Public Health category: 1911 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of infection control and public health surveillance.
Reviews the current mathematical, statistical, and computer science systems...
by Leigh B. Grossman, MD
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
This book provides child care and preschool providers, pediatricians, family practitioners, and public health officials with an up-to-date, easy to read reference on infections and infection control for children in day care and preschool. The book covers both common and unusual infections and illnesses...
HIV Prevention
A Comprehensive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
HIV/AIDS continues to be the pandemic of our times and there has not been a comprehensive medically based AIDS prevention book published in the last 5 years. It is estimated that 36 to 45 million people including 2-3 million children already are infected worldwide and an additional 4-7 million more...
Food Safety = Behavior
30 Proven Techniques to Enhance Employee Compliance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
This book helps in Achieving food safety success which requires going beyond traditional training, testing, and inspectional approaches to managing risks. It requires a better understanding of the human dimensions of food safety. In the field of food safety today, much is documented about specific...
Exercises in Epidemiology
Applying Principles and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Traditional epidemiology coursework is centered on the design and analysis of disease control. This important knowledge forms the backbone of what epidemiology is, but it can sometimes become a rote exercise in calculations rather than what it can and should be--training in thinking like an epidemiologist....
Clinical Inertia
A Critique of Medical Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to treat. This phenomenon,...
Major depressive disorder precursors, predictors and coping mechanism
Analysis focused on undergraduate students
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: Major Depressive Disorders is one of the first disorders to be recognized among humanity. A number of psychologists and psychiatrists have come up with theories...
by Thomas E Novotny, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Global health diplomacy begins with a recognition that the most effective international health interventions are carried out with sensitivity to historical, political, social, economic, and cultural differences. It focuses on the interplay of globalization, economic interdependence, social justice,...
Cancer Disparities
Causes and Evidence-Based Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
"The volume sheds new light on reducing disparities by complementing currentlyavailable monographs, through the provision of solutions that are not onlytheoretically innovative but also empirically effective. Indeed, Cancer Disparities: Causesand Evidence-Based Solutions admirably achieves two...
Women and AIDS
Coping and Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Although women were understudied in the early years of the epidemic, research and practice devoted to understanding and ameliorating the effects of the AIDS epidemic have begun in recent years. Women and AIDS is the first comprehensive exploration of the medical and psychosocial concerns and issues...
by Jingshan Li, Nan Kong, Xiaolei Xie
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the field of healthcare delivery systems. Scientists and practitioners are constantly searching for ways to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of these systems in order to achieve better patient outcome.
This book focuses on the...
by Hariesh Rajasekar
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 1, Northeastern University of Boston, language: English, abstract: Data breaches in U.S. healthcare have become ubiquitous with modern hackers honing in on healthcare data due to its lucrative economic...
Workplace Health Promotion Programs
Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Shine a spotlight on the benefits of promoting health in the workplace
Workplace Health Promotion Programs focuses on the incredible value that employee health programs can offer by exploring six key topics: behavioral health, physical health, healthy environments, health education, nutritional...
Meals in Science and Practice
Interdisciplinary Research and Business Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
The meal is the key eating occasion, yet professionals and researchers frequently focus on single food products, rather than the combinations of foods and the context in which they are consumed. Research on meals is also carried out in a wide range of fields and the different disciplines do not always...