Oxford handbook of public health practice : [electronic book] /
Contributor(s): Kawachi, Ichirō [editor.] | Lang, Iain [editor.] | Ricciardi, Walter [editor.].
Series: Oxford medical publications: ; Oxford handbooks: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: Fourth edition.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 663 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780192520609.Other title: Handbook of public health practice.Subject(s): Public health -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Public health administration | Medicine, Preventive | Health promotionDDC classification: 362.1 Online resources: Access ebook hereItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Ebook | ATU Sligo Yeats Library eBook | 362.1 KAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available Online | Unlimited access |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Introduction to the fourth edition -- Contributors -- PART 1. ASSESSMENT. 1.1. Scoping public health problems -- 1.2. Priorities and ethics in population-based healthcare -- 1.3. Asessing the health of populations -- 1.4. Assessing health needs -- 1.5. Assessing health impacts -- 1.6. Economic assessment -- PART 2. DATA AND INFORMATION. 2.1. Understanding data, information, and knowledge -- 2.2. Information technology and informatics -- 2.3. /questions, design, and analysis in qualitative research -- 2.4. Epidemiological approach and design -- 2.5. Statistical understanding -- 2.6. Inference, causality, and interpretation -- 2.7. Finding and appraising evidence -- 2.8. Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance -- 2.9. Investigating alleged clusters -- 2.10. Assessing longer-term health trends: disease registers -- PART 3. DIRECT ACTION. 3.1. Communicable disease epidemics -- 3.2. /Environmental health risks and assessment -- 3.3. Safeguarding and promoting health in the workplace -- 3.4. Engaging communities in participatory research and action -- 3.5. Disasters -- 3.6. Assuring screening programmes -- 3.7. Genomics -- 3.8. Health communication -- 3.9. Public health practice in primary care -- 3.10. Translating research into practice- implementation science -- PART 4. POLICY ARENAS. 4.1. Developing public health policy -- 4.2. Translating evidence to policy -- 4.3. Translating policy into indicators and targets -- 4.4. Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action -- 4.5. Media advocacy for policy influence -- 4.6. Influencing international policy -- 4.7. Improving public health in low- and middle-income countries -- 4.8. Regulation -- 4.9. Health, sustainability, and climate change -- PART 5. HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS. 5.1. Sustainability of healthcare systems -- 5.2. Planning health services -- 5.3. Comparing healthcare systems -- 5.4. Commissioning healthcare -- 5.5. Controlling expenditures -- 5.6. Using guidance and frameworks -- 5.7. Healthcare process and patient experience -- 5.8. Health technology assessment -- 5.9. Improving equity -- 5.10. Improving quality -- 5.11. Evaluating healthcare systems -- 5.12. Value-based healthcare -- PART 6. PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS. 6.1. Developing leadership skills -- 6.2. Effective meetings -- 6.3. Effective writing -- 6.4. Working with the media -- 6.5. Communicating risk -- 6.6. Consultancy in a national strategy -- 6.7. Effective negotiating -- PART 7. ORGANIZATIONS. 7.1. Governance and accountability -- 7.2. Programme planning and project management -- 7.3. Business planning -- 7.4. Working in teams in public health -- 7.5. Partnerships -- 7.6. Getting research into practice -- 7.7. Workforce -- Index.