Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice / Edition 4

by Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang, Walter Ricciardi

Overview

Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into practical sections addressed towards professional competencies and translating evidence into policy, this Handbook provides concise summaries and covers real issues from across the globe, providing a world of experience at your fingertips.

Easy-to-use, concise, and practical, this Handbook is divided into seven parts that focus on the vital areas of this broad discipline. Reflecting recent advances, the most promising developments in the practice of public health are presented, along with essential summaries of the core disciplines. Specific sections are devoted to the development of professional competencies including negotiation, communicating risk to the public, community action, and translating evidence into policy.

Written by an international team of experts, and considering both social and scientific advances since the previous edition, this Handbook will assist students, trainees and practitioners around the world with its enriched information on the management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental heath, vulnerable populations, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198800125
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/24/2020
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 4.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ichiro Kawachi, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA,Iain Lang, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Associate Dean for International and Development), College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK,Walter Ricciardi, Professor of Hygiene and Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Ichiro Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (in epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000, alongside many other titles with the same publisher. His current project is focused on the longitudinal impacts of community social cohesion/social capital on functional recovery after the March 11, 2011 Great Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami. In 2013, he launched a massive, open online course (MOOC) through HarvardX called "Health and Society" (PHx 201), in which 32,000 participants registered from throughout the world. Kawachi is the Co-Editor in Chief (with S.V. Subramanian) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Iain Lang is a Consultant in Public Health with Devon County Council and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health with PenCLAHRC, and from 2014 to 2017 Iain was an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellow.Much of Iain's research deals with issues of knowledge mobilisation and implementation science. Substantively, he is interested in health in later life and particularly in dementia and frailty. Supporters of his research include the National Institute for Health Research, Alzheimer's Society, and the Department of Health. In Iain's role as Associate Dean (International & Development) he is responsible for leading UEMS's work on internationalization, including international research partnerships and global reputation, and for philanthropy and fundraising.


Walter Ricciardi is Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. in August 2015 he was appointed President of the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) where he was Commissioner from July 2014 to July 2015. In Italy he was member of the Higher Health Council of the Ministry of Health in the years 2003-2006 and the Italian Minister of Health appointed him Chair of the Public Health Section of the Council itself from 2010 to 2014. In December 2015, he was appointed Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Policy, Governance and Leadership at the Institute of Public Health, Medical School, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Rome. In June 2017 he was appointed Commendatore of the Italian Republic by Decree of the President of the Republic, and then in November 2017 he was appointed Italian Representative in the Executive Board of WHO.

Table of Contents

1. Assessment1.1. Scoping public health problems, Gabriele Bammer1.2. Priorities and ethics in health care, Sian M. Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair1.3. Assessing health status, Julian Flowers1.4. Assessing health needs, John Wright and Ben Cave1.5. Assessing health impacts, Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley1.6. Economic assessment, Peter Brambleby2. Data and information2.1. Understanding data, information, and knowledge, Barry Tennison and Lamberto Manzoli2.2. Information technology and informatics, Don Detmer2.3. Questions, design, and analysis in qualitative research, Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams2.4. Epidemiological approach and design, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia2.5. Statistical understanding, Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang2.6. Inference, causality, and interpretation, Iain Lang2.7. Finding and appraising evidence, Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill2.8. Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance, Richard Hopkins and Aaron Kite-Powell2.9. Investigating alleged clusters, Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, Amanda Burls, and A.T Saunders2.10. Assessing longer-term health trends: disease registers, Rachael Brok, Sara Stevens, and Jem Rashbass3. Direct action3.1. Communicable disease epidemics, Sarah O'Brien3.2. Environmental health risks & assessment, Wendy Heiger-Bernays and Kathryn Crawford3.3. Safeguarding and promoting health in the workplace, Stefanos N. Kales and Michael S. Chin3.4. Engaging communities in participatory research and action, Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang3.5. Disasters, Paul Bolton and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr3.6. Assuring screening programmes, Angela Raffle, Alex Barratt, and J. A. Muir Gray3.7. Genomics, Hilary Burton and Mark Kroese3.8. Health communication, Rachel Faulkenberry, Mesfin Bekalu, and Kasisomayajula Viswanath3.9. Public health practice in primary care, Steve Gillam3.10. Translating research into practice – implementation science, Shoba Ramanadhan4. Policy arenas4.1. Developing healthy public policy, Don Nutbeam4.2. Translating evidence to policy, Lauren Smith and Ichiro Kawachi4.3. Translating policy into indicators and targets, John Battersby4.4. Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action, Rebekah A. Jenkin, Christine M. Jorm, and Michael S. Frommer4.5. Media advocacy for policy influence, Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman4.6. Influencing international policy, Tim Lang and Martin Caraher4.7. Public health in poorer countries, Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann4.8. Regulation, Lawrence Gostin4.9. Health, sustainability, and climate change, David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, and Paul Cosford5. Healthcare systems5.1. Sustainability of healthcare systems, Elena Azzolini, Mary Harney, and Walter Ricciardi5.2. Planning health services, David Lawrence5.3. Comparing healthcare systems, Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte5.4. Commissioning healthcare, Richard Richards5.5. Controlling expenditures, Thomas Rice5.6. Using guidance and frameworks, Corrado De Vito and Paolo Villari5.7. Health care process and patient experience, Diana Delnoij5.8. Health technology assessment, Chiara de Waure and Carlo Favaretti5.9. Improving equity, Sharon Friel5.10. Improving quality, Nick Steel, John Ford, and Iain Lang5.11. Evaluating health care systems, Martin McKee, Marina Karanikolos, and Ellen Nolte5.12. Value-based healthcare, Muir Gray and Walter Ricciardi6. Personal effectiveness6.1. Developing leadership skills, Fiona Sim6.2. Effective meetings, Edmund Jessop6.3. Effective writing, Edmund Jessop6.4. Working with the media, Alan Maryon-Davis6.5. Communicating risk, John Ford, Nick Steel, and Charles Guest6.6. Consultancy in a national strategy, Charles Guest6.7. Effective negotiation, Leonard Marcus7. Organizations7.1. Governance and accountability, Virginia Pearson7.2. Programme planning and project management, John Fien7.3. Business planning, Mike Gogarty7.4. Working in teams in public health, Shannon L. Sibbald, Anita Kothari, Malcolm Steinberg, and Beverley Bryant7.5. Partnerships, Julian Elston7.6. Getting research into practice, Jeanette Ward and Jeremy Grimshaw7.7. Workforce, Felix Greaves and Charles Guest