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M.SC.
PUBLIC HEALTH
READING LIST FOR 2002/2004
Essential Text
Essential Public Health Medicine. L J
Donaldson - Kluwer Academic Publishers
Reference Textbook
The Oxford Textbook of Public Health -
three Volumes. IVth Edition. Oxford University Press.
1. Julian Mamo - Basic
Epidemiology
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Epidemiology in Medical Practice Barker/Rose
Churchill Livingstone
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The Strategy of Preventive Medicine Oxford
Medical Publication G Rose. Oxford University Press.
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Epidemiology in Medicine Hennikens C H, Buring
J E. Little & Brown
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Lecture Notes on Epidemiology and Community
Medicine Farmer R D T, D Miller. Blackwell
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Survey Methods in Community Medicine Abramson
J H Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
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A Dictionary of Epidemiology. John M.
Last , Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, University of Ottowa.
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Polit, D F and Hungher, B.P. Nursing
Research - Principles and Methods Philadelphia
J: 13 Lipcott. Paul R. Kinnear, Colin D. Gray Psycholog
Press Paperback - 3rd August, 2000
2. Dr. Hugo Agius Muscat - Health
Information
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Oxford Textbook of Public Health Medicine
(reference in Medical School Library) (selected chapters)
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Donaldson & Donaldson - Essential Public
Health (Community) Medicine: Section on Health data and their sources
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Department of Health Information - visit the
library and have a look at the local and foreign descriptive epidemiology
publications - some of the material is available on the website: http://www.magnet.mt/services/health
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National Statistics Office (formerly Central
Office of Statistics), Malta
http://www.magnet.mt/home/cos
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NHS Information for Health Strategy - section
on Electronic Health Records / Electronic Patient Record levels
http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/strategy/full/2.htm
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Handbook of Medical Informatics (Ed. Van Bemmel,
Musen) (selected chapters) http://www.mieur.nl/mihandbook/r_3_3/handbook/home.htm
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Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Towards quality management
of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering
of information. BMJ 1998; 317: 1496-1500 (BMJ article) http://www.bmj.com/cgi/ijlink-linkType=FULL&journalCode=bmj&resid=317/7171/
3. Mr. Ed Clemmer - Statistics
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Bland, Martin. (2000). An introduction
to medical statistics, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press.
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Bradford Hillís Principle of Medical Statistic
A Bradford Hill Edward Arnold
4. Sina Bugeja - Health Promotion
Health Promotion Suggested Reading list
* Aggleton P., (1992) Health, London, Routledge
* Argyle M., (1981) Social Skills and
Health, London, Methuen
* Bandura A., (1977) Social Learning Theory,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice -Hall
* Bettinghaus EP., (1986) Health Promotion
and the Knowledge - Attitude - Behaviour Continuum in Preventative Medicine
15, pp. 475 - 491
* Bunton R., and Macdonald G. (1992) Health
Promotion Disciplines and Diversity ., New York , Routledge
* Bunton R., Murphy S., and Bennett P.
(1991) Theories of behavioural change and their use in health promotion:
some neglected areas in Health education Research (Theory and Practice)
Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 153-162
* Concepts and Principles in Action, (1984)
A Policy Framework, Health Promotion, WHO
* Downie RS., Fyfe C., and Tannahill A.
(1992) Health Promotion Models and Values., New York, Oxford University
Press
* Ewles L., and Simnett I. (1992) Promoting
Health; A Practical Guide, UK, Scutari Press
* Hargie O., Saunders C., and Dickson
D. (1987) Social Skills in Interpersonal Communication, Second Edition,
London, Routeldge
* Naidoo J., & Wills J., (1994) Health
Promotion Foundations for Practice,UK, Bailliere Tindall
* Nutbeam D., (1986) Health Promotion
Glossary, Health Promotion Volume 1, No. 1, May 1986
* OíNeill P. (1986) Health Crisis 2000,
London, Heinemann
* Parcel GS., and Baranowski T. (1981)
Social Learning Theory and Health Education in Health Education May-June
1981 pp.14 - 18.
* Pike S., & Forster D., (1995) Health
Promotion for All, New York, Churchill Livingstone
* Seedhouse D., (1988) Ethics, the Art
of Health Care, Chichester, Wiley,
* The Ottawa Charter, (1986) in Journal
of Health Promotion Vol.1 No. 4, 1986
* Tones K., Tilford S., and Robinson Y.
(1990) Health Education Effectiveness and Efficiency., London,
Chapman and Hall
5. Dr. Valerie Iles (London)
Organisation of Health Care Systems & Management I
to be confirmed
6. Dr. C. Camilleri Ferrante (Cambridge)
Critical Appraisal
to be confirmed
7. Dr. Paul Paddock (Nottingham)
Environmental Health I
Clayís Handbook of Environmental Health
W H Bossett
And to be confirmed
8. Dr. Paul Miller (Nottingham)
Health Economics
Choices for Health Care Mooney G H, Russell
E M Weir R D
And to be confirmed
9. Prof. HM Gilles (Liverpool)
Comm. /Non Comm. Diseases
Control of Communicable Disease in Man
Chin J. Washington: American Public Health Association
10. Prof. David Miller (London)
Applied Epidemiology
I General revision of epidemiological
study methods
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Lecture Notes on Epidemiology and Public Health
Medicine by Farmer, Miller and Lawrenson, 4th Edition: Chapters 1-7,11,13,17.
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Research Methods for Promotion of Lung Health
by Enarson, Kennedy, Miller and Per Bakke, IUATLD, 2001: Chapters 2-7 and
8.1 + 8.3.
(Can be accessed free of charge via IUATLD
web site: http://www.iuatld.org)
II How to write and evaluate research
papers and public health service reports
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Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted
to biomedical journals. International Committee of Medical Journal
Editors. Brit. Med. J. 1991;302:338-341.
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Techniques for ensuring that your next paper
is quite unsuitable for publication. PD Home. J. R. Coll. Phys. Lond. 1988;22:48-50.
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The future of the Director of Public Healthís
Annual Report. Faculty of Public Health Medicine, April 1999.
III Papers for review and evaluation
1) Relation of infant diet to childhood
health: a cohort study. AC Wilson et al. Brit.Med. J. 1998;316:21-25.
2) Incidence and predictors of severe
obstetric morbidity: case-control study. M Waterstone et al, Brit. Med.
J. 2001;322:1089-1093.
3) Changes in blood pressure among students
1948-1968: analyses of cross-sectional surveys. Brit. Med. J. 2001;322:885-889
4) Estimating a populationís needs for
treatment of LUTS in men. J Treagust et al. J Pub Hlth Med 2001;23:141-147.
5) Randomised controlled trial of anti-smoking
advice. G Rose and L Colwell. J Epidem and Comm Hlth. 1992;46:75-77.
6) An evidence-based approach to reducing
antibiotic use in children with acute otitis media. C Cates
Brit Med J 1999;318:715-6.
11. Dr. Natasha Azzopardi Muscat/John
Cachia Health Care Systems & Management II
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Saltman, Figueras - European Health Care Reform
- Analysis of Current Strategies WHO.
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Iles V. - Really managing health care.
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Abel Smith B - An introduction to health-
planning, policy & financing.
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Handy C - Understanding Organisations.
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Hellriegel, Slocum - Management 7th Edition.
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Gabbay J. Porter J - Communications Skills
- Faculty of Public Health Medicine
12. Maurice Mullard (Hull) Social
Policy
1. Goto: http://mauricemullard.bigstep.com/
VISIT:
Key Issues
Theories and Models - Yr
2
Links (esp. Introduction
to Social Policy)
2. Goto: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/politics/socialpolicy/links.htm
VISIT:
Contents
Social Policy
Welfare and Society
Values in Social Policy
The welfare state
Politics of welfare
Social need
Social services
Social administration
UK Social Policy
UK Social Services
Online resources
Reading
13. David Armstrong (London)
Sociology of Health and Illness
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David Armstrong An outline of sociology as
applied to medicine, 5th edition, Arnold, in Press.
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Jane Ogden A textbook of health psychology.
Open University Press.
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Sociology as Applied to Medicine Scambler
- Bailliere Tindall
14. Dr. Lucienne Licari Environmental
Health II
to be confirmed
Journals
1. International Journal of Epidemiology
2. Journal of Public Health Medicine
3. World Health Forum
4. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
5. WHO Weekly Epidemiological Record
6. Communicable Disease Reports &
Reviews
7. British Medical Journal
8. Journal of Epidemiology & Community
Health
9. American Journal of Epidemiology &
Annual Review
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