1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795832403321

Autore

Somerville Margaret

Titolo

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

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910866394603321

Autore

Sulowski Stanisław

Titolo

Truth and the Will to Illusion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt a.M. : , : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

3-631-70901-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 pages)

Collana

Studies in Politics, Security and Society Series ; ; v.22

Altri autori (Persone)

FilipowiczStanisław

Soggetti

Animal Laborans

Filipowicz

Gałecki

Illumination

Illusion

Łukasz

Public Sphere

Stanisław

Sulowski

The New Way of Thinking

The Will to Deception

Truth

Will



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The author approaches the idea of deliberative democracy with reservation, attempting to expose the vain hopes rooted in the Enlightenment tradition, and encourages reflection on the appeal of deception in a world which has become the media's ‹grazing ground› and which rejects metaphysics in favour of pragmatic theories.