Evidence-based public health : effectiveness and efficiency / edited by Amanda Killoran and Michael P. Kelly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Public health challenges of the 21st century -- 1. Trends and scenarios in public health in the UK / Mel Bartley & David Blane -- 2. Policy and evidence-based public health / Catherine Law -- 3. Ethics and evidence in health promotion / David V McQueen -- Part 2. Evidence-based frameworks -- 4. Theory-driven approach- 'programme theories' /'theory of change' concepts / Ray Pawson & Sanjeev Sridharan -- 5. Equity, risk and the life course: a framework for understanding and tackling health inequalities / Hilary Graham & Chris Power -- 6. Vulnerability, disadvantage and sexual health / Roger Ingham & Debbie Smith -- 7. Social context and youth health: understanding and mitigating exclusion / M Judith Lynam -- 8. Use of economic methods to evaluate the cost effectiveness of public health interventions / Susan Griffin, Mark Sculpher & Nigel Rice -- 9. Equity and efficiency: the contribution of health economics / Steve Morris, Nancy Devlin & David Parkin -- 10. Valuation of health in public health in economic evaluations / Richard Cookson & Tony Culyer -- 11. Ethics and public health: the ethics of intervention choices / Lord Krebbs & Harald Schmidt -- Part 3. Generating evidence -- 12. Developing and evaluating complex interventions / Peter Craig, Susan Michie, Irwin Nazareth, Professor Paul Dieppe, Professor Mark Petticrew & Sally Macintyre -- 13. Child health and wellbeing in the early years: the national evaluation of Sure Start / Edward Melhuish, Jay Belsky & Jacqueline Barnes -- 14. Smoking cessation / Robert West & Lion Shahab -- 15. Diabetes-population based prevention programmes among South Asians / Kamlesh Khunti, Thomas Yates, Jacqui Troughton, Margaret Stone & Melanie Davies -- 16. The Gatehouse project: a multi-level integrated approachto promoting wellbeing in schools / Lyndal Bond, Helen Butler -- 17. Workplace and mental wellbeing - Whitehall 2 Study / Mika Kivimaki, Jane E Ferrie & Sir Michael Marmot -- 18. Area-based initiatives in deprived neighbourhoods / Steve Cummins -- 19. Built environment - 'walkability' of neighbourhoods / Klaus Gebel, Adrian Bauman & Fiona Bull -- 20. Fiscal policy and health-related behaviours / Anne Ludbrook -- Part 4. Synthesising evidence and developing guidance -- 21. Assessing evidence: study quality / Mark Petticrew -- 22. Assessing evidence and prioritising clinical and public health guidance recommendations / Peter Littlejohns, Kalipso Chalkidou, Jeremy Wyatt & Steven D Pearson -- 23. Social values in developing public health guidance / Nick Doyle -- 24. Developing guidance on changing behaviour / Catherine Swann, Lesley Owen, Christopher Carmona, Michael P Kelly, Clare Wohlgemuth & Jane Huntley -- 25. What works in promoting the emotional and social well being of children in primary education? / Amanda Killoran, Antony Morgan & James Jagroo -- 26. What environmental measures are effective in promoting physical activity? / Hugo Crombie, Amanda Killoran & Bhash Naidoo -- 27. Developing evidence based guidance for health technologies: the NICE experience / David Barnett, Meindert Boysen, Carole Longson & Andrew Stevens -- 28. Supporting implementation of public health guidance: NICE experience / Val Moore, Nick Baillie, Annie Coppel & Julie Royce -- Part 5. Knowledge, evidence and policy -- 29. The individual and social level of public health / Mike Kelly -- 30. Informing public health policy with the best available evidence / Laurie Anderson -- 31. Changing policy: reflections on the role of public health evidence / Virginia Berridge.

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