Public Health category: 1911 books
A Doctor's Quest
The Struggle for Mother and Child Health Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific - from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan - Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics and bureaucratic red tape...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease, Third Edition is a comprehensive clinical nutrition textbook that integrates food issues with nutrition to provide a unique perspective to disease prevention/control. A proven classroom resource for understanding how nutrition can be used to improve...
History of Toxicology and Environmental Health
Toxicology in Antiquity Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Toxicology in Antiquity is the first in a series of short format works covering key accomplishments, scientists, and events in the broad field of toxicology, including environmental health and chemical safety. This first volume sets the tone for the series and starts at the very beginning, historically...
Panic Nation
Unpicking the Myths We're Told About Food and Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
It seems as though every week there's another food or health scare. Whether it's British beef, the MMR vaccine, or just sunshine itself, there's always somebody to tell you that you are under threat from yet another everyday activity; or that the food we eat and the medicines we take are poisoning...
Occupational Health
Pocket Consultant
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Offering a balance of theory and practice, with guides for further reading, this is a clinical guide for the practitioner in the widest sense: physicians, nurses, occupational hygienists, safety officers, environmental, health officers and personnel managers. With coverage of both medicine and hygiene,...
Emerging Infectious Diseases
A Guide to Diseases, Causative Agents, and Surveillance
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Emerging Infectious Diseases offers an introduction to emerging and reemerging infectious disease, focusing on significant illnesses found in various regions of the world. Many of these diseases strike tropical regions or developing countries with particular virulence, others are found in temperate...
Infection Prevention and Control
Perceptions and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This book presents a variety of perceptions of and perspectives on infection prevention and control. In doing this, the chapters will reflect upon challenging and controversial new ways of looking at infection prevention and control aimed at generating both discussion and debate as well as practical...
Personalized Medicine
A New Medical and Social Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of personalized medicine as an original approach to classifying, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences. In the introductory section, it defines personalized medicine as a way toward new...
Medical Geochemistry
Geological Materials and Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book includes a collection of chapters illustrating the application of geochemical methods to investigate the interactions between geological materials and fluids with humans. Examples include the incorporation and human health effects of inhaling lithogenic materials, the reactivity of biological...
by John W. B. Hershey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science provides a forum for discussion of new discoveries, approaches, and ideas in molecular biology and translational science. It contains contributions from leaders in their fields and abundant references. This volume focuses on translational control...
Operation Ebola
Surgical Care during the West African Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the decimation of the area’s already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola spread, health facilities closed, and some doctors—afraid of catching the disease—left the region or stopped performing surgery. Many of those who stayed contracted...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
This sweeping volume builds the much-needed bridge between books on community practice and on clinical practice, including 33 chapters written by expert social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists specifically for clinicians making the transition to community-based work. This is the first handbook...
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Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
For all the political branding and rebranding of healthcare in the United States, its fundamental unit of currency remains the doctor-patient relationship. This relationship has undergone seismic changes during the twenty-first century, including the introduction of new players (the so-called healthcare...
The Patient Survival Guide
8 Simple Solutions to Prevent Hospital- and Healthcare-Associated Infections
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Gold Winner 2012 Foreword Reviews Book of The Year, Health Category
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.7 million people developed healthcare acquired infections in 2010. Since most people spend only a small part of their lives in healthcare facilities, this guidebook...