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Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice David Pencheon

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice By David Pencheon

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice by David Pencheon

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Summary

A practical guide to the practice of public health on a day-to-day basis, suitable for those in training and practice.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice Summary

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice by David Pencheon

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.

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice Reviews

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. Occupational Medicine 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

Table of Contents

PART 1; Problems, options, and priorites; Introduction; 1.1 Scoping public health problems; 1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions; 1.3 Assessing health care needs; 1.4 Making choices - the role of health economics; 1.5 Assessing health impact; 1.6 Being explicit about values in public health; 1.7 Understanding ethics in public health; 1.8 Innovating; PART 2; Using data and evidence; Introduction; 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge; 2.2 Qualitative and quantitative understanding; 2.3 Epidemiologic understanding; 2.4 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance; 2.5 Investigating changes in occurrence; 2.6 Investigating alleged clusters; 2.7 Monitoring specific determinants and diseases - registers; 2.8 Assessing health status; 2.9 Summarising population health; 2.10 Measuring and auditing health inequality and equity; 2.11 Finding and appraising research 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 Respondong to disasters; 3.6 Assuring screening programmes; 3.7 Hard-to-reach groups; 3.8 Understanding public health genetics; 3.9 The practice of public health in primary care; 3.10 The practice of 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 indictators and targets into public health action; 4.7 Influencing governments via media advocacy; 4.8 Public health policy at European level; 4.9 Influencing international policy; PART 5; Developing health system strategy; Introduction; 5.1 An introduction to healthcare 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; 6.1 Understanding health care quality; 6.2 Effecting change in health care organisations; 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 Developing leadership skills; 7.2 Effecting change at meetings; 7.3 Writing to effect change; 7.4 Working with the media; 7.5 Communicating risk; 7.6 Being a consultant; 7.7 Being a political activist; 7.8 Assessing and improving your own professional practice; PART 8; Organisational development; Introduction; 8.1 Working in teams; 8.2 Managing projects; 8.3 Planning - operational and business; 8.4 Involving consumers; 8.5 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

Additional information

GOR003765368
9780198566557
0198566557
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice by David Pencheon
David Pencheon
Oxford Medical Handbooks
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20060907
728
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