Oxford textbook of public health /
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | 3 v. (xxiv, 1729, 39 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford medical publications Oxford medical publications. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7840023 |
Table of Contents:
- 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 health
- 1.2. The history and development of public health in high-income countries
- 1.3. The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countries
- 1.4. The development of the discipline of public health in countries in economic transition: India, Brazil, China
- Section 2. Determinants of health and disease
- 2.1. A framework for understanding determinants of health
- 2.2. Globalization
- 2.3. Behavioural determinants of health and disease
- 2.4. Genomics and public health
- 2.5. Water and sanitation
- 2.6. Food and nutrition
- 2.7. Infectious diseases
- 2.8. The global environment
- 2.9. Health services as determinants of population health
- 2.10. Assessing health needs: the Global Burden of Disease approach
- Section 3. Public health policies
- 3.1. Overview of policies and strategies
- 3.2. Public health policy in high-income countries
- 3.3. Health policy in low- and middle-income countries
- 3.4. Leadership in public health
- Section 4. Public health law and ethics
- 4.1. The right to the highest attainable standard of health
- 4.2. Comparative national public health legislation
- 4.3. International public health instruments
- 4.4. Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health
- 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 countries
- 5.2. Information systems and community diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries
- 5.3. Web-based public health information dissemination and evaluation
- Section 6. Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
- 6.1. Epidemiology: the foundation of public health
- 6.2. Ecologic variables, ecologic studies, and multi-level studies in public health research
- 6.3. Cross-sectional studies
- 6.4. Principles of outbreak investigation
- 6.5. Case-control studies
- 6.6. Cohort studies
- 6.7. Methodology of intervention trials in individuals
- 6.8. Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trials
- 6.9. Community-based intervention studies in high-income countries
- 6.10. Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries
- 6.11. Clinical epidemiology
- 6.12. Validity and bias in epidemiological research
- 6.13. Causation and causal inference
- 6.14. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- 6.15. Statistical methods
- 6.16.
