Table of Contents

Part 1: Assessment
1.1: Gabriele Bammer: Scoping public health problems
1.2: Sian Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair: Priorities and ethics
1.3: Julian Flowers: Assessing health status
1.4: John Wright and Ben Cave: Assessing health needs
1.5: Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley: Assessing health impacts
1.6: Peter Brambleby: Economic assessment
Part 2: Data and Information
2.1: Barry Tennison: Understanding data, information, and knowledge
2.2: Don Detmer: Information technology and informatics
2.3: Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams: Qualitative methods
2.4: Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia: Epidemiological approach and design
2.5: Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang: Statistical understanding
2.6: Iain Lang: Inference, causality and interpretation
2.7: Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill: Finding and appraising evidence
2.8: Daniel M. Sosin and Richard S. Hopkins: Surveillance
2.9: Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, and Amanda Burls: Investigating clusters
2.10: Jem Rashbass and John Newton: Health trends: registers
Part 3: Direct Action
3.1: Sarah O'Brien: Communicable disease epidemics
3.2: Roscoe Taylor and Charles Guest: Environmental health risks
3.3: Tar-Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker, and Malcolm Harrington: Protecting and promoting health in the workplace
3.4: Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang: Engaging communities in participatory research and action
3.5: Paul Bolton and Frederick Burkle: Emergency response
3.6: Angela Raffle, Alexandra Barratt, and Muir Gray: Screening
3.7: Alison Stewart and Hilary Burton: Genetics
3.8: Kasisomayajula Viswanath: Health communication
3.9: Steve Gillam: Public health practice in primary care
Part 4: Policy arenas
4.1: Don Nutbeam: Developing healthy public policy
4.2: Lauren Smith, Jane An, and Ichiro Kawachi: Translating evidence to policy
4.3: John Battersby: Translating policy into indicators and targets
4.4: Rebekah Jenkin, Christine Jorm, and Michael Frommer: Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action
4.5: Simon Chapman: Media advocacy for policy influence
4.6: Tim Lang and Martin Caraher: Influencing international policy
4.7: Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann: Public health in poorer countries
4.8: Lawrence Gostin: Regulation
Part 5:Health-care systems
5.1: David Lawrence: Planning health services
5.2: Anna Dixon: Funding and delivering health care
5.3: Richard Richards: Commissioning health care
5.4: Rubin Minhas, Gene Feder, and Chris Griffiths: Using guidance and frameworks
5.5: Rubin Minhas, Gene Feder, and Chris Griffiths: Using guidance and frameworks
5.6: Diana Delnoij: Health care process and patient experience
5.7: Ruairidh Milne and Andrew Stevens: Evaluating health-care technologies
5.8: Sharon Friel: Improving equity
5.9: Nick Steel, David Melzer, Iain Lang: Improving quality
5.10: Martin McKee, Bernadette Khoshaba, and Marina Karanikolos: Evaluating health care systems
Part 6: Personal effectiveness
6.1: Fiona Sim: Developing leadership skills
6.2: Edmund Jessop: Effective meetings
6.3: Edmund Jessop: Effective writing
6.4: Alan Maryon-Davis: Working with the media
6.5: Nick Steel and Charles Guest: Communicating risk.
6.6: Charles Guest: Consultancy in a national strategy
6.7: Caron Grainger: Assessing and improving your own professional practice
6.8: Muir Gray: Activism
6.9: Muir Gray: Innovation
Part 7: Organizations
7.1: Virginia Pearson: Governance and accountability
7.2: John Fien: Programme planning and project management
7.3: Mike Gogarty: Business planning
7.4: Julian Elston: Partnerships
7.5: Jeanette Ward, Jeremy Grimshaw, and Martin Eccles: Knowledge transfer
7.6: David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, Paul Cosford: Health, sustainability, and climate change
7.7: Felix Greaves and Charles Guest: Workforce
7.8: Chris Spencer Jones: Effective public health action

Promotional Information

Awarded First Prize in the Public Health category of the BMA Book Awards 2014.

About the Author

Dr Charles Guest has worked in government and academic public health in Australia and elsewhere, following graduation from Melbourne, Deakin and Harvard Universities. After medical registration in 1980 and clinical practice in Melbourne, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted to the New York City Department of Health in 1984. Subsequently, he undertook research on chronic disease in Australian Aborigines,
communicable disease and environmental health. He is currently a Senior Specialist in Population Health, Australian Capital Territory Government, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine,
Biology and Environment, Australian National University. Professor Walter Ricciardi is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples (Medicine and Surgery) in 1984, specialised in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in 1988 and obtained his MSc (Community Medicine) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1989. Since 1993 he has held a number of key positions including President of the European
Public Health Association, and has undertaken work with the World Health Organisation and the European Union. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Colleges of Physicians of the
United Kingdom and is a Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, USA.
Dr Ichiro Kawachi is Professor of Social Epidemiology, and Chairman of the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi received his medical degree and Ph.D. (epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of over 400 articles on the social and economic determinants of population health. He was the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press
in 2000. He is also Senior Editor of the Social Epidemiology section of the international journal Social Science & Medicine. He has served as an advisor to the WHO, the World Bank, and the Pan American
Health Organization.
Dr Iain Lang, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Devon & Senior Lecturer in Public Health, National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Applied Health Research and Care for the South West Peninsula (NIHR PenCLAHRC), University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK

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