Public Health category: 1911 books
by Mary Louise Fleming, PhD, MA
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This third edition of Introduction to Public Health by Fleming and Parker continues to cement itself as a highly-respected resource for public health students. This title provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the key concepts and principles of public health from a multidisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. Since the first edition of this book was published, there has been considerable change across public health, health visiting and community nursing. The positive emphasis on developing and describing all...
Methods for Community Public Health Research
Integrated and Engaged Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
"This book presents a new approach to conducting, evaluating, and presenting community and public health research... This is [a] valuable book for learning alternative ways of conducting and disseminating research."--Doody's Medical Reviews
The Burke & Albert text is a ìmust-haveî...
by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
This title is now out of print. A new edition with e-book is available under ISBN 9780702044540. This package provides you with the book plus the eBook - giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Frequently in partnership, but sometimes at odds, religious institutions and public health institutions work to improve the well-being of their communities. There is increasing awareness among public health professionals and the general public that the social conditions of poverty, lack of education,...
Ten Lessons in Public Health
Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer’s epidemiological memoir is such a book. Adventurous, illuminating, and thought provoking, Ten Lessons in Public Health is more than the story of one man’s work. It tells the tale of how...
Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health
A Transdisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly influenced by the continuously changing interactions between organisations and their employees. Three major fields contribute to health-oriented improvements of these interactions: occupational health, organizational health and public health....
Transdisciplinary Public Health
Research, Education, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
"This book makes a great leap in the conceptualization of transdisciplinary approaches, as well as provides concrete examples in practice, teaching, policy, and research."
—From the Foreword by Edward F. Lawlor, dean and the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor, the Brown School; and...
Gender-based Violence and Public Health
International perspectives on budgets and policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to international...
Igniting the Power of Community
The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Igniting the Power of Community: The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health introduces readers to the pursuit and potential of community-based organizations and nongovernmental organizations to transform global public health. At a time of unprecedented challenges, economic crises, social inequalities,...
by Theodore H. Tulchinsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Case Studies in Public Health contains selected case studies of some of the most important and influential moments in medicine and epidemiology. The cases chosen for this collection represent a wide array of public health issues that go into the makeup of what can be termed the New Public Health (NPH),...
Key Topics in Public Health E-Book
Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Key Topics is a short, easy-to-read text that provides basic information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer, smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels. The twelve topics are the 'must-dos'...
Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue
A Paradigm Expansion in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This clear-sighted reference examines the public health dimensions of labor and sex trafficking in the United States, the scope of the crisis, and possibilities for solutions. Its ecological lifespan approach globally traces risk and protective factors associated with this exploitation, laying a roadmap...
From Justice to Protection
A Proposal for Public Health Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
In most developed countries, the epidemiological disease profile has changed from infectious to degenerative, causing major alterations in epidemiological thinking and public health policies. Less developed nations have to deal with a more complex situation, because social disparities create highly...