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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Breast cancer: Global quality care
Didier Verhoeven, Cary Kaufman, Robert Mansel, and Sabine Siesling (eds)
Caregivers delivering care to breast cancer patients wish to provide the highest quality breast care possible. Due to the complexity of the care pathway, this care should be delivered by a ...
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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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CDC Yellow Book 2020: Health Information for International Travel
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Gary W. Brunette (ed.) , and Jeffrey B. Nemhauser (ed.)
The CDC Yellow Book offers everything travelers and healthcare providers need to know for safe and healthy travel abroad. This 2020 edition includes: country-specific risk guidelines for ...
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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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Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business
John A. Quelch (ed.)
This unique collection of interactive case studies covers diverse topics at the intersection of public health and business, including direct-to-consumer genetic testing, programs to impact ...
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Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials (4 ed.)
Mark Elwood
This book presents a system of critical appraisal applicable to clinical, epidemiological and public health studies and to many other fields. It assumes no prior knowledge. The methods are ...
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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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Ensuring a Sustainable Future: Making Progress on Environment and Equity
Jody Heymann and Magda Barrera (eds)
This resource examines the current trends in increased air/water pollution and energy consumption, and the depletion of natural resources, and the disproportionate impact on the poor and ...
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Environmental Health Science: Recognition, Evaluation, and Control of Chemical Health Hazards (2 ed.)
Morton Lippmann and Richard B. Schlesinger
This book provides a broad, in-depth primer on chemicals in the total environment, covering the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. It defines the terminology used in ...
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