Public Health category: 1911 books
Disaster Resilience from a Sociological Perspective
Exploring Three Italian Earthquakes as Models for Disaster Resilience Planning
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
Natural disasters traumatize individuals, disrupt families, and destabilize communities.Surviving these harrowing events calls for courage, tenacity, and resilience. Professional planning requires specific types of knowledge of how people meet and cope with extreme challenges.
Disaster Resilience...
Social determinants of health
An interdisciplinary approach to social inequality and wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets. A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum of...
Asbestos Disaster
Lessons from Japan's Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Japan’s asbestos disasters, encompassing both occupational disease and environmental pollution, have been caused principally by the asbestos textile, asbestos cement water pipe, and construction industries. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary approach to those disasters as it incorporates...
The Other Side of Resilience to Terrorism
A Portrait of a Resilient-Healthy City
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This timely treatise introduces an innovative prevention/preparedness model for cities to address and counter terrorist threats and events. It offers theoretical background, mixed-method research, and tools for creating a resilience-based response to terrorism, as opposed to the security-based frameworks...
Health Promotion
Planning & Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The definitive text on health promotion, this book covers both the knowledge-base and the process of planning, implementing and evaluating successful health promotion programmes.
This new edition features a companion website developed with an international team of contributors to support teaching...
by Michael L. Grey, Paul C. Hendrix, Terry R. Malone
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
A complete sourcebook of diagnostic imaging for the health care practitioner
Imaging for the Health Care Practitioner offers authoritative, engagingly written coverage of common imaging modalities and their use in evaluating, monitoring, and treating the injuries most often encountered by health...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past decade, the AIDS pandemic has propagated so widely and exerted such a dev astating impact that one may properly ask the question, Why not concentrate all AIDS efforts on disease control alone? Why link AIDS with women's reproductive health? What is the scientific basis for this linkage?...
Manual of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Guidelines for Teaching in Medical and Health Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
During the last few centuries, and particularly in recent decades, problems result ing from the excessive use of drugs and alcohol have spread virtually as an epidemic to every country in the world and to almost every community. Abuse of alcohol and drugs is related to numerous other health problems,...
Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change
The Self-as-Doer Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
With a balance of theory, research, and applications, Motivation for Sustaining Health Behavior Change: The Self-as-Doer Identity introduces the self-as-doer identity as an accessible motivational identity and discusses how it can be incorporated into health behavior change efforts. The book introduces...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Tension" is an internationally recognized word. Its omnI presence in our public media--in our newspapers, on TV, in magazines, and on radio--as well as in our everyday conversations indicate that we are well aware of the problems of over-tenseness. Pulp news papers and magazines increase...
Pleasure Consuming Medicine
The Queer Politics of Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates...
Mosquito Trails
Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Dengue fever is the world’s most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes as mortal enemies. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research in urban Nicaragua and challenging current global health approaches...
by Carolyn Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Yet most people are still unaware that heart disease is not just a man's problem. Carolyn Thomas, a heart attack survivor herself, is on a mission to educate women about their heart health. Based on her popular Heart Sisters blog, which...
by Lawrence O. Gostin
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Despite global progress, staggering health inequalities between rich and poor raise basic questions of social justice. Defining the field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective governance and offers a blueprint for reform, based on the principle that the opportunity to live a healthy life is a basic human right.