Evidence-based public health : effectiveness and efficiency / edited by Amanda Killoran and Michael P. Kelly.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Killoran, Amanda (Editor), Kelly, Michael P. (Michael Patrick), 1953- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Public health challenges of the 21st century
  • 1. Trends and scenarios in public health in the UK / Mel Bartley & David Blane
  • 2. Policy and evidence-based public health / Catherine Law
  • 3. Ethics and evidence in health promotion / David V McQueen
  • Part 2. Evidence-based frameworks
  • 4. Theory-driven approach- 'programme theories' /'theory of change' concepts / Ray Pawson & Sanjeev Sridharan
  • 5. Equity, risk and the life course: a framework for understanding and tackling health inequalities / Hilary Graham & Chris Power
  • 6. Vulnerability, disadvantage and sexual health / Roger Ingham & Debbie Smith
  • 7. Social context and youth health: understanding and mitigating exclusion / M Judith Lynam
  • 8. Use of economic methods to evaluate the cost effectiveness of public health interventions / Susan Griffin, Mark Sculpher & Nigel Rice
  • 9. Equity and efficiency: the contribution of health economics / Steve Morris, Nancy Devlin & David Parkin
  • 10. Valuation of health in public health in economic evaluations / Richard Cookson & Tony Culyer
  • 11. Ethics and public health: the ethics of intervention choices / Lord Krebbs & Harald Schmidt
  • Part 3. Generating evidence
  • 12. Developing and evaluating complex interventions / Peter Craig, Susan Michie, Irwin Nazareth, Professor Paul Dieppe, Professor Mark Petticrew & Sally Macintyre
  • 13. Child health and wellbeing in the early years: the national evaluation of Sure Start / Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky & Jacqueline Barnes
  • 14. Smoking cessation / Robert West & Lion Shahab
  • 15. Diabetes-population based prevention programmes among South Asians / Kamlesh Khunti, Thomas Yates, Jacqui Troughton, Margaret Stone & Melanie Davies
  • 16. The Gatehouse project: a multi-level integrated approachto promoting wellbeing in schools / Lyndal Bond, Helen Butler
  • 17. Workplace and mental wellbeing - Whitehall 2 Study / Mika Kivimaki, Jane E Ferrie & Sir Michael Marmot
  • 18. Area-based initiatives in deprived neighbourhoods / Steve Cummins
  • 19. Built environment - 'walkability' of neighbourhoods / Klaus Gebel, Adrian Bauman & Fiona Bull
  • 20. Fiscal policy and health-related behaviours / Anne Ludbrook
  • Part 4. Synthesising evidence and developing guidance
  • 21. Assessing evidence: study quality / Mark Petticrew
  • 22. Assessing evidence and prioritising clinical and public health guidance recommendations / Peter Littlejohns, Kalipso Chalkidou, Jeremy Wyatt & Steven D Pearson
  • 23. Social values in developing public health guidance / Nick Doyle
  • 24. Developing guidance on changing behaviour / Catherine Swann, Lesley Owen, Christopher Carmona, Michael P Kelly, Clare Wohlgemuth & Jane Huntley
  • 25. What works in promoting the emotional and social well being of children in primary education? / Amanda Killoran, Antony Morgan & James Jagroo
  • 26. What environmental measures are effective in promoting physical activity? / Hugo Crombie, Amanda Killoran & Bhash Naidoo
  • 27. Developing evidence based guidance for health technologies: the NICE experience / David Barnett, Meindert Boysen, Carole Longson & Andrew Stevens
  • 28. Supporting implementation of public health guidance: NICE experience / Val Moore, Nick Baillie, Annie Coppel & Julie Royce
  • Part 5. Knowledge, evidence and policy
  • 29. The individual and social level of public health / Mike Kelly
  • 30. Informing public health policy with the best available evidence / Laurie Anderson
  • 31. Changing policy: reflections on the role of public health evidence / Virginia Berridge.
Availability

North Campus

  • Call Number:
    362.10972 EVI
    Copy
    Available - North Campus Main Collection
Requests
Request this item Request this AUT item so you can pick it up when you're at the library.
Interlibrary Loan With Interlibrary Loan you can request the item from another library. It's a free service.