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การเขียนรายการบรรณานุกรมสำหรับวิทยานิพนธ์ Thesis / Dissertation’s Reference Guidelines : For Chulalongkorn University 2010

cphslib — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:04:36 +0000

Thesis / Dissertation’s Reference Guidelines for Chulalongkorn University 2010 has been provided for CPHS students. For those who don’t want to use EndNote managing your thesis’s writing. This guidelines may help. Let’s see @ ReferenceGuidelines_revised

Teaching Epidemiology:a guide for teachers in epidemiology, public health and clinicial medicine

cphslib — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:52:46 +0000

Description

This is a third edition, edited by Jorn Olsen and Rodolfo Sarraci and Dimitrios Trichopoulos, 2010.

Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple: if you are not an expert on a topic, try to enrich your background knowledge before you start teaching. Teaching Epidemiology, third edition helps you to do this, and by providing the world-expert teacher’s advice on how best to structure teaching gives a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands. The book will help you plan your own tailored teaching program.

The book is a guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level. Each chapter provides key concepts and a list of key references. Subject specific methodology and disease specific issues (from cancer to genetic epidemiology) are dealt with in details. There is also a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning.

Features

Provides advice from expert teachers around the world on how best to structure teaching, giving a unique insight in to what has worked in their hands
Helps readers plan their own tailored teaching programme
A thorough guide to new teachers in the field at two levels; those teaching basic courses for undergraduates, and those teaching more advanced courses for students at postgraduate level
Includes a focused chapter on the principles and practice of computer-assisted learning
All chapters have been fully revised and expanded

The Era of ARV in the generalised HIV epidemic in Thailand: research approches

cphslib — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:33:13 +0000

The Era of ARV in the generalised HIV epidemic in Thailand: research approches published by Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University in 2009 , in the collboration with UNAIDS. There are 10 chapters in this book as the following;

PART I NATIONAL EPIDEMIC AND THE REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES

Revising HIV estimates and projection: Implications of the national sexual behavior survey / Timothy Brown, Orratai Rhujaroenpornpanich, Wiwat Peerapatanapokin, Pramote Prasartkul
Comparative analysis of sexual and drug use behaivor and HIV knowledge of young people in Asia and the pacific / Anne Bergenstrom, Pimonpan Isarabhakdi
Survey comparisons of sexual risk behavior of young adults in Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines / Chai Podhsita, Peter Xenos.

PART II THE SEXUAL RISK BEHAVIOR IN THAI SOCIETY

Social perception and evolving sexual behavior and partner preference of young people / Malee Sabaiying
Sexual risk behavior and the HIV epidemic in Thailand: results from focus group discussions / Sirinan Kittisuksathit, Philip Guest
Parenting process and peer influence in the context of sexual risk behavior among young adults / Chai Phodhisita
Forced sex andHIV infection: results of the 2007 national sexual behavioral survey / Churnrutai Kanchanachita, Wassana Im-em, Kritaya Archavanitkul.

PART III THE COUNTRY PROHGRAM AMND THE COMMUNITY RESPONSES

ABC Program for HIV prevention in Thailand: empirical evidences and policy implications / Aphichat Chamratrithirong
Coverage and success of the national mass media programme on HIV and AIDS prevention / Varachai Thongthai, Malee Sabaiying.
Implementation strategies: mass media and adolescents’s risk behaviors /Youngyud Wongpiromsan, Sirinan Kittisuksathit.

For those who are interested in this book, please come to the College library.

The Case-control method: design and applications

cphslib — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:46:49 +0000

The Case-control method: design and applications was written by Haroutune K. Armenian,MD, DrPH. He is a Professor Emeritus in Residence School of Public Health, University of California, LA , Bloomburg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, and President, American University of Armenia. This book was published by Oxford University Press in 2009.

Review

“I would recommend this book to instructors of epidemiological design courses. It provides enough explanation and depth and discusses the positive and negative attributes of the case-control method. It provides a contemporary look at case-control studies and does not duplicate fundamentals in other books. It easily could be adopted and use in courses. It is a very useful publication for the understanding and application of this foremost design in epidemiology.”–Doody’s

Statisitical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

cphslib — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:43:28 +0000

Book Description

Environmental epidemiology is the study of the environmental causes of disease in populations and how these risks vary in relation to intensity and duration of exposure and other factors like genetic susceptibility. As such, it is the basic science upon which governmental safety standards and compensation policies for environmental and occupational exposure are based. Profusely illustrated with examples from the epidemiologic literature on ionizing radiation and air pollution, this text provides a systematic treatment of the statistical challenges that arise in environmental health studies and the use of epidemiologic data in formulating public policy, at a level suitable for graduate students and epidemiologic researchers.

After a general overview of study design and statistical methods for epidemiology generally, the book goes on to address the problems that are unique to environmental health studies, special-purpose designs like two-phase case-control studies and countermatching, statistical methods for modeling exposure-time-response relationships, longitudinal and time-series studies, spatial and ecologic methods, exposure measurement error, interactions, and mechanistic models. It also discusses studies aimed at evaluating the public health benefits of interventions to improve the environment, the use of epidemiologic data to establish environmental safety standards and compensation policy, and concludes with emerging problems in reproductive epidemiology, natural and man-made disasters like global warming, and the global burden of environmentally caused disease. No other book provides such a broad perspective on the methodological challenges in this field at a level accessible to both epidemiologists and statisticians.

Features

Comprehensive treatment of topics not generally covered in epidemiology texts
Extensive examples from the literature
Mathematical presentation at a level suitable for graduate students in epidemiology and biostatistics
Topical and timely work in a growing field
Author is a highly regarded researcher and expositor

About the Author(s)

Dr. Thomas is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Director of the Biostatistics Division, and Verna R. Richter Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University in 1976. His primary research interest has been in the development of statistical methods in epidemiology, both environmental and genetic. He was a member of President Clinton’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, as well as the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR V), and radiation advisory committees for other governmental agencies. Dr. Thomas has many publications in statistical genetics, including the textbook Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology (OUP, 2004), and is a past President of the International Genetic Epidiology Society.

The Asian Epidemic Model(AEM) Projections for HIV/AIDS in Thailand: 2005-2025

cphslib — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:03:03 +0000

This projections were prepared by the Analysis and Advocacy Project in Thailand, in collaboration with the Thai Working Group on HIV/AIDS Projections, and with funding support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The present projections are an update of the projections prepared in 2000. While the projections were culculated with a model similar to that used in 2000, two new components including MSM and ART were added. These updated projections were prepared to support of the development of the Thailand 10th National AIDS Plan.

Insummary, the state of the HIV epidemic in 2008 is:

1,115,000 adults have been infected with HIV in Thailand since the start of the epidemic.
585,800 of these people have subsequently died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic.
532,500 people are currently living with HIV.
12,800 new infections will occur in the year 2008.
48,000 people will develop serious illness in the year 2008.

It needs to be noted that the number of new infections projected was based on the assumption that risk behaviors and STI rates remain unchanged from 2005 onwards. If changes in levels of risk behaviors or STI occur, the number of new infections will increase or decrease accordingly. More details of this book, please come to the College library.

Thai Health 2009

cphslib — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:59:37 +0000

10 health care system indicators and 10 health issues in Thailand have been described in this book. http://www.scribd.com/doc/20049835/Thai-Health-2009 Check it out at the College library!

MyNCBI is an automatic email notification on PubMed search

cphslib — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:08:49 +0000

What MyNCBI is?

MyNCBI Searches allow you to store PubMed search strategies for either later manual update or automatic email notification. This makes it easy to perform standardized searches to find the most recent information in your core areas of research and instruction, and to get the results of such searches on a regular basis, straight to your email inbox. You can also store the PubMed citations and abstracts of articles of interest in a MyNCBI Collections folder. This is an easy way of holding onto relevant citations for an unlimited time, particularly if you are not going to be suing them for published. Check it out for the handout at http://library.cphs.chula.ac.th/E-References.html on MyNCBI search in PubMed. Enjoy searching!!

Oxford Textbook of Public Health 2009

cphslib — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:52:48 +0000

The lastest version of Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th ed. 2009 is now availabl at the College library. Check it out!

A fifth edition of the hugely successful, ultimate reference text on international public health and epidemiology
3 volumes each covering a distinct area of public health: the scope of public health, the methods of public health, and the practice of public health. Each volume begins with an introduction from the editors
Edited by an international team from the UK, the US, New Zealand, and the Philippines, offering a truly global perspective
Includes contributions from eminent policy makers, public health practitioners and academics, from both the developed and developing world
Essential reading for all those training or practising in this specialty
Includes a CD-ROM version of the entire text, including colour illustrations
Chapters begin with an outline of the contents and end with a summary
Includes a new section on the future of public health

New to this edition

New chapters that broaden the scope of the book, and recognise recent developments in the field include: globalization; water and sanitation; leadership in public health; community-based intervention trials; gene environment interactions; obesity and physical inactivity; urbanization; and minorities and indigenous populations
The relevance to practice has been increased, with more material on health needs assessment, clinical epidemiology, and the practical aspects of public health
The addition of two new co-editors, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Gulliford, brings new perspectives to the established text
Increased use of figures and tables throughout the book, as visual aids and data to support the text
Companion CD included with the book, containing the entire text including figures in colour
Increased attention on disease and infection, with new chapters examining tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis and liver disease, and emerging diseases
A new section looks at the future of public health in the 21st century

This fifth edition of the ever-popular Oxford Textbook of Public Health has been thoroughly updated, and remains the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. Two new editors, Mary Ann Lansang and Martin Gulliford, join the established editor team of Roger Detels and Robert Beaglehole, representing a truly global outlook from four continents. The contributors are drawn from across the world, offering perspectives from vastly different health systems, with ranging public health needs and priorities. With contributors including Dr Margaret Chan, Director of the World Health Organization, this book offers a globally comprehensive picture of modern health.

The book retains its approach of dividing the complex, dynamic subject of public health into three topics. First, the scope of public health is covered, looking at the development of the discipline, determinants of health and disease, public health policies, and law and ethics. The second volume focuses on the methods of public health, including the main science behind the discipline – epidemiology. Environmental factors, information systems, and social science techniques are also considered. Finally, the third volume puts the theory into practice, examining specific public health problems and options for prevention and control. As well as identifying these issues by system or disease, there is also an awareness of the unique needs of particular population groups. The book concludes with an analysis of the functions of public health, and a look at the future of public health in the 21st century.

The picture of world health has moved on dramatically since the publication of the fourth edition in 2002. This new edition includes substantial new material on the impact of private support of public health; globalization; water and sanitation; leadership; community-intervention trials; disease and infection; gene environment interactions; obesity and physical inactivity; urbanization; minorities and indigenous populations; health needs assessment; clinical epidemiology; and the practice of public health. This ensures that the Oxford Textbook of Public Health remains the most comprehensive, accessible text for both students and practitioners in public health and epidemiology. Readership: Public health practitioners and trainees, clinical epidemiologists, and both students and lecturers in public health, epidemiology, and the related disciplines of health economics and health policy.

New Public Health Books Arrival

cphslib — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:21:19 +0000

There are now a very useful & interesting book available at the College Library. Check it out!

1. Public Health Branding Applying marketing for social change 2008
Edited by W Douglas Evans and Gerard Hastings

In recent years, public health marketing and mass media campaigns have begun using public health branding strategies to change health behaviour. This book argues for the importance of public health branding as a critical strategy in changing population behaviours, allowing lasting health outcome benefits.

Description

Bridges the gap between the commerical and social marketing worlds, offering valuable insights from business, marketing, and public health sectors
Features examples of public health brand promotions, helping practitioners understand how to conceptualize and develop public health brands
Provides clearly explained research designs, findings, and theoretical concepts, allowing readers to understand how brands work, and what makes them effective
Each chapter contains a summary of key points at the beginning, and brief conclusions at the end, allowing the reader to confirm the key messages

Brands are designed to build relationships between consumers and the products, services, or organizations they represent by providing added value to their objects. Through brand promotion, consumers form associations with brands, which can become established and lead to a long-term relationship between the product, service or organization and consumer. Similarly, public health brands are the associations that individuals hold for health behaviours or lifestyles. Public health branding – building positive associations with healthy behaviours and lifestyle choices – is the primary strategy by which commercial marketing is applied in health communication and social marketing.

This book examines theory and best practices of branding and its application in public health programs. Through a series of reviews and case studies, the book argues that branding is an emerging public health strategy that needs resources and continued development of innovative methodologies to effect lasting population-level change. In recent years, public health branding has been successfully applied across a wide range of chronic and infectious disease issues and behaviours – from tobacco control to HIV/AIDS – and globally across the developed and developing world. Branding is an important strategy for public health because it can address multiple behaviours simultaneously, and most health risks stem from multiple behaviours and complex lifestyle choices. Promoting healthy lifestyles is the key outcome for public health, thus making the development of improved branding strategies a critical objective for the field.

2. Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use 2008 / David L Streiner and Geoffrey R Norman

A new edition of this practical guide for clinicians who are developing tools to measure subjective states, attitudes, or non-tangible outcomes in their patients, suitable for those who have no knowledge of statistics.

Assists the reader in how to develop and evaluate a scale, presenting steps in scale construction in a logical order
Enables readers to both develop scales to measure non-tangible health outcomes, and better evaluate and choose among existing instruments
Includes extensive discussion of the newer developments in scale development, in addition to more traditional methods
Material in this book has been developed by the extensive experience of the authors in teaching this subject, developing scales, and on student and reader feedback.
Written in an accessible style, making it suitable for those with no experience of statistics

New to this edition

Heavily revised chapter on generalizability theory, that leads the reader through the logic of the technique, and includes instruction on using a new, free-access computer program to aid calcuation
Includes a new chapter on Reporting Test Results, distilling both sets of guidelines that are currently in use across healthcare
Differentiates between validity and validation, continuing discussion begun in the third edition, and taking these ideas to a logical conclusion
All chapters have been updated to reflect current research and theory

Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educational achievement and aptitude, and learning style in their patients. This fourth edition of Health Measurement Scales enables these groups, who often have limited knowledge of statistics, to both develop scales to measure non-tangible health outcomes, and better evaluate and differentiate between existing tools.It covers how the individual items are developed; various biases that can affect responses (eg social desirability, yea-saying, framing); various response options; how to select the best items in the set; how to combine them into a scale; and then how to determine the reliability and validity of the scale. It concludes with a discussion of ethical issues that may be encountered, and guidelines for reporting the results of the scale development process. Appendices include a comprehensive guide to finding existing scales, and a brief introduction to exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. It synthesizes the theory of scale construction with practical advice, making it the ultimate guide to how to develop and validate measurement scales that are to be used in the health sciences.

3. Rose’s Strategy of Preventive Medicine 2008 /Geoffrey Rose
Kay-Tee Khaw and Michael Marmot

Reviews

‘This is a necessary read for public health practitioners and those designing population interventions. It is a unique presentation of the concept of population-based intervention.’ – James C Torner MD, Doody’s Notes

Description

The full, orginal text from Geoffrey Rose remains intact with a commentary from Khaw and Marmot providing a modern perspective on Rose’s views, nearly two decades after the original material was published
Examines the relevance the text has in the modern era, how it might be applied beyond medicine, and what implications it holds for the future
Clarifies the often confused thinking and arguments about determinants of individual cases and determinants of population incidence

The Strategy of Preventive Medicine, by Geoffrey Rose, first published in 1993 remains a key text for anyone involved in preventive medicine. Rose’s insights into the inextricable relationship between ill health, or deviance, in individuals and populations they come from, have transformed our whole approach to strategies for improving health. His personal and unique book, based on many years research, sets out the case that the essential determinants of the health of society are to be found in its mass characteristics. The deviant minority can only be understood when seen in its societal context, and effective prevention requires changes which involve the population as a whole. He explores the options for prevention, considering them from various viewpoints – theoretical and scientific, sociological and poitical, practical and ethical. The applications of his ideas are illustrated by a variety of examples ranging from heart disease to alcoholism to road accidents. His pioneering work focused on a population wide approach to the prevention of common medical and behavioural disorders has become the classic text on the subject.This reissue brings the original text to a new generation involved in preventive medicine. Kay-Tee Khaw and Michael Marmot retain the original text intact, but have added their own perspective on the work. They examine what relevance Rose’s ideas might have in the era of the human genome project and other major scientific advances, they consider examples of how the theory might be applied and generalised in medicine and beyond, and discuss what implications it holds for the future. There is also an explanation of the population perspective, clarifying the often confused thinking and arguments about determinants of individual cases and determinants of population incidence.Rose’s Strategy of Preventive Medicine will ensure that this seminal work continues to be read by future generations.

4. Concepts of Epidemiology
Integrating the ideas, theories, principles and methods of epidemiology 2008 / Raj Bhopal

Reviews

‘This is not the usual introductory book in epidemiology…It reaches students and stimulates thinking, and this second edition does this better than the first.’ – James C. Torner, PHD (University of Iowa College of Public Health)
‘the value of this book lies in its ability to enable the reader (whether they be student or teacher) to dip in and out of the text when needed. As such, it will remain a recommended, and read, text on my bookshelf.’ – Journal of Public Health

Description

The definitive guide to epidemiology and healthcare research
Concepts, principles and theory are discussed as a means to understanding methods and techniques
Examples are both theoretical and applied, to demonstrate how epidemiology works in various settings
Exercises with answers are embedded in the text, with supplementary exercises at the end of each chapter, to encourage active learning
Amply illustrated with figures and tables to enhance visual learning
Objectives expressed in terms of understanding

New to this edition

Features a broader range of concepts, including regression to the mean, interaction, the counterfactual approach, and cohort effects
New and revised questions, answers, problems and exercises, including 20 questions to test understanding of study design
Sample examination questions with model answers so students can test themselves
New introductory material on the burgeoning field of genetic epidemiology, and the purposes and principles of systematic reviews and meta-analysis
For course teachers, suggestions for the curriculum content for undergraduates, postgraduates, and for continuing education for policymakers and managers

Epidemiology is the science that underpins health and health care, and is concerned with the pattern, frequency and causes of disease. This introductory text describes and illustrates epidemiology and its applications to policy making, health service planning, and health promotion. Raj Bhopal developed a conceptual approach to epidemiology in the first edition of this successful text, which involved a systematic focus on underlying concepts and fundamental principles, and this second edition expands upon this popular method. It emphasizes theories and principles, as the bedrock of methodology, countering the mounting criticism that epidemiology is an atheoretical discipline. The interdependence of epidemiological studies and their essential unit within a theoretical, technical and ethical framework is an important theme of this book.The emphasis is on interactive learning throughout, with each chapter including learning objectives, both theoretical and numerical exercises, recent examination questions from relevant courses, and a summary. The text is richly illustrated, with detailed material summarised in tables. The book is written in plain language, with all the necessary technical and specialised terminology explained and defined in a glossary.