Somerville / Kumaran / Anderson Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-30864-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: At a Glance

This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glanceseries provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to thekey concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible,double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate thedeterminants of health which impact on healthcare services andtheir effectiveness.
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance featureshigh-yield information on all the topics covered at medical school,including:
* Measurement of population health
* Epidemiological concepts of cause and association,surveillance, and risk
* Use of epidemiology in clinical decision-making
* Epidemiology of major health problems such as cardiovasculardisease and cancer
* Health promotion
* Basics of health economics
* Basics of health policy, needs assessment, andevaluation
Also featuring self-assessment questions to help test learning,this new title will provide an invaluable resource for medical andhealthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for acareer in public health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somerville, Margaret

Kumaran, K.

Anderson, Rob

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 6
Acknowledgements 7
About the authors 7
1 Introduction to public health 8
Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice
2 Incidence and prevalence 10
3 Risks and odds 12
4 Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation 14
5 Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies 16
6 Standardisation 18
7 Ecological and cross-sectional studies 20
8 Case-control and cohort studies 22
9 Trials (experimental studies) 24
10 Systematic reviews and meta-analysis 26
11 Diagnostic tests 28
Assessing Population Health
12 Health and illness 30
13 Demography 32
14 Epidemiological transition 34
15 Health information 36
16 Measuring population health status 38
17 Lifestyle determinants of health 40
18 Environmental determinants of health 42
19 Inequalities in health 44
20 Socio-economic inequalities in health 46
21 Health needs assessment 48
Improving and Protecting Health
22 Disease prevention 50
23 Principles of disease transmission 52
24 Communicable disease control 54
25 Surveillance 56
26 Immunisation 58
27 Screening principles 60
28 Screening programmes 62
29 Health promotion 64
30 Changing behaviour 66
Health Economics
31 Economic perspectives on health 68
32 Economic evaluation 70
33 Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes72
34 Economics of public health problems 74
Effective Health Care
35 Health care systems 76
36 Planning health services 78
37 Health care evaluation 80
Self-Assessment
Self-assessment questions 82
Self-assessment answers 84
Appendix: Practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies85
Further reading 87
Index 88

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Somerville is Director of Public Health and HealthPolicy, NHS Highland, Inverness
K. Kumaran is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHSSomerset
Rob Anderson, Institute of Health ServiceResearch, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter