Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance (eBook)

Rob Anderson, K. Kumaran, Margaret Somerville (Autoren)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
96 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-28656-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glance series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healthcare services and their effectiveness.

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance features high-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 cardiovascular disease and cancer
• Health promotion
• Basics of health economics
• Basics of health policy, needs assessment, and evaluation

Also featuring self-assessment questions to help test learning, this new title will provide an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in public health.

Margaret Somerville is Director of Public Health and Health Policy, NHS Highland, Inverness

K. Kumaran is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Somerset

Rob Anderson, Institute of Health Service Research, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter

Inhalt

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance 5
Preface 8
Acknowledgements 9
About the authors 9
1: Introduction to public health 10
Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice 12
2: Incidence and prevalence 12
3: Risks and odds 14
4: Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation 16
5: Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies 18
6: Standardisation 20
7: Ecological and cross-sectional studies 22
8: Case-control and cohort studies 24
9: Trials (experimental studies) 26
10: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis 28
11: Diagnostic tests 30
Assessing Population Health 32
12: Health and illness 32
13: Demography 34
14: Epidemiological transition 36
15: Health information 38
16: Measuring population health status 40
17: Lifestyle determinants of health 42
18: Environmental determinants of health 44
19: Inequalities in health 46
20: Socio-economic inequalities in health 48
21: Health needs assessment 50
Improving and Protecting Health 52
22: Disease prevention 52
23: Principles of disease transmission 54
24: Communicable disease control 56
25: Surveillance 58
26: Immunisation 60
27: Screening principles 62
28: Screening programmes 64
29: Health promotion 66
30: Changing behaviour 68
Health Economics 7
31: Economic perspectives on health 70
32: Economic evaluation 72
33: Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes 74
34: Economics of public health problems 76
Effective Health Care 78
35: Health care systems 78
36: Planning health services 80
37: Health care evaluation 82
Self-Assessment 84
Self-assessment questions 84
Self-assessment answers 86
Appendix: Practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies 87
Further reading 89
Index 90

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• ISBN-10: 1-118-28656-1 / 1118286561
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-28656-2 / 9781118286562