Assessing evidence to improve population health and wellbeing / / editor, Carmen Aceijas

• Pubblicazione: Exeter, : Learning Matters, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 158 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 362.1072
• Soggetto topico: Public health - Evaluation; Public health - Research - Methodology; Evidence-based medicine - Methodology; Evidence-based medicine
• Altri autori: AceijasCarmen
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword from the Series Editor -- Author Information -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 What is Meant by Evidence? -- Chapter 2 What are Sources of Evidence? -- Chapter 3 Making Sense of the Evidential Hierarchy Used to Judge Research Evidence -- Chapter 4 The Act/Art of Assessing: Critical Appraisal and its Relevance in Public Health -- Chapter 5 Assessing Evidence - the Quality of Primary and Secondary Research -- Chapter 6 Assessing Evidence - the Strengths and Weaknesses of Various Ways of Assessing Public Health Outcomes -- Chapter 7 Assessing Evidence - Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Chapter 8 Principles and Methods of Programme Evaluation -- Chapter 9 Assessing Quality and Effectiveness to Improve Public Health and Wellbeing -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book helps students understand the core area of the Public Health Skills and Career Framework concerned with assessing evidence of the effectiveness of interventions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Assessing evidence to improve population health and wellbeing
• ISBN: 1-280-38234-1; 9786613560254; 0-85725-391-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813643803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Transforming public health practice.