Public Health category: 1911 books
Toward the Next Generation of Bystander Prevention of Sexual and Relationship Violence
Action Coils to Engage Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This briefs integrates and synthesizes an array of research about who helps others and under what conditions and discusses the implications of this research for a bystander intervention focused prevention agenda to reduce sexual and relationship violence in schools and communities. It combines an...
Risk Assessment Methods
Approaches for Assessing Health and Environmental Risks
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Much has already been written about risk assessment. Epidemiologists write books on how risk assessment is used to explore the factors that influence the distribution of disease in populations of people. Toxicologists write books on how risk assess ment involves exposing animals to risk agents and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
This book serves as a timely and comprehensive overview of the latest science for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), covering the development of methods for assessing PFASs in biological fluids and tissues as well as the current knowledge regarding their toxicity to vertebrate...
Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
A Guide for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Now in its Fifth Edition, this respected reference helps readers tackle the common and often challenging ethical issues that affect patient care. The book begins with a concise discussion of clinical ethics that provides the background information essential to understanding key ethical issues. Readers...
Narrative Medicine
Bridging the Gap between Evidence-Based Care and Medical Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This book examines all aspects of narrative medicine and its value in ensuring that, in an age of evidence-based medicine defined by clinical trials, numbers, and probabilities, clinical science is firmly embedded in the medical humanities in order to foster the understanding of clinical cases and...
Shattered Dreams
An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2007
Shattered Dreams? is an oral history of how physicians and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on interviews-not only from the great urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban-but from provincial centers and rural villages,...
Psychological Co-morbidities of Physical Illness
A Behavioral Medicine Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Evidence for the efficacy of behavioral approaches to the treatment and management of physical illness is mounting, as is the evidence for behavioral interventions for psychological disorders. A pressing question that remains is how to effectively treat co-morbid physical and psychological illnesses....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively review in detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various condition of stress. The authors offer state-of-the-art critical appraisals of the influences on the human...
by Katherine M. Harris, Lori Uscher-Pines, Soeren Mattke
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Vaccine-preventable disease continues to take a heavy toll on adults despite the widespread availability of effective vaccines. This report identifies where efforts to improve the delivery of adult vaccination have stalled and recommends targeted strategies that are supported by available evidence and build on existing infrastructure.
by Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson, Angela Brammer, Christopher Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards. The robust methods used in this risk analysis can be applied to any country or region....
The Better End
Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where we die, so we need to make decisions here, too. Through compelling...
Risk-Based Environmental Decisions
Methods and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Risk-Based Environmental Decision: Methods and Culture presents the principles of human health risk analysis as they are applied in environmental decisions. It balances the discussion of scientific theory and methods, philosophical analysis, and applications in regulatory decisions. The material is...
by Vlad Kravtsov, William Keller, Scott Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent. States that decide to reinvent their political authority simultaneously evaluate which current global norms are desirable and to what extent. In this study, Vlad Kravtsov...
by Byong-Hyon Han
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book introduces novel and groundbreaking theories on social medicine, social medicine therapy and pharmacogelotology. Aimed at improving the global health care system in terms of cost-effectiveness and efficiency, the research included in this book represents a paradigm shift from traditional...