Basaglia's International Legacy: From Asylum to Community
Tom Burns and John Foot (eds)
Italian Law 180 of 1978 is probably the most radical Mental Health Act ever passed. It forbade the admission of any new patients to mental hospitals forthwith and called for the rapid ...
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Beyond Depression: A new approach to understanding and management (2 ed.)
Christopher Dowrick
This resource takes a critical insider's look at commonly held views about the diagnosis and management of depression, and argues that our belief in depression as a medical condition is ...
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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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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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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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Communication in Emergency Medicine
Maria E. Moreira and Andrew French (eds)
Widely varying patient needs, a wide provider mix, significant power differentials, and a heightened emotional state all contribute to barriers in communication in the medical field and all ...
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Compassion: The Essence of Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Philip J. Larkin
Compassion is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been explored from a range of cultural, philosophical, theological, and sociological perspectives. It can be considered a ...
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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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Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology
Katherine Venables (ed.)
Current Topics in Occupational Epidemiology is an in-depth study of contemporary issues and emerging themes in the field. Divided into seven parts it discusses 'new' occupational diseases ...
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Disease Prevention: A Critical Toolkit
John Frank, Ruth Jepson, and Andrew J. Williams
Preventive medical interventions—and even non-medicalized public health programmes that implicitly promise health benefits in the future, from actions taken now—all carry a strong ethical ...
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Drug Use in Prisoners: Epidemiology, Implications, and Policy Responses
Stuart A, Kinner and Josiah D. Jody Rich (eds)
The majority of people who experience incarceration have a history of harmful alcohol, tobacco, and/or illicit drug use. Some discontinue use of these substances while in custody. ...
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Epidemiologic Methods: Studying the Occurrence of Illness (2 ed.)
Noel S. Weiss and Thomas D. Koepsell
This second edition of Epidemiologic Methods offers a rigorous introduction to the concepts and tools of epidemiologic research. Aimed chiefly at future epidemiologists, it offers clear ...
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Epidemiology Matters: A New Introduction to Methodological Foundations
Katherine M. Keyes and Sandro Galea
Epidemiology Matters offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease — and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health. Utilizing visual ...
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Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection: A handbook for field professionals
Irene A. Kreis, Araceli Busby, Giovanni Leonardi, Jill Meara, and Virginia Murray (eds)
Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front-line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental ...
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Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection (2 ed.)
David Baker, Lakshman Karalliedde, Virginia Murray, Robert Maynard, and Norman HT Parkinson (eds)
Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course resource for students and a reference for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local ...
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Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counseling: Principles through Case Scenarios
Janice Berliner (ed.)
Knowledge of the genetic basis of human diseases is growing rapidly, with important implications for pre-conception, prenatal, and predictive testing. While new genetic testing offers ...
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Evaluation of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs: Improving Population Health through Evidence-Based Practice (5 ed.)
Richard Windsor
Evaluation of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Programs offers conceptual and methodological frameworks for the six phases of health program evaluation: introduction to evaluation; ...
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Exposure Assessment in Environmental Epidemiology (2 ed.)
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen (ed.)
This completely updated edition offers a practical introduction to exposure assessment methodologies in environmental epidemiologic studies. In addition to methods for traditional methods ...
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Facilitating Treatment Adherence in Pain Medicine
Martin Cheatle and Perry G. Fine (eds)
One of the most distressing features of a healthcare providers practice is that of patient nonadherence. Adherence refers to an active, voluntary, collaborative involvement of the patient ...
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