Public Health category: 1911 books
Markets and Malthus
Population, Gender and Health in Neo-liberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the...
Operation Health
Surgical Care in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
A teenage mother arrives by donkey cart to a hospital after attempting to deliver her baby in the bush. A young father faces the loss of a leg after receiving a gunshot wound that will not heal. A man walks miles to a hospital for a pain in his side caused by an appendix that burst five days earlier....
Asian American Communities and Health
Context, Research, Policy, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution of disease and illness in Asian American communities. The book explores the diversity within...
Teaching Environmental Health to Children
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Every day we are exposed to toxins and toxicants that can impact our health. Yet we rarely teach elementary and secondary students about these exposures and how they can reduce their risk to them. In this book we highlight activities and curriculum developed at nine universities in the United...
Blue Marble Health
An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2011, Dr. Peter J. Hotez relocated to Houston to launch Baylor’s National School of Tropical Medicine. He was shocked to discover that a number of neglected diseases often associated with developing countries were widespread in impoverished Texas communities. Despite the United States’ economic...
Oceans and Human Health
Risks and Remedies from the Seas
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Oceans and Human Health highlights an unprecedented collaboration of environmental scientists, ecologists and physicians working together on this important new discipline, to the benefit of human health and ocean environmental integrity alike. Oceanography, toxicology, natural products chemistry,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
The authors of this groundbreaking text define social epidemiology as the study of the social determinants of health, implying that an important goal of public health is to identify and address factors in the social environment that may be related to health outcomes. In the first systematic account...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
As health policy at a national level has ever increasing impact on local health services, it is essential that public health students understand how the development and implementation of policy and strategy provide the framework for improving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the...
Planning Health Promotion Programs
An Intervention Mapping Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
This guide to the planning of health promotion programs uses the increasingly popular Intervention Mapping approach, a theory- and evidence-based interactive process that links needs assessment with program planning in a way that adds efficiency and improves outcomes. Students, researchers, faculty,...
Concepts of Epidemiology
Integrating the ideas, theories, principles, and methods of epidemiology
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Epidemiology is a population science that underpins health improvement and health care, by exploring and establishing the pattern, frequency, trends, and causes of a disease. Concepts of Epidemiology comprehensively describes the application of core epidemiological concepts and principles to readers...
by Louis G. Pol, Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
In this 3rd edition of the definitive work on health demography, Pol and Thomas offer an updated view of the field and a current perspective on the applications of health demography to contemporary issues. The significance of health demography within the field of population studies has continued...
by Anar Ulikpan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: Distinction, University of Leeds (Nuffield), language: English, abstract: This dissertation intends to contribute to improving sector-wide management and aid coordination in health. The dissertation objectives are:...
Stigma, Discrimination and Living with HIV/AIDS
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Up until now, many articles have been written to portray stigma and discrimination which occur with people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in many parts of the world. But this is the first book which attempts to put together results from empirical research relating to stigma, discrimination and living...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 1996
A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians,...