About the Book
Two titles from the bestselling Oxford Medical Handbooks series are now available in this great value pack.Fully revised and updated for the third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for all those working in this broad field. Structured to assist with practical tasks, translating evidence into policy, and providing concise summaries and real-world issues from across the globe, this literally
provides a world of experience at your fingertips. Easy-to-use, concise and practical, it is structured into seven parts that focus on the vital areas of assessment, data and information,
direct action, policy, health-care systems, personal effectiveness and organisational development. Reflecting recent advances, the most promising developments in practical public health are presented, as well as maintaining essential summaries of core disciplines. This handbook is designed to assist students and practitioners around the world, for improved management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental
health, vulnerable populations, and more.To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research
evidence. A sound understanding of medical statistics is essential for the correct evaluation of medical research and the appropriate implementation of findings in clinical practice. Written in an easily accessible style, the Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics provides doctors and medical students with a concise and thorough account of this often difficult subject. It promotes understanding and interpretation of statistical methods across a wide range of topics, from study design
and sample size considerations, through t- and chi-squared tests, to complex multifactor analyses, using examples from published research. References for further reading are given for more information on specific
topics.Helping readers to conduct their own research or critically appraise other's work, this volume provides all the information readers need to understand and interpret medical statistics.
Table of Contents:
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice
1: Assessment
1.1: Gabriele Bammer: Scoping public health problems
1.2: Sian Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair: Priorities and ethics
1.3: Julian Flowers: Assessing health status
1.4: John Wright and Ben Cave: Assessing health needs
1.5: Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley: Assessing health impacts
1.6: Peter Brambleby: Economic assessment
2: Data and information
2.1: Barry Tennison: Understanding data, information, and knowledge
2.2: Don Detmer: Information technology and informatics
2.3: Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams: Qualitative methods
2.4: Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia: Epidemiological approach and design
2.5: Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang: Statistical understanding
2.6: Iain Lang: Inference, causality and interpretation
2.7: Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill: Finding and appraising evidence
2.8: Daniel M. Sosin and Richard S. Hopkins: Surveillance
2.9: Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, and Amanda Burls: Investigating clusters
2.10: Jem Rashbass and John Newton: Health trends: registers
3: Direct action
3.1: Sarah O'Brien: Communicable disease epidemics
3.2: Roscoe Taylor and Charles Guest: Environmental health risks
3.3: Tar-Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker, and Malcolm Harrington: Protecting and promoting health in the workplace
3.4: Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang: Engaging communities in participatory research and action
3.5: Paul Bolton and Frederick Burkle: Emergency response
3.6: Angela Raffle, Alexandra Barratt, and Muir Gray: Screening
3.7: Alison Stewart and Hilary Burton: Genetics
3.8: Kasisomayajula Viswanath: Health communication
3.9: Steve Gillam: Public health practice in primary care
4: Policy arenas
4.1: Don Nutbeam: Developing healthy public policy
4.2: Lauren Smith, Jane An, and Ichiro Kawachi: Translating evidence to policy
4.3: John Battersby: Translating policy into indicators and targets
4.4: Rebekah Jenkin, Christine Jorm, and Michael Frommer: Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action
4.5: Simon Chapman: Media advocacy for policy influence
4.6: Tim Lang and Martin Caraher: Influencing international policy
4.7: Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann: Public health in poorer countries
4.8: Lawrence Gostin: Regulation
5: Health-care systems
5.1: David Lawrence: Planning health services
5.2: Anna Dixon: Funding and delivering health care
5.3: Richard Richards: Commissioning health care
5.4: Rubin Minhas, Gene Feder, and Chris Griffiths: Using guidance and frameworks
5.5: Diana Delnoij: Health care process and patient experience
5.6: Ruairidh Milne and Andrew Steven: Evaluating health-care technologies
5.7: Sharon Friel: Improving equity
5.8: Nick Steel, David Melzer, Iain Lang: Improving quality
5.9: Martin McKee, Bernadette Khoshaba, and Marina Karanikolos: Evaluating health care systems
6: Personal effectiveness
6.1: Fiona Sim: Developing leadership skills
6.2: Edmund Jessop: Effective meetings
6.3: Edmund Jessop: Effective writing
6.4: Alan Maryon-Davis: Working with the media
6.5: Nick Steel and Charles Guest: Communicating risk
6.6: Charles Guest: Consultancy in a national strategy
6.7: Caron Grainger: Assessing and improving your own professional practice
6.8: Muir Gray: Activism
6.9: Muir Gray: Innovation
7: Organisations
7.1: Virginia Pearson: Governance and accountability
7.2: John Fien: Programme planning and project management
7.3: Mike Gogarty: Business planning
7.4: Julian Elston: Partnerships
7.5: Jeanette Ward, Jeremy Grimshaw, and Martin Eccles: Knowledge transfer
7.6: David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, Paul Cosford: Health, sustainability, and climate change
7.7: Felix Greaves and Charles Guest: Workforce
7.8: Chris Spencer Jones: Effective public health action
Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics
1: Research design
2: Collecting data
3: Handling data
4: Presenting research findings
5: Choosing statistical software
6: Summarizing data
7: Probability and distributions
8: Statistical tests
9: Diagnostic studies
10: Other statistical methods
11: Multiple observations
12: Multiple variables
13: Meta-analysis
14: Bayesian statistics
15: Glossary of terms
About the Author :
Dr Charles Guest has worked in government and academic public health in Australia and elsewhere, following graduation from Melbourne, Deakin and Harvard Universities. After medical registration in 1980 and clinical practice in Melbourne, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted to the New York City Department of Health in 1984. Subsequently, he undertook research on chronic disease in Australian Aborigines,
communicable disease and environmental health. He is currently a Senior Specialist in Population Health, Australian Capital Territory Government, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, Biology
and Environment, Australian National University.
Professor Walter Ricciardi is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples (Medicine and Surgery) in 1984, specialised in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in 1988 and obtained his MSc (Community Medicine) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1989. Since 1993 he has held a number of key positions including President of the European Public Health Association, and has undertaken work with
the World Health Organisation and the European Union. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom and is a Member of the National Board of
Medical Examiners, USA.
Dr Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chairman of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi received his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of over 400 articles on the social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in
2000. He is also Senior Editor of the Social Epidemiology section of the international journal Social Science & Medicine. He has served as an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, and the Pan American
Health Organization.
Dr Iain Lang is a Consultant in Public Health with NHS Devon Primary Care Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health based at the National Institute for Health Research Peninsula Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (PenCLAHRC), Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Exeter, UK. His practice and research interests are in the health of middle-aged and older people, quality of care, and health service improvement.
Janet Peacock is Professor of Medical Statistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Medical Statistics, University of Southampton School of Medicine, where she leads the discipline of Medical Statistics.
She previously worked for over 20 years at St George's University of London. There she worked with Martin Bland and Sally Kerry with whom she has co-authored two books, Statistical Questions in Evidence-based Medicine (with Martin Bland) and Presenting Medical Statistics from proposal to publication (with Sally Kerry). She has always been enthusiastic about teaching medical statistics to medical students, doctors, and other health professionals, and is passionate about communicating the subject
clearly. During her career to date she has collaborated with a wide range of health professionals in numerous epidemiological studies, randomised controlled trials and meta-analyses.
Philip Peacock qualified in medicine at Bristol in 2007 and is currently working as an Academic Clinical Fellow at the University of Bristol alongside specialty training in paediatrics within the Severn Deanery. He has been involved in research projects both as an undergraduate and since qualifying, and has produced several publications. Phil enjoys combining medical research with clinical practice, and is keen to help others understand and get involved with the research process.
Review :
`Review from previous edition 'The editors of the Oxford handbook of Public Health Practice have achieved their aim. It is excellent value for money and is essential reading for new trainees and experienced practitioners of Public Health medicine alike... It must have become the must have public health book of the year... my congratulations on a superb book.'
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Public Health
`'[The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice] contains a wealth of knowledge and practical advice directly or indirectly applicable to occupational health practice ... The book is easily read and well structured ... it is a user-friendly practical guide aimed at developing the skils and guiding the practice of public health professionals. To the occupational health audience, it forms a unique and immensely useful resource, especially for those
practising at a strategic level.'
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Occupational Medicine
`'Any specialist in training is faced witht he ominous question-how do I do this? For the fully fledged practitioners it is often some time since they had to exercise certain skills, and faced with a new challenge need a reminder of how to approach it. To have an answer to this delivered by an eminent cast of experienced public health luminaries would be ideal, and it is this that [The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice] delivers.'
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John Lucy, Public Health
`'Excellent chapters, clearly explained...informative, useful and practical...An essential book for anyone in public health or with a public health interest...continues to succinctly give the tools to be an effective public health practitioner to survive and succeed in these times...[The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice] is the equivalent of the 'Public Health' Bible.'
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