Full Description
Healthcare public health is concerned with the application of population sciences to the design, organisation, and delivery of healthcare services, with the ultimate aim of improving population health. This book provides an introduction to the methods and subject matter of healthcare public health, bringing together coverage of all the key areas in a single volume.
Topics include healthcare needs assessment; access to healthcare; knowledge management; ethical issues; involving patients and the public; population screening; health promotion and disease prevention; new service model; programme budgeting and preparing a business case; evaluation and outcomes; patient safety, and implementation and improvement sciences; and healthcare in remote and resource-poor regions.
Drawing on international as well as national perspectives, this volume will be relevant wherever healthcare is delivered. It will enable students, researchers, academics, practitioners, and policy-makers to contribute to the goals of designing and delivering health services that improve population health, reduce inequalities, and meet the needs of individuals and communities.
Contents
1: Martin Gulliford and Edmund Jessop: Population healthcare and healthcare public health: An introduction
2: Rodrigo Tobias, Julio Cesar Schweickardt, and Matthew Harris: Access to healthcare in the remote and resource-poor region of the Brazilian Amazon
3: Bo Burström: Promoting equity through health services
4: Christopher McKevitt, Nina Fudge, and Clémence Pinel: Involving patients and publics in healthcare
5: A.M. Viens: Populations, values, and health: Ethical implications of population healthcare
6: Andrew O'Shaughnessy and John Wright: Healthcare needs assessment
7: Martin Gulliford: Access to healthcare
8: Aoife Molloy: Knowledge management: Evidence into guidance
9: Hugh Alderwick, Jennifer Dixon, and Jo Bibby: Health care redesign and population health
10: Eira Winrow & Rhiannon Tudor Edwards: Programme budgeting and marginal analysis, and developing a business case for a new service
11: Edmund Jessop: Evaluating healthcare systems and services
12: Stephanie Russ and Nick Sevdalis: Perspectives on healthcare quality and safety
13: Jenifer Smith and James Mapstone: Health services for health promotion and disease prevention
14: Allison Streetly and Nehmat Houssami: Population screening
15: Martin Gulliford, Edmund Jessop, and Lucy Yardley: Digital healthcare public health
16: Edmund Jessop: Healthcare public health in disasters and emergencies
17: Edmund Jessop and Martin Gulliford: Concluding remarks
