Population Health: Concepts and MethodsOxford University Press, 2004 M09 23 - 403 páginas Population 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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... Women? 288 Case Study 7.3. Community-Based Heart Disease Prevention in North Karelia, 290 Notes, 293 Exercise, 295 8 Evaluating Health Programs for Populations, 296 A Framework for Evaluation, 296 Technology Assessment, Diffusion, and ...
... Women? 288 Case Study 7.3. Community-Based Heart Disease Prevention in North Karelia, 290 Notes, 293 Exercise, 295 8 Evaluating Health Programs for Populations, 296 A Framework for Evaluation, 296 Technology Assessment, Diffusion, and ...
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... women, reduced family size, increased birth intervals, and improved maternal and child health; barrier contraceptives also reduced unwanted pregnancies and transmission of STDs; • Fluoridation of drinking water—resulted in reductions in ...
... women, reduced family size, increased birth intervals, and improved maternal and child health; barrier contraceptives also reduced unwanted pregnancies and transmission of STDs; • Fluoridation of drinking water—resulted in reductions in ...
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... Women whose cervix had been dilated for more than 24 hours during labor almost invariably developed fever. Such women died if they were on K1, but not on K2. The disease seemed to spread from bed to bed, but again only on K1 and not on ...
... Women whose cervix had been dilated for more than 24 hours during labor almost invariably developed fever. Such women died if they were on K1, but not on K2. The disease seemed to spread from bed to bed, but again only on K1 and not on ...
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... women, his ideas were ridiculed by the medical profession. After years of unequal struggle, Semmelweis was driven mad. He died several days after having been committed to an asylum. The cause of death? A septic wound of the finger, the ...
... women, his ideas were ridiculed by the medical profession. After years of unequal struggle, Semmelweis was driven mad. He died several days after having been committed to an asylum. The cause of death? A septic wound of the finger, the ...
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... women who have had hysterectomies are not “at risk” for cancer of the cervix). There are two kinds of incidence: cumulative incidence and incidence density. The cumulative incidence is the proportion of an initially disease-free group ...
... women who have had hysterectomies are not “at risk” for cancer of the cervix). There are two kinds of incidence: cumulative incidence and incidence density. The cumulative incidence is the proportion of an initially disease-free group ...
Contenido
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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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