Public health and epidemiology at a glance (series: at a glance) (paperback)

This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glance series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healthcare services and their effectiveness.

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance features high yield information on all the topics covered at medical school, including:

• Measurement of population health
• Epidemiological concepts of cause and association, surveillance, and risk
• Use of epidemiology in clinical decision making
• Epidemiology of major health problems such as cardiovascular disease and cancer
• Health promotion
• Basics of health economics
• Basics of health policy, needs assessment, and evaluation

Also featuring self assessment questions to help test learning, this new title will provide an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in public health.

Preface.

1 Introduction to public health.

Part 1 Epidemiology and Evidence-based practice.

2 Incidence and prevalence.

3 Risks and rates.

4 Investigating causation.

5 Bias, confounding and chance.

6 Standardisation.

7 Ecological, time-series and cross-sectional studies.

8 Case-control and cohort studies.

9 Trials.

10 Systematic review and meta-analysis.

11 Diagnostic tests.

Part 2 Assessing population health.

12 Health and illness.

13 Demography.

14 Epidemiological transition.

15 Health Information.

16 Measuring population health status.

17 Lifestyle Determinants of health.

18 Environmental determinants of health.

19 Inequalities in health.

20 Socio-economic inequalities in health.

21 Health Needs Assessment.

Part 3 Improving and protecting health.

22 Disease prevention.

23 Principles of Disease Transmission.

24 Communicable Disease Control.

25 Surveillance.

26 Immunisation.

27 Screening Principles.

28 Screening Programmes.

29 Health Promotion.

30 Changing behaviour.

Part 4 Health Economics.

31 Economic perspectives on health.

32 Economic evaluation.

33 Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes.

34 Economics of public health problems.

Part 5 Effective Health Care.

35 Health care systems.

36 Planning health services.

37 Evaluation.

Part 6 Self-assessment.

38 Questions.

39 Answers.

Appendix: Using epidemiological studies in communicable disease control.

Index.