Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Fully revised and updated for the third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for all those working in this broad field. Structured to assist with practical tasks, translating evidence into policy, and providing concise summaries and real-world issues from...
Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing
International perspectives on practice, policy and research
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing is the first work of its kind to discuss the...
by Richard J. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Designing Healthy Communities, the companion book to the acclaimed public television documentary, highlights how we design the built environment and its potential for addressing and preventing many of the nation's devastating childhood and adult health concerns. Dr. Richard Jackson looks at the root...
by Victoria D. Weisfeld, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
This tenth edition of a classic textbook, updated in November 2013 with a free, downloadable chapter on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presents the critical issues and core challenges surrounding our health care system. Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, it includes the contributions...
by James Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Presently, the healthcare industry is grappling with many challenges both nationally and globally, including escalating costs, a move to a preventative care environment and a technology savvy patient with high expectations. To accommodate the changing health demands of the current global population,...
Nursing with a Message
Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, public health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the nation’s health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This groundbreaking new book reveals the key role that...
Environmental Noise Pollution
Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution with a particular focus on the European Union. Environmental noise pollution is an emerging public policy and environmental concern and is considered to be one...
The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor
My Years at the CDC
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In its seventy years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has evolved from a malaria control program to an institution dedicated to improving health for all people across the world. The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor is a revealing account of the CDC’s development by its...
Colonizing Leprosy
Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
By comparing institutions in Hawai'i and Louisiana designed to incarcerate individuals with a highly stigmatized disease, Colonizing Leprosy provides an innovative study of the complex relationship between U.S. imperialism and public health policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....
Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health
A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection...
Managing Health in Africa
The Health Systems Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
An authoritative analysis of the challenges of public health management in Africa, based on a combined experience of more than 83 years in national and ...
Information Systems in hospitals and the health service
A critical report on 'Increased electronic information sharing by sexual health services' by Hunter, Ede and Whiddett
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Literature Review from the year 2016 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, , course: MBA (Health Services Management), language: English, abstract: The paper is a critique report of Hunter, Ede and Whiddett regarding 'Increased electronic information sharing by sexual health services: Confidentiality...
Qualitative Methods in Public Health
A Field Guide for Applied Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, 2nd Edition provides a practical orientation to conducting effective qualitative research in the public health sphere. With thorough examination and simple explanations, this book guides you through the logic and workflow of...