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Two titles from the bestselling Oxford Medical Handbooks series are now available in this great value pack.

Fully revised and updated for the third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for all those working in this broad field. Structured to assist with practical tasks, translating evidence into policy, and providing concise summaries and real-world issues from across the globe, this literally provides a world of experience at your fingertips.

Easy-to-use, concise and practical, it is structured into seven parts that focus on the vital areas of assessment, data and information, direct action, policy, health-care systems, personal effectiveness and organisational development. Reflecting recent advances, the most promising developments in practical public health are presented, as well as maintaining essential summaries of core disciplines. This handbook is designed to assist students and practitioners around the world, for improved management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental health, vulnerable populations, and more.

To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research evidence. A sound understanding of medical statistics is essential for the correct evaluation of medical research and the appropriate implementation of findings in clinical practice. Written in an easily accessible style, the Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics provides doctors and medical students with a concise and thorough account of this often difficult subject. It promotes understanding and interpretation of statistical methods across a wide range of topics, from study design and sample size considerations, through t- and chi-squared tests, to complex multifactor analyses, using examples from published research. References for further reading are given for more information on specific topics.Helping readers to conduct their own research or critically appraise other's work, this volume provides all the information readers need to understand and interpret medical statistics.

Author Biography

Janet Peacock, Professor of Medical Statistics,, Department of Public Health Sciences and Medical Statistics, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton,Philip Peacock, Academic Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol,Charles Guest, Senior Specialist, Australian Capital Territory Government Health Directorate & Australian National University, Canberra

Dr Charles Guest has worked in government and academic public health in Australia and elsewhere, following graduation from Melbourne, Deakin and Harvard Universities. After medical registration in 1980 and clinical practice in Melbourne, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted to the New York City Department of Health in 1984. Subsequently, he undertook research on chronic disease in Australian Aborigines, communicable disease and environmental health. He is currently a Senior Specialist in Population Health, Australian Capital Territory Government, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University.

Professor Walter Ricciardi is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples (Medicine and Surgery) in 1984, specialised in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in 1988 and obtained his MSc (Community Medicine) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1989. Since 1993 he has held a number of key positions including President of the European Public Health Association, and has undertaken work with the World Health Organisation and the European Union. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and is a Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, USA.

Dr Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chairman of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi received his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of over 400 articles on the social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000. He is also Senior Editor of the Social Epidemiology section of the international journal Social Science & Medicine. He has served as an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, and the Pan American Health Organization.

Dr Iain Lang is a Consultant in Public Health with NHS Devon Primary Care Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health based at the National Institute for Health Research Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC), Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter, UK. His practice and research interests are in the health of middle-aged and older people, quality of care, and health service improvement.

Janet Peacock is Professor of Medical Statistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Medical Statistics, University of Southampton School of Medicine, where she leads the discipline of Medical Statistics.
She previously worked for over 20 years at St George's University of London. There she worked with Martin Bland and Sally Kerry with whom she has co-authored two books, Statistical Questions in Evidence-based Medicine (with Martin Bland) and Presenting Medical Statistics from proposal to publication (with Sally Kerry). She has always been enthusiastic about teaching medical statistics to medical students, doctors, and other health professionals, and is passionate about communicating the subject clearly. During her career to date she has collaborated with a wide range of health professionals in numerous epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses.

Philip Peacock qualified in medicine at Bristol in 2007 and is currently working as an Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of Bristol alongside specialty training in paediatrics within the Severn Deanery. He has been involved in research projects both as an undergraduate and since qualifying, and has produced several publications. Phil enjoys combining medical research with clinical practice, and is keen to help others understand and get involved with the research process.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice
1. Assessment
1.1. Scoping public health problems, Gabriele Bammer
1.2. Priorities and ethics, Sian Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair
1.3. Assessing health status, Julian Flowers
1.4. Assessing health needs, John Wright and Ben Cave
1.5. Assessing health impacts, Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley
1.6. Economic assessment, Peter Brambleby
2. Data and information
2.1. Understanding data, information, and knowledge, Barry Tennison
2.2. Information technology and informatics, Don Detmer
2.3. Qualitative methods, Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams
2.4. Epidemiological approach and design, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia
2.5. Statistical understanding, Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang
2.6. Inference, causality and interpretation, Iain Lang
2.7. Finding and appraising evidence, Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill
2.8. Surveillance, Daniel M. Sosin and Richard S. Hopkins
2.9. Investigating clusters, Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, and Amanda Burls
2.10. Health trends: registers, Jem Rashbass and John Newton
3. Direct action
3.1. Communicable disease epidemics, Sarah O'Brien
3.2. Environmental health risks, Roscoe Taylor and Charles Guest
3.3. Protecting and promoting health in the workplace, Tar-Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker, and Malcolm Harrington
3.4. Engaging communities in participatory research and action, Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang
3.5. Emergency response, Paul Bolton and Frederick Burkle
3.6. Screening, Angela Raffle, Alexandra Barratt, and Muir Gray
3.7. Genetics, Alison Stewart and Hilary Burton
3.8. Health communication, Kasisomayajula Viswanath
3.9. Public health practice in primary care, Steve Gillam
4. Policy arenas
4.1. Developing healthy public policy, Don Nutbeam
4.2. Translating evidence to policy, Lauren Smith, Jane An, and Ichiro Kawachi
4.3. Translating policy into indicators and targets, John Battersby
4.4. Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action, Rebekah Jenkin, Christine Jorm, and Michael Frommer
4.5. Media advocacy for policy influence, Simon Chapman
4.6. Influencing international policy, Tim Lang and Martin Caraher
4.7. Public health in poorer countries, Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann
4.8. Regulation, Lawrence Gostin
5. Health-care systems
5.1. Planning health services, David Lawrence
5.2. Funding and delivering health care, Anna Dixon
5.3. Commissioning health care, Richard Richards
5.4. Using guidance and frameworks, Rubin Minhas, Gene Feder, and Chris Griffiths
5.5. Health care process and patient experience, Diana Delnoij
5.6. Evaluating health-care technologies, Ruairidh Milne and Andrew Steven
5.7. Improving equity, Sharon Friel
5.8. Improving quality, Nick Steel, David Melzer, Iain Lang
5.9. Evaluating health care systems, Martin McKee, Bernadette Khoshaba, and Marina Karanikolos
6. Personal effectiveness
6.1. Developing leadership skills, Fiona Sim
6.2. Effective meetings, Edmund Jessop
6.3. Effective writing, Edmund Jessop
6.4. Working with the media, Alan Maryon-Davis
6.5. Communicating risk, Nick Steel and Charles Guest
6.6. Consultancy in a national strategy, Charles Guest
6.7. Assessing and improving your own professional practice, Caron Grainger
6.8. Activism, Muir Gray
6.9. Innovation, Muir Gray
7. Organisations
7.1. Governance and accountability, Virginia Pearson
7.2. Programme planning and project management, John Fien
7.3. Business planning, Mike Gogarty
7.4. Partnerships, Julian Elston
7.5. Knowledge transfer, Jeanette Ward, Jeremy Grimshaw, and Martin Eccles
7.6. Health, sustainability, and climate change, David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, Paul Cosford
7.7. Workforce, Felix Greaves and Charles Guest
7.8. Effective public health action, Chris Spencer Jones
Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics
1. Research design
2. Collecting data
3. Handling data
4. Presenting research findings
5. Choosing statistical software
6. Summarizing data
7. Probability and distributions
8. Statistical tests
9. Diagnostic studies
10. Other statistical methods
11. Multiple observations
12. Multiple variables
13. Meta-analysis
14. Bayesian statistics
15. Glossary of terms

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