Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. The sixth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, offering a global and comprehensive perspective on wide ranging public health needs and priorities in modern health care.

The sixth edition retains its approach of dividing the complex, dynamic subject of public health into three topics. 'The Scope of Public Health' discusses the development of the discipline, determinants of health and disease, public health policies, and law and ethics. Next, the textbook focuses on 'The Methods of Public Health', including the main science behind the discipline - epidemiology. Finally, 'The Practice of Public Health', examines specific public health problems and the 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.

New topics in this edition include: Climate change, genetic testing and epidemiology; new methods for measuring the burden of disease; life course approaches to epidemiology, behavioural economics; and physical activity, health and wellbeing.

Two new editors, Quarraisha Abdool Karim (South Africa) and Chorh Chuan Tan (Singapore), join the established editor team of Roger Detels (USA), and Martin Gulliford (UK), representing a truly global outlook. The contributors are experts who have been drawn from around the world, offering perspectives from vastly different health systems with ranging public health needs and priorities.

The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health remains the most comprehensive, accessible text in the field, and is an essential reference for students and practitioners in public health and epidemiology.

Roger Detels, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA,Martin Gulliford, Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London, UK,Quarraisha Abdool Karim, University Of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa,Chorh Chuan Tan, National University Of Singapore, Singapore

THE SCOPE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 1 The development of the discipline of public health
1.1. The scope and concerns of public health, Roger Detels and Chorh Chuan Tan
1.2. The history and development of public health in developed countries, Christopher Hamlin
1.3. The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countries, Than Sein
1.4. Development of public health in economic transition: the middle-income countries, Kai Hong Phua, Mui-Teng Yap, Sara Schwanke Khilji, and Hin-Peng Lee
1.5. Globalization, Kelley Lee
Section 2 Determinants of health and disease
2.1. Determinants of health: overview, Justin Remais and Richard Jackson
2.2. Poverty, justice, and health, Ronald Labonte, Frances Baum, and David Sanders
2.3. Socioeconomic inequalities in health in high-income countries: the facts and the options, Johan P. Mackenbach
2.4. Reducing health inequalities in developing countries, Hoosen Coovadia and Irwin Friedman
2.5. Genomics and public health, Vural Ozdemir, Wylie Burke, Muin J. Khoury, Bartha M. Knoppers, and Ron Zimmern
2.6. Water and sanitation, Thomas Clasen
2.7. Food and nutrition, Prakash S. Shetty
2.8. The environment and climate change, Alistair Woodward and Alex Macmillan
2.9. Behavioural determinants of health and disease, Lawrence W. Green, Robert A. Hiatt, and Kristin S. Hoeft
2.10. Access to healthcare and population health, Martin Gulliford
Section 3 Public health policies, law, and ethics
3.1. Leadership in public health, Manuel M. Dayrit and Maia Ambegaokar
3.2. Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health, Nancy Kass, Amy Paul, and Andrew Siegel OUP
3.3. The right to the highest attainable standard of health, Paul Hunt, Gunilla Backman, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Louise Finer, Rajat Khosla, Dragana Korljan, and Lisa Oldring
3.4. Law and the public's health, Lawrence Gostin
3.5. Priority setting, social values, and public health, Peter Littlejohns, Sarah Clark, and Albert Weale
3.6. Health policy in developing countries, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Block, Adetokunbo Lucas, Octavio Gomez-Dantes, and Julio Frenk
3.7. Public health policy in developed countries, John Powles
3.8. International efforts to promote public health, Douglas Bettcher, Katherine DeLand, Gemma Lien, Fernando Gonzalez-Martinez, Anne Huvos, Steven Solomon, Ulrike Schwerdtfeger, Haik Nikogosian, Angelika Tritscher, and Julia Dalzell
THE METHODS OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 4 Information systems and sources of intelligence
4.1. Information systems in support of public health in high-income countries, Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa and Liam Smeeth
4.2. Information systems and community diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries, Peter Cherutich and Ruth Nduati
4.3. New communication technologies, social media, and public health, Mohan J. Dutta
Section 5 Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
5.1. Epidemiology: the foundation of public health, Roger Detels
5.2. Ecological variables, ecological studies, and multilevel studies in public health research, Ana V. Diez Roux
5.3. Cross-sectional studies, Manolis Kogevinas and Leda Chatzi
5.4. Principles of outbreak investigation, Kumnuan Ungchusak and Sopon Iamsirithaworn
5.5. Case-control studies, Noel S. Weiss
5.6. Cohort studies, Alvaro Munoz and F. Javier Nieto
5.7. Methodology of intervention trials in individuals, Lawrence M. Friedman and Eleanor B. Schron
5.8. Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trials, Allan Donner
5.9. Community intervention trials in high-income countries, John W. Farquhar and Lawrence W. Green
5.10. Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries, Sheena G. Sullivan and Zunyou Wu
5.11. Clinical epidemiology, Vivian A. Welch, Kevin Pottie, Tomas Pantoja, Andrea C. Tricco, and Peter Tugwell
5.12. Genetic epidemiology, Elizabeth H. Young and Manjinder S. Sandhu
5.13. Validity and bias in epidemiological research, Sander Greenland and Tyler VanderWeele
5.14. Causation and causal inference, Katherine J. Hoggatt, Sander Greenland, and Tyler VanderWeele
5.15. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, Jimmy Volmink and Mike Clarke
5.16. Statistical methods, Gail Williams
5.17. Measuring the health of populations: the Global Burden of Disease study methods, Theo Vos and Christopher J.L. Murray
5.18. Mathematical models of transmission and control of infectious agents, Alex Welte, Brian Williams, and Gavin Hitchcock
5.19. Public health surveillance, James W. Buehler and Ann Marie Kimball
5.20. Life course epidemiology and analysis, Diana Kuh, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Kate Tilling, and Rebecca Hardy
Section 6 Social science techniques
6.1. Sociology and psychology in public health, Stella R. Quah
6.2. Sexuality and public health, Richard Parker, Jonathan Garcia, Miguel Munoz-Laboy, Marni Sommer, and Patrick Wilson
6.3. Demography and public health, Emily Grundy and Michael Murphy
6.4. Health promotion, health education, and the public's health, Simon Carroll and Marcia Hills
6.5. Development and evaluation of complex multicomponent interventions in public health, Rona Campbell and Chris Bonell
6.6. Economic appraisal in public healthcare: assessing efficiency and equity, David Parkin, Stephen Morris, and Nancy Devlin
6.7. Behavioural economics and health, Judd B. Kessler and C. Yiwei Zhang
6.8. Governance and management of public health programmes, Eng-kiong Yeoh
6.9. Implementation science and translational public health, Kedar S. Mate, Theodore Svoronos, and Dan W. Fitzgerald
Section 7 Environmental and occupational health sciences
7.1. Environmental health issues in public health, Chien-Jen Chen
7.2. Radiation and public health, Leeka Kheifets, Adele Green, and Richard Wakeford
7.3. Environmental exposure assessment: modelling air pollution concentrations, John Gulliver and Kees de Hoogh
7.4. Occupational health, David Koh and Tar-Ching Aw
7.5. Toxicology and risk assessment in the analysis and management of environmental risk, David Koh, Tar-Ching Aw, and Bernard D. Goldstein
7.6. Risk perception and communication, Baruch Fischhoff
THE PRACTICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Section 8 Major health problems
8.1. Epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease, Nathan D. Wong
8.2. Cancer epidemiology and public health, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Paolo Boffetta, Alfred I. Neugut, and Carlo La Vecchia
8.3. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, v Jeroen Douwes, Marike Boezen, Collin Brooks, and Neil Pearce
8.4. Obesity, W. P. T. James and Tim Marsh
8.5. Physical activity and health, Nasiha Soofie and Roger Detels
8.6. Diabetes mellitus, Nigel Unwin and Jonathan Shaw
8.7. Public mental health and suicide, Kristian Wahlbeck and Danuta Wasserman
8.8. Dental public health, Peter G. Robinson and Zoe Marshman
8.9. Musculoskeletal disorders, Lope H. Barrero and Alberto Caban-Martinez
8.10. Neurological diseases, epidemiology, and public health, Walter A. Kukull and James Bowen
8.11. Infectious diseases and prions, Davidson H. Hamer and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
8.12. Sexually transmitted infections, Mary L. Kamb and Patricia J. Garcia
8.13. HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Sten H. Vermund and Suniti Solomon
8.14. Tuberculosis, David W. Dowdy, Richard E. Chaisson, and Gavin J. Churchyard
8.15. Malaria, Frank Sorvillo, Shira Shafir, and Benjamin Bristow
8.16. Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease, Pierre Van Damme, Tinne Lernout, Koen Van Herck, Rui T. Marinho, Raymundo Parana, and Daniel Shouval
8.17. Emerging and re-emerging infections, David L. Heymann and Vernon J. M. Lee
8.18. Bioterrorism, Nicholas S. Kelley and Michael T. Osterholm
Section 9 Prevention and control of public health hazards
9.1. Tobacco, Tai Hing Lam and Sai Yin Ho
9.2. Public health aspects of illicit psychoactive drug use, Don Des Jarlais, Jonathan Feelemyer, and Deborah Hassin
9.3. Alcohol, Robin Room
9.4. Injury prevention and control: the public health approach, Corinne Peek-Asa and Adnan Hyder
9.5. Interpersonal violence: a recent public health mandate, Rachel Jewkes
9.6. Collective violence: war, Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel
9.7. Urban health in low- and middle-income countries, Mark R. Montgomery
Section 10 Public health needs of population groups
10.1. The changing family, Gavin W. Jones
10.2. Women, men, and health, Sarah Payne and Lesley Doyal
10.3. Child health, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Nigel Rollins, Bernadette Daelmans, Rajiv Bahl, Jose Martines, and Elizabeth Mason
10.4. Adolescent health, Pierre-Andre Michaud, Anne-Emmanuelle Ambresin, Richard F. Catalano, Judith Diers, and Georges C. Patton
10.5. Ethnicity, race, epidemiology, and public health, Raj Bhopal
10.6. The health of indigenous peoples, Ian Anderson and Sue Crengle
10.7. People with disabilities, Donald J. Lollar and Elena M. Andresen
10.8. Health of older people, Julie E. Byles and Meredith Tavener
10.9. Forced migrants and other displaced populations, Catherine R. Bateman Steel and Anthony B. Zwi
10.10. Prisons: from punishment to public health, Ernest Drucker
Section 11 Public health functions
11.1. Health needs assessment, Michael P. Kelly, Jane E. Powell, and Natalie Bartle
11.2. Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, K. Srinath Reddy
11.3. Principles of infectious disease control, Robert J. Kim-Farley
11.4. Population screening and public health, Allison Streetly and Lars Elhers
11.5. Environmental health practice, Yasmin E.R. von Schirnding
11.6. Strategies and structures for public health intervention, Sian Griffiths
11.7. Strategies for health services, Chien Earn Lee
11.8. Training of public health professionals in developing countries, Vonthanak Saphonn, San Hone, and Roger Detels
11.9. Training of local health workers to meet public health needs, Piya Hanvoravongchai and Suwit Wibulpolprasert
11.10. Emergency public health and humanitarian assistance in the twenty-first century, Les Roberts and Richard Brennan
11.11. Principles of public health emergency response for acute environmental, chemical, and radiation incidents, Virginia Murray, Jill Meara, and Naima Bradley
11.12. Private support of public health, Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Roger Detels
11.13. The future of international public health in an era of austerity, Margaret Chan and Mary Kay Kindhauser