Public Health category: 1911 books
HIV/AIDS Treatment in Resource Poor Countries
Public Health Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
The book focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment strategies in resource-poor settings. Contributors include HIV/AIDS researchers and public health administrators from the US, Africa, China, and Thailand. Several chapters, written by local health officials, take a close look at AIDS prevention...
by Laura H. Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Zoonoses—infectious diseases, such as SARS and mad cow, that originate in animals and spread to humans—reveal how intimately animal and human health are linked. Complicating this relationship further, when livestock are given antibiotics to increase growth, it can lead to resistant bacteria. Unfortunately,...
by Emily Ying Yang Chan
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
As a backdrop of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (2016-2030), the United Nations pointed out that more than 6 million children still died before the age of five by 2015. At least 1.8 billion people across the world still consumed fecally contaminated drinking water and 2.4 million lacked...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This stimulating volume addresses vital questions about gene/environment interactions as they affect cell health from the prenatal period through later life. Beginning with a tour of epigenetic processes in the human body, the book assembles current theoretical and empirical developments across the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
THE GROUNDBREAKING, FORMATIVE WORK IN SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- NOW UPDATED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH In 2003, Neighborhoods and Health codified the idea that a neighborhood's social and physical makeup can influence the health of people who live in it. More than...
Paying Out-of-Pocket for Drugs, Diagnostics and Medical Services
A Study of Households in Three Indian States
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In India there is a high incidence of morbidity and malnutrition coupled with low standards of public health and expensive medical care. Despite several policy initiatives and many attempts to promote a healthy society, health remains an issue of concern. Policy-makers recognise that the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases. This book offers an overview of our current understanding of air pollution health risks and how this knowledge is being used in the regulatory,...
Area of residence and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality among adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus in Stockholm County
A Swedish cohort study
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: B, , course: Department of public health sciences, Epidemiology, language: English, abstract: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a major public health problem in Sweden. Area of residence has been suggested to increase...
Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Human Health Risk Analysis
Biophysical Theory of Environmental Health Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Scientists and regulators have struggled to define the role of theory, experiments, models and common sense in risk analysis. This situation has been made worse by the isolation of theory from modeling, of experimentation from theory, and of practical action from basic science.
This book arises from...
Geopolitics in Health
Confronting Obesity, AIDS, and Tuberculosis in the Emerging BRICS Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In recent years, political leaders in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, collectively known as the BRICS, have worked to reformulate international discussions and policies on issues ranging from fair and free trade to human rights. When it comes to health epidemics, however, the BRICS...
Environmental Health Science
Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Chemical Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Since the publication of the first edition of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE, preventing and treating acute and chronic disease caused by exposure to chemical health hazards has become even more central to the practice of public health. This fully revised and updated edition introduces students and...
by Chris Heginbotham, Karen Newbigging
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This new text supports commissioners in translating current aspirations for public mental and physical health into tangible commissioning strategies. At a time when there are major changes in commissioning arrangements, this book provides a carefully structured and comprehensive look at the resources...
Health Care in America
A History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In Health Care in America, historian John C. Burnham describes changes over four centuries of medicine and public health in America. Beginning with seventeenth-century concerns over personal and neighborhood illnesses, Burnham concludes with the arrival of a new epoch in American medicine and health...
Beholden
Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Winner of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Religion Global health efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches: a human rights-based approach to health and equity-often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or a religious or humanitarian...