| Phys. Description |
xxvi, 629 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Oxford medical publications |
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Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford medical publications.
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Note |
Preceded by Oxford handbook of public health practice / edited by David Pencheon ... [et al.]. 2nd ed. 2006. |
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Third edition published 2013, reprinted 2015, 2016, 2017. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 589-610) and index. |
| Contents |
Scoping public health problems -- Priorities and ethics in health care -- Assessing health status -- Assessing health needs -- Assessing health impacts -- Economic assessment -- Understanding data, information, and knowledge -- Information technology and informatics -- Qualitative methods -- Epidemiological approach and design -- Statistical understanding -- Inference, causality, and interpretation -- Finding and appraising evidence -- Surveillance -- Investigating clusters -- Health trends : registers -- Communicable disease epidemics -- Environmental health risks -- Protecting and promoting health in the workplace -- Engaging communities in participative research -- Emergency response -- Assuring screening programmes -- Genetics -- Health communication -- Public health practice in primary care -- Developing healthy public policy -- Translating evidence to policy -- Translating policy into indicators and targets -- Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action -- Media advocacy for policy influence -- Influencing international policy -- Public health in poorer countries -- Regulation -- Planning health services -- Funding and delivering health care -- Commissioning health care -- Controlling expenditures -- Using guidance and frameworks -- Health care process and patient experience -- Evaluating health care technologies -- Improving equity -- Improving quality -- Evaluating health care systems -- Developing leadership skills -- Effective meetings -- Effective writing -- Working with the media -- Communicating risk -- Consultancy in a national strategy -- Improving your professional practice -- Activism -- Innovation -- Governance and accountability -- Programme planning and project management -- Business planning -- Partnerships -- Knowledge transfer -- Health, sustainability, and climate change -- Workforce -- Effective public health action -- A chronology of public health practice -- Public health organizations, websites, and other resources. |
| Subject |
Public Health Practice.
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Health Promotion.
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Public Health Administration.
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Public Health -- methods.
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| Genre |
Handbooks.
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| Other Number |
2012946418 |
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GBB2A1573 bnb |
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809978131 828197353 |
| Alt Author |
Guest, Charles, editor.
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Ricciardi, Walter, editor.
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Kawachi, Ichiro, editor.
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Lang, Iain, editor.
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| Alt Title |
Handbook of public health practice |
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Public health practice |
| ISBN |
9780199586301 (pbk.) |
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0199586306 (pbk.) |
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