Public Health category: 1911 books
Police Services
Leadership and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of policing against the backdrop of massive cuts in public expenditure experienced and the changing landscape of policing. The challenges of funding, training, online-crimes and cultural transformation are now felt...
The Politics of Fear
Médecins sans Frontières and the West African Ebola Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at population and leadership levels, which...
by Kent Buse, Nicholas Mays, Gill Walt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.
An Open and Shut Case
The Story of Keyhole or Minimally Invasive Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Keyhole surgery has been made possible through the rapid development of various medical technologies, first pioneered in the 1970s. Revolutionary in the way it reduced the risk, surgical complications, healing time and scarring compared to open surgery, keyhole surgery soon became the preferred method...
Community-Based Prevention
Reducing the Risk of Cancer and Chronic Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Cancer and chronic disease are a rapidly increasing global health burden: according to the Milken Institute, the annual cost to the national US economy of the seven most common chronic conditions will rise to $4.2 trillion by 2023. The data are just as dramatic in Canada, Europe, Australia, and increasingly,...
Infant Feeding Practices
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
It’s natural... It’s unsightly... It’s normal... It’s dangerous. To breastfeed or not? For millions of women around the world, this personal decision is influenced by numerous social, cultural, and health factors. Infant Feeding Practices is the first book to delve into these factors from...
Manage or Perish?
The Challenges of Managed Mental Health Care in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative. " -H. G. Wells, Mind at the End of Its Tether (1946) Doctors are trained to treat people suffering from various diseases. This is the main form of their activity and usually the reason for which they selected medicine as their...
International Public Financial Management Reform
Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
This book is intended to give readers detailed information and perspectives on the reform of financial management reform practices in a variety of national settings around the world. The chapters explore the reform agenda in each nation and factors that stimulated change. Each chapter addresses the...
Aging in European Societies
Healthy Aging in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Between longer life expectancies and declining birth rates, Europe’s elder population is growing into a sizable minority with considerable impact on nations, health systems, and economies—in other words, global implications as well as local and regional ones. Those investing in the health of older...
Interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems
Standards, Management, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Although the standards in electronic health records and general healthcare services continue to evolve, many organizations push to connect interoperability with public service and basic citizenship rights. This poses significant technical and organizational challenges that are the focus of many research...
Human Health and the Environment
A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The twentieth century has seen a remarkable evolution of environmental health and environmental protection concerns and concepts in the United States. As a teacher of Environmental Health since the late 1950s, I have witnessed the many twists and turns that have marked the latter half of the century,...
Moving Mountains
A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Medicine has become increasingly depersonalized. Patients complain of being treated like numbers. Doctors resent being cogs in a complex healthcare system. Yet enthusiasm remains within the high towers of academia, the halls of government, and the corporate boardrooms of insurance companies, for a...
Mental Health and Social Issues Following a Nuclear Accident
The Case of Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book focuses on mental health issues arising in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Three years after the 11 March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunamis, and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, roughly 130,000 individuals continue to face enormous burdens as a result of mandatory...
Integrative Approaches for Health
Biomedical Research, Ayurveda and Yoga
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Despite spectacular advances, modern medicine faces formidable global challenges in several key areas—notably the persistence of major killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, and newer threats including HIV/AIDS, resistant infections, and Ebola. As such, modern medicine has not led...