Oxford handbook of public health practice
edited by David Pencheon ... [et al.].
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford ; New York : : Oxford University Press, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (726 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Options and decisions; Introduction; 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; Introduction; 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge; 2.2 Using qualitative methods. - 2.3 Epidemiological understanding: an overview of basic concepts and study designs2.4 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; Introduction; 3.1 Preventing epidemics of communicable disease. - 3.2 Protecting health, sustaining the environment3.3 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; 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 policy4.5 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; Introduction; 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 carePart 6 Improving quality in health care; Introduction; 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. - 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
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| ISBN | 0-19-158541-6. - 1-283-58213-9. - 9786613894588
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Oxford handbook of public health practice
edited by David Pencheon ... [et al.]
Bok · Engelsk · 2001
edited by David Pencheon ... [et al.]
Bok · Engelsk · 2001
