Book contents
- Essential Public Health
- Essential Public Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Public Health Toolkit
- 1 Health Needs Assessment
- 2 Health Information
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 Evidence-Based Health-Care
- 5 Decision-Making and Priority Setting
- 6 Improving Quality of Care
- 7 Management, Leadership and Change
- 8 Improving Population Health
- 9 Screening
- 10 Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control
- Part 2 Contexts for Public Health Practice
- Glossary
- Index
- References
2 - Health Information
from Part 1 - The Public Health Toolkit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2023
Book contents
- Essential Public Health
- Essential Public Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Public Health Toolkit
- 1 Health Needs Assessment
- 2 Health Information
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 Evidence-Based Health-Care
- 5 Decision-Making and Priority Setting
- 6 Improving Quality of Care
- 7 Management, Leadership and Change
- 8 Improving Population Health
- 9 Screening
- 10 Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control
- Part 2 Contexts for Public Health Practice
- Glossary
- Index
- References
Summary
To effectively target public health interventions for greatest impact, it is essential that public health practitioners have a clear understanding of the populations they work with. As described in Chapter 1, understanding these populations, their health status and health needs draws on skills from several disciplines, including demography, epidemiology and statistics. Brought together, these skills allow the practitioner to understand the characteristics of the population of interest, the key health issues that it faces and the broader factors that have a particular influence on the health of that population. These broader factors are generally referred to as the wider determinants of health or the social determinants of health. Information is also vital in allowing practitioners to assess the impact of public health interventions.
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- Essential Public HealthTheory and Practice, pp. 27 - 46Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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