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by adesuyi leslie ajayi
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Immigration to the USA: Who is coming from where?
The United States of America is a complex country comprising the indigenous American Indians, unwilling African migrants' descendants, European colonists- the first real immigrants, and the more recent wave of global immigrants. The United States has...
by Henry Fraser (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Described as a Renaissance man of the twenty-first century, Sir George Alleyne, Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and Director Emeritus of the Pan American Health Organization, is one of the Caribbean's finest Scholars. As a physician, scientist and public health leader, Sir George has...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Globalization and information technology have caused many health problems: mental health issues like depression, and lifestyle-related disease like diabetes and obesity. To cope with these health issues, health promotion and education are desperately needed. Convincing policy decision makers to invest...
Exposed Science
Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This first-of-its-kind volume traces rarely explored links between public policy, the state of the environment, and key issues in public health, with recommendations for addressing longstanding intractable problems. Experts across diverse professions use their wide knowledge and experience to discuss...
by Dr. Prah Ruger
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure...
Refuge and Resilience
Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention examines the science of vegetarian and plant-based diets and their nutritional impact on human health. This book assembles the science related to vegetarian and plant-based diets in a comprehensive, balanced, single reference that discusses...
Health Inequities in India
A Synthesis of Recent Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This timely contribution to the global literature on health inequities approaches the subject through a synthesis and analysis of relevant published literature on India. Amongst the BRICS countries, India ranks the lowest in the gender-gap index and has the highest poverty rate, and there is clear...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Exposure to ambient air pollutants, both indoors and outdoors has been associated with the exacerbation and also in the etiology of diverse human diseases. This book offers an overview of our current understanding of air pollution health risks and how this knowledge is being used in the regulatory,...
International Health and Aid Policies
The Need for Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impact on the delivery of care in low and middle-income countries. This book argues that these policies have often failed to achieve their main aims, and have in fact contributed to restricted access to family medicine...
Quantitative Methods for Health Research
A Practical Interactive Guide to Epidemiology and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
A practical introduction to epidemiology, biostatistics, and research methodology for the whole health care community
This comprehensive text, which has been extensively revised with new material and additional topics, utilizes a practical slant to introduce health professionals and students...
Mobility of Health Professionals
Health Systems, Work Conditions, Patterns of Health Workers' Mobility and Implications for Policy Makers
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book on mobility of health professionals reviews, analyses and summarises published information and data as well as collected interview data from stake holders, including politicians, policy makers, health service managers and migrant health workers. It is based on the research carried out under...
Place, Health, and Diversity
Learning from the Canadian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Although health equity and diversity-focussed research has begun to gain momentum, there is still a paucity of research from health geographers that explicitly explores how geographic factors, such as place, space, scale, community, and location, inform multiple axes of difference. Such axes can include...