Course: Tackling Public Health Issues: Concepts and Evidence

So, we can ask ourselves why are people who are poorer suffering worse health outcomes than people who are more advantaged in terms of socio-economic position? The answers lie in …

In this video, we explore some dilemmas in evidence-based decision-making.

Let’s have a look at the global comparisons and income inequality measures. This table gives some comparative data to illustrate how different countries perform in terms of income development and …

Within those three domains of public health, we could think of public health working at six levels of public health action. Social The first level of public health action is …

We could look at many different indicators and see the same pattern of health inequalities and deprivation closely linked to the health outcome. Premature mortality from heart disease and stroke …

It was very interesting to read your examples and understanding of the determinants of health in the previous step. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), …

So how is public health delivered? There are three core domains to public health: health protection, health improvement and health services delivery. Health protection Health protection is something we have …

As you are now part of Liverpool, you may want to know a little bit about the public health history of our great city! Liverpool was an important frontrunner in …

So far we have discussed how public health progressed through the centuries and predominantly aimed to tackle unhealthy conditions resulting in ill health or death. In this video, we explore …

In this video we explore a little public health history in the context of Great Britain. The scope of public health is vast and widening all the time (Detels, 2009). …

In this video, we define evidence-based public health and why it is important. So, evidence, evidence, evidence, I’m sure you’ve heard this quite frequently, but what constitutes evidence? Rychetnik defines …

In this first video, we meet Katharine. By seeing Katherine’s daily routine, we consider examples of public health advancements that can often be overlooked. So what is public health? These …