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9780335216246

An Introduction to Public Health and Epidemiology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780335216246

  • ISBN10:

    0335216242

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-09-01
  • Publisher: Open University Press
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Summary

What are epidemiology and public health?

Author Biography

Susan Carr is Reader in Public Health and Primary Care at Northumbria University,UK, where she researches and teaches public health and primary care issues.

..Nigel Unwin is Professor of Epidemiology, in Advancing Research in Chronic Disease Epidemiology (ARCHES) and lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes, in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, UK.

..Tanja Pless-Mulloli is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology and lead of the Environment and Health team in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, UK..

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Introductionp. 1
Lessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the twenty-first centuryp. 5
Sources and critical use of health informationp. 17
Measuring the frequency of health problemsp. 35
Measures of riskp. 49
Epidemiological study designsp. 57
Weighing up the evidence from epidemiological studiesp. 72
The determinants of health and diseasep. 83
Health promotionp. 97
Health needs analysisp. 111
Principles of screeningp. 131
Changing public health: what impacts on public health practice?p. 146
Further reading, references and resourcesp. 160
Indexp. 168
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