Principles and Application of Evidence-Based Public Health Practice helps clinicians who conduct population-based studies in the community be aware of the principles and ethics involved in public health research. Further, the book helps social scientists involved in public health, especially regarding the medical implication of public health practice. Community-based epidemiological research studies are vital for any public health activities, be it evaluation of health programs, health systems strengthening, surveillance or preventive/promotive trials in the community. While hospital/clinic-based research is conducted in a very controlled setting, community trials are more practical. Community-based studies require a fairly different set of ethical and epidemiological principles to be followed. The same has been reiterated in the ethical guidelines for biomedical research on human subjects released by various national research organizations.


Foreword
Paul McDonald
Preface

1. Principles and Approaches in Public Health Practice
Rajavel Saranya and Soundappan Kathirvel

2. Principles of Public Health Research and Writing
Periyasamy Gandhi Aravind and Soundappan Kathirvel

3. Evidence-based Public Health Practice
Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader

4. Applying Evidence-based Strategies for Public health Preparedness and Emergency Management
Vinayagamoorthy Kalaiselvi and Jaya Prasad Tripathy

5. How the Public Health Practice Changes Clinical Practice and Vice Versa
Kathiresan Jeyashree

6. Effect of Public Health Research on Policy and Practice
Punam Bandokar and MADHUR VERMA

7. Public Health Policy for Social Action to Ensure Better Population Health
Kalaiselvi Selvaraj

8. Democratization of healthcare in hospital settings: An integral part of Public Health Practice
Ishwarpreet Kaur and Amarjeet Singh

9. Community Participation for improving the coverage and quality of Evidence-based Public Health Practice
Hemant Shewade, Deepak HJ Murthy and Seetharam Mysore

10. Intersectoral coordination for concerted efforts to improve the population health using Evidence-based Public Health Practice
Seetharam Mysore, Deepak HJ Murthyand Hemant Shewade

11. Public Health Approaches to Address Substance Use: An urgent need of multisectoral engagement
Cristina Rabadan-Diehl

12. Healthy Ageing and Quality of Life of the Elderly
Amarjeet Singh, Soundappan Kathirvel and Arun Chockalingam

13. The need for Paradigm Shift in Skilled Human Resource for Effective Public Health Practice
Myo Minn Oo

14. Effective use of Information Technology for the Quality of Public Health Practice
Palanivel Chinnakali

15. Sustaining the Population Benefit using Evidence-based Public Health Practice
Rama Shankar Rath and Ayush lohiya

16. Precision Medicine and Public Health Practice
Gomathi Ramaswamy

17. Public health practice - A futuristic perspective
Patricio V. Marquez and Arun Chockalingam