Population health science

Verfasser / Beitragende:
Katherine M. Keyes, Sandro Galea
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
Beschreibung:
viii, 207 Seiten : Illustrationen
Format:
Buch
ID: 404937853
Bände/Inhalt:
  • [Contents] An introduction to population health science. - Conceptualizing and evaluating causes for population health science. - The causes of cases versus causes of incidence. - Population health across levels, systems, and the lifecourse. - Ubiquity and the macrosocial determinants of population health. - Causal architecture to understand what matters most : theory. - Causal architecture and what matters most : quantitative examples. - Valuing population health interventions, measuring return on investment. - Equity and efficiency in population health science. - Prediction in population health science. - Case study : can we reduce obesity by encouraging people to eat better?. - Case study : simulating the impact of high-risk and population intervention strategies for the prevention of disease. - Tensions in population health science.