Contents

Front matter

• OXFORD MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS • • Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice
• Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice • • Second edition
• titleverso
• Editors’ dedication
• Foreword to the second edition
• Foreword to the first edition
• Editors’ lament
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Detailed contents
• Contributors
• Introduction

Part 1 Options and decision

• Introduction
• 1.1 Scoping public health problems
• 1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions
• 1.3 Assessing health needs
• 1.4 Economic evaluation—the science behind the art of making choices
• 1.5 Assessing health impacts on a population
• 1.6 Being explicit about values in public health
• 1.7 Understanding ethics in public health
• 1.8 Innovative ways to solve public health problems

Part 2 Using data and evidence

• Introduction
• 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge
• 2.2 Using qualitative methods
• 2.3 Epidemiological understanding: an overview of basic concepts and study designs
• 2.4 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance
• 2.5 Investigating changes in occurrence
• 2.6 Investigating alleged clusters
• 2.7 Assessing longer-term health trends: registers
• 2.8 Assessing health status
• 2.9 Summarizing health status
• 2.10 Measuring and monitoring health inequalities and auditing inequity
• 2.11 Finding and appraising evidence
• 2.12 Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers

Part 3 Direct action

• Introduction
• 3.1 Preventing epidemics of communicable disease
• 3.2 Protecting health, sustaining the environment
• 3.3 Protecting and promoting health in the workplace
• 3.4 Facilitating community action
• 3.5 Managing disasters and other public health crises
• 3.6 Assuring screening programmes
• 3.7 The public health response to ‘hard to reach’ populations
• 3.8 Genetics in disease prevention
• 3.9 The practice of public health in primary care
• 3.10 Public health in poorer countries

Part 4 Making policy

• Introduction
• 4.1 Influencing government policy: a framework
• 4.2 Developing healthy public policy
• 4.3 Law in public health practice
• 4.4 Shaping your organization's policy
• 4.5 Translating policy into indicators and targets
• 4.6 Translating indicators and targets into public health action
• 4.7 Influencing governments via media advocacy
• 4.8 Public health policy at a European level
• 4.9 Influencing international policy

Part 5 Developing health system strategy

• Introduction
• 5.1 An introduction to health-care strategy
• 5.2 Strategic approaches to planning health services
• 5.3 Learning from international models of funding and delivering health care
• 5.4 Setting priorities in health care
• 5.5 Improving equity in health care
• 5.6 Commissioning health care

Part 6 Improving quality in health care

• Introduction
• 6.1 Understanding health-care quality
• 6.2 Taking action to improve quality
• 6.3 Quality improvement through chronic disease management
• 6.4 Variations in health-care activity and quality
• 6.5 Improving health and health care through informatics
• 6.6 Evaluating health-care technologies
• 6.7 Getting research into practice
• 6.8 Using guidance and frameworks
• 6.9 Evaluating health-care systems
• 6.10 Evaluating patient experience and health-care process data
• 6.11 Clinical quality, governance, and accountability

Part 7 Personal effectiveness

• Introduction
• 7.1 Public health leadership
• 7.2 Effective meetings
• 7.3 Effective writing
• 7.4 Working with the media
• 7.5 Communicating risk
• 7.6 Consultancy in a national strategy
• 7.7 Being a political activist
• 7.8 Improving professional practice

Part 8 Organizational development

• Introduction
• 8.1 Working in teams
• 8.2 Managing projects
• 8.3 Operational and business planning
• 8.4 Involving the public
• 8.5 Criteria for assessing effective public health action

End matter

• A chronology of public health practice
• Golden rules of public health practice
• Sources of reference
• Abbreviations and glossary

Bibliography

• Bibliography

‘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

About the Editors

David Pencheon, Director, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK

David Melzer, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Muir Gray, Programme Director, UK National Screening Committee and Director of Clinical Knowledge and Safety, Department of Health, UK

Charles Guest, Senior Specialist, Australian Capital Territory Department of Health and Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Disclaimer

Oxford University Press makes no representation, express or implied, that the drug dosages in this book are correct. Readers must therefore always check the product information and clinical procedures with the most up to date published product information and data sheets provided by the manufacturers and the most recent codes of conduct and safety regulations. The authors and the publishers do not accept responsibility or legal liability for any errors in the text or for the misuse or misapplication of material in this work.

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