Public Health category: 1911 books
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer
The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future . . . and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives—and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.
Lurking in our homes, hiding in our offices, and polluting...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Population health is complex and multileveled, encompassing dynamic interactions between cells, societies, and everything in between. Our typical approach to studying population health, however, remains oriented around a reductionist approach to conceptualizing, empirically analyzing, and intervening...
by Leonard Kabongo
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: B, Atlantic International University (School of Human and Social studies), course: Fundementals of Epidemiology, language: English, abstract: Malaria is an endemic disease in Zambia and it's a major public...
Bright Futures
Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This essential resource provides key background information and recommendations for themes critical to healthy child development along with well-child supervision standards for 31 age-based visits—from Newborn through 21 Years.What’s in the Bright Futures Guidelines, Fourth Edition?Twelve health...
Disease Prevention
A Critical Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Preventive medical interventions and non-medicalised public health programmes that promise health benefits in the future, from actions taken now, carry a strong ethical requirement of 'first, do no harm' or primum non nocere. New preventive advice and interventions are being promoted on a daily basis,...
The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters
Models informed by the global experience 1950-2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters brings a public health perspective to the literature, reflecting the increasing importance of the field in both disaster preparedness and disaster response. Arguing that a disaster is not only the event but its aftermath as well, the authors apply...
The Cure For Everything
Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this era of health-science research, rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy, the miracles achieved by genetic mapping. And we are told—by the media, health-care experts,...
Global Health Disputes and Disparities
A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world, looking particularly at the opportunity for, and limitations of, international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights, trade, and epidemiology, and the controversial issues...
Vaccine
The Debate in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Since 1990, the number of mandated vaccines has increased dramatically. Today, a fully vaccinated child will have received nearly three dozen vaccinations between birth and age six. Along with the increase in number has come a growing wave of concern among parents about the unintended side effects...
Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe
Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care...
by T R Marmor
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
No one misses the onslaught of claims about reforming modern medical care. How doctors should be paid, how hospitals should be paid or governed, how much patients should pay when sick in co-payments, how the quality of care could be improved, and how governments and other buyers could better control...
The Demand for Health
A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Research on procrastination has grown exponentially in recent years. Studies have revealed that procrastination is an issue of self-regulation failure, and specifically misregulation of emotional states—not simply a time management problem as often presumed. This maladaptive coping strategy is a...
by Richard (Buz) Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients...