Infectious Diseases category: 1139 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This comprehensive ebook provides a wealth of authoritative information and practical advice from the nation's health experts about hepatitis C (HCV). Starting with the basics, and advancing to detailed patient-oriented and physician-quality information, the 21st Century Sourcebook series gives empowered...
Cancer Precursors
Epidemiology, Detection, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Cancer Precursors is a groundbreaking, multidisciplinary text containing a comprehensive overview of methodological issues associated with the study of pre-cancerous conditions, as well as reviews of the contributions of descriptive, analytical, and molecular epidemiological research to knowledge...
by Jay S. Keystone, CM, MD
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
Includes new chapters to assist your care of specific populations such as those engaging in ecotourism or military travel, as well as the VIP traveler. A new chapter on pre-travel considerations for non-vaccine preventable travel infections has also been added.
Provides new information on new...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
When it comes to news about the Ebola virus, many people have become extremely fearful that the the country is actually dealing with an Ebola epidemic as opposed to several isolated cases of Ebola. In truth, many individuals are fearful that a worldwide Ebola pandemic is just around the corner. As...
Viral Fitness
The Next SARS and West Nile in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
Despite vaccines and medicines, we have not succeeded in eradicating the most poisonous viruses in the world, like jaundice, measles, diarrhea, polio, and AIDS, not to mention newcomers like West Nile and SARS. Also, since September 11, it is no longer unthinkable that a terrorist would intentionally...
Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
Principles and Practice for Public Health and Healthcare Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The fields of Global Health and Global Emergency Response have attracted increased interest and study. There has been tremendous growth in the educational opportunities around humanitarian emergencies; however, educational resources have not yet followed the same growth. This book corrects this trend,...
Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries
Epidemiology, Prevention and Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
It has now been 25 years since the apocryphal report in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated June 5, 1981 entitled, “Pneumocystis Pneumonia - Los Angeles”, which announced what was to become HIV/AIDS. HIV has now affected virtually all countries that have looked for it and has had...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
More people in communities of color are contracting, living with, and being treated for HIV/AIDS than ever before. In 2005, 71% of new AIDS cases were diagnosed in people of color. The rate of HIV infection in the African-American community alone has increased from 25% of total cases diagnosed in...
Primary Health Care
Public Involvement, Family Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A health policy for the future is the topic of discussion in this book. International scientists discuss central questions corresponding to the targets set by the World Health Organization (WHO). In a unique meeting, social political proposals and recommendations are presented for a regional health...
Field Trials of Health Interventions
A Toolbox
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it...
by John Brazier, Julie Ratcliffe, Aki Tsuchiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care interventions. Difficult choices have to be made, and economic evaluation offers a systematic and transparent process for informing such choices. A key component...
Understanding the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States
The Role of Syndemics in the Production of Health Disparities
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book examines the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States using the concept of syndemics to contextualize the risk of both well-known, and a few lesser-known, subpopulations that experience disproportionately high rates of HIV and/or AIDS within the United States. Since discovery, HIV/AIDS has...
HIV and Young People
Risk and Resilience in the Urban Slum
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Revisiting the thinking on vulnerability to HIV and risk of infection, this book provides better understanding by considering the risk of HIV infection alongside notions of personal and collective resilience, dignity and humiliation.
The work shows that young people in the urban slum dignify...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains the latest information on surveillance by the international public health community, including: the WHO's Stepwise Approach, the U.S.'s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the Finbalt Health Monitor, the EURALIM Experience, and the Mega Country Health Promotion Network....