Public Health category: 1911 books
Wastewater
Economic Asset in an Urbanizing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The books provides a timely analysis in support of a paradigm shift in the field of wastewater management, from ‘treatment for disposal’ to ‘treatment for reuse’ by offering a variety of value propositions for water, nutrient and energy recovery which can support cost savings, cost recovery,...
by Christos H. Skiadas, Charilaos Skiadas
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book introduces and applies the stochastic modeling techniques and the first exit time theory in demography through describing the theory related to the health state of a population and the introduced health state function. The book provides the derivation and classification of the human development...
Depressed Older Adults
Education and Screening
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"This volume is one of the best practice-oriented books on mental health and aging that I have read. I hope that the coming years will see substantive developments in outreach to depressed older adults. This book lays a solid and credible foundation for...
Spatial Inequalities
Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This book provides a fresh analysis of the demography, health and well-being of a major African city. It brings a range of disciplinary approaches to bear on the pressing topics of urban poverty, urban health inequalities and urban growth. The approach is primarily spatial and includes the integration...
by Heidi D. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Systematic Evidence Reviews to Answer Health Care Questions is your most effective, A-to-Z guide to conducting thorough, comprehensive systematic reviews. By breaking down topics and essential steps, this volume teaches you how to form key questions, select evidence, and perform illuminating review...
Hospital-Based Health Technology Assessment
The Next Frontier for Health Technology Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
A timely work describing how localized hospital-based health technology assessment (HB-HTA) complements general, ‘arms-length’ HTA agency efforts, and what has been the collective global impact of HB-HTA across the globe. While HB-HTA has gained significant momentum over the past few years, expertise...
Diabetes and Health Disparities
Community-Based Approaches for Racial and Ethnic Populations
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
"What Liburd and colleagues provide in this edition is a framework for all practitionersÖinvolved in diabetes prevention and control. The recommendations and tools provided here are key to the success of future research and programmatic efforts."
-Wayne H. Giles, MD, MS &
Ann...
Willful Ignorance
The Mismeasure of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
An original account of willful ignorance and how this principle relates to modern probability and statistical methods
Through a series of colorful stories about great thinkers and the problems they chose to solve, the author traces the historical evolution of probability and explains how statistical...
Banking on Health
The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book addresses the puzzle of why the World Bank was unable to effect sweeping neoliberal health reforms in Latin America from the 1980s onward. Through the use of quantitative regional data together with interview and archival data collected during fieldwork in Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, and...
Empowering Social Workers
Virtuous Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book demonstrates the central role of ethical character in effective social work practice. Showcasing select biographies of social workers, it reveals how skilled practitioners have developed such core virtues as compassion, love, commitment, prudence, respect for human dignity and a critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Environmental and Health Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development offers a series of authoritative perspectives from varied viewpoints on key issues relevant in the use of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, providing a timely presentation of requisite information on the implications...
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?
How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life
What would happen if an average Joe tried out for American Idol, underwent a professional makeover, endured Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Cleanse,” and followed the outrageous rituals of the rich...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This comprehensive reference delves into the complex process of medical decision making—both the nuts-and-bolts access and insurance issues that guide choices and the cognitive and affective factors that can make patients decide against their best interests. Wide-ranging coverage offers a robust...
Promoting Young People's Sexual Health
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Valuable contributions on different aspects of sexual and reproductive health among young people are presented in this book, with a focus on developing country contexts. Key discussions on issues relating to young people and their sexual activities are brought together in one volume, exploring how...