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Assessing Evidence to improve Population Health and Wellbeing
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Assessing Evidence to improve Population Health and Wellbeing

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July 2011 | 168 pages | Learning Matters
Written to support practitioners undertaking a Masters in public health, this book considers the main concepts, issues and methodologies of the second core competence of the Public Health Skills and Career Framework: 'Assessment of evidence of the effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services to improve population health and wellbeing'.

Coverage includes the theoretical definition of evidence and its use in public health, the role of critical appraisal methods and tools in evidence assessment and how Effectiveness, Efficiency and Quality inform evidence. The book is packed with case studies and activities to help link theory and practice and prompt personal reflection.

 
Introduction
 
What Is Meant by Evidence?
 
What Are Sources of Evidence?
 
Making Sense of the Evidential Hierarchy Used to Judge Research Evidence
 
The Act/Art of Assessing: Critical Appraisal and Its Relevance in Public Health
 
Assessing Evidence: The Quality of Primary and Secondary Research
 
Assessing Evidence: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Various Ways of Assessing Public Health Outcomes
 
Assessing Evidence: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
 
Principles and Methods of Programme Evaluation
 
Assessing Quality and Effectiveness to Improve Public Health and Well-Being
 
Conclusion

This book supports MPH students understand the importance of evidence in underpinning contemporary Public Health practice. The activities are useful.

Mrs Sandra Faircloth
Health , Northumbria University
May 12, 2015

A good book to support students studying evidence based practice at level 5

Mrs Rachael Morice
Faculty of Arts & Community, Truro College
June 4, 2014

As with other texts in this series, it is a useful text, although UK based. I like the way it references elements of the different professional frameworks, which makes it very usable for the relevant students. The subject is directly taught in a parallel module to mine, which is why it is supplementary rather than recommended.

Dr Jennifer Gosling
Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
April 30, 2012

This book stimulates student interest in public health. It opens up topics that are a major concern to society. The book makes demands on students and questions their percieved knowledge.

Mr Michael Kelleher
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Interprofessional, University Campus Suffolk
April 30, 2012

This book is a very useful resource. The standard of the book, along with the informaiton provided within makes for compelling reading, with some useful activities, where the learners may reflect. The layout is not what I thought it would be, though this sets the book off nicely, and is easy to use/read.

I would advise that this be a supplemental resource for my learners rathern than essential.

Miss Zoe Taylor
Health , North Lindsey College
March 13, 2012

Carmen Aceijas

Carmen graduated in Psychology and finished her PhD in Research and Methods [health psychology] in 2005. She has worked in research and academia in Public Health since 1998 for institutions such the University of East London, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Imperial College and Andalusian School of Public Health. During the last twelve years she has been working in Public Health research on drug dependences and HIV. Currently Carmen is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health in the University of East London and Program Leader of the Post-Graduate programs in Public Health and Health Promotion. More About Author

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ISBN: 9780857253897
£32.99