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Evidence for Population Health


AUTHOR:   Richard Heller
PRICE:  £32.95
ONLINE PRICE:  £29.65
FORMAT:  Paperback (pp: 144) 216 x 138 x 3mm
ISBN:  9780198529743
PUB DATE:  12 May 2005
AVAILABILITY:  Available
IMPRINT:  Oxford University Press
DESCRIPTION:
Evidence based medicine has had a major impact on clinical practice. There is an urgent need for the Public Health community to further develop its own evidence base as many interventions are introduced, unchallenged with no hope of evaluation as the tools for this do not exist. This well structured text aims to provide the tools to achieve this aim. Mindful of the varying needs of students, practitioners and policy makers, the author highlights key take home messages for each and provides practical methods, and their theoretical basis, for applying evidence to the field of Public Health. Some of the methods are well established, others are newly developed by the author and colleagues. The book is aimed at all health students and practitioners, at whatever level, with the hope that the reader will apply these methods to their thinking, research and practice.

CONTENTS:
Preface
- PART 1: ASK THE QUESTION - WHAT IS THE NEED FOR EVIDENCE FOR POPULATION HEALTH?
- 1. What is evidence for population health?
- 2. The population or the individual in public health
- 3. Shifting the distribution
- PART 2: COLLECT THE EVIDENCE - WHAT MEASURES SHOULD WE MAKE?
- 4. Measuring the population impact
- 5. Evaluating population-based risks and interventions
- 6. Getting the outcome measure right
- 7. Public health informatics: the role of e-science in building the evidence base
- PART 3: UNDERSTAND AND USE THE EVIDENCE - HOW CAN PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC UNDERSTAND AND USE EVIDENCE TO IMPROVE POPULATION HEALTH?
- 8. Perceptions of risk among policy-makers and the public
- 9. Managing knowledge for population health
- 10. Applying evidence to inform public health practice and health policy decision-making
- 11. Individual or population priorities for population health: involving the public
- 12. Evidence into action: population impact assessment and the population health decision support

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Additional Information:
Illustrations: numerous figures & tables Dewey: 362.1 LC Subject: Evidence-based medicine - Evidence-Based Medicine - Public Health - Public health - Research - Methodology - Public Policy - Population - Health aspects - Epidemiologic Measurements Author/Title code: EVIDENHELLERA
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