Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

1. Assessment
1.1:Scoping public health problems, Gabriele Bammer
1.2:Priorities and ethics in health care, Sian M. Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair
1.3:Assessing health status, Julian Flowers
1.4:Assessing health needs, John Wright and Ben Cave
1.5:Assessing health impacts, Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley
1.6:Economic assessment, Peter Brambleby
2. Data and information
2.1:Understanding data, information, and knowledge, Barry Tennison and Lamberto Manzoli
2.2:Information technology and informatics, Don Detmer
2.3:Questions, design, and analysis in qualitative research, Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams
2.4:Epidemiological approach and design, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia
2.5:Statistical understanding, Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang
2.6:Inference, causality, and interpretation, Iain Lang
2.7:Finding and appraising evidence, Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill
2.8:Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance, Richard Hopkins and Aaron Kite-Powell
2.9:Investigating alleged clusters, Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, Amanda Burls, and A.T Saunders
2.10:Assessing longer-term health trends: disease registers, Rachael Brok, Sara Stevens, and Jem Rashbass
3. Direct action
3.1:Communicable disease epidemics, Sarah O’Brien
3.2:Environmental health risks & assessment, Wendy Heiger-Bernays and Kathryn Crawford
3.3:Safeguarding and promoting health in the workplace, Stefanos N. Kales and Michael S. Chin
3.4:Engaging communities in participatory research and action, Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang
3.5:Disasters, Paul Bolton and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr
3.6:Assuring screening programmes, Angela Raffle, Alex Barratt, and J. A. Muir Gray
3.7:Genomics, Hilary Burton and Mark Kroese
3.8:Health communication, Rachel Faulkenberry, Mesfin Bekalu, and Kasisomayajula Viswanath
3.9:Public health practice in primary care, Steve Gillam
3.10:Translating research into practice – implementation science, Shoba Ramanadhan
4. Policy arenas
4.1:Developing healthy public policy, Don Nutbeam
4.2:Translating evidence to policy, Lauren Smith and Ichiro Kawachi
4.3:Translating policy into indicators and targets, John Battersby
4.4:Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action, Rebekah A. Jenkin, Christine M. Jorm, and Michael S. Frommer
4.5:Media advocacy for policy influence, Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman
4.6:Influencing international policy, Tim Lang and Martin Caraher
4.7:Public health in poorer countries, Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann
4.8:Regulation, Lawrence Gostin
4.9:Health, sustainability, and climate change, David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, and Paul Cosford
5. Healthcare systems
5.1:Sustainability of healthcare systems, Elena Azzolini, Mary Harney, and Walter Ricciardi
5.2:Planning health services, David Lawrence
5.3:Comparing healthcare systems, Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte
5.4:Commissioning healthcare, Richard Richards
5.5:Controlling expenditures, Thomas Rice
5.6:Using guidance and frameworks, Corrado De Vito and Paolo Villari
5.7:Health care process and patient experience, Diana Delnoij
5.8:Health technology assessment, Chiara de Waure and Carlo Favaretti
5.9:Improving equity, Sharon Friel
5.10:Improving quality, Nick Steel, John Ford, and Iain Lang
5.11:Evaluating health care systems, Martin McKee, Marina Karanikolos, and Ellen Nolte
5.12:Value-based healthcare, Muir Gray and Walter Ricciardi
6. Personal effectiveness
6.1:Developing leadership skills, Fiona Sim
6.2:Effective meetings, Edmund Jessop
6.3:Effective writing, Edmund Jessop
6.4:Working with the media, Alan Maryon-Davis
6.5:Communicating risk, John Ford, Nick Steel, and Charles Guest
6.6:Consultancy in a national strategy, Charles Guest
6.7:Effective negotiation, Leonard Marcus
7. Organizations
7.1:Governance and accountability, Virginia Pearson
7.2:Programme planning and project management, John Fien
7.3:Business planning, Mike Gogarty
7.4:Working in teams in public health, Shannon L. Sibbald, Anita Kothari, Malcolm Steinberg, and Beverley Bryant
7.5:Partnerships, Julian Elston
7.6:Getting research into practice, Jeanette Ward and Jeremy Grimshaw
7.7:Workforce, Felix Greaves and Charles Guest