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Oxford textbook of global public health.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Detels, Roger.
- Series:
- Oxford textbooks in public health
- Oxford Textbooks in Public Health.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Public health--Research.
- Public health.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (561 pages).
- Edition:
- Seventh edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Invaluable for all practitioners, trainees, and students of public health and epidemiology, the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health covers the scope, methods, and practice of public health and has been comprehensively updated for its seventh edition.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health
- Copyright
- Preface to Volume 2
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- SECTION 4
- 4.1 Information systems in support of public health in high- income countries 3
- 4.2 Community diagnosis and health information systems in low- and middle- income countries
- 4.3 New communication technologies, social media, and public health 29
- SECTION 5
- 5.1 Epidemiology: the foundation of public health
- 5.2 Cross- sectional studies
- 5.3 Principles of outbreak investigation
- 5.4 Case- control studies
- 5.5 Cohort studies
- 5.6 Qualitative research imagination 101 Jennie Popay and Fran Baum
- 5.7 Methodological issues in the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials 113
- 5.8 Community intervention trials in high- income countries
- 5.9 Natural and quasi- experiments
- 5.10 Clinical epidemiology
- 5.11 Validity and bias in epidemiological research
- 5.12 Causation and causal inference
- 5.13 Systematic reviews and meta- analysis
- 5.14 Statistical methods
- 5.15 Measuring the health of populations: the Global Burden of Disease study methods 229
- 5.16 Mathematical models of transmission and control of infectious agents 241
- 5.17 Public health surveillance
- 5.18 Life course epidemiology and analysis
- SECTION 6
- 6.1 Sociology and psychology in public health
- 6.2 Sexuality and public health
- 6.3 Demography and public health
- 6.4 Health promotion, health education, and the public's health
- 6.5 Development and evaluation of complex multicomponent interventions in public health
- 6.6 Economic appraisal in public healthcare: assessing efficiency and equity
- 6.7 Behavioural economics and health
- 6.8 Governance and management of public health programmes
- 6.9 Implementation science and translational public health
- SECTION 7
- 7.1 Environmental health methods
- 7.2 Radiation and public health
- 7.3 Occupational health
- 7.4 Toxicology and environmental risk analysis
- 7.5 Risk perception and communication
- 7.6 Urbanization and health
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Detels, Roger Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health
- ISBN:
- 9780192548771
- 0192548778
- OCLC:
- 1289367460
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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