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by Theodore H. Tulchinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Case Studies in Public Health contains selected case studies of some of the most important and influential moments in medicine and epidemiology. The cases chosen for this collection represent a wide array of public health issues that go into the makeup of what can be termed the New Public Health (NPH),...
Dying to be Men
Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Masculinity has a powerful effect on the health of men and boys. Indeed, many of the behaviors they use to "be men" actually increase their risk of disease, injury, and death. In this book, Dr. Will Courtenay, an internationally recognized expert on men’s health, provides a foundation...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related expenditure, cause-specific mortality, and maternal health...
Women's Health in Africa
Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This edited book includes new policy-relevant research on women’s health issues in Africa. Scholars explore critical topics from different disciplinary traditions using a variety of research methodologies and data sources. The contributors include African scholars with in-depth knowledge of their...
The Sexual Health of Men
Dealing with Conflict and Change, Pt. 1
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This challenging critique explores the current constraints and opportunities for addressing and promoting the sexual health of men. It redresses the balance between society's traditional views and expectations of men's sexual health, compared to the sexual health of women. The wide-ranging approach...
by Jim Connelly, Chris Worth
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book presents an introduction to modern public health seen from the perspective of practitioners of public health medicine. Written for non-practitioners interested in public health and as an essential introduction for those considering a career in public health medicine, the book uses illustrative...
Risking Your Health
Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Behaviors that pose risks for an individuals health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer...
Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas
Values and Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2008
More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating. Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms. Libraries offer an ideal context for health insurance...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research on sexuality as the social sciences have worked to find new ways of understanding a rapidly changing world. Growing concern for issues such as population, women's and men's reproductive health, and the HIV and AIDS pandemic, has since provided...
Health Information Management
Principles and Organization for Health Information Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
The Updated and Extensively Revised Guide to Developing Efficient Health Information Management Systems
Health Information Management is the most comprehensive introduction to the study and development of health information management (HIM). Students in all areas of health care gain an unmatched...
by Jan Abel Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Principles in Health Economics and Policy, second edition, is a concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. It introduces the subject of economics, explains the fundamental failures in the market for healthcare, and discusses the concepts of equity and fairness when...
Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue
A Paradigm Expansion in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions. Its ecological lifespan approach globally traces risk and protective factors associated with this exploitation, laying a roadmap...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This book focuses on a range of geospatial applications for environmental health research, including environmental justice issues, environmental health disparities, air and water contamination, and infectious diseases. Environmental health research is at an exciting point in its use of geotechnologies,...