Section 1: The development of the discipline of public health
1.1. The scope and concerns of public health, Roger Detels
1.2. The history and development of public health in high-income countries, Christopher Hamlin
1.3. The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countries, Than Sein
1.4. The development of the discipline of public health in countries in economic transition: India, Brazil, China, Puja Thakker & K. Srinath Reddy
Section 2: Determinants of health and disease
2.1. A framework for understanding determinants of health, Orielle Solar, Alec Irwin & Jeanette Vega
2.2. Globalization, Kelley Lee
2.3. Behavioural determinants of health and disease, Lawrence Green & Robert A. Hiatt
2.4. Genomics and public health, Alison Stewart, Wylie Burke, Muin Khoury & Ron Zimmern
2.5. Water and sanitation, Thomas Clasen & Steven Sugden
2.6. Food and nutrition, Prakash S. Shetty
2.7. Infectious diseases, Davidson Hamer, Zulfiqar Bhutta & Sherwood L. Gorbach
2.8. The global environment, A. J. McMichael & H. J. Bambrick
2.9. Health services as determinants of population health, Martin Gulliford
2.10. Assessing health needs: the Global Burden of Disease approach, C.J.L. Murray, A.D. Lopez & C.D.Mathers
Section 3: Public health policies
3.1. Overview of policies and strategies, Walter Holland
3.2. Public health policy in high-income countries, John Powles
3.3. Health policy in low- and middle-income countries, Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Block, Adetokunbo Lucas, Octavio Gomez-Dantes & Julio Frenk
3.4. Leadership in public health, Manuel Dayrit & Maia Ambegaokar
Section 4: Public health law and ethics
4.1. The right to the highest attainable standard of health, Paul Hunt, Gunilla Backman, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, Louise Finer, Rajat Khosla, Dragana Korljan & Lisa Oldring
4.2. Comparative national public health legislation, Robyn Martin & Alexandra Lo Dak Wai
4.3. International public health instruments, Douglas Bettcher, Katherine DeLand, Jorgen Schlundt, Fernando Gonzalez-Martin, Jennifer Bishop, Summer Hammide & Annette Lin
4.4. Ethical principles and ethical issues in public health, Nancy Kass
Section 5: Information systems and sources of intelligence
5.1. Information systems in support of public health in high-income countries, Denis J. Protti, Jeff Luck & Paul Fu, Jr.
5.2. Information systems and community diagnosis in low- and middle-income countries, Vipat Kuruchittham, Fred Binka & Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
5.3. Web-based public health information dissemination and evaluation, Elliot R. Siegel, Fred B. Wood, John C. Scott & Julia Royall
Section 6: Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
6.1. Epidemiology: the foundation of public health, Roger Detels
6.2. Ecologic variables, ecologic studies, and multi-level studies in public health research, Ana V. Diez Roux
6.3. Cross-sectional studies, Manolis Kogevinas & Leda Chatzi
6.4. Principles of outbreak investigation, Kumnuan Ungchusak & Sopon Iamsirithaworn
6.5. Case-control studies, Noel S. Weiss
6.6. Cohort studies, Alvaro Munoz & F. Javier Nieto
6.7. Methodology of intervention trials in individuals, Lawrence M. Friedman & Eleanor B. Schron
6.8. Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trials, Allan Donner
6.9. Community-based intervention studies in high-income countries, Pekka Puska & Erkki Vartiainen
6.10. Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries, Zunyou Wu & Sheena Sullivan
6.11. Clinical epidemiology, Jason W. Busse, Edward Mills, Rodolfo Dennis, Vivian Robinson & Peter Tugwell
6.12. Validity and bias in epidemiological research, Sander Greenland
6.13. Causation and causal inference, Katherine Hoggatt & Sander Greenland
6.14. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis, Matthias Egger, George Davey-Smith & Jonathan Sterne
6.15. Statistical methods, Gail Williams
6.16. Mathematical models of transmission and control, Roy M. Anderson, T. Deirdre Hollingsworth & D. James Nokes
6.17. Public health surveillance, Ruth L. Berkelman, Patrick S. Sullivan & James W. Buehler
Section 7: Social science techniques
7.1. Sociology and psychology in public health, Myfanwy Morgan, Margaret Reid & Jane Ogden
7.2. Demography and public health, Emily Grundy
7.3. Health promotion, health education, and the public health, Marcia Hills & Simon Carroll
7.4. Cost-effectiveness analysis: concepts and applications, Dean T. Jamison
7.5. Governance and management of public health programmes, Diana Bonta & Meredith Cagle
7.6. Public health sciences and policy in high-income countries, Tim Tenbensel & Peter Davis
7.7. Public health sciences and policy in low- and middle-income countries, Lindiwe Makubalo, Mary Ann Lansang & Peter Figueroa
Section 8: Environmental and occupational health sciences
8.1. Environmental health issues in public health, Chien-Jen Chen
8.2. Radiation and public health, Leeka Kheifets, Myles Cockburn & Manjit Dosanjh
8.3. Control of microbial threats: population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratory, Frank Sorvillo & Shira Shafir
8.4. The science of human exposures to contaminants in the environment, Paul Lioy
8.5. Occupational health, David Koh & Dean Baker
8.6. Ergonomics and public health, Laura Punnett
8.7. Toxicology and risk assessment in the analysis and management of environmental risk, Bernard D. Goldstein
8.8. Risk perception and communication, Baruch Fischhoff
Section 9: Major health problems
9.1. Gene-environment interactions and public health, Paolo Vineis & Rodolfo Saracci
9.2. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Russell V. Luepker & Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
9.3. Neoplasms, Paulo Boffetta & Carlo La Vecchia
9.4. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, Jeroen Douwes, Marike Boezen & Neil Pearce
9.5. Obesity, W. P. T. James
9.6. The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus, Nigel Unwin & Paul Zimmet
9.7. Public mental health, Benedetto Saraceno, Melvyn Freeman & Michelle Funk
9.8. Dental public health, Zoe Marshman & Peter G. Robinson
9.9. Musculoskeletal diseases, Jennifer L. Kelsey & Marian T. Hannan
9.10. Neurological diseases, epidemiology and public health, Walter Kukull & James Bowen
9.11. The transmissable spongiform encephalopathies, Richard Knight & Hester Ward
9.12. Sexually transmitted infections, Mary M. Kamb & John L. Douglas
9.13. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, Salim S. Abdool Karim, Quarraisha Abdool Karim & Roger Detels
9.14. Tuberculosis, Dermot Maher, Marcos Espinal & Mario Raviglione
9.15. Malaria, Richard Morrow & William Moss
9.16. Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease, Pierre van Damme, Koen van Herck, Peter Michielsen, Sven Francque & Daniel Shouval
9.17. Emerging and re-emerging infections, David Heymann
Section 10: Prevention and control of public health hazards
10.1. Tobacco, Samira Asma, Douglas W. Bettcher, Jonathan Samet, Krishna M. Palipudi, Gary Giovino, Stella Bialous, Katherine DeLand, June Leung, Daniel Ferrante, Gemma Vestal & Gonghuan Yang
10.2. Drug abuse, Don C. Des Jarlais & Robert L. Hubbard
10.3. Alcohol, Robin Room
10.4. Injury prevention and control: the public health approach, Corinne Peek-Asa & Adnan A. Hyder
10.5. Interpersonal violence prevention: a recent public health mandate, Deborah Prothrow-Stith
10.6. Collective violence: war, Victor Sidel & Barry Levy
10.7. Urban health in low- and middle-income countries, Mark R. Montgomery
10.8. Public health aspects of bioterrorism, Manfred Green
Section 11: Public health needs of population groups
11.1. The changing family, Julien O. Teitler
11.2. Women, men and health, Sarah Payne & Lesley Doyal
11.3. Child health, Elizabeth Mason, Oliver Fontaine, Bernadette Daelmans, Rajiv Bahl, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto & Jose Martines
11.4. Adolescent health, Pierre-Andre Michaud, Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli & Georges C. Patton
11.5. Ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples, Myfanwy Morgan, Martin Gulliford & Ian Anderson
11.6. People with disabilities, Donald Lollar
11.7. Health of older people, Shah Ebrahim & Julie E. Byles
11.8. Forced migrants and other displaced populations, Catherine R. Bateman & Anthony B. Zwi
Section 12: Public health functions
12.1. Need: what is it and how do we measure it?, Di McIntyre, Gavin Mooney & Stephen Jan
12.2. Needs assessment: a practical approach, Aileen Clarke, John Powell & Mary Ann Lansang
12.3. Socio-economic inequalities in health in high-income countries: the facts and the options, Johan P. Mackenbach
12.4. Reducing health inequalities in low- and middle-income countries, Davidson R. Gwatkin
12.5. Prevention and control of chronic, non-communicable diseases, Jorn Olsen, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong & Robert Beaglehole
12.6. Principles of infectious disease control, Robert J. Kim-Farley
12.7. Population screening and public health, Allison Streetly & Walter Holland
12.8. Environmental health practice, Lynn R. Goldman & Elma Torres
12.9. Structures and strategies for public health intervention, Don Nutbeam & Marilyn Wise
12.10. Strategies for health services, Martin McKee, Ellen Nolte & Josep Figueras
12.11. Public health workers, Suwit Wibulpolprasert & Piya Hanvoravongchai
12.12. Planning for and responding to public health needs in emergencies and disasters, Khanchit Limpakarnjanarat & Roderico H. Ofrin
Section 13: The future of public health
13.1. Private support of public health, Roger Detels & Sheena Sullivan
13.2. Global health agenda for the 21st century, Adrian Ong, Mary Kindhauser, Ian Smith & Margaret Chan
