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Essential public health : theory and practice /

Essential public health : theory and practice / edited by Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates, and Padmanabhan Badrinath. - 2nd ed. - United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xiv, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Introduction Stephen Gillam; Part I. The Public Health Toolkit: 1. Management, leadership and change Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates; 2. Demography Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam; 3. Epidemiology Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam; 4. The health status of the population Padmanabhan Badrinath and Jan Yates; 5. Evidence-based health care Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam; 6. Health needs assessment Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath; 7. Decision making in the health care sector – the role of public health Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam; 8. Improving population health Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates; 9. Screening Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam; 10. Health protection and communicable disease control Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath; 11. Improving quality of care Nicholas Steel and Stephen Gillam; Part II. Contexts for Public Health Practice: Introduction; 12. The health of children and young people Kirsteen L. Macleod, Rachel Crowther and Sarah Stewart-Brown; 13. Adult public heath Veena Rodrigues; 14. Public health and ageing Lincoln Sargeant and Carol Brayne; 15. Health inequalities and public health practice Chrissie Pickin and Jennie Popay; 16. Health policy Richard Lewis and Stephen Gillam; 17. International development and public health Jenny Amery; 18. Sustainable development – the opportunities and the challenges for the public's health David Pencheon; Index. Table of contents



9781107601765


Public health.
Public Health Practice
Community Health Services

362.1 / ESS 2012