Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 4e

Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into practical sections addressed towards professional competencies and translating evidence into policy, this Handbook provides concise summaries and covers real issues from across the globe, providing a world of experience at your fingertips.

Easy-to-use, concise, and practical, this Handbook is divided into seven parts that focus on the vital areas of this broad discipline. Reflecting recent advances, the most promising developments in the practice of public health are presented, along with essential summaries of the core disciplines. Specific sections are devoted to the development of professional competencies including negotiation, communicating risk to the public, community action, and translating evidence into policy.

Written by an international team of experts, and considering both social and scientific advances since the previous edition, this Handbook will assist students, trainees and practitioners around the world with its enriched information on the management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental heath, vulnerable populations, and more.

Ichiro Kawachi, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA,Iain Lang, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Associate Dean for International and Development), College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK,Walter Ricciardi, Professor of Hygiene and Public Health, Universit? Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Ichiro Kawachi received both his medical degree and Ph.D. (in epidemiology) from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health since 1992. Kawachi is the co-editor (with Lisa Berkman) of the first textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press in 2000, alongside many other titles with the same publisher. His current project is focused on the longitudinal impacts of community social cohesion/social capital on functional recovery after the March 11, 2011 Great Eastern Japan earthquake and tsunami. In 2013, he launched a massive, open online course (MOOC) through HarvardX called "Health and Society" (PHx 201), in which 32,000 participants registered from throughout the world. Kawachi is the Co-Editor in Chief (with S.V. Subramanian) of the international journal Social Science & Medicine. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Iain Lang is a Consultant in Public Health with Devon County Council and a Senior Lecturer in Public Health with PenCLAHRC, and from 2014 to 2017 Iain was an NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellow.Much of Iain's research deals with issues of knowledge mobilisation and implementation science. Substantively, he is interested in health in later life and particularly in dementia and frailty. Supporters of his research include the National Institute for Health Research, Alzheimer's Society, and the Department of Health. In Iain's role as Associate Dean (International & Development) he is responsible for leading UEMS's work on internationalization, including international research partnerships and global reputation, and for philanthropy and fundraising.


Walter Ricciardi is Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. in August 2015 he was appointed President of the Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanit?) where he was Commissioner from July 2014 to July 2015. In Italy he was member of the Higher Health Council of the Ministry of Health in the years 2003-2006 and the Italian Minister of Health appointed him Chair of the Public Health Section of the Council itself from 2010 to 2014. In December 2015, he was appointed Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Policy, Governance and Leadership at the Institute of Public Health, Medical School, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart - Rome. In June 2017 he was appointed Commendatore of the Italian Republic by Decree of the President of the Republic, and then in November 2017 he was appointed Italian Representative in the Executive Board of WHO.

1. Assessment
1.1. Scoping public health problems, Gabriele Bammer
1.2. Priorities and ethics in health care, Sian M. Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair
1.3. Assessing health status, Julian Flowers
1.4. Assessing health needs, John Wright and Ben Cave
1.5. Assessing health impacts, Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley
1.6. Economic assessment, Peter Brambleby
2. Data and information
2.1. Understanding data, information, and knowledge, Barry Tennison and Lamberto Manzoli
2.2. Information technology and informatics, Don Detmer
2.3. Questions, design, and analysis in qualitative research, Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams
2.4. Epidemiological approach and design, Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia
2.5. Statistical understanding, Kalyanaraman Kumaran and Iain Lang
2.6. Inference, causality, and interpretation, Iain Lang
2.7. Finding and appraising evidence, Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill
2.8. Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance, Richard Hopkins and Aaron Kite-Powell
2.9. Investigating alleged clusters, Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, Amanda Burls, and A.T Saunders
2.10. Assessing longer-term health trends: disease registers, Rachael Brok, Sara Stevens, and Jem Rashbass
3. Direct action
3.1. Communicable disease epidemics, Sarah O'Brien
3.2. Environmental health risks & assessment, Wendy Heiger-Bernays and Kathryn Crawford
3.3. Safeguarding and promoting health in the workplace, Stefanos N. Kales and Michael S. Chin
3.4. Engaging communities in participatory research and action, Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang
3.5. Disasters, Paul Bolton and Frederick M. Burkle, Jr
3.6. Assuring screening programmes, Angela Raffle, Alex Barratt, and J. A. Muir Gray
3.7. Genomics, Hilary Burton and Mark Kroese
3.8. Health communication, Rachel Faulkenberry, Mesfin Bekalu, and Kasisomayajula Viswanath
3.9. Public health practice in primary care, Steve Gillam
3.10. Translating research into practice implementation science, Shoba Ramanadhan
4. Policy arenas
4.1. Developing healthy public policy, Don Nutbeam
4.2. Translating evidence to policy, Lauren Smith and Ichiro Kawachi
4.3. Translating policy into indicators and targets, John Battersby
4.4. Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action, Rebekah A. Jenkin, Christine M. Jorm, and Michael S. Frommer
4.5. Media advocacy for policy influence, Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman
4.6. Influencing international policy, Tim Lang and Martin Caraher
4.7. Public health in poorer countries, Nicholas Banatvala and Eric Heymann
4.8. Regulation, Lawrence Gostin
4.9. Health, sustainability, and climate change, David Pencheon, Sonia Roschnik, and Paul Cosford
5. Healthcare systems
5.1. Sustainability of healthcare systems, Elena Azzolini, Mary Harney, and Walter Ricciardi
5.2. Planning health services, David Lawrence
5.3. Comparing healthcare systems, Martin McKee and Ellen Nolte
5.4. Commissioning healthcare, Richard Richards
5.5. Controlling expenditures, Thomas Rice
5.6. Using guidance and frameworks, Corrado De Vito and Paolo Villari
5.7. Health care process and patient experience, Diana Delnoij
5.8. Health technology assessment, Chiara de Waure and Carlo Favaretti
5.9. Improving equity, Sharon Friel
5.10. Improving quality, Nick Steel, John Ford, and Iain Lang
5.11. Evaluating health care systems, Martin McKee, Marina Karanikolos, and Ellen Nolte
5.12. Value-based healthcare, Muir Gray and Walter Ricciardi
6. Personal effectiveness
6.1. Developing leadership skills, Fiona Sim
6.2. Effective meetings, Edmund Jessop
6.3. Effective writing, Edmund Jessop
6.4. Working with the media, Alan Maryon-Davis
6.5. Communicating risk, John Ford, Nick Steel, and Charles Guest
6.6. Consultancy in a national strategy, Charles Guest
6.7. Effective negotiation, Leonard Marcus
7. Organizations
7.1. Governance and accountability, Virginia Pearson
7.2. Programme planning and project management, John Fien
7.3. Business planning, Mike Gogarty
7.4. Working in teams in public health, Shannon L. Sibbald, Anita Kothari, Malcolm Steinberg, and Beverley Bryant
7.5. Partnerships, Julian Elston
7.6. Getting research into practice, Jeanette Ward and Jeremy Grimshaw
7.7. Workforce, Felix Greaves and Charles Guest