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Healthier
Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Fifty essays on the state of population health from a vanguard voice in the field Public health can rightly claim its share of victories: healthier cities, widespread sanitation, broader availability of nutrient-rich food, and reductions in violence and injury. But for all these gains, today we face...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This authoritative reference examines the causes of--and offers workable solutions to--the widespread problem of musculoskeletal injuries among armed forces personnel. Specific chapters on combat, non-combat, training, and fitness injuries shed necessary light on the nature and scope of the epidemic,...
Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies
Examining the Spectrum of Public and Private Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
While the balance between private and public sectors are based primarily on the experiences of the wealthy societies in Western Europe and North America, the global reach and increased political weight of East Asian economies is bound to influence other societies as well. Contemporary Social Issues in...
by Rita Simon, Alison Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In this eleventh volume in The World Over series, Simon and Brooks examine and compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship across twenty-one countries. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland,...
New Public Governance
A Regime-Centered Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system.
The Real War on Obesity
Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents...
by Claudius Wagemann
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their identification....
Coordinating Global Health Policy Responses
From HIV/AIDS to Ebola and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels. First, at the level of zoonosis, to which HIV and Ebola, as well as H1Nn, MERS-CoV, and SARS belong, and which promise to continue to emerge. Second, at the level of the spread of these across bio-,...
State and Local Financial Instruments
Policy Changes and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The ability of a nation to finance its basic infrastructure is essential to its economic well-being in the 21st century. This book covers the municipal securities market in the United States from the perspective of its primary capital financing role in a fiscal federalist system, where subnational governments...
When the Senate Worked for Us
The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives,...
The Promise of Wilderness
American Environmental Politics since 1964
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of...
by Peter Okeke
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, , language: English, abstract: In most countries, there are likely to be some laboratories with limited resources, but in economic distressed countries, there are few laboratories with highly trained technologists...
Race, Ethnicity, and Health
A Public Health Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Race, Ethnicity and Health, Second Edition, is a new and critical selection of hallmark articles that address health disparities in America. It effectively documents the need for equal treatment and equal health status for minorities. Intended as a resource for faculty and students in public health...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Medical and Health Genomics provides concise and evidence-based technical and practical information on the applied and translational aspects of genome sciences and the technologies related to non-clinical medicine and public health. Coverage is based on evolving paradigms of genomic medicine—in...