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