Evidence for population health
Heller, Richard FAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2005.
There is currently an urgent need for the public health community to develop its own evidence base as a tool for evaluating emerging interventions. This text provides the tools needed to facilitate this process.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
There is currently an urgent need for the public health community to develop its own evidence base as a tool for evaluating emerging interventions. This text provides the tools needed to facilitate this process.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is evidence for population health? -- The population or the individual in public health? -- Shifting the distribution -- Measuring the population impact -- Evaluating population-based risks and interventions -- Getting the outcome measure right -- Public health informatics-the role of e-science in building the evidence base -- Perceptions of risk among policy-makers and the public -- Managing knowledge for population health -- Applying evidence to inform public health practice and health policy decision-making -- Individual or population priorities for population health: involving the public -- Evidence into action.
Evidence-based medicine
Population
Public health
Public Health
Epidemiologic Measurements
Public Policy
Evidence-Based Medicine
Environment and Public Health
Health
Clinical Medicine
Social Control Policies
Evidence-Based Practice
Medicine
Social Control, Formal
Health Care
Health Occupations
Policy
Population Characteristics
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Disciplines and Occupations
Sociology
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Medical Ethics & Philosophy
Medical Statistics
Medicine
Public Health
Health & Biological Sciences