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Assessing evidence to improve population health and wellbeing

Contributor(s):

Aceijas, Carmen [editor]

Series: Transforming public health practicePublication details: Exeter : Learning Matters, 2011.Description: viii, 158 p. ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780857253897
0857253891

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

WA 100.

Summary: 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.

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Book	CEME Library (NELFT) Shelves		WB20 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	NE10918
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Book	South London and Maudsley Trust Library Shelves		WA 100 ASS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	024047
Book	Whipps Cross Library (Barts Health) Shelves	Newham collection at Whipps Cross	W 087 ACE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	N03291

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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