Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 September 2006
- ISBN 9780198566557
- Binding Book
- No. of pages728 pages
- Size 185x106x25 mm
- Weight 371 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Tables, line drawings 0
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Short description:
This is a unique practical guide to the practice of public health on a day-to-day basis. It is a simple, easy to use book on public health skills - a first resort for all those in training and practice.
MoreLong description:
This is a practical public health book - written by public health practitioners for public health practitioners. It introduces learning practitioners to the early phases of approaching a public health issue, details why an issue is important and exactly how it can be analysed and addressed. It deals not only with the technical issues, but crucially with how those technical issues can be implemented in order to improve the health of the population directly, or via one of many
important causal pathways (quality of health care design and delivery). It is written by experienced, internationally known practitioners of public health.
The book contains a wealth of knowledge and practical advice directly or indirectly applicable to occupational health practice ... The book is easily read and well structured ... it is a user-friendly practical guide aimed at developing the skils and guiding the practice of public health professionals. To the occupational health audience, it forms a unique and immensely useful resource, especially for those practising at a strategic level.
Table of Contents:
Part 1
Problems, options, and priorites
Introduction
Scoping public health problems
Turning public health problems into answerable questions
Assessing health care needs
Making choices - the role of health economics
Assessing health impact
Being explicit about values in public health
Understanding ethics in public health
Innovating
Part 2
Using data and evidence
Introduction
Understanding data, information, and knowledge
Qualitative and quantitative understanding
Epidemiologic understanding
Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance
Investigating changes in occurrence
Investigating alleged clusters
Monitoring specific determinants and diseases - registers
Assessing health status
Summarising population health
Measuring and auditing health inequality and equity
Finding and appraising research evidence
Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers
Part 3
Direct Action
Introduction
Preventing epidemics of communicable disease
Protecting health, sustaining the environment
Protecting and promoting health in the workplace
Facilitating community action
Respondong to disasters
Assuring screening programmes
Hard-to-reach groups
Understanding public health genetics
The practice of public health in primary care
The practice of public health in poorer countries
Part 4
Making Policy
Introduction
Influencing government policy: a framework
Developing healthy public policy
Law in public health practice
Shaping your organization's policy
Translating policy into indicators and targets
Translating indictators and targets into public health action
Influencing governments via media advocacy
Public health policy at European level
Influencing international policy
Part 5
Developing health system strategy
Introduction
An introduction to healthcare strategy
Strategic approaches to planning health services
Learning from international models of funding and delivering health care
Setting priorities in health care
Improving equity in health care
Commissioning health care
Part 6
Improving quality in health care
Understanding health care quality
Effecting change in health care organisations
Quality improvement through chronic disease management
Variations in health care activity and quality
Improving health and health care through informatics
Evaluating health care technologies
Getting research into practice
Using guidance and frameworks
Evaluating health care systems
Evaluating patient experience and health care process data
Clinical quality, governance and accountability
Part 7
Personal effectiveness
Introduction
Developing leadership skills
Effecting change at meetings
Writing to effect change
Working with the media
Communicating risk
Being a consultant
Being a political activist
Assessing and improving your own professional practice
Part 8
Organisational development
Introduction
Working in teams
Managing projects
Planning - operational and business
Involving consumers
Assessing public health effectiveness
Endmatters
A chronology of Public Health Practice
Ten golden rules of Public Health Practice
Internet sources of references (Important websites)
Abbreviations and glossary
Bibliography
Index
Inclusion
