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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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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Caring for the Family Caregiver
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Terri Ann Parnell
This remarkable work reveals the plight of the family caregiver in chronic illness through the prism of communication. Examining the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the ...
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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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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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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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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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Early Intervention in Psychiatric Disorders Across Cultures
Eric Y. H. Chen, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh Bhugra (eds)
This volume emerges as a result of a dialogue that involves leading proponents of early intervention and global mental health in a variety of contexts. Since the revival of early ...
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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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Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: Explaining the Phenomenon in South Asians Worldwide
Raj S. Bhopal
Coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, collectively cardiovascular disease (CVD), are caused by narrowing and blockage of the arteries supplying the heart and brain, respectively. In type ...
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Error and Uncertainty in Diagnostic Radiology: 256 Shades of Gray
Michael A. Bruno
Diagnostic radiology is a medical specialty that is primarily devoted to the diagnostic process, centered on the interpretation of medical images. This book reviews the high level of ...
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Essentials of Environmental Public Health Science: A Handbook for Field Professionals
Naima Bradley, Henrietta Harrison, Greg Hodgson, Robie Kamanyire, Andrew Kibble, and Virginia Murray (eds)
Assessing and addressing the risks of chemical hazards requires a sound knowledge of toxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental science, health risk assessment, and public health ...
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Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects (6 edn)
John Hobson and Julia Smedley (eds)
Fitness for Work gathers together specialist advice on the medical aspects of employment, covering the majority of medical conditions that are likely to be encountered in the ...
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Global Mental Health: Principles and Practice
Vikram Patel, Harry Minas, Alex Cohen, and Martin Prince (eds)
The emergence of the discipline of global mental health as one of the most dynamic fields of global health underscores the need for this resource, which covers two major aspects of the ...
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Global Public Health: Ecological Foundations
Franklin White, Lorann Stallones, and John M. Last
Amid ongoing shifts world economic and political systems, the promise for future public health is more tenuous than ever. We must query if today's economic systems sustain tomorrow's ...
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