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  • 2 - Health Information

  • from Part 1 - The Public Health Toolkit
  • Edited by Kirsteen Watson, University of Cambridge, Jan Yates, NHS England and NHS Improvement, Stephen Gillam, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Essential Public Health
    Published online:
    01 December 2023
    Print publication:
    14 December 2023, pp 27-46

  • Summary

    To effectively target public health interventions for greatest impact, it is essential that public health practitioners have a clear understanding of the populations they work with. As described in Chapter 1, understanding these populations, their health status and health needs draws on skills from several disciplines, including demography, epidemiology and statistics. Brought together, these skills allow the practitioner to understand the characteristics of the population of interest, the key health issues that it faces and the broader factors that have a particular influence on the health of that population. These broader factors are generally referred to as the wider determinants of health or the social determinants of health. Information is also vital in allowing practitioners to assess the impact of public health interventions.