Oxford Textbook of Public Health

* A fifth edition of the hugely successful, ultimate reference text on international public health and epidemiology
* 3 volumes each covering a distinct area of public health: the scope of public health, the methods of public health, and the practice of public health. Each volume begins with an introduction from the editors
* Edited by an international team from the UK, the US, New Zealand, and the Philippines, offering a truly global perspective
* Includes contributions from eminent policy makers, public health practitioners and academics, from both the developed and developing world
* Essential reading for all those training or practising in this specialty
* Chapters begin with an outline of the contents and end with a summary
* Includes a new section on the future of public health

New to this edition

* New chapters that broaden the scope of the book, and recognise recent developments in the field include: globalization; water and sanitation; leadership in public health; community-based intervention trials; gene environment interactions; obesity and physical inactivity; urbanization; and minorities and indigenous populations
* The relevance to practice has been increased, with more material on health needs assessment, clinical epidemiology, and the practical aspects of public health
* The addition of two new co-editors, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Gulliford, brings new perspectives to the established text
* Increased use of figures and tables throughout the book, as visual aids and data to support the text
* Increased attention on disease and infection, with new chapters examining tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis and liver disease, and emerging diseases
* A new section looks at the future of public health in the 21st century

This fifth edition of the ever-popular Oxford Textbook 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 law and ethics. The second volume focuses on the methods of public health, including the main science behind the discipline - epidemiology. Environmental factors, information systems, and social science techniques are also considered. 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 unique needs of particular population groups. The book concludes with an analysis of the functions of public health, and a look at the future of public health in the 21st century.

The picture of world health has moved on dramatically since the publication of the fourth edition in 2002. This new edition includes substantial new material on the impact of private support of public health; globalization; water and sanitation; leadership; community-intervention trials; disease and infection; gene environment interactions; obesity and physical inactivity; urbanization; minorities and indigenous populations; health needs assessment; clinical epidemiology; and the practice of public health. This ensures that the Oxford Textbook of Public Health remains the most comprehensive, accessible text for both students and practitioners in public health and epidemiology.



VOLUME 1: THE SCOPE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 1: The development of the discipline of public health
1.1: Roger Detels: The scope and concerns of public health
1.2: Christopher Hamlin: The history and development of public health in high-income countries
1.3: Than Sein: The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countries
1.4: Puja Thakker & K. Srinath Reddy: The development of the discipline of public health in countries in economic transition: India, Brazil, China
Section 2: Determinants of health and disease
2.1: Orielle Solar, Alec Irwin & Jeanette Vega: A framework for understanding determinants of health
2.2: Kelley Lee: Globalization
2.3: Lawrence Green & Robert A. Hiatt: Behavioural determinants of health and disease
2.4: Alison Stewart, Wylie Burke, Muin Khoury & Ron Zimmern: Genomics and public health
2.5: Thomas Clasen & Steven Sugden: Water and sanitation
2.6: Prakash S. Shetty: Food and nutrition
2.7: Davidson Hamer, Zulfiqar Bhutta & Sherwood L. Gorbach: Infectious diseases
2.8: A. J. McMichael & H. J. Bambrick: The global environment
2.9: Martin Gulliford: Health services as determinants of population health
2.10: C.J.L. Murray, A.D. Lopez & C.D.Mathers: Assessing health needs: the Global Burden of Disease approach
Section 3: Public health policies
3.1: Walter Holland: Overview of policies and strategies
3.2: John Powles: Public health policy in high-income countries
3.3: Miguel Angel González-Block, Adetokunbo Lucas, Octavio Gómez-Dantés & Julio Frenk: Health policy in low- and middle-income countries
3.4: Manuel Dayrit & Maia Ambegaokar: Leadership in public health
Section 4: Public health law and ethics
4.1: Paul Hunt, Gunilla Backman, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Louise Finer, Rajat Khosla, Dragana Korljan & Lisa Oldring: The right to the highest attainable standard of health
4.2: Robyn Martin & Alexandra Lo Dak Wai: Comparative national public health legislation
4.3: Douglas Bettcher, Katherine DeLand, Jorgen Schlundt, Fernando González-Martín, Jennifer Bishop, Summer Hammide & Annette Lin: International public health instruments
4.4: Nancy Kass: Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health
VOLUME 2: THE METHODS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 5: Information systems and sources of intelligence
5.1: Denis J. Protti, Jeff Luck & Paul Fu, Jr.: Information systems in support of public health in high-income countries
5.2: Vipat Kuruchittham, Fred Binka & Chitr Sitthi-Amorn: Information systems and community diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries
5.3: Elliot R. Siegel, Fred B. Wood, John C. Scott & Julia Royall: Web-based public health information dissemination and evaluation
Section 6: Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
6.1: Roger Detels: Epidemiology: the foundation of public health
6.2: Ana V. Diez Roux: Ecologic variables, ecologic studies, and multi-level studies in public health research
6.3: Manolis Kogevinas & Leda Chatzi: Cross-sectional studies
6.4: Kumnuan Ungchusak & Sopon Iamsirithaworn: Principles of outbreak investigation
6.5: Noel S. Weiss: Case-control studies
6.6: Alvaro Muñoz & F. Javier Nieto: Cohort studies
6.7: Lawrence M. Friedman & Eleanor B. Schron: Methodology of intervention trials in individuals
6.8: Allan Donner: Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trials
6.9: Pekka Puska & Erkki Vartiainen: Community-based intervention studies in high-income countries
6.10: Zunyou Wu & Sheena Sullivan: Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries
6.11: Jason W. Busse, Edward Mills, Rodolfo Dennis, Vivian Robinson & Peter Tugwell: Clinical epidemiology
6.12: Sander Greenland: Validity and bias in epidemiological research
6.13: Katherine Hoggatt & Sander Greenland: Causation and causal inference
6.14: Matthias Egger, George Davey-Smith & Jonathan Sterne: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
6.15: Gail Williams: Statistical methods
6.16: Roy M. Anderson, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth & D. James Nokes: Mathematical models of transmission and control
6.17: Ruth L. Berkelman, Patrick S. Sullivan & James W. Buehler: Public health surveillance
Section 7: Social science techniques
7.1: Myfanwy Morgan, Margaret Reid & Jane Ogden: Sociology and psychology in public health
7.2: Emily Grundy: Demography and public health
7.3: Marcia Hills & Simon Carroll: Health promotion, health education, and the public health
7.4: Dean T. Jamison: Cost-effectiveness analysis: concepts and applications
7.5: Diana Bonta & Meredith Cagle: Governance and management of public health programmes
7.6: Tim Tenbensel & Peter Davis: Public health sciences and policy in high-income countries
7.7: Lindiwe Makubalo, Mary Ann Lansang & Peter Figueroa: Public health sciences and policy in low- and middle-income countries
Section 8: Environmental and occupational health sciences
8.1: Chien-Jen Chen: Environmental health issues in public health
8.2: Leeka Kheifets, Myles Cockburn & Manjit Dosanjh: Radiation and public health
8.3: Frank Sorvillo & Shira Shafir: Control of microbial threats: population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratory
8.4: Paul Lioy: The science of human exposures to contaminants in the environment
8.5: David Koh & Dean Baker: Occupational health
8.6: Laura Punnett: Ergonomics and public health
8.7: Bernard D. Goldstein: Toxicology and risk assessment in the analysis and management of environmental risk
8.8: Baruch Fischhoff: Risk perception and communication
VOLUME 3: THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 9: Major health problems
9.1: Paolo Vineis & Rodolfo Saracci: Gene-environment interactions and public health
9.2: Russell V. Luepker & Kamakshi Lakshminarayan: Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
9.3: Paulo Boffetta & Carlo La Vecchia: Neoplasms
9.4: Jeroen Douwes, Marike Boezen & Neil Pearce: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma
9.5: W. P. T. James: Obesity
9.6: Nigel Unwin & Paul Zimmet: The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus
9.7: Benedetto Saraceno, Melvyn Freeman & Michelle Funk: Public mental health
9.8: Zoe Marshman & Peter G. Robinson: Dental public health
9.9: Jennifer L. Kelsey & Marian T. Hannan: Musculoskeletal diseases
9.10: Walter Kukull & James Bowen: Neurological diseases, epidemiology and public health
9.11: Richard Knight & Hester Ward: The transmissable spongiform encephalopathies
9.12: Mary M. Kamb & John L. Douglas: Sexually transmitted infections
9.13: Salim S. Abdool Karim, Quarraisha Abdool Karim & Roger Detels: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
9.14: Dermot Maher, Marcos Espinal & Mario Raviglione: Tuberculosis
9.15: Richard Morrow & William Moss: Malaria
9.16: Pierre van Damme, Koen van Herck, Peter Michielsen, Sven Francque & Daniel Shouval: Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease
9.17: David Heymann: Emerging and re-emerging infections
Section 10: Prevention and control of public health hazards
10.1: Samira Asma, Douglas W. Bettcher, Jonathan Samet, Krishna M. Palipudi, Gary Giovino, Stella Bialous, Katherine DeLand, June Leung, Daniel Ferrante, Gemma Vestal & Gonghuan Yang: Tobacco
10.2: Don C. Des Jarlais & Robert L. Hubbard: Drug abuse
10.3: Robin Room: Alcohol
10.4: Corinne Peek-Asa & Adnan A. Hyder: Injury prevention and control: the public health approach
10.5: Deborah Prothrow-Stith: Interpersonal violence prevention: a recent public health mandate
10.6: Victor Sidel & Barry Levy: Collective violence: war
10.7: Mark R. Montgomery: Urban health in low- and middle-income countries
10.8: Manfred Green: Public health aspects of bioterrorism
Section 11: Public health needs of population groups
11.1: Julien O. Teitler: The changing family
11.2: Sarah Payne & Lesley Doyal: Women, men and health
11.3: Elizabeth Mason, Oliver Fontaine, Bernadette Daelmans, Rajiv Bahl, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto & Jose Martines: Child health
11.4: Pierre-André Michaud, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli & Georges C. Patton: Adolescent health
11.5: Myfanwy Morgan, Martin Gulliford & Ian Anderson: Ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples
11.6: Donald Lollar: People with disabilities
11.7: Shah Ebrahim & Julie E. Byles: Health of older people
11.8: Catherine R. Bateman & Anthony B. Zwi: Forced migrants and other displaced populations
Section 12: Public health functions
12.1: Di McIntyre, Gavin Mooney & Stephen Jan: Need: what is it and how do we measure it?
12.2: Aileen Clarke, John Powell & Mary Ann Lansang: Needs assessment: a practical approach
12.3: Johan P. Mackenbach: Socio-economic inequalities in health in high-income countries: the facts and the options
12.4: Davidson R. Gwatkin: Reducing health inequalities in low- and middle-income countries
12.5: Jørn Olsen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong & Robert Beaglehole: Prevention and control of chronic, non-communicable diseases
12.6: Robert J. Kim-Farley: Principles of infectious disease control
12.7: Allison Streetly & Walter Holland: Population screening and public health
12.8: Lynn R. Goldman & Elma Torres: Environmental health practice
12.9: Don Nutbeam & Marilyn Wise: Structures and strategies for public health intervention
12.10: Martin McKee, Ellen Nolte & Josep Figueras: Strategies for health services
12.11: Suwit Wibulpolprasert & Piya Hanvoravongchai: Public health workers
12.12: Khanchit Limpakarnjanarat & Roderico H. Ofrin: Planning for and responding to public health needs in emergencies and disasters
Section 13: The future of public health
13.1: Roger Detels & Sheena Sullivan: Private support of public health
13.2: Adrian Ong, Mary Kindhauser, Ian Smith & Margaret Chan: Global health agenda for the 21st century