Oxford Textbook of Public Health

Oxford Textbook of Public Health (5 ed.)

Edited by Roger Detels, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang, and Martin Gulliford

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The Oxford Textbook of Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. With contributors drawn from across the world, offering perspectives from vastly different health systems, with ranging public health needs and priorities, this book offers a globally comprehensive picture of modern health.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Sep 2009

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199218707

Published online:: Mar 2011

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199218707.001.0001

Authors

Roger Detels, editor Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Robert Beaglehole, editor Professor Emeritus, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Mary Ann Lansang, editor Professor of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Manila

Martin Gulliford, editor Professor of Public Health, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London, UK

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Front Matter
Volume 1 The scope of public health
- Section 1 The development of the discipline of public health
  - 1.1 The scope and concerns of public healthRoger Detels
  - 1.2 The history and development of public health in developed countriesChristopher Hamlin
  - 1.3 The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countriesThan Sein
  - 1.4 The development of the discipline of public health in countries in economic transition: India, Brazil, ChinaPuja Thakker and K. Srinath Reddy
- Section 2 Determinants of health and disease
  - 2.1 GlobalizationKelley Lee
  - 2.2 Overview and frameworkOrielle Solar, Alec Irwin, and Jeanette Vega
  - 2.3 Behavioural determinants of health and diseaseLawrence W. Green and Robert A. Hiatt
  - 2.4 Genomics and public healthAlison Stewart, Wylie Burke, Muin J. Khoury, and Ron Zimmerns
  - 2.5 Water and sanitationThomas Clasen and Steven Sugden
  - 2.6 Food and nutritionPrakash S. Shetty
  - 2.7 Infectious diseasesDavidson H Hamer, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, and Sherwood L. Gorbach
  - 2.8 The global environmentAnthony J. McMichael and Hilary J. Bambrick
  - 2.9 Health services as determinants of population healthMartin Gulliford
  - 2.10 Assessing health needs: The global burden of disease approachC.J.L. Murray, A.D. Lopez, and Colin Douglas Mathers
- Section 3 Public health policies
  - 3.1 Overview of policies and strategiesWalter W. Holland
  - 3.2 Public health policy in developed countriesJohn Powles
  - 3.3 Health policy in developing countriesMiguel Angel González-Block, Adetokunbo Lucas, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, and Julio Frenk
  - 3.4 Leadership in public healthManuel M. Dayrit and Maia Ambegaokar
- Section 4 Public health law and ethics
  - 4.1 The right to the highest attainable standard of healthPaul Hunt, Gunilla Backman, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Louise Finer, Rajat Khosla, Dragana Korljan, and Lisa Oldring
  - 4.2 Comparative national public health legislationRobyn Martin and Alexandra Lo Dak Wai
  - 4.3 International public health instrumentsDouglas Bettcher1, Katherine DeLand1, Jorgen Schlundt1, Fernando González-Martín1, Jennifer Bishop, Summer Hamide, and Annette Lin
  - 4.4 Ethical principles and ethical issues in public healthNancy Kass
Volume 2 The methods of public health
- Section 5 Information systems and sources of intelligence
  - 5.1 Information systems in support of public health in high-income countriesPaul Fu, Jr., Jeff Luck, and Denis J. Protti
  - 5.2 Information systems and community diagnosis in low- and middle-income countriesVipat Kuruchittham, Fred Binka, and Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
  - 5.3 Web-based public health information dissemination and evaluationElliot R. Siegel, Fred B. Wood, John C. Scott, and Julia Royall
- Section 6 Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
  - 6.1 Epidemiology: The foundation of public healthRoger Detels
  - 6.2 Ecologic variables, ecologic studies, and multilevel studies in public health researchAna V. Diez-Roux
  - 6.3 Cross-sectional studiesManolis Kogevinas and Leda Chatzi
  - 6.4 Principles of outbreak investigationKumnuan Ungchusak and Sopon Iamsirithaworn
  - 6.5 Case–control studiesNoel S. Weiss
  - 6.6 Cohort studisAlvaro Muñoz and F. Javier Nieto
  - 6.7 Methodology of intervention trials in individualsLawrence M. Friedman and Eleanor B. Schron
  - 6.8 Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trialsAllan Donner
  - 6.9 Community-based intervention studies in high-income countriesPekka Puska and Erkki Vartiainen
  - 6.10 Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countriesZunyou Wu and Sheena G. Sullivan
  - 6.11 Clinical epidemiologyJason W. Busse, Edward Mills, Rodolfo Dennis, Vivian Welch, and Peter Tugwell
  - 6.12 Validity and bias in epidemiological researchSander Greenland
  - 6.13 Causation and causal inferenceKatherine J. Hoggatt and Sander Greenland
  - 6.14 Systematic reviews and meta-analysisMatthias Egger, George Davey Smith, and Jonathan Sterne
  - 6.15 Statistical methodsGail Williams
  - 6.16 Mathematical models of transmission and controlRoy M. Anderson, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, and D. James Nokes
  - 6.17 Public health surveillanceRuth L. Berkelman, Patrick S. Sullivan, and James W. Buehler
- Section 7 Social science techniques
  - 7.1 Sociology and psychology in public healthMyfanwyMorgan, Margaret Reid, and Jane Ogden
  - 7.2 Demography and public healthEmily Grundy
  - 7.3 Health promotion, health education, and the public’s healthMarcia Hills and Simon Carroll
  - 7.4 Cost-effectiveness analysis: Concepts and applicationsDean T. Jamison
  - 7.5 Governance and management of public health programmesDiana Bontá and Meredith Cagle
  - 7.6 Public health sciences and policy in high-income countriesTim Tenbensel and Peter Davis
  - 7.7 Public health sciences and policy in low-and middle-income countriesLindiwe Makubalo, Mary Ann Lansang1, and J. Peter Figueroa
- Section 8 Environmental and occupational health sciences
  - 8.1 Environmental health issues in public healthChien-Jen Chen
  - 8.2 Radiation and public healthLeeka Kheifets, Myles Cockburn, and Manjit Dosanjh
  - 8.3 Control of microbial threats: Population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratoryFrank Sorvillo and Shira Shafir
  - 8.4 The science of human exposures to contaminants in the environmentPaul J. Lioy
  - 8.5 Occupational healthDavid Koh and Dean Baker
  - 8.6 Ergonomics and public healthLaura Punnett
  - 8.7 Toxicology and risk assessment in the analysis and management of environmental riskBernard D. Goldstein
  - 8.8 Risk perception and communicationBaruch Fischhoff
Volume 3 The practice of public health
- Section 9 Major health problems
  - 9.1 Gene–environment interactions and public healthPaolo Vineis and Rodolfo Saracci
  - 9.2 Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseasesRussell V. Luepker and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
  - 9.3 NeoplasmsPaolo Boffetta and Carlo La Vecchia
  - 9.4 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthmaJeroen Douwes, Marike Boezen, and Neil Pearce
  - 9.5 ObesityPhilip James
  - 9.6 The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitusNigel Unwin and Paul Zimmet
  - 9.7 Public mental healthBenedetto Saraceno, Melvyn Freeman, and Michelle Funk
  - 9.8 Dental public healthZoe Marshman and Peter G. Robinson
  - 9.9 Musculoskeletal diseasesJennifer L. Kelsey and Marian T. Hannan
  - 9.10 Neurologic diseases, epidemiology, and public healthWalter A. Kukull and James Bowen
  - 9.11 The transmissible spongiform encephalopathiesRichard S.G. Knight and Hester J.T. Ward
  - 9.12 Sexually transmitted infectionsMary L. Kamb and John M. Douglas, Jr.
  - 9.13 Acquired immunodeficiency syndromeSalim S. Abdool Karim, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, and Roger Detels
  - 9.14 TuberculosisDermot Maher, Marcos Espinal, and Mario Raviglione
  - 9.15 MalariaRichard H. Morrow and William J. Moss
  - 9.16 Chronic hepatitis and other liver diseasePierre van Damme, Koen Van Herck, Peter Michielsen, Sven Francque, and Daniel Shouval
  - 9.17 Emerging and re-emerging infectionsDavid L. Heymann
- Section 10 Prevention and control of public health hazards
  - 10.1 TobaccoSamira Asma, Douglas W. Bettcher,1 Jonathan Samet, Krishna M. Palipudi, Gary Giovino, Stella Bialous, Katherine DeLand,1 June Leung, Daniel Ferrante,1 Gemma Vestal,1 Gonghuan Yang, and Derek Yach
  - 10.2 Drug abuseDon C. Des Jarlais and Robert L. Hubbard
  - 10.3 AlcoholRobin Room
  - 10.4 Injury prevention and control: The public health approachCorinne Peek-Asa and Adnan A. Hyder
  - 10.5 Interpersonal violence prevention: A recent public health mandateDeborah Prothrow–Stith
  - 10.6 Collective violence: WarVictor W. Sidel and Barry S. Levy
  - 10.7 Urban health in low- and middle-income countriesMark R. Montgomery
  - 10.8 Public health aspects of bioterrorismManfred S. Green
- Section 11 Public health needs of population groups
  - 11.1 The changing familyJulien O. Teitler
  - 11.2 Women, men, and healthSarah Payne, Lesley Doyal
  - 11.3 Child healthElizabeth Mason, Olivier Fontaine, Bernadette Daelmans, Rajiv Bahl, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, and Jose Martines
  - 11.4 Adolescent healthPierre-André Michaud, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, and George C. Patton
  - 11.5 Ethnic minorities and indigenous peoplesMyfanwy Morgan, Martin Gulliford, and Ian Anderson
  - 11.6 People with disabilitiesDonald Lollar
  - 11.7 Health of older peopleShah Ebrahim and Julie E. Byles
  - 11.8 Forced migrants and other displaced populationsCatherine R. Bateman, Anthony B. Zwi
- Section 12 Public health functions
  - 12.1 Need: What is it and how do we measure it?Di McIntyre, Gavin Mooney, and Stephen Jan
  - 12.2 Needs assessment: A practical approachAileen Clarke, John Powell, and Mary Ann Lansang1
  - 12.3 Socioeconomic inequalities in health in high-income countries: The facts and the optionsJohan P. Mackenbach
  - 12.4 Reducing health inequalities in developing countriesDavidson R. Gwatkin
  - 12.5 Prevention and control of chronic, non-communicable diseasesJørn Olsen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, and Robert Beaglehole
  - 12.6 Principles of infectious disease controlRobert J. Kim-Farley
  - 12.7 Population screening and public healthAllison Streetly and Walter W. Holland
  - 12.8 Environmental health practiceLynn R. Goldman and Elma B. Torres
  - 12.9 Structures and strategies for public health interventionDon Nutbeam and Marilyn Wise
  - 12.10 Strategies for health servicesMartin McKee, Ellen Nolte, and Josep Figueras
  - 12.11 Public health workersSuwit Wibulpolprasert and Piya Hanvoravongchai
  - 12.12 Planning for and responding to public health needs in emergencies and disastersKhanchit Limpakarnjanarat and Roderico H. Ofrin
  - 12.13 Private support of public healthRoger Detels and Sheena G. Sullivan
  - 12.14 Global health agenda for the twenty-first centuryAdrian Ong, Mary Kindhauser, Ian Smith, and Margaret Chan
End Matter
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Oxford Textbook of Public Health (5 ed.)

Edited by Roger Detels, Robert Beaglehole, Mary Ann Lansang, and Martin Gulliford

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