Susan Carr is a Reader in the Health Improvement Research Programme, Community Health & Education Studies Research Centre, Northumbria University, where she researches and teaches public health and primary care issues. Nigel Unwin is Professor of Epidemiology in Advancing Research in Chronic Disease Epidemiology(archEpi), and lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes, in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, UK. Tanja Pless-Mulloli is Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Newcastle.

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• IntroductionLessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the 21st centurySources and critical use of health informationMeasuring the frequency of health problemsMeasures of riskEpidemiological study designsWeighing up the evidence from epidemiological studiesThe determinants of health and diseaseHealth promotionHealth needs analysisPrinciples of screeningChanging public health: What impacts on public health practice?

Susan Carr is a Reader in the Health Improvement Research Programme, Community Health & Education Studies Research Centre, Northumbria University, where she researches and teaches public health and primary care issues. Nigel Unwin is Professor of Epidemiology in Advancing Research in Chronic Disease Epidemiology(archEpi), and lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes, in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, UK. Tanja Pless-Mulloli is Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Newcastle.

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• IntroductionLessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the 21st centurySources and critical use of health informationMeasuring the frequency of health problemsMeasures of riskEpidemiological study designsWeighing up the evidence from epidemiological studiesThe determinants of health and diseaseHealth promotionHealth needs analysisPrinciples of screeningChanging public health: What impacts on public health practice?

Susan Carr is a Reader in the Health Improvement Research Programme, Community Health & Education Studies Research Centre, Northumbria University, where she researches and teaches public health and primary care issues. Nigel Unwin is Professor of Epidemiology in Advancing Research in Chronic Disease Epidemiology(archEpi), and lead of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Diabetes, in the Institute of Health and Society at Newcastle University, UK. Tanja Pless-Mulloli is Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Newcastle.

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• IntroductionLessons from the history of public health and epidemiology for the 21st centurySources and critical use of health informationMeasuring the frequency of health problemsMeasures of riskEpidemiological study designsWeighing up the evidence from epidemiological studiesThe determinants of health and diseaseHealth promotionHealth needs analysisPrinciples of screeningChanging public health: What impacts on public health practice?