Public Health category: 1911 books
by Robert Lorway
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book critically examines the many complex entanglements between AIDS activism and HIV science. It takes readers on a medical anthropological expedition across time and space that highlights the stakes from the perspective of those most affected by the epidemic. Author Robert Lorway reveals how...
Fires, Fuel, and the Fate of 3 Billion
The State of the Energy Impoverished
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Inside small homes and huts throughout the developing world, billions of people burn fires in rudimentary stoves to prepare their meals and heat their homes. Besides providing heat, these stoves also release large amounts of dense black soot, which has a staggeringly negative impact on the health,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Understanding the origin of fecal pollution is essential in assessing potential health risks as well as for determining the actions necessary to remediate the quality of waters contaminated by fecal matter. As a result, microbial source tracking (MST) has emerged as a field that has evolved and diversified...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Inequality is one of the major problems of the contemporary world. Significant geographical disparities exist within nations of the developed world, as well as between these countries and those referred to as the ‘South’ in the Bruntland Report. Issues of equity and deprivation must be addressed...
Landscapes of Activism
Civil Society, HIV and AIDS Care in Northern Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
AIDS activists are often romanticized as extremely noble and selfless. However, the relationships among HIV support group members highlighted in Landscapes of Activism are hardly utopian or ideal. At first, the group has everything it needs, a thriving membership, and support from major donors. Soon,...
Toward the Elimination of Cancer Disparities
Medical and Health Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
This volume reflects the work of a number of experts in cancer disparities, led by members of the Executive Committee of the Program-in-Development for the Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center. In particular, this volume updates a 2005 monograph on the topic.
Responding to the Homeless
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Responding to the Homeless: Policy and Practice is largely a product of a unique collaboration between Russell K. Schutt and Gerald R. Garrett and their Boston community. As such, it offers a rich perspective on the problem of homelessness that is derived from the authors' shared experience with researchers,...
Cancer Screening in the Developing World
Case Studies and Strategies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Worldwide, cancer is responsible for one in eight deaths—more than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. This global burden starkly illustrates the inequality between the developed and the developing world. While the majority of people living in developed countries receive timely treatment,...
Environmental Metal Pollutants, Reactive Oxygen Intermediaries and Genotoxicity
Molecular Approaches to Determine Mechanisms of Toxicity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Humans are exposed daily to low concentrations of metals that are released into the environment by both natural and industrial processes. Environmental Metal Pollutants, Reactive Oxygen Intermediaries and Genotoxicity: Molecular Approaches to Determine Mechanisms of Toxicity examines concerns about...
Aerosol Inhalation: Recent Research Frontiers
Prodeedings of the International Workshop on Aerosol Inhalation, Lung Transport, Deposition and the Relation to the Environment: Recent Research Frontiers, Warsaw, Poland, September 14–16, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A group of highly esteemed aerosol scientists - physicists, chemists, biologists and toxicologists - met in Warsaw in September, 1995, in order to discuss the latest developments in the field of aerosol health subjects, including inhalation, lung transport and deposition. The relationship of these...
by Bess H. Marcus, LeighAnn H. Forsyth
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Motivating People to Be Physically Active, Second Edition translates research, theories, and concepts of behavioral science into a useful handbook for health professionals involved in the planning, development, implementation, or evaluation of physical activity promotion programs. The book describes...
by Gary A. Wobeser
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Management of wild waterfowl has become increasingly intensive. Many birds now hatch in managed nesting cover or in artificial nesting structures, use man-made wetlands, and winter on crowded refuges while consuming a grain diet The water they use is often limited in supply and may contain residues...
Life Span Perspectives of Suicide
Time-Lines in the Suicide Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
In recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on suicide in the elderly and in the young. However, in line with modem trends in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, and other human health fields, interest has now shifted to suicide across the life span, from childhood through...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Alcohol and other drugs of abuse cause significant physi ological changes, especially during development. The effects on the infant and child range from severe mental retardation to mild changes in activity and neurological functions. Although the level of intake needed to cause fetal damage is...