search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Oxford Textbook of Public Health
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
xvii
The scope of public health
The development of the discipline of public health
Current scope and concerns in public health
3
18
Roger Detels
Lester Breslow
The history and development of public health in developed countries
21
18
Christopher Hamlin
The history and development of public health in developing countries
39
24
Than Sein
Uton Muchtar Rafei
Countries in economic transition: the history and development of public health in China and Korea
63
20
Don Kyoun Kim
Shun-Zhang Yu
Determinants of health and disease
Overview and framework
83
6
Robert Beaglehole
Social, economic, and cultural environment and human health
89
24
Nicolette Hart
Education, health promotion, and social and lifestyle determinants of health and disease
113
18
Lawrence Green
Louise Potvin
Human and medical genetics
131
18
Friedrich Vogel
Arno G. Motulsky
Food and nutrition
149
22
Prakash S. Shetty
Infectious agents
171
24
David Heymann
The environment
195
20
A. J. McMichael
Medical care and public health
215
28
K. Jamrozik
M. Hobbs
Assessing health needs: the Global Burden of Disease Study
243
14
C. J. L. Murray
A. D. Lopez
Public health policies
Overview of policies and strategies
257
6
Walter W. Holland
Public health policy in developed countries
263
18
John Powles
Health policies in developing countries
281
16
Adetokunbo O. Lucas
Health policies in transition economies
297
14
Son N. Nguyen
Julio Frenk
Law, ethics, and challenges
Health and human rights
311
26
Sofia Gruskin
Daniel Tarantola
Comparative national public health legislation
337
22
Ruth Roemer
Milton I. Roemer
International health instruments: an overview
359
28
Allyn L. Taylor
Douglas W. Bettcher
Sev S. Fluss
Katherine DeLand
Derek Yach
Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health
387
14
K. C. Calman
R. S. Downie
Challenges to public health leadership
401
16
William H. Foege
The methods of public health
Information systems and sources of intelligence
The application of information science, technology, and management to public health
417
18
Dennis Protti
Information systems and community diagnosis in developing countries
435
18
Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
The revolution in electronic communication and public health
453
12
Elliot R. Siegel
Julia Royall
John C. Scott
Applications of information systems to public health
465
20
Jeff Luck
Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
Epidemiology: the foundation of public health
485
8
Roger Detels
Ecological variables, ecological studies, and multilevel studies in public health research
493
16
Ana V. Diez Roux
Sharon Schwartz
Ezra Susser
Cross-sectional studies
509
20
J. H. Abramson
Principles of outbreak investigation
529
14
Kumnuan Ungchusak
Case control studies
543
10
Noel S. Weiss
Cohort studies
553
16
Manning Feinleib
Norman E. Breslow
Methodology of intervention trials in individuals
569
14
Lawrence M. Friedman
Eleanor B. Schron
Community-based intervention trials in developed countries
583
16
H. Hoffmeister
G. B. M. Mensink
Community-based intervention trials in developing countries
599
22
Zunyou Wu
Concepts of validity in epidemiological research
621
20
Sander Greenland
Causation and causal inference
641
14
Kenneth J. Rothman
Sander Greenland
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
655
22
Matthias Egger
George Davey Smith
Jonathan A. C. Sterne
Statistical methods
677
38
A. V. Swan
Mathematical models of transmission and control
715
30
Roy Anderson
D. James Nokes
Microcomputers, the internet, and epidemiology
745
14
Ralph R. Frerichs
Beatrice J. Selwyn
Public health surveillance
759
22
Ruth L. Berkelman
Donna F. Stroup
James W. Buehler
Social science techniques
Sociological and psychological investigations
781
26
Myfanwy Morgan
John Spicer
Margaret Reid
Demography and public health
807
22
Emily Grundy
Health promotion, health education, and the public health
829
36
Keith Tones
Community assessment of behaviour
865
12
Donald E. Morisky
Health economics and public health
877
26
M. Christopher Auld
Cam Donaldson
Craig Mitton
Phil Shackley
Cost-effectiveness analysis: concepts and applications
903
18
Dean T. Jamison
Management and public health
921
16
David J. Hunter
Problems, politics, and processes: public health sciences and policy in developed countries
937
14
Peter Davis
Public health sciences and policy in developing countries
951
8
Prayura Kunasol
Khanchit Limpakarnjanarat
Prasert Thongcharoen
Environmental and occupational health sciences
Environmental and occupational health sciences in public health
959
20
Jonathan Samet
Toxicology and environmental health: applications and interventions in public health
979
8
Bernard D. Goldstein
Michael Greenberg
Radiological sciences
987
14
Arthur C. Upton
Control of microbial threats: population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratory
1001
24
Norman D. Noah
The analysis of human exposures to contaminants in the environment
1025
20
Paul Lioy
Amit Roy
Natalie Freeman
Occupational health
1045
22
David Koh
Jerry Jeyaratnam
Ergonomics and public health
1067
16
Laura Punnett
Risk assessment and risk management
1083
22
Gilbert S. Omenn
Elaine M. Faustman
Risk perception and communication
1105
22
Baruch Fischhoff
Ann Bostrum
Marilyn Jacobs Quadrel
The practice of public health
Major health problems
Cardiovascular diseases
1127
28
Russell V. Luepker
Neoplasms
1155
38
Paolo Boffetta
Paul Brennan
Rodolfo Saracci
Cerebrovascular disease
1193
34
Heizo Tanaka
Hiroyasu Iso
Tetsuji Yokoyama
Nobuo Yoshiike
Yoshihiro Kokubo
Respiratory disease
1227
28
T. H. Lam
A. J. Hedley
Asthma
1255
24
Neil Pearce
Jeroen Douwes
Richard Beasley
Endocrine and metabolic disorders
1279
30
Basil Hetzel
Paul Zimmet
Ego Seeman
Public mental health
1309
20
Peter Tyrer
Freya Tyrer
Dental public health
1329
20
Stanley Gelbier
Peter G. Robinson
Musculoskeletal diseases
1349
20
Jennifer L. Kelsey
MaryFran Sowers
Public health, epidemiology, and neurological diseases
1369
28
Walter Kukull
James D. Bowen
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
1397
20
Stephen Palmer
Charles Hillier
Roland Salmon
Gastrointestinal disease: public health aspects
1417
24
R. F. A. Logan
M. J. G. Farthing
M. J. S. Langman
Sexually transmitted infections
1441
12
Michael Adler
Frances Cowan
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
1453
28
Wiput Phoolcharoen
Roger Detels
Prevention and control of public health hazards
Tobacco
1481
22
Samara Asma
Gonghuan Yang
Jonathan Samet
Gary Giovino
Douglas W. Bettcher
A. D. Lopez
Derek Yach
Alcohol and drug abuse
1503
18
Don C. Des Jarlais
Robert L. Hubbard
Alcohol
1521
12
Robin Room
Injury control: the public health approach
1533
16
Corinne Peek-Asa
Bonnie Dean
Jess F. Kraus
Interpersonal violence prevention: a recent public health mandate
1549
20
Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Howard Spivak
Robert D. Sege
Intervention for special populations
Families
1569
18
Michael J. Puma
Women
1587
16
Shaoxian Wang
Lin An
Susan D. Cochran
Child health
1603
20
Carol Bellamy
Adolescence
1623
16
Joanne Barton
William Parry-Jones
Workers
1639
18
Dean B. Baker
Philip J. Landrigan
Persons with physical disabilities: a rehabilitation approach
1657
28
Anthony B. Ward
Mental retardation: public health approaches to intellectual impairment and its consequences
1685
28
Tom Fryers
Health of elderly people
1713
24
Shah Ebrahim
Refugees and other displaced populations
1737
20
Mohamed Dualeh
Paul Shears
Public health functions
Public health---its critical requirements
1757
8
Walter W. Holland
Measuring health needs
1765
8
Gavin Mooney
Stephen Jan
Virginia Wiseman
Socio-economic inequalities in health in developed countries: the facts and the options
1773
18
Johan P. Mackenbach
Reducing health inequalities in developing countries
1791
20
Davidson R. Gwatkin
Disease prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
1811
12
Jørn Olsen
Screening
1823
16
Anthony B. Miller
Vivek Goel
Global strategies for control of communicable diseases
1839
22
Robert J. Kim-Farley
Environmental health practice
1861
12
Lynn R. Goldman
Structures and strategies for public health intervention
1873
16
Don Nutbeam
Marilyn Wise
Strategies for health services
1889
22
Martin McKee
Josep Figueras
Community health workers
1911
20
Suwit Wibulpolprasert
An international public health policy agenda for the twenty-first century
1931
16
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Bioterrorism
1947
Frank Sorvillo
James R. Greenwood
Roger Detels
Index
1