnostic tests</p> <p>14. Developing Guidelines</p> <p>15. Health and illness</p> <p>16. Demographic and epidemiological transitions</p> <p>17. Health Information</p> <p>18. Measuring population health status</p> <p>19. Determinants of Health</p> <p>20. Lifestyle determinants of health</p> <p>21. Social determination of health</p> <p>22. Environmental determinants of health</p> <p>23. Inequalities in health</p> <p>24. Health needs assessment</p> <p>25. Maternal and Infant health</p> <p>26. Health of older people</p> <p>27. Disease prevention</p> <p>28. Principles of disease transmission</p> <p>29. Communicable disease control</p> <p>30. Surveillance</p> <p>31. Immunisation</p> <p>32. Screening principles</p> <p>33. Screening programmes</p> <p>34. Health promotion</p> <p>35. Changing behaviour</p> <p>36. Economic perspectives on health</p> <p>37. Economic evaluation</p> <p>38. Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes</p> <p>39. Economics of public health problems</p> <p>40. Health care systems</p> <p>41. Planning health services</p> <p>42. Improving services</p> <p>43. Health care evaluation</p> <p>Self-Assessment</p> <p>Self-assessment Questions</p> <p>Self-assessment Answers</p> <p>Appendix- Practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies</p> <p>Further reading</p> <p>Index</p>
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