Public Health category: 1911 books
Contested Epidemics
Policy Responses in Brazil and the US and What the BRICS Can Learn
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Despite their similar political and economic structures, Brazil and the United States have contrasting relationships with the international community as well as different policy approaches to the prevention and treatment of epidemics. In this regard, an interesting empirical puzzle arises: how and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Asian Development Bank, along with the people and institutions of Asia and the Pacific and the rest of the world, believes in the strength of partnerships and collective action. At the core of this belief is a desire to initiate and develop partnerships that will help governments address health...
Modelling in Public Health Research
How Mathematical Techniques Keep Us Healthy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book analyses the development and use of mathematical models in public health research and policy. By introducing a life cycle metaphor, the author provides a unique perspective on how mathematical modelling techniques have increased our understanding of the governance of infectious risks in society.
Tapping into The Wire
The Real Urban Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Did Omar Little die of lead poisoning? Would a decriminalization strategy like the one in Hamsterdam end the War on Drugs? What will it take to save neglected kids like Wallace and Dukie? Tapping into 'The Wire' uses the acclaimed television series as a road map for exploring connections between inner-city...
Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines...
Mary Breckinridge
The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to...
by Fiona Sim, Martin McKee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book discusses the core issues of modern public health, its themes, foundations and evolution and the impact of globalisation.
by Jay Lee, Thomas W. Cleare, Mary Russell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
In the event of a disaster or public health emergency, individual agencies and hospitals cannot always effectively act alone. In order to provide a collaborative, comprehensive system of planning and response a Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition (HERC) is needed. This book introduces the concept...
eHealth Applications
Promising Strategies for Behavior Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. This volume focuses on the use of these...
by Murali Mg
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 80, University of South Florida (Post Graduate School), course: Health Care and Public Administration, language: English, abstract: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which is also referred as The Affordable Care...
by Kamalesh Dey
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, University of Bedfordshire (MBA (Health Services Management)), course: Organising Modern Health Care Services, language: English, abstract: The report explored the Francis report regarding Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation. The...
Public Health
Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Incorporating the latest developments from the field, this eagerly awaited new edition once again provides an important and comprehensive analysis of the key issues in public health. Exploring the underlying political context and policy processes, this text is core reading for all those interested in the essentials of this area.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
By bringing together top-notch demographers, sociologists, economists, statisticians and public health specialists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to examine a wide variety of public and private issues in applied demography, this book spans a wide range of topics. It evaluates population...
Male invovlement in their partner's pregnancy and childbirth
An exploratory study in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh, India
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, , course: Masters in Public health, language: English, abstract: Male involvement has shown to yield positive results in the health of the women and their children, according to many studies conducted earlier in India and...