AFMC Primer on Population Health
Primer Contents
Primer Table of Contents
- Main Case Study
- Part 1 - Theory: Thinking About Health
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- The International Classification of Function
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Illness Behaviour and Need for Care
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- The International Classification of Function
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Illness Behaviour and Need for Care
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- The International Classification of Function
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Illness Behaviour and Need for Care
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- The International Classification of Function
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Illness Behaviour and Need for Care
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 1 Concepts of Health and Illness
- Introduction: the widening scope of medicine
- Illness, Sickness, and Disease
- Disease or Syndrome?
- Disease as a Process: Natural History and Clinical Course
- Definitions of Health
- Public and Population Health
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
- Health inequalities
- Basic concepts: causes, risk factors and determinants
- Risk factors
- Determinants of Health
- Health Behaviours
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
- Health inequalities
- Basic concepts: causes, risk factors and determinants
- Risk factors
- Determinants of Health
- Health Behaviours
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
- Health inequalities
- Basic concepts: causes, risk factors and determinants
- Risk factors
- Determinants of Health
- Health Behaviours
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
- Health inequalities
- Basic concepts: causes, risk factors and determinants
- Risk factors
- Determinants of Health
- Health Behaviours
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
- Health inequalities
- Basic concepts: causes, risk factors and determinants
- Risk factors
- Determinants of Health
- Health Behaviours
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 2 Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
- Health inequalities
- Basic concepts: causes, risk factors and determinants
- Risk factors
- Determinants of Health
- Health Behaviours
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Indigenous people’s health in Canada
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Indigenous people’s health in Canada
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Indigenous people’s health in Canada
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Indigenous people’s health in Canada
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Indigenous people’s health in Canada
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Indigenous people’s health in Canada
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 3 Cultural Competence and Communication
- Cultural awareness, sensitivity, and safety
- The relevance of culture for health
- Categories of culture
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Natural history of disease
- The stages of prevention
- Implementing prevention, health protection and health promotion
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 4: Basic Concepts in Prevention, Surveillance, and Health Promotion
- Part 2 - Methods: Studying Health
- Chapter 5 Assessing Evidence and Information
- Assessing information and evidence
- Appraising scientific evidence: qualitative versus quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Research designs
- Experimental (or interventional) studies
- Observational studies
- Measures of risk: attributable risk and number needed to treat
- Sampling and chance error in studies
- Chance
- Bias
- Confounding
- The hierarchy of evidence
- The final step: applying the study results to your patients
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 5 Assessing Evidence and Information
- Assessing information and evidence
- Appraising scientific evidence: qualitative versus quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Research designs
- Experimental (or interventional) studies
- Observational studies
- Measures of risk: attributable risk and number needed to treatnumber needed to treat(NNT): in reference to the impact of a preventive or therapeutic intervention, the number of people who have to be treated in order to prevent the occurrence of one specif
- Sampling and chance error in studies
- Chance
- Bias
- Confounding
- The hierarchy of evidence
- The final step: applying the study results to your patients
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 5 Assessing Evidence and Information
- Assessing information and evidence
- Appraising scientific evidence: qualitative versus quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Research designs
- Experimental (or interventional) studies
- Observational studies
- Measures of risk: attributable risk and number needed to treat
- Sampling and chance error in studies
- Chance
- Bias
- Confounding
- The hierarchy of evidence
- The final step: applying the study results to your patients
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 6 Methods: Measuring Health
- The scope of health measures
- Individual measures and population-level indicators
- Prevalence and incidence
- Mortality rates
- Health measurement scales
- Reliability and validity of health measures
- Interpreting tests on individuals
- Establishing cut-points: what is a normal value?
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 6 Methods: Measuring Health
- The scope of health measures
- Individual measures and population-level indicators
- Prevalence and incidence
- Mortality rates
- Health measurement scales
- Reliability and validity of health measures
- Interpreting tests on individuals
- Establishing cut-points: what is a normal value?
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 7: Applications of Research Methods in Surveillance and Programme Evaluation
- Surveillance
- Role of Clinicians in Public Health Surveillance
- Types of surveillance
- Patterns of disease development in a population: the epidemic curve
- Health services research
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 7: Applications of Research Methods in Surveillance and Programme Evaluation
- Part 3 - Practice: Improving Health
- Chapter 8 Illness Prevention and Health Promotion
- Approaches to health improvement
- Intervening in individuals or in populations?
- The goal of prevention
- The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
- Prevention in clinical practice
- Office systems for improving prevention in practice
- Changing behaviour
- Harm reduction
- Health promotion
- Who needs the intervention?
- What should the intervention target?
- How can health be achieved?
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 8 Illness Prevention and Health Promotion
- Approaches to health improvement
- Intervening in individuals or in populations?
- The goal of prevention
- The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
- Prevention in clinical practice
- Office systems for improving prevention in practice
- Changing behaviour
- Harm reduction
- Health promotion
- Who needs the intervention?
- What should the intervention target?
- Chapter 9 Screening
- Goal of screening
- Issues in deciding whether or not to screen
- Some misconceptions about screening
- Details of policies
- Ethical issues particular to screening
- Criteria for introducing a screening test
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 9 Screening
- Goal of screening
- Issues in deciding whether or not to screen
- Some misconceptions about screening
- Details of policies
- Ethical issues particular to screening
- Criteria for introducing a screening test
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 10 Identifying Hazards and Communicating Risks
- Identifying environmental problems
- Reducing risk
- Occupational hazards
- Risk Management
- Risk Communication
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 10 Identifying Hazards and Communicating Risks
- Identifying environmental problems
- Reducing risk
- Occupational hazards
- Risk Management
- Risk Communication
- Emphasis on gain versus emphasis on loss
- The default option
- Numbers versus proportions
- Glass half full or glass half empty
- People don’t come in halves
- Numerator and denominator
- Relative and absolute risk
- Uncertainty
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 11 Infectious Disease Control
- Detection and control of outbreaks
- Transmission of infectious disease
- Modes and control of transmission
- Problems associated with medical care
- Notifiable (or reportable) disease
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 11 Infectious Disease Control
- Detection and control of outbreaks
- Transmission of infectious disease
- Modes and control of transmission
- Problems associated with medical care
- Notifiable (or reportable) disease
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 12 The Organization of Health Services in Canada
- Elements of a health care system
- Societal goals and values
- The Canada Health Act
- The regulating body
- Sources of finance
- Controlling Costs
- Health care service provision
- Ensuring equity
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Indigenous) health services
- The Aging Population
- Information and dissemination of information in health care
- Some specific types of services
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 12 The Organization of Health Services in Canada
- Elements of a health care system
- Societal goals and values
- The Canada Health Act
- The regulating body
- Sources of finance
- Controlling Costs
- Health care service provision
- Ensuring equity
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis (Indigenous) health services
- The Aging Population
- Information and dissemination of information in health care
- Some specific types of services
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 13 Assessing and Improving Health Care Quality
- Patient safety
- Adverse drug events
- Quality in health care
- Approaches to managing quality
- Investigating quality
- Improving quality of care
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 13 Assessing and Improving Health Care Quality
- Patient safety
- Adverse drug events
- Quality in health care
- Approaches to managing quality
- Investigating quality
- Improving quality of care
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 14 Decision-making: Policies and Ethics in Health Care and Public Health
- Public Policies
- Influences on health policy-making
- The policy cycle
- The budget cycle
- Welfare economics and cost benefit analysis
- Public health ethics
- Public health ethics and clinical practice
- Self-test questions
- References
- Chapter 14 Decision-making: Policies and Ethics in Health Care and Public Health
