Part 1 Syllabus – booklist

This list is an update of a previous booklist issued to SW Public Health trainees, enhanced by a recent library search and suggestions from current trainees

Please use the response form on the Internet resources page to make suggestions for additions and to notify edition updates or e-mail your suggestions booklist@swph-education.org.uk .

A later version of this will group the books according to the faculties new grouping of knowledge tested (tabled at the bottom of this page.

An Excel file of this list is available. Click here.

 

 

 

MFPH PART 1 Syllabus – booklist. Ver. 24 November 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topic

Author(s)

Title

Publisher

Year/edition

Online version or associated web page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epidemiology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coggan D, Rose G

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated

BMJ

5th 2003 

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/epidem/epid.shtml

 

Hennekens

Epidemiology in Medicine

Lipincott, Williams and Wilkins

1987  

 

 

 

 

 

World Health Organization

Basic Epidemiology

WHO

1993

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farmer, RDT, Lawrenson, R

Lecture Notes on Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine

Blackwell

5th 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Kjellstrom T

Basic epidemiology

WHO

2nd 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHO

Guidelines on studies in environmental epidemiology

WHO

1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silman AJ, Macfarlane A

Epidemiological studies: a practical guide

Cambridge UP

2nd 2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Statistics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bland

An Introduction to Medical Statistics

Oxford

3rd 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kirkwood

Essentials of Medical Statistics

Blackwell

2nd 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

Petrie & Sabin

Medical Statistics at a Glance

Blackwell

2nd 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bland M, Peacock J

Statistical Questions in Evidence-Based Medicine

OUP

2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lang T, Secic, M

How to Report Statistics in Medicine

Amer. Coll. Phys.

1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

Campbell M, Machin D

Medical Statistics: A Commonsense Approach

Wiley

3rd 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rowntree D

Statistics without tears

Penguin

1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eason G, Coles CW, Gettinby G

Mathematics and statistics for the biosciences

Prentice-Hall

1992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medical Sociology/Health Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scambler

Sociology as applied to medicine

WB Saunders

5th 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

Armstrong

Outline of sociology as applied to medicine

Arnold

5th 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Policy/Health Economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phillips, Ceri

Health Economics

BMJ

2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jefferson, Demicheli, Mugford

Elementary Economic Evaluation in Health Care

BMJ

2nd 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walt

Health Policy – an introduction to process and power

Zed Books

1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marmot & Wilkinson

Social Determinants of Health

Oxford

2nd 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kobelt

Elementary Economic Evaluation in Health Care

Office of Health Economics

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

McPake

Health economics: an international perspective

Routledge

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

Townsend P, Davidson N

Inequalities in health

Penguin

1990

 

 

 

 

 

 

Howe GM

Man, environment and disease in Britain

Penguin

1976

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Communicable Disease

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heymann, D

Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

APHA

18th 2004

http://www.cdc.gov

 

 

 

 

CDC

Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Public Health Foundation (USA)

9th 2004

http://www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/pink/

 

 

Eng & Butler

The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases

National Academy Press

1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

HPA (formerly PHLS)

Health Protection Agency (formerly PHLS) web site

 

 

http://www.hpa.org.uk/infections/default.htm

 

 

Hawker, et al

Communicable Disease Control Handbook

Blackwell

2nd 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Care Evaluation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Leger, Schneiden & Walsworth-Bell

Evaluating Health Services’ Effectiveness

Open University Press

1992

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Organisation/Management of Health Care

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upton

Managing change in the NHS

Open University Press

1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kiley

Medical Information on the Internet

Elsevier

3rd 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disease Prevention/Health Promotion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donaldson and Donaldson

Essential Public Health

Petroc Press

2nd 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ewles & Simnet

Promoting Health: A Practical Guide

Bailliere Tindall

5th 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

Popay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clay HH

Handbook of environmental health

Routledge  .

19th 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

McManus F

Environmental health law

Blackstone Press

1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bassett WH

Environmental health procedures

Taylor & Francis

5th 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jackson MH, Morris GP, Smith PG, Crawford JF

Environmental health reference book

Butterworth-Heinemann

1989

 

 

 

 

 

 

Godlee F, Walker A

Health and the environment

BMJ

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapman S, Lupton D

The fight for public health: principles and practice of media advocacy

BMJ

1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

HSE

Health promotion in primary care

HSE Books

1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Critical Appraisal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day R

How to write a scientific paper

Cambridge UP 

6th 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greenhalgh

How to read a paper

BMJ

3rd 2006

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/read.htm

 

 

CASP

Critical Appraisal Skills Programme web site

 

 

http://www.phru.nhs.uk/casp/casp.htm

 

 

Marshall LA, Rowland F

A guide to learning independently

Open University Press

3rd 1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cohen L, Manion L, Morrison K

Research methods in education

Taylor & Francis

6th 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

Northledge A

The good study guide

Open University Press

2nd 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other

Birkin M, Price B

C for chemicals

Merlin Press

1989

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis RA

Edwin Chadwick and the public health movement 1832-1854

Longmans

1952

 

 

 

 

 

 

BMA

Living with risk

Pemguin

1987

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowledge tested at Diploma and Part I

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Research methods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Disease causation & prevention; Health promotion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. Health information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Medical sociology, Social policy and Health economics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Organisation & management of health care