Includes bibliographical references and index.

Information systems in support of public health in high-income countries --- Community diagnosis and health information systems in low- and middle-income countries --- communication technologies, social media, and public health --- Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches --- Epidemiology: The foundation of public health --- Cross-sectional studies --- Principles of outbreak investigation --- Case–control studies --- Cohort studies --- Qualitative research imagination --- Methodological issues in the design and analysis of cluster randomized trials --- Community intervention trials in high-income countries --- Natural and quasi-experiments --- Clinical epidemiology --- Validity and bias in epidemiological research --- Causation and causal inference --- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis --- Statistical methods --- Measuring the health of populations: The Global Burden of Disease study methods --- Mathematical models of transmission and control of infectious agents --- Public health surveillance --- Life course epidemiology and analysis --- Social science techniques --- Sociology and psychology in public health --- Sexuality and public health --- Demography and public health --- Health promotion, health education, and the public’s health --- Development and evaluation of complex multicomponent interventions in public health --- Economic appraisal in public healthcare: assessing efficiency and equity --- Behavioural economics and health --- Governance and management of public health programmes --- Implementation science and translational public health --- Environmental and occupational health sciences --- Environmental health methods --- Radiation and public health --- Occupational health --- Toxicology and environmental risk analysis --- Risk perception and communication --- Urbanization and health