Public Health category: 1911 books
Social Security for the Elderly
Experiences from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it also documents existing policies and programs on pensions and social security, and examines their fiscal implications for the economy and society.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This insightful volume integrates criminological theories, prevention science, and empirical findings to create an up-to-date survey of crime prevention research and strategies. Its interdisciplinary perspective expands on our knowledge of risk factors to isolate the malleable mechanisms that produce...
Toward a Small Family Ethic
How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for scarce...
Mapping Disease Transmission Risk
Enriching Models Using Biogeography and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
A. Townsend Peterson, one of the pioneers of ecological niche modeling, presents a synthesis that illuminates new and more effective infectious disease mapping methods. His work—the culmination of twelve years of refinement—breaks new ground by integrating biogeographic and ecological factors...
Psychiatric Epidemiology
Searching for the Causes of Mental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Searching for the causes of mental disorders is as exciting as it it complex. The relationship between pathophysiology and its overt manifestations is exceedingly intricate, and often the causes of a disorder are elusive at best. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone trying to track these...
by Walter Willett
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
This text is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in the unraveling of these complex relationships and at readers of the rapidly multiplying...
Nutrition and Metabolism
Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Nutrition and Metabolism: Underlying Mechanisms and Clinical Consequences brings together internationally recognized experts to comprehensively review our current understanding of how nutrition interacts with the genetic substrate as well as environmental-exogenous factors, including physical activity...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume contains papers presented at the Conference on the Demographic and Programmatic Consequences of Contraceptive In novations, which was sponsored by the Committee on Population and held at the National Academy of Sciences, October 6-7, 1988. The papers consider how new contraceptive methods...
Neuropsychology of Children in Africa
Perspectives on Risk and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Increasingly, global humanitarian efforts are focusing on improving the lives of children. And among the developing world, the African nations are particularly affected by extreme weather conditions, devastating pandemics, and armed conflict. Neurocognitive science offers significant avenues toward...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Concepts of Addictive Substances and Behaviours across Time and Place presents fascinating new historical and social scientific research examining the temporal and spatial variations in the ways that addiction problems are understood and addressed in European societies. The book illustrates the changing...
Successful Prevention and Youth Development Programs
Across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The authors of this work closely explore the incidence of problem youth behaviors and scrutinize the efficacy of existing prevention programs. This review includes interventions specifically designed to promote youth development or to minimize the long-term consequences of problem behaviors from violence...
Neoliberal Ebola
Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This volume compiles five papers modeling the effects of neoliberal economics on the emergence of Ebola and its aftermath. Neoliberalism is currently the world’s primary economic philosophy. It centers international relations around globalizing laissez-faire economics for multinational companies,...
The Vaccine Handbook
A Practitioner's Guide to Maximizing Use and Efficacy across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Vaccines are among modern medicine's greatest triumphs, but popular misunderstandings about vaccines and the communicable diseases they prevent threaten to undo more than a century's worth of progress in public health. Pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, OB/GYN physicians, internists, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Nutritional and Therapeutic Interventions for Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome, Second Edition, provides an overview of the current diabetes epidemic, outlines the consequences of this crisis, and lays out strategies to forestall and prevent diabetes, obesity and other intricate issues of metabolic...