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Main description:
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 many important causal pathways (quality of health care design and delivery). It is written by experienced, internationally known practitioners of public health.
Contents:
PART 1; Problems, options, and priorites; Introduction; 1.1 Scoping public health problems; 1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions; 1.3 Assessing health care needs; 1.4 Making choices - the role of health economics; 1.5 Assessing health impact; 1.6 Being explicit about values in public health; 1.7 Understanding ethics in public health; 1.8 Innovating; PART 2; Using data and evidence; Introduction; 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge; 2.2 Qualitative and quantitative understanding; 2.3 Epidemiologic understanding; 2.4 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance; 2.5 Investigating changes in occurrence; 2.6 Investigating alleged clusters; 2.7 Monitoring specific determinants and diseases - registers; 2.8 Assessing health status; 2.9 Summarising population health; 2.10 Measuring and auditing health inequality and equity; 2.11 Finding and appraising research evidence; 2.12 Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers; PART 3; Direct Action; Introduction; 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 Respondong to disasters; 3.6 Assuring screening programmes; 3.7 Hard-to-reach groups; 3.8 Understanding public health genetics; 3.9 The practice of public health in primary care; 3.10 The practice of public health in poorer countries; PART 4; Making Policy; Introduction; 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 indictators and targets into public health action; 4.7 Influencing governments via media advocacy; 4.8 Public health policy at European level; 4.9 Influencing international policy; PART 5; Developing health system strategy; Introduction; 5.1 An introduction to healthcare 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 Effecting change in health care organisations; 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; Introduction; 7.1 Developing leadership skills; 7.2 Effecting change at meetings; 7.3 Writing to effect change; 7.4 Working with the media; 7.5 Communicating risk; 7.6 Being a consultant; 7.7 Being a political activist; 7.8 Assessing and improving your own professional practice; PART 8; Organisational development; Introduction; 8.1 Working in teams; 8.2 Managing projects; 8.3 Planning - operational and business; 8.4 Involving consumers; 8.5 Assessing public health effectiveness; Endmatters; A chronology of Public Health Practice; Ten golden rules of Public Health Practice; Internet sources of references (Important websites); Abbreviations and glossary; Bibliography; Index; Inclusion
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: September, 2006
Pages: 728
Dimensions: 106.00 x 185.00 x 25.00
Weight: 371g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: General Practice, Public Health
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