Evidence for Population Health.
There is currently an urgent need for the public health community to develop its own evidence base as a tool for evaluating emerging interventions. This text provides the tools needed to facilitate this process.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
June 2005.
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| Series: | Oxford medical publications.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- What is evidence for population health?
- The population or the individual in public health?
- Shifting the distribution
- Measuring the population impact
- Evaluating population: based risks and interventions
- Getting the outcome measure right
- Public health informatics: the role of e-science in building the evidence base
- Perceptions of risk among policy makers and the public
- Managing knowledge for population health
- Applying evidence to inform public health practice and health policy decision making
- Individual or population priorities for population health: involving the public
- Evidence into action: population impact assessment and population health decision support.