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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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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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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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Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization within Medicine
Michael J. Balboni and Tracy A. Balboni
Spiritual sickness troubles American medicine. Through a death-denying culture, medicine has gained enormous power—an influence it maintains by distancing itself from religion and ...
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Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health: Psycho-social Implications of the Reshaping of America
Eugenio M. Rothe and Andres J. Pumariega
Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health is a unique book because it explains culture and identity from a developmental perspective, exploring the psychological, social, and ...
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An Introduction to Population-level Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases
Mike Rayner, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Julianne Williams, Karen McColl, and Shanthi Mendis (eds)
This book is based on the content covered during the non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention short course at the University of Oxford. It provides theoretical background and ‘real life ...
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Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
James Trent
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention—all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history ...
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Learning While Caring: Reflections on a Half-Century of Cancer Practice, Research, Education, and Ethics
Samuel B. Hellman
Learning While Caring is about what the author has learned during his half-century career as a cancer doctor. During this time, medicine has changed greatly. It has become more ...
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Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain: History, Policy, and Treatment
John F. Peppin, Kelly K. Dineen, Adam J. Ruggles, and John J. Coleman (eds)
Prescription Drug Diversion and Pain provides an interdisciplinary overview of medications used to treat chronic pain, and the benefits and risks that are posed by long-term ...
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Prevention, Policy, and Public Health
Amy A. Eyler (ed.) , Jamie F. Chriqui (ed.) , Sarah Moreland-Russell, and Ross C. Brownson
Looking back over the last century, one can find numerous examples of how policies have been a powerful tool for improving public health. In fact, some sort of policy action facilitated ...
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Psychotherapy in An Age of Neuroscience
Joel Paris
Psychiatry, once proud of its biopsychosocial model, has now adopted a neuroscience-based approach that strongly favors psychopharmacological treatments and downplays the role of ...
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Public Health Informatics: Designing for change - a developing country perspective
Sundeep Sahay, T Sundararaman, and Jørn Braa
Rapid and unpredictable developments in health policies, technologies, disease profiles, institutional environments, and their inter-connections have significant implications on how we ...
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Social Epidemiology (2 ed.)
Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi, and M. Maria Glymour (eds)
Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences — and in many cases defines — the fundamental determinants of health. The generation of research that followed the ...
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Social Marketing and Public Health (2 ed.)
Jeff French (ed.)
The premise of this book is that those concerned with public health need to put a lot more effort into understanding why people act as they do and then into using this understanding to ...
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