Public Health category: 1911 books
Asian Immigrants in North America with HIV/AIDS
Stigma, Vulnerabilities and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
This book explores a number of issues related to the stigma arising from HIV/AIDS infection, perceived or actual discrimination from the community and society and the extent of vulnerabilities for infected Asian refugees and immigrants. It assesses the health care and treatment regimen for HIV/AIDS...
Treating AIDS
Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
There is an inherently powerful and complex paradox underlying HIV/AIDS prevention—between the focus on collective advocacy mobilized to combat global HIV/AIDS and the staggeringly disproportionate rates of HIV/AIDS in many places. In Treating AIDS, Thurka Sangaramoorthy examines the everyday...
Managing Disruptive Change in Healthcare
Lessons from a Public-Private Partnership to Advance Cancer Care and Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Healthcare faces unprecedented global challenges. Rapid advances in genomics, computational sciences, and technology -- as well as the new focus on value-based care and an increased trend toward healthcare commercialization -- represent disruptive changes to an already-fragmented delivery system....
The Healthcare Professional Workforce
Understanding Human Capital in a Changing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
As the U.S. healthcare industry undergoes sweeping changes to increase efficiency and reduce costs, the healthcare workforce is changing as well. In this new system of care, physicians work alongside health care teams, where nurses, pharmacists, and other professionals must collaborate to provide...
Medicare and Medicaid at 50
America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment...
Treatment versus Punishment for Drug Addiction
Lessons from Austria, Poland, and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This brief summarizes the results of a two-year, international research project covering drug addiction treatment versus punishment in Austria, Poland, and Spain. It features:
-An analysis of the national drug-related legislation and its application in these countries
- An evaluation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This volume provides a serious examination of substance use prevention research and practice as components of the continuum from health promotion through to prevention and health care in sub-groups and in the general population. Extensive background chapters provide portals into the evolution of the...
World Mental Health Casebook
Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Using real cases based in the South Pacific, Asia, South and Latin America and Europe, this volume sets out examples of community-based interventions that have succeeded by implementing outreach to the families and community to identify those in need, reliable and adequate drug supplies, treatment...
Mass Mediated Disease
A Case Study Analysis of Three Flu Pandemics and Public Health Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Influenza is a continuing news story with three clearly defined pandemics. Spanning a history of over fifty years, Mass Mediated Disease focuses on the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918, the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957, and the Hong Kong influenza pandemic of 1968, by discussing news stories...
The Science of Real-Time Data Capture
Self-Reports in Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has designated the topic of real-time data capture as an important and innovative research area. As such, the NCI sponsored a national meeting of distinguished research scientists to discuss the state of the science in this emerging and burgeoning field. This book...
by Brian T. Malec, PhD, David Wyant
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them!
Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and...
Inside the Outbreaks
The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The “fascinating” story of the CDC’s intrepid investigators, who travel the world to protect us from deadly pathogens (Chicago Tribune).
Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. When an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there...
Gun Violence
The Real Costs
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2000
100 billion dollars. That is the annual cost of gun violence in America according to the authors of this landmark study, a book destined to change the way Americans view the problem of gun-related violence. Until now researchers have assessed the burden imposed by gunshot injuries and deaths in terms...
by Ji-Qian Fang
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This unique volume focuses on the "tools" of medical statistics. It contains over 500 concepts or methods, all of which are explained very clearly and in detail.
Each chapter focuses on a specific field and its applications. There are about 20 items in each chapter with each item...