Public health and epidemiology at a glance / / Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran, Rob Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795832403321
• Autore: Somerville Margaret
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016; 2016
• ISBN: 1-78785-128-1; 1-118-99933-9; 1-118-99934-7
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 pages)
• Collana: New York Academy of Sciences
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Epidemiology; Public health
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- How to use your textbook -- Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction to public health -- Chapter 2: Public health old and new -- Part 2: Epidemiology and evidence-based practice -- Chapter 3: Incidence and prevalence -- Chapter 4: Risks and odds -- Chapter 5: Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation -- Chapter 6: Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies -- Chapter 7: Standardisation -- Chapter 8: Ecological and cross-sectional studies -- Chapter 9: Case-control studies -- Chapter 10: Cohort studies -- Chapter 11: Trials (experimental studies) -- Chapter 12: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Chapter 13: Diagnostic tests -- Chapter 14: Developing clinical guidelines -- Part 3: Assessing population health -- Chapter 15: Health and illness -- Chapter 16: Demographic and epidemiological transitions -- Chapter 17: Health information -- Chapter 18: Measuring population health status -- Chapter 19: Determinants of health -- Chapter 20: Lifestyle determinants of health -- Chapter 21: Social determinants of health -- Chapter 22: Environmental determinants of health -- Chapter 23: Inequalities in health -- Chapter ; 24: Health needs assessment -- Chapter 25: Maternal and infant health -- Chapter 26: Health of older people -- Part 4: Improving and protecting health -- Chapter 27: Disease prevention -- Chapter 28: Principles of disease transmission -- Chapter 29: Communicable disease control -- Chapter 30: Surveillance -- Chapter 31: Immunisation -- Chapter 32: Screening principles -- Chapter 33: Screening programmes -- Chapter 34: Health promotion -- Chapter 35: Changing behaviour -- Part 5: Health economics -- Chapter 36: Economic perspectives on health -- Chapter 37: Economic evaluation.; Chapter 38: Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes -- Chapter 39: Economics of public health problems -- Part 6: Effective healthcare -- Chapter 40: Healthcare systems -- Chapter 41: Planning health services -- Chapter 42: Improving services -- Chapter 43: Healthcare evaluation -- Self-assessment questions -- Self-assessment answers -- Appendix: practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies -- Further reading -- Index -- End User License Agreement.