Oxford handbook of public health practice / edited by David Pencheon ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pencheon, David.

Series:

Oxford handbooks.

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Public health.

Medicine, Preventive--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medicine, Preventive.

Medical care--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (726 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Handbook of public health practice

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a practical public health book - written by public health practitioners for public health practitioners. It introduces learning practitioners to the early phases of approaching a public health issue, details why an issue is important and exactly how it can be analysed and addressed. It deals not only with the technical issues, but crucially with how those technical issues can be implemented in order to improve the health of the population directly, or via one of manyimportant causal pathways (quality of health care design and delivery). It is written by experienced, internationally kno

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Options and decisions

1.1 Scoping public health problems

1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions

1.3 Assessing health needs

1.4 Economic evaluation-the science behind the art of making choices

1.5 Assessing health impacts on a population

1.6 Being explicit about values in public health

1.7 Understanding ethics in public health

1.8 Innovative ways to solve public health problems

Part 2 Using data and evidence

2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge

2.2 Using qualitative methods

2.3 Epidemiological understanding: an overview of basic concepts and study designs

2.4 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance

2.5 Investigating changes in occurrence

2.6 Investigating alleged clusters

2.7 Assessing longer-term health trends: registers

2.8 Assessing health status

2.9 Summarizing health status

2.10 Measuring and monitoring health inequalities and auditing inequity

2.11 Finding and appraising evidence

2.12 Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers

Part 3 Direct action

3.1 Preventing epidemics of communicable disease

3.2 Protecting health, sustaining the environment

3.3 Protecting and promoting health in the workplace

3.4 Facilitating community action

3.5 Managing disasters and other public health crises

3.6 Assuring screening programmes

3.7 The public health response to 'hard to reach' populations

3.8 Genetics in disease prevention

3.9 The practice of public health in primary care

3.10 Public health in poorer countries

Part 4 Making policy

4.1 Influencing government policy: a framework

4.2 Developing healthy public policy

4.3 Law in public health practice.

4.4 Shaping your organization's policy

4.5 Translating policy into indicators and targets

4.6 Translating indicators and targets into public health action

4.7 Influencing governments via media advocacy

4.8 Public health policy at a European level

4.9 Influencing international policy

Part 5 Developing health system strategy

5.1 An introduction to health-care strategy

5.2 Strategic approaches to planning health services

5.3 Learning from international models of funding and delivering health care

5.4 Setting priorities in health care

5.5 Improving equity in health care

5.6 Commissioning health care

Part 6 Improving quality in health care

6.1 Understanding health-care quality

6.2 Taking action to improve quality

6.3 Quality improvement through chronic disease management

6.4 Variations in health-care activity and quality

6.5 Improving health and health care through informatics

6.6 Evaluating health-care technologies

6.7 Getting research into practice

6.8 Using guidance and frameworks

6.9 Evaluating health-care systems

6.10 Evaluating patient experience and health-care process data

6.11 Clinical quality, governance, and accountability

Part 7 Personal effectiveness

7.1 Public health leadership

7.2 Effective meetings

7.3 Effective writing

7.4 Working with the media

7.5 Communicating risk

7.6 Consultancy in a national strategy

7.7 Being a political activist

7.8 Improving professional practice

Part 8 Organizational development

8.1 Working in teams

8.2 Managing projects

8.3 Operational and business planning

8.4 Involving the public

8.5 Criteria for assessing effective public health action

A chronology of public health practice

Golden rules of public health practice.

Sources of reference

Abbreviations and glossary

Bibliography

Index

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N

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 641-676) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-58213-9

9786613894588

0-19-158541-6

OCLC:

801363510