
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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Building Bottom-up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes
Emily Ying Yang Chan
Although urban living has accounted for being the lifestyle for more than half of the global population since 2010, nearly half are still living in a rural context. As pointed out by the ...
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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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A Case-Based Approach to Public Psychiatry
Jeanie Tse and Serena Yuan Volpp (eds)
Expert public psychiatrists use case studies to share best practice strategies in this clinically oriented introduction to community mental health. Today, the majority of psychiatrists work ...
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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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