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Public Health Textbook
Research Methods
1a - Epidemiology
1b - Statistical Methods
1c - Health Care Evaluation and Health Needs Assessment
1d - Qualitative Methods
Disease Causation and Diagnostic
2a - Epidemiological Paradigms
2b - Epidemiology of Diseases of Public Health Significance
2c - Diagnosis and Screening
2d - Genetics
2e - Health and Social Behaviour
2f - Environment
2g - Communicable Disease
2h - Principles and Practice of Health Promotion
2i - Disease Prevention, Models of Behaviour Change
Health Information
3a - Populations
3b - Sickness and Health
3c - Applications
Medical Sociology, Policy and Economics
4a - Concepts of Health and Illness and Aetiology of Illness
4b - Health Care
4c - Equality, Equity and Policy
4d - Health Economics
Organisation and Management
5a - Understanding Individuals,Teams and their Development
5b - Understanding Organisations, their Functions and Structure
5c - Management and Change
5d - Understanding the Theory and Process of Strategy Development
5e Health and social service quality
5f Finance, Management Accounting and Relevant Theoretical Approaches
Further Resources
Frameworks For Answering Questions
General Advice for Part A
Past Papers (available on the FPH website)
Text Courses
Epidemiology
Epidemiology for Practitioners
Epidemiology for Specialists
Health Information
Applications of health information for practitioners
Applications of health information for specialists
Population health information for practitioners
Population health information for specialists
Sickness and health for practitioners
Sickness and Health Information for specialists
Statistical Methods
Statistical methods for practitioners
Statistical methods for specialists
Video Courses
Introduction
Finding and Appraising the Evidence
1. Overall Introduction to Critical Appraisal
2. Finding the Evidence
3. Randomised Control Trials
4. Systematic Reviews
5. Economic Evaluations
6. Making Sense of Results
Learning from Stakeholders
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Stakeholder engagement
Chapter 2 – Reasons for engaging stakeholders
Chapter 3 – Identifying appropriate stakeholders
Chapter 4 – Understanding engagement methods
Chapter 5 – Using engagement methods, P1
Chapter 5 – Using engagement methods, P2
Chapter 6 – Analysing the data
Chapter 7 - Monitoring engagement
Chapter 8 - Evaluating engagement
Chapter 9 - Understanding the lessons learned
Obesity Care Pathway Support Package
Introduction
Initiation
Stakeholder Engagement
Development
Implementation
Evaluation
Programme Budgeting and Marginal Analysis
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Introduction to PBMA
Chapter 2 - Endorsements & Evidence
Chapter 3 - World Class Commissioning
Chapter 4 - Marginal Analysis in Action
Chapter 5 - Mental Health Example
Chapter 6 - Diabetes Test Example
Chapter 7 - The Challenge
Chapter 8 - Programme Budgeting Spreadsheet
Chapter 9 - Programme Budgeting Atlas
Chapter 10 - NHS Comparators Website
Chapter 11 - The Challenge
Screening
Introduction
Chapter 1 - What screening is and is not
Chapter 2 - What screening does
Chapter 3 - The screening programme
Chapter 4 - Measuring what screening does
Chapter 5 - Measures of test performance
Chapter 6 - Handling media interviews
Chapter 7 - Commissioning quality screening
Chapter 8 - Screening prior to evidence
Chapter 9 - Interview with Sir Muir Gray
Sustainable Healthcare
Introduction
Chapter 1 - What is Climate Change?
Chapter 2 - Greening the Health Service
Chapter 3 - Changing the Energy of the NHS
Chapter 4 - Distributed Health and Service and How to Reduce Travel
Chapter 5 - The End of Waste
Chapter 6 - Sustainable Clinical Practice
Chapter 7 - Public Health Advocacy
Chapter 8 - Turning Theory into Action
Chapter 9 - Theory into Action
Training
Change Management
Collaborative Working for Health
Getting the Message Across
Health Everyone's Business
Health Service Planning
Knowledge Management
Leadership and Management
Policy and Strategy Development
Prioritisation and Performance Management
Programme and Project Management
Supporting the Analyst
Teaching Public Health for Action
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1a - Epidemiology
Strategies to allow/adjust for confounding in design and analysis
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“Biases and confounding."
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Use of routine vital and health statistics to describe the distribution of disease in time and place and by person
Numerators, denominators and populations at risk
Time at risk
Methods for Summarising Data
Incidence and prevalence including direct and indirect standardisation
Years of Life Lost
Measures of disease burden (event-based and time-based) and population attributable risks including identification of comparison groups appropriate to Public Health
Sources of variation, its measurement and control
Common errors in epidemiological measurements, their effects on numerator and denominator data and their avoidance
Concepts and measures of risk
Effect measures including odds ratios, rate ratios and risk ratios (relative risk)
Association and Causation
Biases and Confounding
Interactions, methods for assessment of effect modification
Strategies to allow/adjust for confounding in design and analysis
The design, applications, strengths and weaknesses of descriptive studies and ecological studies
Design, applications, strengths and weaknesses of cross-sectional, analytical studies (including cohort, case-control and nested case-control studies), and intervention studies (including randomised controlled trials)
Analysis of health and disease in small areas
Validity, reliability and generalisability
Intention to treat analysis
Clustered data - effects on sample size and approaches to analysis
Numbers needed to treat (NNTs) - calculation, interpretation, advantages and disadvantages
Time-trend analysis, time series designs
Nested case-control studies
Methods of sampling from a population
Methods of allocation in intervention studies
The design of documentation for recording survey data
Construction of valid questionnaires
Methods for validating observational techniques
Studies of disease prognosis
Appropriate use of statistical methods in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies, including life-table analysis
Electronic bibliographical databases and their limitations
Epidemic theory (effective and basic reproduction numbers, epidemic thresholds) and techniques for infectious disease data (construction and use of epidemic curves, generation numbers, exceptional reporting and identification of significant clusters)
Evidence based medicine and policy
Grey literature
Publication bias
Systematic reviews, methods for combining data from several studies, and meta-analysis
The Cochrane collaboration
The ethics and etiquette of epidemiological research
The hierarchy of research evidence - from well conducted meta-analysis down to small case series
Understanding of basic issues and terminology in the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of population-based genetic association studies, including twin studies, linkage and association studies
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