Public Health category: 1911 books
Healthy Ties
Social Capital, Population Health and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Social capital is a widely acknowledged candidate for implementing beneficial democratic processes and promoting public health. Healthy ties. Social capital, population health and survival traces the path from the conceptualization to the implementation of social capital. To provide empirical proof...
Religion and the Health of the Public
Shifting the Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities.
Medicare Nightmare
The Great Australian Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
For decades, public discourse on the Australian health system has been reduced to focusing on limited issues such as e-health or budget cuts while failing to capture the greatest challenge facing our national healthcare system. That is, inefficient access to crucial information that empowers patients...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family." The guarantee of good health for its people is therefore every government's aspiration. Public–private partnerships...
by Virginia Berridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Part of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers a critical overview of public health in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as critical and long-term perspectives on current issues.
Healthy City Planning
From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the...
To Fix or To Heal
Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Do doctors fix patients? Or do they heal them? For all of modern medicine’s many successes, discontent with the quality of patient care has combined with a host of new developments, from aging populations to the resurgence of infectious diseases, which challenge medicine’s overreliance on narrowly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
"This is a timely discussion of using new information technologies and media for communicating diverse health information to diverse audiences. This book is useful, readable, current, well organized, and seems to be a unique contribution."
--Doody's
"In this volume there...
The Last Plague
Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since...
by Glenn Laverack
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the many definitions, theories and approaches in public health. It is an important book for students and practitioners who are interested in public health, and for those who are keen to improve it.
Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours
The web of influence of addictive industries
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
The differences between alcohol, food, gambling, and tobacco as consumer products are obvious. Yet research suggests that there are underlying similarities in the way that food, alcohol, and gambling industries are replicating the tobacco industry's strategy of attempting to influence and determine...
Public Health Leadership and Management
Cases and Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2001
The six chapters and fifteen cases contained in this book challenge students to ask the appropriate questions and stimulate their thinking about public health leadership and management. The situations presented by each case are vivid and provide not only a basis for practicing professional public...
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The 2013–2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of...
Combating AIDS
Communication Strategies in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
·****· Awarded the Annual Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in Applied Communication, by the National Communication Association, USA**·****·**
`This gripping narrative not only documents the history of humankind's interaction with a clever virus, it brings to the forefront...