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Author Somerville, Margaret, Dr.

Title Public health and epidemiology at a glance / Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran, Robert Anderson
Published Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

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Description 94 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Series At a glance
At a glance.
Contents Contents note continued: 26.Immunisation -- 27.Screening principles -- 28.Screening programmes -- 29.Health promotion -- 30.Changing behaviour -- Health Economics -- 31.Economic perspectives on health -- 32.Economic evaluation -- 33.Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes -- 34.Economics of public health problems -- Effective Health Care -- 35.Health care systems -- 36.Planning health services -- 37.Health care evaluation -- Self-Assessment -- Self-assessment questions -- Self-assessment answers
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to public health -- Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice -- 2.Incidence and prevalence -- 3.Risks and odds -- 4.Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation -- 5.Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies -- 6.Standardisation -- 7.Ecological and cross-sectional studies -- 8.Case-control and cohort studies -- 9.Trials (experimental studies) -- 10.Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- 11.Diagnostic tests -- 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 -- Improving and Protecting Health -- 22.Disease prevention -- 23.Principles of disease transmission -- 24.Communicable disease control -- 25.Surveillance --
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Epidemiology.
Public health.
Epidemiologic Methods.
Public Health.
Needs Assessment.
Author Anderson, Rob, 1967-
Kumaran, K. (Kalyanaraman)
LC no. 2011028910
ISBN 9780470654453 (paperback)
Other Titles Public health and epidemiology