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Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax by Committee on Prepositioned Medical Countermeasures for the Public 9780309218085
RRP: $68.37$60.27If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax-caused by the B. anthracis spores-unless they had rapid access to antibiotic medical countermeasures (MCM)... -
Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations by Committee on Oral Health Access to Services 9780309209465
RRP: $52.89$46.54Access to oral health care is essential to promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet only half of the population visits a dentist each year. Poor and minority children are less likely to have access to oral health care than are their... -
Public Health Effectiveness of the FDA 510(k) Clearance Process: Measuring Postmarket Performance and Other Select Topics: Workshop Report by Institute of Medicine 9780309162067
RRP: $47.73$42.13The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for ensuring that medical devices are safe and effective before they go on the market. Section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires a manufacturer of medical devices to notify... -
For the Public's Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability by Institute of Medicine 9780309161275
RRP: $34.83$30.25Despite having the costliest medical care delivery system in the world, Americans are not particularly healthy. Recent international comparisons show that life expectancy in the U.S. ranks 49th among all nations, and infant mortality rates are higher in... -
Medical Countermeasures Dispensing: Emergency Use Authorization and the Postal Model: Workshop Summary by Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events 9780309158039
RRP: $30.95$27.01During public health emergencies such as terrorist attacks or influenza outbreaks, the public health system's ability to save lives could depend on dispensing medical countermeasures such as antibiotics, antiviral medications, and vaccines to a large... -
The Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise: Innovative Strategies to Enhance Products from Discovery Through Approval: Workshop Summary by Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events 9780309150248
RRP: $63.21$55.35During public health emergencies such as pandemic influenza outbreaks or terrorist attacks, effective vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, and other medical countermeasures are essential to protecting national security and the public's well-being. The Public... -
Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health by Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries 9780309147743
RRP: $99.33$88.52Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing countries. Cardiovascular disease now accounts for nearly 30 percent of deaths in low and middle income... -
Priorities for the National Vaccine Plan by Committee on Review of Priorities in the National Vaccine Plan 9780309146531
RRP: $70.95$61.96Vaccination is a fundamental component of preventive medicine and public health. The use of vaccines to prevent infectious diseases has resulted in dramatic decreases in disease, disability, and death in the United States and around the world. The... -
Global Issues in Water, Sanitation, and Health: Workshop Summary by Forum on Microbial Threats 9780309138727
RRP: $70.95$62.47As the human population grows--tripling in the past century while, simultaneously, quadrupling its demand for water--Earth's finite freshwater supplies are increasingly strained, and also increasingly contaminated by domestic, agricultural, and... -
The U.S. Commitment to Global Health: Recommendations for the Public and Private Sectors by Committee on the U.S. Commitment to Global Health 9780309138215
RRP: $51.60$45.95Health is a highly valued, visible, and concrete investment that has the power to both save lives and enhance the credibility of the United States in the eyes of the world. While the United States has made a major commitment to global health, there... -
Dispensing Medical Countermeasures for Public Health Emergencies: Workshop Summary by Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events 9780309120968
RRP: $47.73$42.13On March 3-4, 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events hosted a workshop titled "Medical Countermeasures Dispensing." The overall objective was to discuss a range of solutions... -
Preventing HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries: An Assessment of the Evidence by Committee on the Prevention of HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries 9780309102803
RRP: $87.72$76.28Drug dependence is a complex, chronic, relapsing condition that is often accompanied by severe health, psychological, economic, legal, and social consequences. Injecting drug users are particularly vulnerable to HIV and other bloodborne infections (such... -
Sleep Disorders and Sleep Deprivation: An Unmet Public Health Problem by Committee on Sleep Medicine and Research 9780309101110
RRP: $63.21$55.87Clinical practice related to sleep problems and sleep disorders has been expanding rapidly in the last few years, but scientific research is not keeping pace. Sleep apnea, insomnia, and restless legs syndrome are three examples of very common disorders... -
Quarantine Stations at Ports of Entry: Protecting the Public's Health by Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of the CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry 9780309099516
RRP: $63.21$55.35To mitigate the risks posed by microbial threats of public health significance originating abroad, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) places small groups of staff at major U.S. airports. These staff, their offices, and their patient... -
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary by Board on Global Health 9780309095044
RRP: $68.37$60.27Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and... -
Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism by Immunization Safety Review Committee 9780309092371
RRP: $56.76$49.85This eighth and final report of the Immunization Safety Review Committee examines the hypothesis that vaccines, specifically the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and thimerosal-containing vaccines, are causally associated with autism. The committee... -
Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions: Looking Past COVID-19 by National Academy of Medicine 9780309088176
RRP: $58.05$50.94The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world's preparedness for a respiratory virus event. While the world has been combating COVID-19, seasonal and pandemic influenza remain imminent global health threats. Non-vaccine public health control measures... -
Immunization Safety Review: Hepatitis B Vaccine and Demyelinating Neurological Disorders by Immunization Safety Review Committee 9780309084697
RRP: $45.15$39.93Immunization to protect infants and children from vaccine-preventable diseases is one of the greatest achievements of public health. Immunization is not without risks, however. It is well established, for example, that the oral polio vaccine can on rare... -
Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: A Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative by Committee for the Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative 9780309084543
RRP: $50.31$44.34Nanoscale science and technology, often referred to as "nanoscience" or "nanotechnology," are science and engineering enabled by our relatively new ability to manipulate and characterize matter at the level of single atoms and small... -
Considerations for Viral Disease Eradication: Lessons Learned and Future Strategies: Workshop Summary by Stacey Knobler 9780309084147
RRP: $55.47$48.74Since smallpox eradication, the science of eradication has changed and with it, our definitions of what diseases are possible to eradicate. However, eradication must not beget complacency. As has been learned from past control or eradication attempts... -
Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process Working Papers by Committee on the Institutional Means for Assessment of Risks to Public Health 9780309077637
RRP: $47.73$42.13The regulation of potentially hazardous substances has become a controversial issue. This volume evaluates past efforts to develop and use risk assessment guidelines, reviews the experience of regulatory agencies with different administrative... -
Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society by National Research Council 9780309075329
RRP: $42.57$37.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309075329Author National Research CouncilFormat PaperbackPage Count 39Imprint National Academies PressPublisher National Academies Press -
Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction by Committee to Assess the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction 9780309072823
RRP: $78.69$69.87Despite overwhelming evidence of tobacco's harmful effects and pressure from anti-smoking advocates, current surveys show that about one-quarter of all adults in the United States are smokers. This audience is the target for a wave of tobacco products... -
Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research by Institute of Medicine 9780309071758
RRP: $58.05$51.46At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Americans enjoyed better overall health than at any other time in the nationa (TM)s history. Rapid advancements in medical technologies, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic underpinnings of health and ill... -
Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course by Institute of Medicine 9780309043403
RRP: $73.53$64.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309043403Author Institute of MedicineFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint National Academies PressPublisher National Academies Press -
The Future of Public Health by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health 9780309038300
RRP: $52.89$46.54"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service... -
Social Marketing Research for Global Public Health: Methods and Technologies by W. Douglas Evans 9780199757398
RRP: $108.36$87.38Like all aspects of society, public health practice has been fundamentally changed by the emergence of electronic and social media as centerpieces of human communication and connection. More than ever, public health practitioners rely on these new... -
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Peter C. Doherty 9780199898107
RRP: $65.79$65.58From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disease across large geographic areas, pandemics can disseminate globally with incredible speed as humans and... -
Climate Change and Public Health by Barry S. Levy 9780197683293
RRP: $63.20$61.13Global climate change represents one of the most important public health challenges facing the world today. Climate change causes a wide range of adverse health effects including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic... -
Making Data Talk: Communicating Public Health Data to the Public, Policy Makers, and the Press by David E. Nelson 9780195381535
RRP: $69.66$61.37The demand for health information continues to increase, but the ability of health professionals to provide it clearly remains variable. The aim of this book is (1) to summarize and synthesize research on the selection and presentation of data pertinent... -
Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance by Lisa M. Lee 9780195372922
RRP: $105.78$93.62Public health surveillance is the systematic, ongoing assessment of the health of a community, based on the collection, interpretation, and use of health data. Surveillance provides information necessary for public health decision making and... -
Social Networks and Health: Models, Methods, and Applications by Thomas W. Valente 9780195301014
$110.23Relationships and the pattern of relationships have a large and varied influence on both individual and group action. The fundamental distinction of social network analysis research is that relationships are of paramount importance in explaining behavior... -
Just Caring: Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation by Leonard M. Fleck 9780195128048
RRP: $81.27$70.56What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put... -
Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Mary E. Wilson 9780190663414
$71.13A STIRRING EXAMINATION OF A LOOMING CRISIS Virtually everyone has taken antibiotics. They can be lifesavers - or they can be useless. But what are they? How are they used? And what happens as the effectiveness of antibiotics begins to decline? ... -
Queer Aging: The Gayby Boomers and a New Frontier for Gerontology by Jesus Ramirez-Valles 9780190276348
$63.67As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men's responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism. Older gay men's approaches to friendship,... -
Public Health 101: Improving Community Health by Richard Riegelman 9781284230383
$103.30From clean drinking water, to seat belts, to immunizations, the impact of public health on every individual is undeniable. For undergraduates, an understanding of the foundations of public health is an essential step toward becoming an educated citizen... -
Systems Biology in Toxicology and Environmental Health by Rebecca Fry 9780128015643
RRP: $85.13$75.04Systems Biology in Toxicology and Environmental Health uses a systems biological perspective to detail the most recent findings that link environmental exposures to human disease, providing an overview of molecular pathways that are essential for... -
Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services: Integrating Responses to a Dual Epidemic by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309654494
RRP: $68.37$59.75Opioid use and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. Despite the fact that the United States is more than two decades into the opioid crisis - the cause of tens of thousands of deaths every year on its own - the health system has not... -
The Effects of Incarceration and Reentry on Community Health and Well-Being: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309493666
RRP: $47.73$42.13The high rate of incarceration in the United States contributes significantly to the nationaEURO (TM)s health inequities, extending beyond those who are imprisoned to families, communities, and the entire society. Since the 1970s, there has been a... -
Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309489140
RRP: $73.53$64.16The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22aEURO"23, 2018, in Washington, DC, to explore medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident. The event brought together experts from...