African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future
Francis Omaswa and Nigel Crisp (eds)
Most accounts of health and healthcare in Africa are written by foreigners. African Health Leaders: Making Change and Claiming the Future redresses the balance. Written by Africans, who ...
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Behavioral Economics and Public Health
Christina A. Roberto and Ichiro Kawachi (eds)
Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first title to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In ...
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Behavioral Health Care and Technology: Using Science-Based Innovations to Transform Practice
Lisa Marsch, Sarah Lord, and Jesse Dallery (eds)
In recent years, there has been an explosion of research focused on using technology in healthcare, including Web and mobile health assessment and intervention tools, as well as smartphone ...
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Bioscience - Lost in Translation?: How precision medicine closes the innovation gap
Richard Barker
Medical innovation as it stands today is fundamentally unsustainable. There is a widening gap between what biomedical research promises and its current impact in terms of patient benefit ...
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Bridging the Gap: How Community Health Workers Promote the Health of Immigrants
Sally E. Findley and Sergio Matos
Bridging the Gap details the role, lessons, and effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) in bringing health care to underserved immigrant communities. Combining education, advocacy, ...
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Cancer Epidemiology: Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Special Populations
Amr Soliman, David Schottenfeld, and Paolo Boffetta (eds)
This resource reviews the current status of cancer epidemiologic research and training — rationale, requisite infrastructure, methodologic principles, and illustrative examples in low- and ...
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Child Health: A Population Perspective
Alice A. Kuo, Ryan J. Coller, Sarah Stewart-Brown, and Mitch Blair (eds)
Child Health: a Population Perspective provides students with a multifaceted overview of the importance of child health as a population health strategy. Child health considers the ...
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The Child Protection Practice Manual: Training practitioners how to safeguard children
Gayle Hann and Caroline Fertleman (eds)
It is every health professional’s responsibility to be able to identify and respond to child abuse. This book equips health professionals working with children with the knowledge to ...
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Climate Change and Public Health
Barry Levy and Jonathan Patz
Orchestrating and coordinating contributions from more than 75 selected public health specialists and environmental scientists, the editors have developed a concise and comprehensive ...
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Concepts of Epidemiology: Integrating the ideas, theories, principles, and methods of epidemiology (3 ed.)
Raj S. Bhopal
Epidemiology is a population science that underpins health improvement and health care, and is concerned with the pattern, frequency, trends, and causes of disease. This book teaches its ...
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