Public Health category: 1911 books
Impact of health behaviour on maternal health in Bangladesh
The social, cultural and religious framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, University of Bedfordshire, course: MSc in Public Health, language: English, abstract: The essay will talk about maternal health and health behaviour in Bangladesh. It will also critically explore the actual fact in Bangladesh,...
Managing Health in Africa
The Health Systems Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
An authoritative analysis of the challenges of public health management in Africa, with concrete suggestions on how to overcome them. The three authors have a combined experience of more than 83 years in national and international health work. The topics they cover include the status of public health...
Doubt is Their Product
How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
"Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals...
Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World
Global Health Diplomacy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
In a new era of global health diplomacy, the most important tool for decision-making is negotiation. Globalization is binding countries, issues and people together as never before. In the domain of public health, traditional international concerns like the spread of infectious diseases have been joined...
Classrooms and Clinics
Urban Schools and the Protection and Promotion of Child Health, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Classrooms and Clinics is the first book-length assessment of the development of public school health policies from the late nineteenth century through the early years of the Great Depression. Richard A. Meckel examines the efforts of early twentieth-century child health care advocates and reformers...
Sports-Based Health Interventions
Case Studies from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
This unique volume explores a growing collaboration between the sport and health sectors to deliver innovative public health interventions in the community. It explores the role of sport and sports settings as a vehicle for achieving health outcomes, as well as some of the practical and moral challenges...
by Gregory Schwaid
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Board Review in Preventive Medicine and Public Health prepares physicians for their initial and recertification board exams in the related specialties of preventive, occupational and aerospace medicine. Formatted in a question and answer based style that imitates material on specialty exams, each...
Tragic Failures
How and Why We are Harmed by Toxic Chemicals
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The world is awash in chemicals created by fellow citizens, but we know little to nothing about them. Understanding whether even the most prevalent ones are toxic would take decades. Many people have tragically suffered serious diseases and premature death, including children during development. Why...
by Thomas Babor, Jonathan Caulkins, Benedikt Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Illegal psychoactive substances and illicit prescription drugs are currently used on a daily basis all over the world. Affecting public health and social welfare, illicit drug use is linked to disease, disability, and social problems. Faced with an increase in usage, national and global policymakers...
Needs Assessment in Public Health
A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This volume is for students and practitioners interested in improving their understanding and skills in the area of needs assessment. The text follows the typical sequence of an actual needs assessment process. Case studies are used to illustrate conceptualization of the task through the application...
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...
Risking Your Health
Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Behaviors that pose risks for an individuals health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer...
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity
Research and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity - Research and Public Policy Second Edition is a collaborative effort by an international group of addiction scientists to improve the linkages between addiction science and alcohol policy. It presents, in a comprehensive, practical, and readily accessible form, the...
Social Marketing and Public Health
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The last ten years have seen tremendous advances in the theory and practice base of social marketing globally. Social Marketing and Public Health: Theory and Practice introduces new conceptual models and approaches to influence behaviour that promotes health and prevents disease. This new edition...