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Part 1 Assessment -- 1.1 Scoping public health problems -- 1.2 Priorities and ethics in population-based healthcare -- 1.3 Assessing the health of populations -- 1.4 Assessing health needs -- 1.5 Assessing health impacts -- 1.6 Economic assessment -- Part 2 Data and information -- 2.1 Understanding data, information, and knowledge -- 2.2 Information technology and informatics -- 2.3 Questions, design, and analysis in qualitative research -- 2.4 Epidemiological approach and design -- 2.5 Statistical understanding -- 2.6 Inference, causality, and interpretation -- 2.7 Finding and appraising evidence -- 2.8 Monitoring disease and risk factors: surveillance -- 2.9 Investigating alleged clusters -- 2.10 Assessing longer-​term health trends: disease registers -- Part 3 Direct action -- 3.1 Communicable disease epidemics -- 3.2 Environmental health risks and assessment -- 3.3 Safeguarding and promoting health in the workplace -- 3.4 Engaging communities in participatory research and action -- 3.5 Disasters -- 3.6 Assuring screening programmes -- 3.7 Genomics -- 3.8 Health communication -- 3.9 Public health practice in primary care -- 3.10 Translating research into practice-​ implementation science -- Part 4 Policy arenas -- 4.1 Developing healthy public policy -- 4.2 Translating evidence to policy -- 4.3 Translating policy into indicators and targets -- 4.4 Translating goals, indicators, and targets into public health action -- 4.5 Media advocacy for policy influence -- 4.6 Influencing international policy -- 4.7 Improving public health in low-​and middle-income countries -- 4.8 Regulation -- 4.9 Health, sustainability, and climate change -- Part 5 Healthcare systems -- 5.1 Sustainability of healthcare systems.

5.2 Planning health services -- 5.3 Comparing healthcare systems -- 5.4 Commissioning healthcare -- 5.5 Controlling expenditures -- 5.6 Using guidance and frameworks -- 5.7 Healthcare process and patient experience -- 5.8 Health technology assessment -- 5.9 Improving equity -- 5.10 Improving quality -- 5.11 Evaluating healthcare systems -- 5.12 Value-​based healthcare -- Part 6 Personal effectiveness -- 6.1 Developing leadership skills -- 6.2 Effective meetings -- 6.3 Effective writing -- 6.4 Working with the media -- 6.5 Communicating risk -- 6.6 Consultancy in a national strategy -- 6.7 Effective negotiating -- Part 7 Organizations -- 7.1 Governance and accountability -- 7.2 Programme planning and project management -- 7.3 Business planning -- 7.4 Working in teams in public health -- 7.5 Partnerships -- 7.6 Getting research into practice -- 7.7 Workforce -- Index.

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