Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Options and decisions -- Introduction -- 1.1 Scoping public health problems -- 1.2 Turning public health problems into answerable questions -- 1.3 Assessing health needs -- 1.4 Economic evaluation-the science behind the art of making choices -- 1.5 Assessing health impacts on a population -- 1.6 Being explicit about values in public health -- 1.7 Understanding ethics in public health -- 1.8 Innovative ways to solve public health problems -- Part 2 Using data and evidence -- Introduction -- 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge -- 2.2 Using qualitative methods -- 2.3 Epidemiological understanding: an overview of basic concepts and study designs -- 2.4 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance -- 2.5 Investigating changes in occurrence -- 2.6 Investigating alleged clusters -- 2.7 Assessing longer-term health trends: registers -- 2.8 Assessing health status -- 2.9 Summarizing health status -- 2.10 Measuring and monitoring health inequalities and auditing inequity -- 2.11 Finding and appraising evidence -- 2.12 Providing data and evidence for practitioners and policy makers -- Part 3 Direct action -- Introduction -- 3.1 Preventing epidemics of communicable disease -- 3.2 Protecting health, sustaining the environment -- 3.3 Protecting and promoting health in the workplace -- 3.4 Facilitating community action -- 3.5 Managing disasters and other public health crises -- 3.6 Assuring screening programmes -- 3.7 The public health response to 'hard to reach' populations -- 3.8 Genetics in disease prevention -- 3.9 The practice of public health in primary care -- 3.10 Public health in poorer countries -- Part 4 Making policy -- Introduction -- 4.1 Influencing government policy: a framework -- 4.2 Developing healthy public policy -- 4.3 Law in public health practice.

4.4 Shaping your organization's policy -- 4.5 Translating policy into indicators and targets -- 4.6 Translating indicators and targets into public health action -- 4.7 Influencing governments via media advocacy -- 4.8 Public health policy at a European level -- 4.9 Influencing international policy -- Part 5 Developing health system strategy -- Introduction -- 5.1 An introduction to health-care strategy -- 5.2 Strategic approaches to planning health services -- 5.3 Learning from international models of funding and delivering health care -- 5.4 Setting priorities in health care -- 5.5 Improving equity in health care -- 5.6 Commissioning health care -- Part 6 Improving quality in health care -- Introduction -- 6.1 Understanding health-care quality -- 6.2 Taking action to improve quality -- 6.3 Quality improvement through chronic disease management -- 6.4 Variations in health-care activity and quality -- 6.5 Improving health and health care through informatics -- 6.6 Evaluating health-care technologies -- 6.7 Getting research into practice -- 6.8 Using guidance and frameworks -- 6.9 Evaluating health-care systems -- 6.10 Evaluating patient experience and health-care process data -- 6.11 Clinical quality, governance, and accountability -- Part 7 Personal effectiveness -- Introduction -- 7.1 Public health leadership -- 7.2 Effective meetings -- 7.3 Effective writing -- 7.4 Working with the media -- 7.5 Communicating risk -- 7.6 Consultancy in a national strategy -- 7.7 Being a political activist -- 7.8 Improving professional practice -- Part 8 Organizational development -- Introduction -- 8.1 Working in teams -- 8.2 Managing projects -- 8.3 Operational and business planning -- 8.4 Involving the public -- 8.5 Criteria for assessing effective public health action -- A chronology of public health practice -- Golden rules of public health practice.

Sources of reference -- Abbreviations and glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.