Public Health Intelligence - Issues of Measure and Method

The first textbook on public health intelligence presents indepth the key concepts, methods, and objectives of this increasingly importantcompetency. It systematically reviews types of evidence and data that compriseintelligence, effective techniques for assessment, analysis, andinterpretation, and the role of this knowledge in quality health service delivery.The book's learner-centered approach gives readers interactive context formastering the processes of gathering and working with intelligence as well asits uses in informing public health decision-making. And its pragmaticframework will help establish standards for training, practice, and policy,leading to continued improvements in population health.
This path-breaking resource:

• Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to public health intelligence, a core area of public health competency.
  
• Is suitable for both graduates' and healthcare professionals' training and development for national and international contexts.
  
• Helps readers apply theory to real-life scenarios, from multi-professional perspectives.
• Features activities, case studies, and discussion tasks for easy reader engagement.
• Anticipates and examines emerging developments in the field.

Public HealthIntelligence - Issues of Measure and Method is bedrock reading for postgraduateand advanced undergraduate students in public health, global health, healthpolicy, health service management, nursing, medicine, statistics, epidemiology,quantitative methods, health intelligence, health inequality, and other alliedhealthcare fields. It is also a salient text for public health practitionersand health policymakers.
"This bookis a 'must-read' for students contemplating a career in Public Health or foranyone who is already in practice. The breadth of chapters from respectedauthors provide a detailed overviewand critique of issues related to publichealth intelligence. A key strength of the book is that it is written with bothstudents and practitioners in mind."
GurchRandhawa, PhD, FFPH, Professor of Diversity in Public Health & Director,Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, UK

List of contents

Public Health Intelligence.- Epidemiology.- Types of Data.- Modelling in Public Health.- Surveillance.- Geographical Information Systems.- Synthesizing Public Health Evidence (Qualitative and Quantitative).- Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.- International Health Regulations.- Policy Formulation and Service Planning.- Evaluation.

About the author

Krishna Regmi, PhD, MPH, SFHEA, RSRM, FRSPH, has worked in the field of public health (epidemiology) for over 20 years. Currently he is employed as a Principal Lecturer in Public Health and Academic Public Health Portfolio Lead at the Department of Clinical Education and Leadership, University of Bedfordshire, UK, where he is responsible for public health teaching, research, and related administration, including supervision of postgraduate research students’ projects. Dr. Regmi has also written several academic publications in peer-reviewed journals, many papers in professional journals, editorials, and some books and book chapters.

Summary

The first textbook on public health intelligence presents in
depth the key concepts, methods, and objectives of this increasingly important
competency. It systematically reviews types of evidence and data that comprise
intelligence, effective techniques for assessment, analysis, and
interpretation, and the role of this knowledge in quality health service delivery.
The book’s learner-centered approach gives readers interactive context for
mastering the processes of gathering and working with intelligence as well as
its uses in informing public health decision-making. And its pragmatic
framework will help establish standards for training, practice, and policy,
leading to continued improvements in population health.
This path-breaking resource:

• Offers a comprehensive,
  up-to-date introduction to public health intelligence, a core area of
  public health competency.
  
• Is suitable
  for both graduates’ and healthcare professionals’ training and development
  for national and international contexts.
  
• Helps readers
  apply theory to real-life scenarios, from multi-professional perspectives.
• Features
  activities, case studies, and discussion tasks for easy reader engagement.
• Anticipates
  and examines emerging developments in the field.

Public Health
Intelligence - Issues of Measure and Method is bedrock reading for postgraduate
and advanced undergraduate students in public health, global health, health
policy, health service management, nursing, medicine, statistics, epidemiology,
quantitative methods, health intelligence, health inequality, and other allied
healthcare fields. It is also a salient text for public health practitioners
and health policymakers.
"This book
is a 'must-read' for students contemplating a career in Public Health or for
anyone who is already in practice. The breadth of chapters from respected
authors provide a detailed overviewand critique of issues related to public
health intelligence. A key strength of the book is that it is written with both
students and practitioners in mind."
Gurch
Randhawa, PhD, FFPH, Professor of Diversity in Public Health & Director,
Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Product details

• Assisted by: Gee (Editor), Gee (Editor), Ivan Gee (Editor), Krishn Regmi (Editor), Krishna Regmi (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319283241
• ISBN: 978-3-31-928324-1
• No. of pages: 243
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 243 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Illustrations: XX, 243 p. 66 illus., 39 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; B, Medicine, Epidemiology & medical statistics, Epidemiologie und medizinische Statistik, Public Health, Epidemiology, public health surveillance