Public Health category: 1911 books
Health Disparities in the United States
Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice magazine
The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide health disparities persist between different social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. Donald A....
Case Studies in Global School Health Promotion
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
A growing body of research identifies strong links between children’s health, social and educational outcomes; it also notes the reciprocal benefits of access to quality education on individual and family health status. In response to these findings, the World Health Organization developed the concept...
Health Communication
A Media and Cultural Studies Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This book is about communicating for health and social change. With a clear focus on public health and health promotion practice, it provides a unique introduction to media and cultural studies perspectives on health communication.
Health Communication explores the dynamic world of contemporary...
by Clare Bambra
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy, epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these contemporary orthodoxies. It systematically...
Global Health
An Introduction to Current and Future Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape. In this new edition the authors have maintained the successful structure and organisation of the previous edition to examine...
Health Communication
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Now in its second edition, Health Communication: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to theory, intervention design, current issues, and special topics in health communication. The book also represents a hands-on guide to program development, implementation, and evaluation....
by Joia S. Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"What Mukherjee attempts, and succeeds in doing, is to offer what many students -- undergraduates as well as students of medicine, nursing, and public health -- have long clamored for: a primer not only of recent developments in global health, but also a patient dissection of what has worked less...
Stress and Resilience
The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Documenting the daily efforts of African Americans to protect their community against highly oppressive conditions, this ground-breaking volume chronicles the unique experiences of black women that place them at higher risk for morbidity and mortality - especially during pregnancy. Stress and Resilience:...
What's In, What's Out
Designing Benefits for Universal Health Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Vaccinate children against deadly pneumococcal disease, or pay for cardiac patients to undergo lifesaving surgery? Cover the costs of dialysis for kidney patients, or channel the money toward preventing the conditions that lead to renal failure in the first place? Policymakers dealing with the realities...
Interpreting Epidemiologic Evidence
Connecting Research to Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Epidemiology, the so-called "science of public health," has undergone a boom in the last decade as public interest and engagement in population health has skyrocketed. While this boom has done much to spark advances in the technology of epidemiology, it has also made it harder for those who want to...
Health and Safety Communication
A Practical Guide Forward
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Health and Safety Communication: A Practical Guide Forward is an easy introduction to the principles and practice of health and safety communications, providing all you need to know to design and implement communications efforts on a wide range of health and safety topics and issues. Whether you're...
Promoting Health: A Practical Guide - E-Book
Ewles & Simnett
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Promoting Health: A Practical Guide continues to offer health promotion workers with an essential guide to day-to-day planning and service delivery in a variety of different areas of practice.
Describes the international and national strategies and movements that have emerged to reduce inequalities...
by Paul Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Health care is increasingly under pressure. Budget crises are making collaboration and smart thinking essential, while increasing numbers of people with multiple long-term conditions make specialist models of health care increasingly inefficient – patients too often go from one specialist to another,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Epidemiology -- the most updated since its inception -- reflects the profound substantive and methodological changes that have come to characterize epidemiology and its associated disciplines. Sponsored by the International Epidemiological Association, this book...