The Historical Origins of Public Health
A presentation giving the Historical origins of Public Health from the definition of public health through to the different perspectives that various civilisations have had over the years.
Globalization and health
40 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Globalization and Health, covering: What is globalization; Relationship between globalization and health; Aspects of globalization that may effect health; Health, international trade and the WTO; Trade in health services and GATS
Externalities and health
48 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Externalities & Health, covering: What are 'externalities'; Positive externalities and health; Negative externalities and health; 'Global' externalities and health; Externalities and public goods
Public goods and health
41 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Public goods and health, covering: What is a 'public good'; Is 'health' a public good; Importance of public goods for health; 'Global' public goods and health
Introducing health economics
12 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Introducing health economics, covering Economics, Health and Health Economics and Key Economic Concepts.
Rationing in health care
38 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Rationing in health care, covering: What does 'rationing' mean; Rationing with respect to efficiency or equity; Implicit versus explicit rationing; Methods and examples of explicit rationing
Measurement and valuation of health
21 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Measurement and Valuation of Health, covering: What is 'health'?; Why do we need to measure it?; How can it be measured?; Why do we need to value it?; How can it be valued?
Health care reform and the NHS
8 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Health Care Reform and the NHS, covering: UK health care expenditure (HCE); How NHS compares with other countries; Health care reform; Past, and current, reforms in the UK; The future
Economics, health and health economics
33 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Economics, health and health economics, covering: What is economics?; What isn’t economics?; What is Health?; What is Health Economics?; Key Economic Concepts - Opportunity cost - Efficiency
Health economics and Antimicrobial Resistance
46 PowerPoint slides from Richard Smith of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Health Economics and Antimicrobial Resistance.
Health and healthcare systems
PDF-format lecture slides from a course on the Economics of Public Issues as taught Marie Stack of Nottingham Trent University in 2009-10.
Article :: Real-World Solutions with Adobe Technology: Health Care e-Form
In this chapter, you will meet a doctor and the IT staff of a regional hospital and learn how they replaced piles of paperwork with their new paperless systems.
One Health: Interdisciplinary Approaches to People, Animals and the Environment, Fall 2009
Emerging challenges to human, animal and ecosystem health demand novel
solutions. New diseases are emerging from unique configurations of
humans, their domestic animals and wildlife; significant new pressures
on once robust and resilient ecosystems are compromising their
integrity; synthetic compounds and engineered organisms, recently
introduced to the natural world, are spreading unpredictably around the
globe. Globalization is also providing opportunities for infectious
organisms to gain acce
Episode 112: Counting us in: Assessing indigenous child health Epidemiologist Assoc Prof Jane Freemantle unpacks the delicate, complex task of empirically assessing child health in indigenous communities. With host Jennifer Cook. Assoc Prof Jane Freemantle - Venepuncture explained Dominic Egan Faculty of Health Health promotion, health education and HIV/AIDS Health promotion International Classification of Function, Disability and Health International Classification of Function, Disability and Health International Classification of Function, Disability and Health
Venepuncture explained Dominic Egan Faculty of Health
This article will focus on the role that health promotion can play in preventing the transmission of HIV. The school setting is taken as an example and a range of effective methods and approaches focusing on young people are identified. It gives an outline of the nature of health promotion, followed by consideration of school-based efforts, which aim to protect the future generation, and a summary of some of the strategies that have been effective in this setting. Finally, issues related to heal
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online or downloaded as a zip file. As taught in Autumn Semester 2009 The 'Health Promotion' module is one of the core modules taught on the Masters in Public Health which is offered by the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at The University of Nottingham. Suitable for study at: Masters level Dr Puja R Myles, School of Community Health Sciences - Epidemiology and Public Health Dr. Puja Myles is an Associate Professor of Health Protection and
This package was originally designed for undergraduates in Medicine at the University of Nottingham. It will also be useful to students in nursing, allied health professions and pharmacy. Practitioners in these fields, who are new to the ICF, will also find it a useful introduction. It describes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a classification system published by the World Health Organisation to describe health status. This system is widely used in r
This package was originally designed for undergraduates in Medicine at the University of Nottingham. It will also be useful to students in nursing, allied health professions and pharmacy. Practitioners in these fields, who are new to the ICF, will also find it a useful introduction. It describes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a classification system published by the World Health Organisation to describe health status. This system is widely used in r
This package was originally designed for undergraduates in Medicine at the University of Nottingham. It will also be useful to students in nursing, allied health professions and pharmacy. Practitioners in these fields, who are new to the ICF, will also find it a useful introduction. It describes the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), a classification system published by the World Health Organisation to describe health status. This system is widely used in r
