Principles and Application of Evidence-Based Public Health Practice
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-323-95356-6 (ISBN)
Principles and Application of Evidence-based Public Health Practice helps build the capacity and enhances the quality of services delivered as part of public health practice. It will provide a basic understanding of various determinants (e.g., psycho-social, environmental, and political) of health and public health approaches (from policy to local practice level) applicable to EBPHP. The core areas of public health, namely epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences/health promotion, health management, health economics, environmental and occupational health, nutrition, and public health research, are covered in this book comprehensively in a manner to cross-learn from each other.
Dr. Kathirvel MD, MBBS is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh after working with International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases. He has more than ten years of working experience in community medicine/public health area. He is an alumnus of WHO SORT IT Course and International Agency for Research on Cancer Summer School on “Cancer Epidemiology and Survival Methods. He is a mentor for national and international SORT IT courses. He has more than 70 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters. He is the principal/co-principal investigator of various community-based research on important public health problems. His area of research interest includes Primary health/Rural health, Non-Communicable Diseases, Tuberculosis, Operational/Implementation Research, and Digital Health. Dr. Singh MD worked as the Professor and Head of Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, PGIMER, Chandigarh. He’s published over 160 research articles/editorials in national and international journals and written 80+ chapters in different books. Dr. Singh has presented his research findings in various national and international conferences and completed 50 research projects on various public health related subjects (including 8 RCTs). His main research interest has been women’s health, health promotion, care of dependent and elderly (he has published a book each on these areas). He has been a co-author of 18 books (Hindi and English). He has also edited a book each on ‘Health Promotion’, ’Comprehensive Textbook of Elderly Care’ and on ‘Demedicalizing Women’s Health’. He was the editor of the Indian Journal of Community Medicine from 2004 to 2010. Dr. Chockalingam MS, PhD, FACC, FAHA currently serves as adjunct professor with Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Secretary General of the World Hypertension League. He was previously the founding Director of the Office of Global Health at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health between 2010 and 2013. Dr. Chockalingam's experience encompasses a unique combination of global health research, policy, training, and administration in addition to international leadership within the global health community. He is a co-author of the Institute of Medicine’s March 2010 report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health, which lays out a vision for curbing and ultimately preventing cardiovascular disease in low-and middle-income countries. Dr. Chockalingam is passionate about global health research and has established research collaborations in China, India, Germany, Malaysia, Kenya, and Argentina. His multidisciplinary research interests go beyond cardiovascular health into household air pollution, mental health as well as congruency of health, agriculture and economics. Dr. Chockalingam has published over 160 papers and 11 book chapters, served as an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous journals and was editor-in- chief of the Journal of Hypertension Control (1994-1999) and associate editor of CVD Prevention (1992-1988).
Foreword
Paul McDonald
Preface
Section I: Introduction to public health practice
1. Principles and approaches in public health practice
Rajavel Saranya and Soundappan Kathirvel
2. Principles of public health research and writing
Periyasamy Gandhi Aravind and Soundappan Kathirvel
3. Evidence-based public health practice
Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader
4. Applying evidence-based strategies for public health preparedness and emergency management
Vinayagamoorthy Kalaiselvi and Jaya Prasad Tripathy
Section II: Case studies of public health practice
5. How the public health practice changes clinical practice and vice versa
Kathiresan Jeyashree
6. Effect of public health research on policy and practice
Punam Bandokar and Madhur Verma
7. Public health policy for social action to ensure better population health
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj
8. Democratization of health care in hospital settings: An integral part of public health practice
Ishwarpreet Kaur and Amarjeet Singh
9. Community participation for improving the coverage and quality of evidence-based public health practice
Hemant Shewade, Deepak H.J. Murthy and Seetharam Mysore
10. Intersectoral coordination for concerted efforts to improve the population health using evidence-based public health practice
Seetharam Mysore, Deepak H.J. Murthy and Hemant Shewade
11. Public health approaches to address substance use: An urgent need of multisectoral engagement
Cristina Rabadan-Diehl
12. Healthy aging and quality of life of the elderly
Amarjeet Singh, Soundappan Kathirvel and Arun Chockalingam
Section III: Future of public health practice
13. The need for a paradigm shift to ensure adequate skilled human resources for effective public health practice
Myo Minn Oo
14. Effective use of information technology for the quality of public health practice
Palanivel Chinnakali and Swetha S. Kumar
15. Sustaining population benefit using evidence-based public health
Rama Shankar Rath and Aysuh Lohiya
16. Precision medicine and public health practice
Gomathi Ramaswamy
17. Public health practice: A futuristic perspective
Patricio V. Marquez and Arun Chockalingam
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.08.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 570 g |
Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-323-95356-5 / 0323953565 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-323-95356-6 / 9780323953566 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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