Population health : concepts and methods /
An introductory/intermediate text on the basic concepts and methods of population health, this volume integrates the core discipline of epidemiology with such social sciences as demography, sociology and anthropology.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Defining health, population, and population health
- Objectives and uses of population health studies
- The arts and sciences in population health
- Historical antecedents and future prospects
- Measuring health and disease in populations
- Measures of disease occurrence
- Population structure and dynamics
- Comparing health events in populations
- Demographic and health transition
- Measuring health and disease in populations
- Health indicators and indices
- Sources and quality of health data
- Summary measures of population health
- Diagnosis and classification of diseases
- Accuracy of screening and diagnostic tests
- Surveillance and epidemic investigations
- Cultural concepts of health and disease
- Modeling determinants of population health
- Models and pathways of health
- Genetic susceptibility
- Physicial environment
- Personal lifestyle and behaviors
- Social, cultural, and economic factors
- A life course approach to health
- A biopsychosocial model of health
- Contributions to global disease burden
- Assessing health risks in populations
- Risks in population health
- Concepts of causation
- Measures of association and effect
- Competing risks
- Risk perception and communication
- Designing population health studies
- A matter of measurement
- Types of research design
- Validity and reliability
- Error and bias
- Confounding and confounders
- Interaction or effect modification
- Qualitative methods
- Ethical concerns
- Planning population health interventions
- Promoting health, preventing disease
- Population health and the health care system
- Types and levels of interventions
- Criteria for screening
- Behavioral models for health promotion
- Cross-cultural considerations
- A broader view of prevention
- Evaluating health programs for populations
- Economic appraisal
- Decision-making in health care
- Improving the health of populations