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Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students understand the determinants of health and their study, from personal lifestyle choices and behaviour, to environmental, social and economic factors.

 

This fully updated new edition features:

• More coverage of audit and quality improvement techniques

• Brand new sections on maternal and child health, and health of older people

• New chapters on social determinants of health and guideline development

• Expanded self-assessment material

 

This accessible guide is an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in epidemiology and public health.

Table of Contents

 

Preface to the Second Edition

 

Acknowledgements

 

About the authors

 

1. Introduction to Public Health

 

2. Public Health Old and New

 

3. Incidence and prevalence

 

4. Risks and Odds

 

5. Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation

 

6. Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies

 

7. Standardisation

 

8. Ecological and cross-sectional studies

 

9. Case-control studies

 

10. Cohort studies

 

11. Trials (experimental studies)

 

12. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis

 

13. Diagnostic tests

 

14. Developing Guidelines

 

15. Health and illness

 

16. Demographic and epidemiological transitions

 

17. Health Information

 

18. Measuring population health status

 

19. Determinants of Health

 

20. Lifestyle determinants of health

 

21. Social determination of health

 

22. Environmental determinants of health

 

23. Inequalities in health

 

24. Health needs assessment

 

25. Maternal and Infant health

 

26. Health of older people

 

27. Disease prevention

 

28. Principles of disease transmission

 

29. Communicable disease control

 

30. Surveillance

 

31. Immunisation

 

32. Screening principles

 

33. Screening programmes

 

34. Health promotion

 

35. Changing behaviour

 

36. Economic perspectives on health

 

37. Economic evaluation

 

38. Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes

 

39. Economics of public health problems

 

40. Health care systems

 

41. Planning health services

 

42. Improving services

 

43. Health care evaluation

 

Self-Assessment

 

Self-assessment Questions

 

Self-assessment Answers

 

Appendix- Practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies

 

Further reading

 

Index