Evidence-based public health effectiveness and efficiency

Evidence-based Public Health: Effectiveness and efficiency continues the themes raised in Public Health Evidence - tackling health inequalities. Written bythe same author team, this book is a comprehensive reference to evidence-based approaches in public health. It covers the context and role of evidence-based public health in England; frameworks for evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of public health policies and interventions; diversity, vulnerability and risk as a focus for understanding the role of social context in influencing health-related behaviours; approaches and methods to generate and synthesize evidence of what works to improve health and tackle health inequalities; current best available evidence on the effectiveness of a diverse range of interventions; and the role of evidence-based guidance and standards in changing policy and practice. This book will be essential reading for all those concerned with advancing an evidence-based approach to public health, and tackling health inequalities, including academics, researchers, policy makers, postgraduate students in public health, and anyone involved across different sectors of public health, including local government, health and education, Whilstbased on work done in England by NICE, the book contains generic principles which are applicable internationally. INDICE: Part 1 - Public health challenges of the 21st century 1: Mel Bartley & David Blane: Trends and scenarios in public health in the UK 2: CatherineLaw: Policy and evidence-based public health 3: David V McQueen: Ethics and evidence in health promotion Part 2 - Evidence-based frameworks 4: Ray Pawson &Sanjeev Sridharan: Theory-driven approach - 'programme theories' /'theory of change' concepts 5: Hilary Graham & Chris Power: Equity, risk and the life course: a framework for understanding and tackling health inequalities 6: Roger Ingham & Debbie Smith: Vulnerability, disadvantage and sexual health 7: M Judith Lynam: Social context and youth health: understanding and mitigating exclusion 8: Susan Griffin, Mark Sculpher & Nigel Rice: Use of economic methods to evaluate the cost effectiveness of public health interventions 9: Steve Morris, Nancy Devlin & David Parkin: Equity and efficiency: the contribution of healtheconomics 10: Richard Cookson & Tony Culyer: Valuation of health in public health in economic evaluations 11: Lord Krebbs & Harald Schmidt: Ethics and public health: the ethics of intervention choices Part 3 - Generating evidence 12:Peter Craig, Susan Michie, Irwin Nazareth, Professor Paul Dieppe, Professor Mark Petticrew & Sally Macintyre: Developing and evaluating complex interventions 13: Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky & Jacqueline Barnes: Child health and wellbeing in the early years: the national evaluation of Sure Start 14: Robert West& Lion Shahab: Smoking cessation 15: Kamlesh Khunti, Thomas Yates, Jacqui Troughton, Margaret Stone & Melanie Davies: Diabetes-population based prevention programmes among South Asians 16: Lyndal Bond, Helen Butler: The Gatehouse project: a multi-level integrated approach to promoting wellbeing in schools 17: Mika Kivimaki, Jane E Ferrie & Sir Michael Marmot: Workplace and mental wellbeing - Whitehall 2 Study 18: Steve Cummins: Area-based initiatives in deprived neighbourhoods 19: Klaus Gebel, Adrian Bauman & Fiona Bull: Built environment - 'walkability' of neighbourhoods 20: Anne Ludbrook: Fiscal policy and health-related behaviours Part 4 - Synthesising evidence and developing guidance 21: Mark Petticrew: Assessing evidence: study quality 22: Peter Littlejohns, Kalipso Chalkidou, Jeremy Wyatt & Steven D Pearson: Assessing evidence and prioritising clinical and public health guidance recommendations 23: Nick Doyle: Social values in developing public health guidance 24: Catherine Swann, Lesley Owen, Christopher Carmona, Michael P Kelly, Clare Wohlgemuth & Jane Huntley: Developing guidance on changing behaviour 25: Amanda Killoran, Antony Morgan & James Jagroo: What works in promoting the emotional and social well being of children in primary education? 26: Hugo Crombie, Amanda Killoran & Bhash Naidoo: What environmental measures are effective in promoting physical activity? 27: David Barnett, Meindert Boysen, Carole Longson & Andrew Stevens: Developing evidence based guidance for health technologies: the NICE experience 28: Val Moore, Nick Baillie, Annie Coppel & Julie Royce: Supporting implementation of public health guidance: NICE experience Part 5 - Knowledge, evidence and policy 29:Mike Kelly: The individual and social level of public health 30: Laurie Anderson: Informing public health policy with the best available evidence 31: Virginia Berridge: Changing policy: reflections on the role of public health evidence

• ISBN: 978-0-19-956362-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 528
• Fecha Publicación: 26/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés