Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Somerville, Margaret
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface to the second edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the authors
  • How to use your textbook
  • Part 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to public health
  • Chapter 2: Public health old and new
  • Part 2: Epidemiology and evidence-based practice
  • Chapter 3: Incidence and prevalence
  • Chapter 4: Risks and odds
  • Chapter 5: Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation
  • Chapter 6: Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies
  • Chapter 7: Standardisation
  • Chapter 8: Ecological and cross-sectional studies
  • Chapter 9: Case-control studies
  • Chapter 10: Cohort studies
  • Chapter 11: Trials (experimental studies)
  • Chapter 12: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
  • Chapter 13: Diagnostic tests
  • Chapter 14: Developing clinical guidelines
  • Part 3: Assessing population health
  • Chapter 15: Health and illness
  • Chapter 16: Demographic and epidemiological transitions
  • Chapter 17: Health information
  • Chapter 18: Measuring population health status
  • Chapter 19: Determinants of health
  • Chapter 20: Lifestyle determinants of health
  • Chapter 21: Social determinants of health
  • Chapter 22: Environmental determinants of health
  • Chapter 23: Inequalities in health
  • Chapter 24: Health needs assessment
  • Chapter 25: Maternal and infant health
  • Chapter 26: Health of older people
  • Part 4: Improving and protecting health
  • Chapter 27: Disease prevention
  • Chapter 28: Principles of disease transmission
  • Chapter 29: Communicable disease control
  • Chapter 30: Surveillance
  • Chapter 31: Immunisation
  • Chapter 32: Screening principles
  • Chapter 33: Screening programmes
  • Chapter 34: Health promotion
  • Chapter 35: Changing behaviour
  • Part 5: Health economics
  • Chapter 36: Economic perspectives on health
  • Chapter 37: Economic evaluation
  • Chapter 38: Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes
  • Chapter 39: Economics of public health problems
  • Part 6: Effective healthcare
  • Chapter 40: Healthcare systems
  • Chapter 41: Planning health services
  • Chapter 42: Improving services
  • Chapter 43: Healthcare evaluation
  • Self-assessment questions
  • Self-assessment answers
  • Appendix: practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies
  • Further reading
  • Index

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