TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gillam,Stephen
AU  - Yates,Jan
AU  - Badrinath,Padmanabhan
TI  - Essential public health: theory and practice 
SN  - 9781139420228
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Public health
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Needs assessment
KW  - Community Health Services
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - Health Status
KW  - Needs Assessment
KW  - Public Health Practice
KW  - Public Health
N1  - Previous edition: 2007; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: The Public health toolkit --; Chapter 1. --; Management, leadership and change; Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates --; Chapter 2. --; Demography; Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam --; Chapter 3. --; Epidemiology; Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam --; Chapter 4. --; The Health status of the population; Padmanabhan Badrinath and Jan Yates --; Chapter 5. --; Evidence-based health-care; Padmanabhan Badrinath and Stephen Gillam --; Chapter 6. --; Health needs assessment; Stephen Gillam, Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath --; Chapter 7. --; Decision making in the health-care sector -- the role of public health; Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam --; Chapter 8. --; Improving population health; Stephen Gillam and Jan Yates --; Chapter 9. --; Screening; Jan Yates and Stephen Gillam --; Chapter 10. --; Health protection and communicable disease control; Jan Yates and Padmanabhan Badrinath --; Chapter 11. --; Improving quality of care; Nicholas Steel and Stephen Gillam; Part II: Contexts for public health practice. --; Introduction to part 2 -- what do we mean by contexts in public health?; Jan Yates --; Chapter 12. --; The Health of children and young people; Kirsteen L. Macleod, Rachel Crowther and Sarah Stewart-Brown --; Chapter 13. --; Adult public health; Veena Rodrigues --; Chapter 14. --; Public health and ageing; Lincoln Sargeant and Carol Brayne --; Chapter 15. --; Health inequalities and public health practice; Chrissie Pickin and Jennie Popay --; Chapter 16. --; Health policy; Richard Lewis and Stephen Gillam --; Chapter 17. --; International development and public health; Jenny Amery --; Chapter 18. --; Sustainable development -- the opportunities and the challenges for the public's health; David Pencheon
N2  - This second edition has been fully updated with contemporary examples and includes new chapters on sustainability and change, management and leadership. An internet companion includes supplementary information and interactive, self-assessment questions
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