Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance

by Somerville, Margaret; Kumaran, K.; Anderson, Rob

• ISBN13: 9780470654453
• ISBN10: 0470654457
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glance series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healthcare services and their effectiveness. Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance features high yield information on all the topics covered at medical school, including: Measurement of population health Epidemiological concepts of cause and association, surveillance, and risk Use of epidemiology in clinical decision making Epidemiology of major health problems such as cardiovascular disease and cancer Health promotion Basics of health economics Basics of health policy, needs assessment, and evaluation Also featuring self assessment questions to help test learning, this new title will provide an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in public health.

Author Biography

Margaret Somerville is Director of Public Health and Health Policy, NHS Highland, Inverness

K. Kumaran is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Somerset

Rob Anderson, Institute of Health Service Research, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Acknowledgements	p. 7
About the authors	p. 7
Introduction to public health	p. 8
Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice
Incidence and prevalence	p. 10
Risks and odds	p. 12
Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation	p. 14
Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies	p. 16
Standardisation	p. 18
Ecological and cross-sectional studies	p. 20
Case-control and cohort studies	p. 22
Trials (experimental studies)	p. 24
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis	p. 26
Diagnostic tests	p. 28
Assessing Population Health
Health and illness	p. 30
Demography	p. 32
Epidemiological transition	p. 34
Health information	p. 36
Measuring population health status	p. 38
Lifestyle determinants of health	p. 40
Environmental determinants of health	p. 42
Inequalities in health	p. 44
Socio-economic inequalities in health	p. 46
Health needs assessment	p. 48
Improving and Protecting Health
Disease prevention	p. 50
Principles of disease transmission	p. 52
Communicable disease control	p. 54
Surveillance	p. 56
Immunisation	p. 58
Screening principles	p. 60
Screening programmes	p. 62
Health promotion	p. 64
Changing behaviour	p. 66
Health Economics
Economic perspectives on health	p. 68
Economic evaluation	p. 70
Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes	p. 72
Economics of public health problems	p. 74
Effective Health Care
Health care systems	p. 76
Planning health services	p. 78
Health care evaluation	p. 80
Self-Assessment Self-assessment questions	p. 82
Self-assessment answers	p. 84
Appendix: Practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies	p. 85
Further reading	p. 87
Index	p. 88
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