Introduction
Bartley, M., Sacker, A., & Clarke, P. (2004). Employment status, employment conditions, and limiting illness: Prospective evidence from the British household panel survey 1991–2001. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,…
PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
A Life Course Perspective on Body Size and Cardio-metabolic Health
Fig. 4.1 Body size trajectories in the development of cardio-metabolic health Clearly, the three trajectories in Fig. 4.1 are conceptual. While we split this section into life course stages for convenient…
Trajectories and Transitions in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Fig. 2.1 Country-level prevalence of overweight/obesity in children in the European Union Prevalence is shown separately for males (dark grey) and females (light grey) for countries in the European Union…
Statistical inference, confidence intervals and P-values
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: to estimate a population statistic using a sample statistic; to calculate and interpret 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for means and proportions; to…
Inequalities in health
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: what inequalities in health are and why they are amenable to change; different axes of inequalities in health, how to measure them…
Measuring and summarising data
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: how we classify different types of variables; to recognise and define measures of central tendency, variability and range; four measures of disease…
Global health
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: What are the global burdens of disease and how they differ between low-middle income and high income countries? What are the wider…
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn to: define a systematic review, and explain why it provides more reliable evidence than a traditional narrative review; succinctly describe the steps…
Public health
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: to define public health and distinguish between public health and individual health care; to identify how public health is measured or diagnosed;…
Effectiveness
Learning objectives In this chapter you will learn: why randomised controlled trials provide the best evidence of effectiveness of treatment; the possible sources of bias in a randomised controlled trial;…
