Public Health category: 1911 books
Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity
Morality, mortality and the new public health
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Although drinking, smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years, over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an 'unholy trinity' of lifestyle behaviours with apparently devastating...
Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection
A handbook for field professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental health problems. It does this by showing how to integrate relevant aspects of environmental science, communication...
Intellectual Property and Health Technologies
Balancing Innovation and the Public's Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Intellectual Property and Health Technologies
Balancing Innovation and the Public's Health
Joanna T. Brougher, Esq., MPH
At first glance, ownership of intellectual property seems straightforward: the control over an invention or idea. But with the...
Eating Behavior and Obesity
Behavioral Economics Strategies for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Obesity is one of the most pressing health issues affecting our country. This unique volume is the first to apply behavioral economicsóthe integration of psychological and economic knowledgeóto the study of eating behavior. The text demonstrates how this discipline can be used to understand why...
Mental Health Economics
The Costs and Benefits of Psychiatric Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
The main objective of this work is to provide a book with high quality content that becomes a reference and support for graduate course (Mental Health, Public Health and Epidemiology) and for research in the domain of health economics applied to mental health. Also this book might be useful for policymakers...
Sleep, Health, and Society
From Aetiology to Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Sleep disturbances and sleep deprivation are increasingly common in modern society. Epidemiological methods of investigation have shown that sleep deprivation is associated with a variety of chronic conditions and health outcomes. Sleep medicine is a rapidly growing field of clinical research, affecting...
Asthma, Health and Society
A Public Health Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Asthma, Health, and Society
A Public Health Perspective
Edited by Andrew Harver, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Harry Kotses, Ohio University, Athens
Asthma, Health, and Society is a comprehensive, current resource on this complex disease—its scope,...
Community-Oriented Health Services
Practices Across Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Grounded in a transdisciplinary approach, this groundbreaking text provides extensive, evidence-based information on the value of communities as the primary drivers of their own health and well-being. It describes foundational community health concepts and procedures and presents proven strategies...
LGBT Health
Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities offers a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive view of mental, medical, and public health conditions within the LGBT community. This book examines the health outcomes and risk factors that gender and sexual minority groups face while simultaneously...
by Barnes Jeff; O'Hanlon Barbar; Feeley Frank; Kimberly McKeon; Nelson Gitonga; Caytie Decker
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Kenya's private sector is one of the most developed and dynamic in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the health sector - where the leading causes of death are HIV/AIDS, acute respiratory infection, diarrheal diseases, and malaria - the private commercial (for-profit) sector and the not-for-profit sector play critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This book on Infectious Disease Informatics (IDI) and biosurveillance is intended to provide an integrated view of the current state of the art, identify technical and policy challenges and opportunities, and promote cross-disciplinary research that takes advantage of novel methodology and what we...
The Global Challenge of Malaria
Past Lessons and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Malaria is one of the most important “emerging” or “resurgent” infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, this mosquito-borne infection is a leading cause of suffering, death, poverty, and underdevelopment in the world today. Every year 500 million people become severely...
The Health Practitioner's Guide to Climate Change
Diagnosis and Cure
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, to make health services sustainable, and to design...
Noncommunicable Diseases in the Developing World
Addressing Gaps in Global Policy and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma and other chronic respiratory conditions, and cancers—are the leading causes of death worldwide. An estimated 36 million people die from such diseases each year; this represents roughly two out of three deaths globally....