Public Health category: 1911 books
Linking Sustainable Livelihoods to Natural Resources and Governance
The Scale of Poverty in the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
This book investigates the current level and trend of poverty in the Muslim World, including selected countries in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific and South America. Authors explore themes of poverty reduction, poverty alleviation and the extent of influences on social...
by Salim Momtaz, Zobaidul Kabir
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Evaluating Environmental and Social Impact Assessment in Developing Countries isa valuable reference book for practitioners and researchers conducting research in and developing studies on environmental science and management and environmental and social impact assessment. The book’s authors have...
by Frank Camm, Brian M. Stecher
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2010
This report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system (PBAS), which identifies individuals or organizations that must change their behavior to improve an activity's performance, an incentive...
The Energy Glut
The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
IRVING LEVESON The 19608 was a period of rapid social and economic change, coupled with spectacular growth in the role of government in dealing with social issues. The demands of public programs and policies created enormous pressures for improved information and analyses. In the field of drug abuse...
The Theater of War
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
This is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. For years, theater director Bryan Doerries has led an innovative public health project that produces ancient tragedies for current and returned...
What the Eyes Don't See
A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times
“Revealing,...
Generation Rx
How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2005
This in-depth look at the rise of Big Pharma and pill marketing is “a page-turner” (Booklist, starred review).
A finalist for a PEN America Literary Award for Research Nonfiction, this book takes a deep look at how the pharmaceutical industry—with some help from the medical and insurance...
Examining Tuskegee
The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious...
Doctors and Doctrines
The Ideology of Medical Care in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
There has been controversy for several years now in Canada over the various developments in insurance for medical care. The Canadian Medical Association is of course concerned with protecting the profession as well as the public: those who believe in a government-sponsored medicare plan claim that...
Telling Genes
The Story of Genetic Counseling in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For sixty years genetic counselors have served as the messengers of important information about the risks, realities, and perceptions of genetic conditions. More than 2,500 certified genetic counselors in the United States work in clinics, community and teaching hospitals, public health departments,...
Bitter Pills
The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Long the scourge of developing countries, fake pills are now increasingly common in the United States. The explosion of Internet commerce, coupled with globalization and increased pharmaceutical use has led to an unprecedented vulnerability in the U.S. drug supply. Today, an estimated 80% of our drugs...
Multivariable Analysis
A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Public Health Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Now in its third edition, this highly successful text has been fully revised and updated with expanded sections on cutting-edge techniques including Poisson regression, negative binomial regression, multinomial logistic regression and proportional odds regression. As before, it focuses on easy-to-follow...
Translational Toxicology
Defining a New Therapeutic Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary team of contributors,this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of translational toxicology—a systematic approach to developing therapeutic interventions that can protect against, mitigate, or reverse the effects of exposures.In particular,...