Population health encompasses traditional public health and
preventive medicine but emphasizes the full range of health
determinants affecting the entire population rather than only ill
or high-risk individuals. The population health approach integrates
the social and biological, the quantitative and qualitative,
recognizing the importance of social and cultural factors in
practice and research.
This text is organized around the logical sequence of studying and
attempting to improve the health of populations; measuring health
status and disease burden, identifying and modeling health
determinants, assessing health risks and inferring causation,
designing research studies, planning interventions, and evaluating
health programs. The second edition incorporates many new topics
that reflect changes in contemporary public health concerns and our
response to them; as well as shifts in research directions. These
include lifecourse approaches to health, gene-environment
interactions, emergent infections, and bioterrorism. Among the
specific changes are new or expanded discussions of confidence
intervals for commonly used rates, the impact of population aging
on mortality trends, health survey questionnaires, summary measures
of population health, the new International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health, migrant studies, race and
ethinicity, psychoneuroendocrine pathways, social epidemiology,
risk perception, communicating the SARS epidemic, ecologic studies,
the odds radio, paticipatory research, suicide, evidence-based
community interventions, evaluation methods and health economics,
the Cochrane Collaboration, and systemic reviews.
The many positive features of thefirst edition have been retained,
such as the extensive use of boxes, case studies, and exercises;
the selection of examples representing a variety of health
problems, geographic regions, and historical periods; and a
multidisciplinary orientation bridging the quantitative and
qualitative, the social and biomedical sciences. The book aims to
spark a new kind of broad-based training for researchers and
practitioners of population health.
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