Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance, 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2)

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