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Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

Second Edition

Edited by David Pencheon, David Melzer, Muir Gray, and Charles Guest

Price: £24.95 (flexicover)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856655-7
Publication date: 7 September 2006
728 pages, 180x100 mm
Series: Oxford Handbooks Series
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'Any specialist in training is faced witht he ominous question-how do I do this? For the fully fledged practitioners it is often some time since they had to exercise certain skills, and faced with a new challenge need a reminder of how to approach it. To have an answer to this delivered by an eminent cast of experienced public health luminaries would be ideal, and it is this that this book delivers.' - John Lucy, Public Health
'Excellent chapters, clearly explained...informative, useful and practical...An essential book for anyone in public health or with a public health interest...continues to succinctly give the tools to be an effective public health practitioner to survive and succeed in these times...this book is the equivalent of the 'Public Health' Bible.' - BMA Medical Book Competition

Description

Invaluable resource for trainees and practitioners
Includes practical examples from around the world
Covers topics from Advocacy to Zoonoses
Over 100 authors from 4 continents
Fully updated with 13 new chapters including increased focus on North America and quality of health care systems
Essential approaches to common public health problems
Provides important websites for further consultation
Outlines the 10 core activities of Public Health

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.

Readership: Public health trainees and professionals, teachers of public health (Master's of Public Health), health service workers, environmental health officers.

Contents

Part 1

Problems, options, and priorites , David Pencheon

Introduction , David Pencheon

1.1. Scoping public health problems , Gabriele Bammer

1.2. Turning public health problems into answerable questions , Georgios Lyratzopoulos & Ian Harvey

1.3. Assessing health care needs , John Wright & Dee Kyle

1.4. Making choices - the role of health economics , John Appleby, Peter Brambleby

1.5. Assessing health impact , Alex Scott Samuel & Kate Arden

1.6. Being explicit about values in public health , Nick Steel

1.7. Understanding ethics in public health , Angus Dawson

1.8. Innovating , Muir Gray

Part 2

Using data and evidence , David Pencheon

Introduction , David Pencheon

2.1. Understanding data, information, and knowledge , Barry Tennison

2.2. Qualitative and quantitative understanding , Tom Ling

2.3. Epidemiologic understanding , Anjum Memon

2.4. Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance , Daniel Sosin & Richard Hopkins

2.5. Investigating changes in occurrence , Ibrahim Abubakar

2.6. Investigating alleged clusters , Pat Saunders, Andrew Kibble & Amanda Burls

2.7. Monitoring specific determinants and diseases - registers , Jem Rashbass & John Newton

2.8. Assessing health status , Peter Gentle & David Pencheon

2.9. Summarising population health , Jean-Marie Robine

2.10. Measuring and auditing health inequality and equity , Julian Flowers

2.11. Finding and appraising research evidence , Anne Brice, Amanda Burls & Alison Hill

2.12. Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers , Julius Weinberg & David Pencheon

Part 3

Direct Action , Muir Gray

Introduction , Muir Gray

3.1. Preventing epidemics of communicable disease , Sarah O'Brien

3.2. Protecting health, sustaining the environment , Roscoe Taylor & Charles Guest

3.3. Protecting and promoting health in the workplace , Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker & Malcolm Harrington

3.4. Facilitating community action , Anna Donald

3.5. Respondong to disasters , Paul Bolton

3.6. Assuring screening programmes , Angela Raffle, Alex Barratt, Muir Gray

3.7. Hard-to-reach groups , Julia Carr, Don Matheson & David Tipene-Leach

3.8. Understanding public health genetics , Ron Zimmern

3.9. The practice of public health in primary care , Steve Gillam

3.10. The practice of public health in poorer countries , Nicholas Banatvala & Jenny Amery

Part 4

Making Policy , David Melzer

Introduction , David Melzer

4.1. Influencing government policy: a framework , Gerard Anderson & Peter Sotir Hussey

4.2. Developing healthy public policy , Don Nutbeam

4.3. Law in public health practice , Lawrence Gostin

4.4. Shaping your organization's policy , Yi Mien Koh

4.5. Translating policy into indicators and targets , John Battersby

4.6. Translating indictators and targets into public health action , Rebekah Jenkin, George Rubin, Stephen Leeder & Michael Frommer

4.7. Influencing governments via media advocacy , Simon Chapman

4.8. Public health policy at European level , Martin McKee

4.9. Influencing international policy , Tim Lang & Martin Caraher

Part 5

Developing health system strategy , David Melzer

Introduction , David Melzer

5.1. An introduction to healthcare strategy , David Pencheon

5.2. Strategic approaches to planning health services , David Lawrence

5.3. Learning from international models of funding and delivering health care , Anna Dixon

5.4. Setting priorities in health care , Sian Griffiths, Tony Jewell & Tony Hope

5.5. Improving equity in health care , Anna Donald

5.6. Commissioning health care , Richard Richards

Part 6

Improving quality in health care , David Melzer

6.1. Understanding health care quality , Paul Shekelle, David Pencheon & David Melzer

6.2. Effecting change in health care organisations , Charlie Tomson & Rashad Massoud

6.3. Quality improvement through chronic disease management , Ron Davis

6.4. Variations in health care activity and quality , David Melzer & Nick Steel

6.5. Improving health and health care through informatics , Don Detmer

6.6. Evaluating health care technologies , Andrew Stevens & Ruairidh Milne

6.7. Getting research into practice , Jeanette Ward, Jermy Grimshaw & Martin Eccles

6.8. Using guidance and frameworks , Gene Feder & Chris Griffiths

6.9. Evaluating health care systems , Nick Hicks

6.10. Evaluating patient experience and health care process data , Edmund Jessop

6.11. Clinical quality, governance and accountability , Pamela Hall & Gabriel Scally

Part 7

Personal effectiveness , Charles Guest

Introduction , Charles Guest

7.1. Developing leadership skills , Fiona Sim

7.2. Effecting change at meetings , Edmund Jessop

7.3. Writing to effect change , Edmund Jessop

7.4. Working with the media , Alan Maryon Davis

7.5. Communicating risk , Nick Steel & Charles Guest

7.6. Being a consultant , Charles Guest

7.7. Being a political activist , Muir Gray

7.8. Assessing and improving your own professional practice , Caron Grainger

Part 8

Organisational development , Charles Guest

Introduction , Charles Guest

8.1. Working in teams , Annabelle Mark & Mike Jones

8.2. Managing projects , Gabriel Scally

8.3. Planning - operational and business , Paul Watson & Peter Wightman

8.4. Involving consumers , Vikki Entwistle & Bec Hanley

8.5. Assessing public health effectiveness , Chris Spencer-Jones

Endmatters , Charles Guest

A chronology of Public Health Practice , Charles Guest, Katherine Mackay

Ten golden rules of Public Health Practice , Professor John Wilkinson & Professor Sir Kenneth Calman

Internet sources of references (Important websites)

Abbreviations and glossary

Bibliography

Index

Inclusion

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by David Pencheon, Director, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory, Cambridge, UK,
David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology & Public Health, Penninsula Medical School, Exeter,
Muir Gray, Director of R&D, NHS Executive (Anglia & Oxford), Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, and
Charles Guest, Australian Capital Territory Department of Health and Australian National University, Canberra

Links to web resources and related information

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