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Contents
- Front Matter
- Part 1 Options and decision
- Part 1 Options and decision
- Introduction
- 1.1 Scoping public health problems
- 1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions
- 1.3 Assessing health needs
- 1.4 Economic evaluation—the science behind the art of making choices
- 1.5 Assessing health impacts on a population
- 1.6 Being explicit about values in public health
- 1.7 Understanding ethics in public health
- 1.8 Innovative ways to solve public health problems
- Part 2 Using data and evidence
- Part 2 Using data and evidence
- Introduction
- 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge
- 2.2 Using qualitative methods
- 2.3 Epidemiological understanding: an overview of basic concepts and study designs
- 2.4 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance
- 2.5 Investigating changes in occurrence
- 2.6 Investigating alleged clusters
- 2.7 Assessing longer‐term health trends: registers
- 2.8 Assessing health status
- 2.9 Summarizing health status
- 2.10 Measuring and monitoring health inequalities and auditing inequity
- 2.11 Finding and appraising evidence
- 2.12 Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers
- Part 3 Direct action
- 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 Managing disasters and other public health crises
- 3.6 Assuring screening programmes
- 3.7 The public health response to 'hard to reach' populations
- 3.8 Genetics in disease prevention
- 3.9 The practice of public health in primary care
- 3.10 Public health in poorer countries
- Part 4 Making policy
- 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 indicators and targets into public health action
- 4.7 Influencing governments via media advocacy
- 4.8 Public health policy at a European level
- 4.9 Influencing international policy
- Part 5 Developing health system strategy
- Part 5 Developing health system strategy
- Introduction
- 5.1 An introduction to health‐care 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
- Part 6 Improving quality in health care
- Introduction
- 6.1 Understanding health‐care quality
- 6.2 Taking action to improve quality
- 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
- Part 8 Organizational development
- End Matter