This fifth edition of the ever-popular Oxford Handbook of Public Health has been thoroughly updated, and remains the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. Two new editors, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Gulliford, join the established editor team of Roger Detels and Robert Beaglehole, representing a truly global outlook from four continents. The contributors are drawn from across the world, offering perspectives from vastly different health systems, with ranging public health needs and priorities. With contributors including Dr. Margaret Chan, Director of the World Health Organization, this book offers a globally comprehensive picture of modern health.

The book retains its approach of dividing the complex, dynamic subject of public health into three topics. First, the scope of public health is covered, looking at the development of the discipline, determinants of health and disease, public health policies, and laws and ethics. The second volume focuses on the methods of public health, including the main science behind the discipline--epidemiology. Finally, the third volume puts the theory into practice, examining specific public health problems and options for prevention and control. As well as identifying these issues by system or disease, there is also an awareness of the

Volume 1 The scope of public health
1 The development of the discipline of public health
1.1 Current scope and concerns in public health 3
1.2 The history and development of public health in developed countries 21
1.3 The history and development of public health in developing countries 39
1.4 Countries in economic transition: the history and development of public health in China and Korea 63
2 Determinants of health and disease
2.1 Overview and framework 83
2.2 Social, economic, and cultural environment and human health 89
2.3 Education, health promotion, and social and lifestyle determinants of health and disease 113
2.4 Human and medical genetics 131
2.5 Food and nutrition 149
2.6 Infectious agents 171
2.7 The environment 195
2.8 Medical care and public health 215
2.9 Assessing health needs: the Global Burden of Disease Study 243
3 Public health policies
3.1 Overview of policies and strategies 257
3.2 Public health policy in developed countries 263
3.3 Health policies in developing countries 281
3.4 Health policies in transition economies 297
4 Law, ethics, and challenges
4.1 Health and human rights 311
4.2 Comparative national public health legislation 337
4.3 International health instruments: an overview 359
4.4 Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health 387
4.5 Challenges to public health leadership 401
Volume 2 The methods of public health
5 Information systems and sources of intelligence
5.1 The application of information science, technology, and management to public health 417
5.2 Information systems and community diagnosis in developing countries 435
5.3 The revolution in electronic communication and public health 453
5.4 Applications of information systems to public health 465
6 Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
6.1 Epidemiology: the foundation of public health 485
6.2 Ecological variables, ecological studies, and multilevel studies in public health research 493
6.3 Cross-sectional studies 509
6.4 Principles of outbreak investigation 529
6.5 Case control studies 543
6.6 Cohort studies 553
6.7 Methodology of intervention trials in individuals 569
6.8 Community-based intervention trials in developed countries 583
6.9 Community-based intervention trials in developing countries 599
6.10 Concepts of validity in epidemiological research 621
6.11 Causation and causal inference 641
6.12 Systematic reviews and meta-analysis 655
6.13 Statistical methods 677
6.14 Mathematical models of transmission and control 715
6.15 Microcomputers, the internet, and epidemiology 745
6.16 Public health surveillance 759
7 Social science techniques
7.1 Sociological and psychological investigations 781
7.2 Demography and public health 807
7.3 Health promotion, health education, and the public health 829
7.4 Community assessment of behaviour 865
7.5 Health economics and public health 877
7.6 Cost-effectiveness analysis: concepts and applications 903
7.7 Management and public health 921
7.8 Problems, politics, and processes: public health sciences and policy in developed countries 937
7.9 Public health sciences and policy in developing countries 951
8 Environmental and occupational health sciences
8.1 Environmental and occupational health sciences in public health 959
8.2 Toxicology and environmental health: applications and interventions in public health 979
8.3 Radiological sciences 987
8.4 Control of microbial threats: population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratory 1001
8.5 The analysis of human exposures to contaminants in the environment 1025
8.6 Occupational health 1045
8.7 Ergonomics and public health 1067
8.8 Risk assessment and risk management 1083
8.9 Risk perception and communication 1105
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