Oxford Textbook of Public Health

SECTION 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1.1 The scope and concerns of public health 1.2 The history and development of public health in high-income countries 1.3 The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countries 1.4 The development of the discipline of public health in countries in economic transition: India, Brazil, China SECTION 2: DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE 2.1 A framework for understanding determinants of health 2.2 Globalization 2.3 Behavioural determinants of health and disease 2.4 Genomics and public health 2.5 Water and sanitation 2.6 Food and nutrition 2.7 Infectious diseases 2.8 The global environment 2.9 Health services as determinants of population health 2.10 Assessing health needs: the Global Burden of Disease approach SECTION 3: PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES 3.1 Overview of policies and strategies 3.2 Public health policy in high-income countries 3.3 Health policy in low- and middle-income countries 3.4 Leadership in public health SECTION 4: PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS 4.1 The right to the highest attainable standard of health 4.2 Comparative national public health legislation 4.3 International public health instruments 4.4 Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health SECTION 5: INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SOURCES OF INTELLIGENCE 5.1 Information systems in support of public health in high-income countries 5.2 Information systems and community diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries 5.3 Web-based public health information dissemination and evaluation SECTION 6: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND BIOSTATISTICAL APPROACHES 6.1 Epidemiology: the foundation of public health 6.2 Ecologic variables, ecologic studies, and multi-level studies in public health research 6.3 Cross-sectional studies 6.4 Principles of outbreak investigation 6.5 Case-control studies 6.6 Cohort studies 6.7 Methodology of intervention trials in individuals 6.8 Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trials 6.9 Community-based intervention studies in high-income countries 6.10 Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries 6.11 Clinical epidemiology 6.12 Validity and bias in epidemiological research 6.13 Causation and causal inference 6.14 Systematic reviews and meta-analysis 6.15 Statistical methods 6.16 Mathematical models of transmission and control 6.17 Public health surveillance SECTION 7: SOCIAL SCIENCE TECHNIQUES 7.1 Sociology and psychology in public health 7.2 Demography and public health 7.3 Health promotion, health education, and the public health 7.4 Cost-effectiveness analysis: concepts and applications 7.5 Governance and management of public health programmes 7.6 Public health sciences and policy in high-income countries 7.7 Public health sciences and policy in low- and middle-income countries SECTION 8: ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES 8.1 Environmental health issues in public health 8.2 Radiation and public health 8.3 Control of microbial threats: population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratory 8.4 The science of human exposures to contaminants in the environment 8.5 Occupational health 8.6 Ergonomics and public health 8.7 Toxicology and risk assessment in the analysis and management of environmental risk 8.8 Risk perception and communication SECTION 9: MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS 9.1 Gene-environment interactions and public health 9.2 Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases 9.3 Neoplasms 9.4 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma 9.5 Obesity 9.6 The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus 9.7 Public mental health 9.8 Dental public health 9.9 Musculoskeletal diseases 9.10 Neurological diseases, epidemiology and public health 9.11 The transmissable spongiform encephalopathies 9.12 Sexually transmitted infections 9.13 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome 9.14 Tuberculosis 9.15 Malaria 9.16 Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease 9.17 Emerging and re-emerging infections SECTION 10: PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARDS 10.1 Tobacco 10.2 Drug abuse 10.3 Alcohol 10.4 Injury prevention and control: the public health approach 10.5 Interpersonal violence prevention: a recent public health mandate 10.6 Collective violence: war 10.7 Urban health in low- and middle-income countries 10.8 Public health aspects of bioterrorism SECTION 11: PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS OF POPULATION GROUPS 11.1 The changing family 11.2 Women, men and health 11.3 Child health 11.4 Adolescent health 11.5 Ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples 11.6 People with disabilities 11.7 Health of older people 11.8 Forced migrants and other displaced populations SECTION 12: PUBLIC HEALTH FUNCTIONS 12.1 Need: what is it and how do we measure it? 12.2 Needs assessment: a practical approach 12.3 Socio-economic inequalities in health in high-income countries: the facts and the options 12.4 Reducing health inequalities in low- and middle-income countries 12.5 Prevention and control of chronic, non-communicable diseases 12.6 Principles of infectious disease control 12.7 Population screening and public health 12.8 Environmental health practice 12.9 Structures and strategies for public health intervention 12.10 Strategies for health services 12.11 Public health workers 12.12 Planning for and responding to public health needs in emergencies and disasters SECTION 13: THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 13.1 Private support of public health 13.2 Global health agenda for the 21st century