Topics discussed:
- Lessons from the history of public health and
epidemiology for the twenty-first century
- Sources and critical use of health information
- Measuring the frequency of health problems
- Measures of risk
- Epidemiological study designs
- Weighing up the evidence from epidemiological studies
- The determinants of health and disease
- Health promotion
- Health needs analysis
- Principles of screening
- Changing public health: what impacts on public
health practice