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Public Health Intelligence

Issues of Measure and Method

  • An essential textbook on public health intelligence, one of the core areas of competency for the public health workforce

  • Suitable for training graduate students and professionals for national

  • and international contexts

  • Helps readers apply

  • theory and real-life scenarios from multi-professional perspectives

  • Packed with activities and case studies including interactive learning tools for easy reader engagement

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Public Health Intelligence: An Overview

    • Krishna Regmi, Neil Bendel, Ivan Gee
    Pages 1-18
  3. Epidemiology and Public Health Intelligence

    • Isabelle Bray, Krishna Regmi
    Pages 19-40
  4. Types of Data and Measures of Disease

    • Jacqui Dorman, Ivan Gee
    Pages 41-66
  5. Modelling in Public Health

    • Adam Briggs, Peter Scarborough, Adrian Smith
    Pages 67-90
  6. Public Health Surveillance

    • Ruth Gilbert, Susan J. Cliffe
    Pages 91-110
  7. Geographic Information Systems in Health

    • Kristen Kurland
    Pages 111-127
  8. Synthesising Public Health Evidence

    • Ivan Gee, Krishna Regmi
    Pages 129-145
  9. Policy Formulation, Planning, and Evaluation

    • Colin Thunhurst
    Pages 147-168
  10. Health Needs Assessment

    • Patrick Tobi
    Pages 169-186
  11. Demography in Public Health Intelligence

    • Ivan Gee, Krishna Regmi
    Pages 187-201
  12. Data Presentation

    • Julian Flowers, Katie Johnson
    Pages 203-223
  13. The Future Directions of Health Intelligence

    • Alison Hill, Julian Flowers
    Pages 225-240
  14. Erratum to: Epidemiology and Public Health Intelligence

    • Isabelle Bray, Krishna Regmi
    Pages E1-E3
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 241-243

About this book

The first textbook on public health intelligence presents in depth the key concepts, methods, and objectives of this increasingly important competency. It systematically reviews types of evidence and data that comprise intelligence, effective techniques for assessment, analysis, and interpretation, and the role of this knowledge in quality health service delivery. The book’s learner-centered approach gives readers interactive context for mastering the processes of gathering and working with intelligence as well as its uses in informing public health decision-making. And its pragmatic framework will help establish standards for training, practice, and policy, leading to continued improvements in population health.

This path-breaking resource:

  • Offers a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to public health intelligence, a core area of public health competency.
  • Is suitable for both graduates’ and healthcare professionals’ training and development for national and international contexts.
  • Helps readers apply theory to real-life scenarios, from multi-professional perspectives.
  • Features activities, case studies, and discussion tasks for easy reader engagement.
  • Anticipates and examines emerging developments in the field.

Public Health Intelligence - Issues of Measure and Method is bedrock reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in public health, global health, health policy, health service management, nursing, medicine, statistics, epidemiology, quantitative methods, health intelligence, health inequality, and other allied healthcare fields. It is also a salient text for public health practitioners and health policymakers.

"This book is a 'must-read' for students contemplating a career in Public Health or for anyone who is already in practice. The breadth of chapters from respected authors provide a detailed overview and critique of issues related to public health intelligence. A key strength of the book is that it is written with both students and practitioners in mind."

Gurch Randhawa, PhD, FFPH, Professor of Diversity in Public Health & Director, Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom

    Krishna Regmi

  • Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Ivan Gee

About the editors

Krishna Regmi, PhD, MPH, SFHEA, RSRM, FRSPH, has worked in the field of public health (epidemiology) for over 20 years. Currently he is employed as a Principal Lecturer in Public Health and Academic Public Health Portfolio Lead at the Department of Clinical Education and Leadership, University of Bedfordshire, UK, where he is responsible for public health teaching, research, and related administration, including supervision of postgraduate research students’ projects. Dr. Regmi has also written several academic publications in peer-reviewed journals, many papers in professional journals, editorials, and some books and book chapters.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Health Intelligence

  • Book Subtitle: Issues of Measure and Method

  • Editors: Krishna Regmi, Ivan Gee

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28326-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28324-1Published: 09 May 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80325-8Published: 26 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28326-5Published: 26 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Public Health, Epidemiology

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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