Public Health category: 1911 books
Vitamin D
Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010
In Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Applications, Second Edition, leading researchers provide a comprehensive, highly readable overview of the biological functions and clinical applications of vitamin D and its metabolites. Topics range from the most recent recommendations for...
The Latino Paradox - does it really exist?
does it really exist?
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Medicine - Public Health, grade: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik), course: Social Epidemiology, language: English, abstract: The Latino Paradox is a phenomenon commonly referring...
Para-States and Medical Science
Making African Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented...
How Much Risk?
A Guide to Understanding Environmental Health Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2002
An excellent critical analysis and scientific assessment of the nature and actual level of risk leading environmental health hazards pose to the public. Issues such as radiation from nuclear testing, radon in the home, and the connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer, environmental factors...
The Particulate Air Pollution Controversy
A Case Study and Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Small invisible particles in the urban air, especially those produced by human activities, have recently stimulated intense scrutiny, debate, regulation, and legal proceedings. The stakes are high, both with respect to health impacts and economic costs, and the methods used previously to resolve similar...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This book provides a unique blend of social and biomedical sciences in the field of low fertility and reproductive health. It offers a significant contribution to understanding the determinants of low fertility mostly in East Asia, including an assessment of the effectiveness of policies that aim...
Domestic Violence and Maternal and Child Health
New Patterns of Trauma, Treatment, and Criminal Justice Responses
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
-Very timely issue right now. Topic is receiving media and popular attention
-Maternal and Child Health is a specific area of study in Public Health
-Author is entrepreneurial and well-established.
Public Education on Diet and Cancer
Proceeding of the 9th Annual Symposium of the European Organization for Cooperation in Cancer Prevention Studies (ECP), Madrid , Spain, October 17–19, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The European Cancer Prevention Organization (ECP) was established in 1981 with the objective of developing studies of the aetiology and preven tion of cancer through concerted-action European collaborative studies. It achieves this through the organization of annual symposia, the organiz ation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The study of Health and Medical Aspects of Disaster Preparedness was approved by NATO/CCMS in 1985 with the first pilot study meeting in June of that year. The pilot study, under the leadership of the United States and Belgium, focused on the current status of disaster preparedness in partici pating...
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective
In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join India’s...
by Lorna Guinness, Virginia Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This practical text offers the ideal introduction to the economic techniques used in public health.
An Introduction to Health Services Research
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
This is a primary, comprehensive textbook for people who are considering undertaking a piece of health-related research. It is an accessible companion with the aim of getting the reader to think broadly about all of the issues that need to be considered when embarking on a project.
This is...
Pharmocracy: How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations Are Bankrupting America--and What to Do About It
How Corrupt Deals and Misguided Medical Regulations Are Bankrupting America--and What to Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Our healthcare system is irretrievably broken, and now it is devastating the US financially. Pharmocracy uncovers egregious FDA incompetence and abuse, and shows how over-regulation causes lifesaving medications to be delayed or suppressed altogether, and makes consumers pay inflated prices for FDA-approved...
by David W. Hosmer Jr., Stanley Lemeshow, Rodney X. Sturdivant
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
A new edition of the definitive guide to logistic regression modeling for health science and other applications
This thoroughly expanded Third Edition provides an easily accessible introduction to the logistic regression (LR) model and highlights the power of this model by examining the relationship...