Public Health category: 1911 books
Disaster Epidemiology
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Disaster Epidemiology: Methods and Applications applies the core methods of epidemiological research and practice to the assessment of the short- and long-term health effects of disasters. The persistent movement of people and economic development to regions vulnerable to natural disasters, as well...
by Lulu Zhang, Meina Li, Feng Ye
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of public hospital reform in China, which is a hot topic for China’s new round of health sector reform. The authors use rich data from both health provider side and service user side and conduct a cross-sectional study in China with some comparative...
Determinants of Health
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This collection of Michael Grossman’s most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. Each of the book’s four sections includes an introduction that contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. An afterword...
by Kamalesh Dey
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, University of Bedfordshire (Health and Social Sciences), course: MSc in Public Health, language: English, abstract: The paper will talk about sex selective abortion and its negative impact on public health. The paper will also critically...
Health Protection
Principles and practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Health Protection: Principles and practice is a practical guide for practitioners working at all levels in public health and health protection, including those with a non-specialist background. It is the first textbook in health protection to address all three domains within the field (communicable...
by David Younger, MD, MPH
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Dr. David Younger, is focused on Global and Domestic Public Health and Neuroepidemeiology. Topics covered in the issue include, but are not limited to research methods; gene-environment interplay; Alzheimer disease; headache disorders; multiple sclerosis...
Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This book addresses contemporary public health challenges in China from an interdisciplinary perspective. These challenges include health service system, population ageing, food safety, substance abuse and its prevention and treatment, Buddhist delivery of elderly care, the development of professional...
Mother of Invention
How the Government Created "Free-Market" Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
By relying on private enterprise more than any other developed nation, American health care has all the appearances of the free-market in action. And for more than a hundred years, attempts to reform this system (including President Obama's Affordable Care Act) have been met with opposition from parties...
Big Food
Critical perspectives on the global growth of the food and beverage industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Obesity is a global public health problem of crucial importance. Obesity rates remain high in high-income countries and are rapidly increasing in low- and middle- income countries. Concurrently, the global consumption of unhealthy products, such as soft drinks and processed foods, continues to rise....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
'Building on the core competences for public health, this book focuses on the key areas of leadership and collaborative working to improve health and wellbeing. Aimed at those undertaking Masters courses in public health and health promotion, (as well as those seeking to gain public health registration...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Private Health Sector Assessment in Ghana is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Banks ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The private health sector in Ghana is a large and important sector in the market for health-related...
The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment
Health Policy Innovations and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines the landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the perspective of health policy research as translational science. It delineates a new perspective about the creation and potential impact of the ACA and guides the development of health policy that is supported...
The Contagious City
The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...
Disentitlement?
The Threats Facing Our Public Health Care Programs and a Right-Based Response
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal character of America's public health care entitlements...