..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..
Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Lessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the twenty-first century | p. 5 |
Sources and critical use of health information | p. 17 |
Measuring the frequency of health problems | p. 35 |
Measures of risk | p. 49 |
Epidemiological study designs | p. 57 |
Weighing up the evidence from epidemiological studies | p. 72 |
The determinants of health and disease | p. 83 |
Health promotion | p. 97 |
Health needs analysis | p. 111 |
Principles of screening | p. 131 |
Changing public health: what impacts on public health practice? | p. 146 |
Further reading, references and resources | p. 160 |
Index | p. 168 |
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