Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

Part 1: Assessment; 1.1 Gabriele Bammer: Scoping public health problems; 1.2 Sian Griffiths, Robyn Martin, and Don Sinclair: Priorities and ethics; 1.3 John Wright and Ben Cave: Assessing health needs; 1.4 Alex Scott-Samuel, Kate Ardern, and Martin Birley: Assessing health impacts; 1.5 Peter Brambleby: Economic assessment; Part 2: Data and Information; 2.1 Barry Tennison: Understanding data, information, and knowledge; 2.2 Don Detmer: Information technology and informatics; 2.3 Sara Mallinson, Jennie Popay, and Gareth Williams: Qualitative methods; 2.4 Walter Ricciardi and Stefania Boccia: Epidemiological approach and design; 2.5 Iain Lang: Inference, causality and interpretation; 2.6 Anne Brice, Amanda Burls, and Alison Hill: Finding and appraising evidence; 2.7 Julian Flowers: Health status; 2.8 Daniel Sosin and Richard Hopkins: Surveillance; 2.9 Patrick Saunders, Andrew Kibble, and Amanda Burls: Investigating clusters; 2.10 Jem Rashbass and John Newton: Health trends: registers; Part 3: Direct Action; 3.1 Sarah O'Brien: Communicable disease epidemics; 3.2 Roscoe Taylor and Charles Guest: Environmental health risks; 3.3 Tar-Ching Aw, Stuart Whitaker, and Malcolm Harrington: Protecting and promoting health in the workplace; 3.4 Meredith Minkler and Charlotte Chang: Engaging communities in participatory research and action; 3.5 Paul Bolton and Frederick Burkle: Emergency response; 3.6 Angela Raffle, Alexandra Barratt, and Muir Gray: Screening; 3.7 Hilary Burton, Alison Stewart: Genetics; 3.8 Vish Viswanath: Health communication; 3.9 Steve Gillam: Public health practice in primary care; Part 4: Policy arenas; 4.1 Don Nutbeam: Developing healthy public policy; 4.2 John Battersby: Translating policy into indicators and targets; 4.3 Rebekah Jenkin, Christine Jorm, and Michael Frommer: Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action; 4.4 Simon Chapman: Media advocacy for policy influence; 4.5 Tim Lang and Martin Caraher: Influencing international

Dr Charles Guest has worked in government and academic public health in Australia and elsewhere, following graduation from Melbourne, Deakin and Harvard Universities. After medical registration in 1980 and clinical practice in Melbourne, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, posted to the New York City Department of Health in 1984. Subsequently, he undertook research on chronic disease in Australian Aborigines, communicable disease and environmental health. He is currently a Senior Specialist in Population Health, Australian Capital Territory Government, and Adjunct Professor in the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University.; Professor Walter Ricciardi is the Director of the Institute of Hygiene, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome. He graduated from the University of Naples (Medicine and Surgery) in 1984, specialised in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine in 1988 and obtained his MSc (Community