Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Social exclusion attempts to make sense out of multiple deprivations and inequities experienced by people and areas, and the reinforcing effects of reduced participation, consumption, mobility, access, integration, influence and recognition. This book works from a multidisciplinary approach across...
Drug Dealer, MD
How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Pain is a common symptom, yet it is frequently underevaluated and undertreated. It is difficult to define, describe—and sometimes to prove. It’s pain, and suspicions of exaggerations often add further insult to a patients’ injuries. Biobehavioral Approaches to Pain translates this highly subjective...
by Peter Piot
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide...
Stopping Domestic Violence
How a Community Can Prevent Spousal Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume examines models of collaboration between personnel in social service agencies, women's centers, domestic violence programs, medical and mental health settings, and law enforcement. Techniques are detailed that allow knowledge about domestic violence and primary prevention to be integrated...
by Colin Sanderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Health care systems are complex and, as a result, it is often unclear what the effects of changes in policy or service provision might be. At the same time, resources for health care tend to be in short supply, which means that public health practitioners have to make difficult decisions. This book describes...
by Daniel J. O'Shea, Linda S. Lloyd, Sana Loue
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This text provides a foundation for the initiation of advocacy efforts and for the evaluation of their success and includes topics such as: specific strategies, grassroots advocacy efforts, formation and development of coalitions, advocacy efforts in legislatures, administrative agencies, court, and...
Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture
Inclusive Dialogue, Partnerships, and Community Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In Global Health and Sustainable Development Architecture, Wang discusses the convergence of such problems as financial crisis, water, food and energy shortage, earthquakes and disasters, epidemics and pandemics, wars and nuclear threats. 'What is wrong with our development model?' 'What is the solution?'...
Ebola
Profile of a Killer Virus
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
First discovered in 1976, and long regarded as an easily manageable virus affecting isolated rural communities, Ebola rocketed to world prominence in 2014 as a deadly epidemic swept through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in West Africa. Thousands of people died as the extraordinarily contagious...
Operation Crisis
Surgical Care in the Developing World during Conflict and Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Surgical care is increasingly recognized as a critical component of global health, and strong surgical skills, teamwork, and poise under pressure become even more imperative during conflict or disaster. When faced with hospital bombings or devastating earthquakes, healthcare personnel must develop...
Essential Epidemiology
An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Taking a practical approach and supported by global examples from all areas of health, the new edition of this popular and highly commended textbook has been updated to reflect current epidemiological thinking and teaching. Based on feedback from teachers and students, material has been reordered...
Screening in Disease Prevention
What Works?
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Screening for disease has become a widely accepted concept in health care. Screening in Disease Prevention takes a critical look at the practice of screening throughout the various stages of life. The book highlights three current challenges: the increasing consumer, media and commercial focus on...
by Xenia Maria Caldeira Brant, Negoita Neagos, Oluwadayo O. Oluwadara
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Health care is witnessing an explosion of fundamental, clinical and translational research evidence. The emerging paradigm of evidence-based health care rests on the judicious integration of the patient needs/wants, the provider's expertise, and the best available research evidence in the treatment...
by Rob Summers, Reinhard Huss, Stuart Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
-Gives a new perspective on the politics of drug supply
-Will interest those involved with the management of medicines at any level
-Indispensable for students of public health