Evidence-Based Public Health: Effectiveness And Efficiency

Description: Evidence-based Public Health: Effectiveness and efficiency continues the themes raised in Public Health Evidence - tackling health inequalities. Written by the same author team, this book is a comprehensive reference to evidence-based approaches in public health. It covers the context and role of evidence-based public health in England; frameworks for evaluating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of public health policies and interventions; diversity, vulnerability and risk as a focus for understanding the role of social context in influencing health-related behaviours; approaches and methods to generate and synthesize evidence of what works to improve health and tackle health inequalities; current best available evidence on the effectiveness of a diverse range of interventions; and the role of evidence-based guidance and standards in changing policy and practice. This book will be essential reading for all those concerned with advancing an evidence-based approach to public health, and tackling health inequalities, including academics, researchers, policy makers, postgraduate students in public health, and anyone involved across different sectors of public health, including local government, health and education, Whilst based on work done in England by NICE, the book contains generic principles which are applicable internationally.

Review: This may be the most comprehensive conceptual treatment of generating and appraising evidence for public health currently available. Doody's Notes

Contents: PART 1 - PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY; 1. Trends and scenarios in public health in the UK; 2. Policy and evidence-based public health; 3. Ethics and evidence in health promotion; PART 2 - EVIDENCE-BASED FRAMEWORKS; 4. Theory-driven approach - 'programme theories' /'theory of change' concepts; 5. Equity, risk and the life course: a framework for understanding and tackling health inequalities; 6. Vulnerability, disadvantage and sexual health; 7. Social context and youth health: understanding and mitigating exclusion; 8. Use of economic methods to evaluate the cost effectiveness of public health interventions; 9. Equity and efficiency: the contribution of health economics; 10. Valuation of health in public health in economic evaluations; 11. Ethics and public health: the ethics of intervention choices; PART 3 - GENERATING EVIDENCE; 12. Developing and evaluating complex interventions; 13. Child health and wellbeing in the early years: the national evaluation of Sure Start; 14. Smoking cessation; 15. Diabetes-population based prevention programmes among South Asians; 16. The Gatehouse project: a multi-level integrated approach to promoting wellbeing in schools; 17. Workplace and mental wellbeing - Whitehall 2 Study; 18. Area-based initiatives in deprived neighbourhoods; 19. Built environment - 'walkability' of neighbourhoods; 20. Fiscal policy and health-related behaviours; PART 4 - SYNTHESISING EVIDENCE AND DEVELOPING GUIDANCE; 21. Assessing evidence: study quality; 22. Assessing evidence and prioritising clinical and public health guidance recommendations; 23. Social values in developing public health guidance; 24. Developing guidance on changing behaviour; 25. What works in promoting the emotional and social well being of children in primary education?; 26. What environmental measures are effective in promoting physical activity?; 27. Developing evidence based guidance for health technologies: the NICE experience; 28. Supporting implementation of public health guidance: NICE experience; PART 5 - KNOWLEDGE, EVIDENCE AND POLICY; 29. The individual and social level of public health; 30. Informing public health policy with the best available evidence; 31. Changing policy: reflections on the role of public health evidence