Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 3rd Edition by Charles Guest, Walter Ricciardi, Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang 0199586306 9780199586301

Part 1: Assessment

1. Scoping Public Health Problems – Gabriele Bammer
2. Priorities and Ethics in Health Care – Sian M. Griffiths and others
3. Assessing Health Status – Julian Flowers
4. Assessing Health Needs – John Wright and Ben Cave
5. Assessing Health Impacts – Alex Scott-Samuel and others
6. Economic Assessment – Peter Brambleby

Part 2: Data and Information

1. Understanding Data, Information, and Knowledge – Barry Tennison
2. Information Technology and Informatics – Don Eugene Detmer
3. Qualitative Methods – Sara Mallinson and others
4. Epidemiological Approach and Design – Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia
5. Statistical Understanding – Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang
6. Inference, Causality, and Interpretation – Iain Lang
7. Finding and Appraising Evidence – Anne Brice and others
8. Surveillance – Daniel M. Sosin and Richard S. Hopkins
9. Investigating Clusters – P.J. Saunders and others
10. Health Trends: Registers – Jem Rashbass and John Newton

Part 3: Direct Action

1. Communicable Disease Epidemics – Sarah O’Brien
2. Environmental Health Risks – Roscoe Taylor and Charles Guest
3. Protecting and Promoting Health in the Workplace – Tar-Ching Aw and others
4. Engaging Communities in Participatory Research and Action – Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang
5. Emergency Response – Paul Bolton and Frederick M. Burkle
6. Assuring Screening Programmes – Angela Raffle and others
7. Genetics – Alison Stewart and Hilary Burton
8. Health Communication – Kasisomayajula Viswanath
9. Public Health Practice in Primary Care – Steve Gillam

Part 4: Policy Arenas

1. Developing Healthy Public Policy – Don Nutbeam
2. Translating Evidence to Policy – Lauren Smith and others
3. Translating Policy into Indicators and Targets – John Battersby
4. Translating Goals, Indicators, and Targets into Public Health Action – Rebekah A. Jenkin and others
5. Media Advocacy for Policy Influence – Simon Chapman
6. Influencing International Policy – Tim Lang and Martin Caraher
7. Public Health in Poorer Countries – Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann
8. Regulation – Lawrence Gostin

Part 5: Health Care Systems

1. Planning Health Services – David Lawrence
2. Funding and Delivering Health Care – Anna Dixon
3. Commissioning Health Care – Richard Richards
4. Controlling Expenditures – Thomas Rice and Iain Lang
5. Using Guidance and Frameworks – Rubin Minhas and others
6. Health Care Process and Patient Experience – Diana Delnoij
7. Evaluating Health Care Technologies – Ruairidh Milne and Andrew Stevens
8. Improving Equity – Sharon Friel
9. Improving Quality – Nick Steel and others
10. Evaluating Health Care Systems – Martin McKee and others

Part 6: Personal Effectiveness

1. Developing Leadership Skills – Fiona Sim
2. Effective Meetings – Edmund Jessop
3. Effective Writing – Edmund Jessop
4. Working with the Media – Alan Maryon-Davis
5. Communicating Risk – Nick Steel and Charles Guest
6. Consultancy in a National Strategy – Charles Guest
7. Improving Your Professional Practice – Caron Grainger
8. Activism – J.A. Muir Gray
9. Innovation – J.A. Muir Gray

Part 7: Organizations

1. Governance and Accountability – Virginia Pearson
2. Programme Planning and Project Management – John Fien
3. Business Planning – Mike Gogarty
4. Partnerships – Julian Elston
5. Knowledge Transfer – Jeanette Ward and others
6. Health, Sustainability, and Climate Change – David Pencheon and others
7. Workforce – Felix Greaves and Charles Guest
8. Effective Public Health Action – Chris Spencer Jones