Public Health category: 1911 books
Introduction to Syndemics
A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This book explains the growing field of syndemic theory and research, a framework for the analysis and prevention of disease interactions that addresses underlying social and environmental causes. This perspective complements single-issue prevention strategies, which can be effective for discrete...
Urban Health and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Praise for Urban Health and Society
"This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach.
The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients...
Public Health in India
Technology, governance and service delivery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Despite rapid advances in modern medicine and state-of-the-art health care services in the private sector, primary health care in India remains inaccessible to a majority of the population. Besides, even policymakers often do not have access to real-time data to fine-tune their policies or design...
Ebola
An Evolving Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Selected as CHOICE magazine's Outstanding Academic Title, January 2017.
The book is a narrative of the unfolding of the Ebola virus disease outbreak from a scientific view point. The author provides an analysis of the scientific basis of public health policies that have influenced the public's,...
Health Behavior
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issues
Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to understanding and changing health behavior, core tenets of the public health role. Covering theory, applications, and...
AIDS Impact on Public Policy
An International Forum: Policy, Politics, and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome continues to be a major concern of the research and health care communities as well as the dominant public health issue in the news media. In the early years of the epidemic. attention was appropriately focused on characterizing the epidemiology of the disease in...
Wireless Phones and Health II
State of the Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
From the time questions about the impact of wireless technology on public health were first raised in 1993 through the present, Wireless Technology Research, LLC (WTR) has been the largest independent surveillance and research program trying to identify and solve human health problems associated with...
by Mary Louise Fleming, PhD, MA
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
This text introduces students to the core concepts and principles of public health: the nature and scope of public health; its history; an introduction to health determinants and epidemiology; evidence-based practice in public health and understanding public health data plus more.
by Margaret Somerville, K. Kumaran, Rob Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
First Prize in Public health in the 2017 BMA Medical Book Awards
Public Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health. With comprehensive coverage of all the core topics covered at medical school, it helps students...
Public Health and Welfare
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The prevention and treatment of diseases is a primary concern for any nation in modern society. To maintain an effective public health system, procedures and infrastructure must be analyzed and enhanced accordingly. Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues. Besides addressing the impact of aging on health and health-related expenditure, cause-specific mortality, and maternal health...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The book brings together experts working in public health and multi-disciplinary areas to present recent issues in statistical methodological development and their applications. This timely book will impact model development and data analyses of public health research across a wide spectrum of analysis....
Human Rights in Global Health
Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Institutions matter for the advancement of human rights in global health. Given the dramatic development of human rights under international law and the parallel proliferation of global institutions for public health, there arises an imperative to understand the implementation of human rights through...