Oxford University Press :: Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 3e Revised (OP)

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.

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Part 1: Assessment

1.1Scoping public health problems

1.2Priorities and ethics

1.3Assessing health status

1.4Assessing health needs

1.5Assessing health impacts

1.6Economic assessment

Part 2: Data and Information

2.1Understanding data, information, and knowledge

2.2Information technology and informatics

2.3Qualitative methods

2.4Epidemiological approach and design

2.5Statistical understanding

2.6Inference, causality and interpretation

2.7Finding and appraising evidence

2.8Surveillance

2.9Investigating clusters

2.10Health trends: registers

Part 3: Direct Action

3.1Communicable disease epidemics

3.2Environmental health risks

3.3Protecting and promoting health in the workplace

3.4Engaging communities in participatory research and action

3.5Emergency response

3.6Screening

3.7Genetics

3.8Health communication

3.9Public health practice in primary care

Part 4: Policy arenas

4.1Developing healthy public policy

4.2Translating evidence to policy

4.3Translating policy into indicators and targets

4.4Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action

4.5Media advocacy for policy influence

4.6Influencing international policy

4.7Public health in poorer countries

4.8Regulation

Part 5:Health-care systems

5.1Planning health services

5.2Funding and delivering health care

5.3Commissioning health care

5.4Using guidance and frameworks

5.5Using guidance and frameworks

5.6Health care process and patient experience

5.7Evaluating health-care technologies

5.8Improving equity

5.9Improving quality

5.10Evaluating health care systems

Part 6: Personal effectiveness

6.1Developing leadership skills

6.2Effective meetings

6.3Effective writing

6.4Working with the media

6.5Communicating risk.

6.6Consultancy in a national strategy

6.7Assessing and improving your own professional practice

6.8Activism

6.9Innovation

Part 7: Organizations

7.1Governance and accountability

7.2Programme planning and project management

7.3Business planning

7.4Partnerships

7.5Knowledge transfer

7.6Health, sustainability, and climate change

7.7Workforce

7.8Effective public health action

Students in public health and related disciplines, candidates for professional qualifications in public health, public health practitioners, as well as teachers of public health (Master's of Public Health), health service workers, and environmental health officers.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 3e Revised (OP)

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