An Introduction to Public Health and Epidemiology

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Introduction
Lessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the 21st century
Sources and critical use of health information
Measuring the frequency of health problems
Measures of risk
Epidemiological study designs
Weighing up the evidence from epidemiological studies
The determinants of health and disease
Health promotion
Health needs analysis
Principles of screening
Changing public health: What impacts on public health practice?

Biografía autor/es

Susan Carr is a Reader in the Health Improvement Research Programme, Community Health & Education Studies Research Centre, Northumbria University, where she researches and teaches public health and primary care issues.

Nigel Unwin is Professor of Epidemiology in Advancing Research in Chronic Disease Epidemiology(archEpi), and lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes, in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, UK.

Tanja Pless-Mulloli is Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Newcastle.