Population Health: Concepts and MethodsPopulation health encompasses traditional public health and preventive medicine but emphasizes the full range of health determinants affecting the entire population rather than only ill or high-risk individuals. The population health approach integrates the social and biological, the quantitative and qualitative, recognizing the importance of social and cultural factors in practice and research. This text is organized around the logical sequence of studying and attempting to improve the health of populations; measuring health status and disease burden, identifying and modeling health determinants, assessing health risks and inferring causation, designing research studies, planning interventions, and evaluating health programs. The second edition incorporates many new topics that reflect changes in contemporary public health concerns and our response to them; as well as shifts in research directions. These include lifecourse approaches to health, gene-environment interactions, emergent infections, and bioterrorism. Among the specific changes are new or expanded discussions of confidence intervals for commonly used rates, the impact of population aging on mortality trends, health survey questionnaires, summary measures of population health, the new International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, migrant studies, race and ethinicity, psychoneuroendocrine pathways, social epidemiology, risk perception, communicating the SARS epidemic, ecologic studies, the odds radio, paticipatory research, suicide, evidence-based community interventions, evaluation methods and health economics, the Cochrane Collaboration, and systemic reviews. The many positive features of the first edition have been retained, such as the extensive use of boxes, case studies, and exercises; the selection of examples representing a variety of health problems, geographic regions, and historical periods; and a multidisciplinary orientation bridging the quantitative and qualitative, the social and biomedical sciences. The book aims to spark a new kind of broad-based training for researchers and practitioners of population health. |
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... interventions. This book does not intend to replace the standard encyclopedic texts in public health. It is not meant to be a reference text, and I would actually recommend that it be read from cover to cover. Doing so is not to indulge ...
... interventions. This book does not intend to replace the standard encyclopedic texts in public health. It is not meant to be a reference text, and I would actually recommend that it be read from cover to cover. Doing so is not to indulge ...
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... interventions (Chapter 7); and more detailed coverage of evaluation methods and health economics, the Cochrane Collaboration, and systematic reviews (Chapter 8). Chapter 9 is still a student project, but with additional guidance and ...
... interventions (Chapter 7); and more detailed coverage of evaluation methods and health economics, the Cochrane Collaboration, and systematic reviews (Chapter 8). Chapter 9 is still a student project, but with additional guidance and ...
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... Interventions, 264 Promoting Health, Preventing Disease, 264 Population Health and the Health Care System, 266 Types and Levels of Interventions, 267 Criteria for Screening, 272 Behavioral Models for Health Promotion, 277 Cross-Cultural ...
... Interventions, 264 Promoting Health, Preventing Disease, 264 Population Health and the Health Care System, 266 Types and Levels of Interventions, 267 Criteria for Screening, 272 Behavioral Models for Health Promotion, 277 Cross-Cultural ...
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... interventions that link them. “Population health” is not without its critics, especially among social scientists of the “critical” school, who consider its analytical framework as flawed in lacking a significant “class” and social ...
... interventions that link them. “Population health” is not without its critics, especially among social scientists of the “critical” school, who consider its analytical framework as flawed in lacking a significant “class” and social ...
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... interventions. The humanities—history, philosophy, ethics, art, and literature— contribute to a broader understanding of the health of populations by inculcating core human values in their practitioners, encouraging nondogmatism, and ...
... interventions. The humanities—history, philosophy, ethics, art, and literature— contribute to a broader understanding of the health of populations by inculcating core human values in their practitioners, encouraging nondogmatism, and ...
Contents
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3 Measuring Health and Disease in Populations II | 67 |
4 Modeling Determinants of Population Health | 115 |
5 Assessing Health Risks in Populations | 177 |
6 Designing Population Health Studies | 215 |
7 Planning Population Health Interventions | 264 |
8 Evaluating Health Programs for Populations | 296 |
9 Improving the Health of Populations | 324 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Answers to Exercises | 365 |
Index | 381 |
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