Description

This brand new title in the market-leading at a Glance series provides a highly-illustrated, visual introduction to the key concepts of population-level disease prevention. Accessible, double-page spreads help you understand and appreciate the determinants of health which impact on healthcare services and their effectiveness.

Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance features high-yield information on all the topics covered at medical school, including:
�¡Measurement of population health
�¡Epidemiological concepts of cause and association, surveillance, and risk
�¡Use of epidemiology in clinical decision-making
�¡Epidemiology of major health problems such as cardiovascular disease and cancer
�¡Health promotion
�¡Basics of health economics
�¡Basics of health policy, needs assessment, and evaluation

Also featuring self-assessment questions to help test learning, this new title will provide an invaluable resource for medical and healthcare students, junior doctors, and those preparing for a career in public health.

Reviews

�gLike most other medical students I am guilty of ignoring epidemiology and not really seeing or applying its relevance to my studies. I thought this book was truly excellent in highlighting how important it is to my future career as a doctor. It was clear, concise and an enjoyable read. I feel that this book is a truly needed publication, which takes the confusion and monotony out of the subject.�h
(3rd year Medical Student, University of Southampton)

Table of Contents

Preface.
�¡1. Introduction to public health.

Part 1 Epidemiology and Evidence-based practice.
�¡2. Incidence and prevalence.
�¡3. Risks and rates.
�¡4. Investigating causation.
�¡5. Bias, confounding and chance.
�¡6. Standardisation.
�¡7. Ecological, time-series and cross-sectional studies.
�¡8. Case-control and cohort studies.
�¡9. Trials.
�¡10. Systematic review and meta-analysis.
�¡11. Diagnostic tests.

Part 2 Assessing population health.
�¡12. Health and illness.
�¡13. Demography.
�¡14. Epidemiological transition.
�¡15. Health Information.
�¡16. Measuring population health status.
�¡17. Lifestyle Determinants of health.
�¡18. Environmental determinants of health.
�¡19. Inequalities in health.
�¡20. Socio-economic inequalities in health.
�¡21. Health Needs Assessment.

Part 3 Improving and protecting health.
�¡22. Disease prevention.
�¡23. Principles of Disease Transmission.
�¡24. Communicable Disease Control.
�¡25. Surveillance.
�¡26. Immunisation.
�¡27. Screening Principles.
�¡28. Screening Programmes.
�¡29. Health Promotion.
�¡30. Changing behaviour.

Part 4 Health Economics.
�¡31. Economic perspectives on health.
�¡32. Economic evaluation.
�¡33. Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes.
�¡34. Economics of public health problems.

Part 5 Effective Health Care.
�¡35. Health care systems.
�¡36. Planning health services.
�¡37. Evaluation.

Part 6 Self-assessment.
�¡38. Questions.
�¡39. Answers.

Appendix: Using epidemiological studies in communicable disease control.
Index.

Authors

Margaret Somerville is Director of Public Health and Health Policy, NHS Highland, Inverness
K. Kumaran is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Somerset
Rob Anderson, Institute of Health Service Research, Peninsula Medical School, Exeter