Reviews
"The book 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 healthprofessionals. To the occupational health audience, it forms a unique and immensely useful resource, especially for those practising at a strategic level." --Occupational Medicine September 2011, "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." --Public Health, 'AS A former hospital doctor, I have long considered the Oxford Handbook series, commonly found somewhere on the person of most junior doctors, as both a literal lifesaver and a practical, concise guide, helpful when you need a sensible and quick strategy to solve the problem at hand. In thrs vein, the third edition of the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice does not disappoint... Like many of the titles in the series, this book is both very readableand easy to dip into to get information on a particular aspect of public health practice. I have no doubt that this book will provrde an accessible reference guide throughout my career in public health.'Public Health Today, June 2013'Exactly what I needed and easy to understand and follow. Really relevant information and understandable. Covers all aspects of public. Highly recommend this book.'Amazon ReviewReview 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.'Public Health'The book 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.'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 this book delivers.'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...this book is the equivalent of the 'Public Health' Bible.'BMA Medical Book Competition, "It should come as little surprise that most of this concise Oxford Handbook in Public Health Practice is directly relevant to occupational physicians. ... What is surprising is how accessible this book is due to its clever structure and good editing. ...all occupational physicians including trainees and those looking to conduct research, practising physicians who interpret workforce data and plan interventions and senior colleagues working at the strategic level will find something of relevance in this book." --Occupational Medicine, "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...this bookis the equivalent of the 'Public Health' Bible." --BMA Medical Book Competition April 2007, 'The editors of the Oxford handbook of Public Health Practice haveachieved their aim. It is excellent value for money and is essential reading fornew trainees and experienced practitioners of Public Health medicine alike... Itmust have become the must have public health book of the year... mycongratulations on a superb book.'Public Health, "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 aneminent cast of experienced public health luminaries would be ideal, and it is this that this book delivers." --John Lucy, Public Health 16/07/2007
Table of Content
Part 1: AssessmentGabriele Bammer: 1.1 Scoping public health problemsSian Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair: 1.2 Priorities and ethicsJohn Wright and Ben Cave: 1.3 Assessing health needsAlex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley: 1.4 Assessing health impactsPeter Brambleby: 1.5 Economic assessmentPart 2: Data and InformationBarry Tennison: 2.1Understanding data, information, and knowledgeDon Detmer: 2.2 Information technology and informaticsSara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams: 2.3 Qualitative methodsWalter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia: 2.4 Epidemiological approach and designIain Lang: 2.5 Inference, causality and interpretationAnne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill: 2.6 Finding and appraising evidenceJulian Flowers: 2.7 Health statusDaniel Sosin and Richard Hopkins: 2.8 SurveillancePatrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, and Amanda Burls: 2.9 Investigating clustersJem Rashbass and John Newton: 2.10 Health trends: registersPart 3: Direct ActionSarah O'Brien: 3.1 Communicable disease epidemicsRoscoe Taylor and Charles Guest: 3.2 Environmental health risksTar-Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker, and Malcolm Harrington: 3.3 Protecting and promoting health in the workplaceMeredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang: 3.4 Engaging communities in participatory research and actionPaul Bolton and Frederick Burkle: 3.5 Emergency responseAngela Raffle, Alexandra Barratt, and Muir Gray: 3.6 ScreeningHilary Burton, Alison Stewart: 3.7 GeneticsVish Viswanath: 3.8 Health communicationSteve Gillam: 3.9 Public health practice in primary carePart 4: Policy arenasDon Nutbeam: 4.1Developing healthy public policyJohn Battersby: 4.2 Translating policy into indicators and targetsRebekah Jenkin, Christine Jorm, and Michael Frommer: 4.3 Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health actionSimon Chapman: 4.4 Media advocacy for policy influenceTim Lang and Martin Caraher: 4.5 Influencing international policyNicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann: 4.6 Public health in poorer countriesLawrence Gostin: 4.7 RegulationPart 5:Health-care systemsDavid Lawrence: 5.1 Planning health servicesAnna Dixon: 5.2 Funding and delivering health careRichard Richards: 5.3 Commissioning health careRubin Minhas, Gene Feder, and Chris Griffiths: 5.4 Using guidance and frameworksMartin McKee, Bernadette Khoshaba, and Marina Karanikolos: 5.5 Evaluating health-care systemsDiana Delnoij: 5.6 Health-care process and patient experienceRuairidh Milne and Andrew Stevens: 5.7 Evaluating health-care technologiesSharon Friel: 5.8 Improving equityNick Steel, David Melzer, Iain Lang: 5.9 Improving qualityPart 6: Personal effectivenessFiona Sim: 6.1 Developing leadership skillsEdmund Jessop: 6.2 Effective meetingsEdmund Jessop: 6.3 Effective writingAlan Maryon-Davis: 6.4 Working with the mediaNick Steel and Charles Guest: 6.5 Communicating risk.Charles Guest: 6.6 Consultancy in a national strategyCaron Grainger: 6.7 Assessing and improving your own professional practiceMuir Gray: 6.8 ActivismMuir Gray: 6.9 InnovationPart 7: OrganizationsVirginia Pearson: 7.1 Governance and accountabilityMike Gogarty: 7.2 Business planningThomas Rice and Iain Laing: 7.3 Controlling expendituresJulian Elston: 7.4 PartnershipsJeanette Ward, Jeremy Grimshaw, and Martin Eccles: 7.5 Knowledge transferDavid Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, Paul Cosford: 7.6 Health, sustainability, and climate changeFelix Greaves and Charles Guest: 7.7 WorkforceChris Spencer Jones: 7.8 Effective public health action
