Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword to the second edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The public health toolkit
- 1 Management, leadership and change
- 2 Demography
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 The health status of the population
- 5 Evidence-based health-care
- 6 Health needs assessment
- 7 Decision making in the health-care sector – the role of public health
- 8 Improving population health
- 9 Screening
- 10 Health protection and communicable disease control
- 11 Improving quality of care
- Part 2 Contexts for public health practice
- Glossary
- Index
- References
3 - Epidemiology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword to the second edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The public health toolkit
- 1 Management, leadership and change
- 2 Demography
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 The health status of the population
- 5 Evidence-based health-care
- 6 Health needs assessment
- 7 Decision making in the health-care sector – the role of public health
- 8 Improving population health
- 9 Screening
- 10 Health protection and communicable disease control
- 11 Improving quality of care
- Part 2 Contexts for public health practice
- Glossary
- Index
- References
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- Essential Public HealthTheory and Practice, pp. 43 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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