Public Health

A public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence.Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial...

In Prevention First, Dr. Anand K. Parekh, chief medical advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center, argues that disease prevention must be our nation's top health policy priority. Building a personal culture of prevention, he writes, is not enough; elected...

Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement Handbook for Human Research is the first comprehensively designed instructional manual aimed at teaching human research protection program (HRPP) professionals how to create, implement, evaluate, and improve...

Developing best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety.Human errors occur all too frequently in medical practice settings. One sobering recent report claimed that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the...

In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed...

A riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America.Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the leading cause of premature death in the United States in the 1930s, but it wasn't until 1951 that...

Do states have a duty to prevent infectious disease outbreaks from spreading beyond their borders?The fields of global health and international relations are increasingly concerned with the responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a...

Exploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and bioethics.We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean air, safe water, adequate nutrition, effective drugs, and protection from infectious diseases. Today's healthcare experts...

A timely inquiry into how domestic politics and global health governance interact in Africa.Global health campaigns, development aid programs, and disaster relief groups have been criticized for falling into colonialist patterns, running roughshod over...

In 2001, the WHO recognized depressive disorders as the leading cause of disability worldwide. But most Americans who meet diagnostic criteria for major depression are untreated or undertreated. Luckily, recent advances have finally made it possible for...

One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the decimation of the area's already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola spread, health facilities closed, and some doctors-afraid of catching the disease-left the region or stopped performing...

Surgical care is increasingly recognized as a critical component of global health, and strong surgical skills, teamwork, and poise under pressure become even more imperative during conflict or disaster. When faced with hospital bombings or devastating...

In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program,...

The availability of combination antiretroviral therapy has changed the lives of millions of people living with HIV (PLWH), for whom a once fatal infection can now be a manageable chronic disease. Yet only 30 percent of PLWH in the United States are...

While 40 percent of premature deaths in the United States can be attributed to such dangerous behaviors as smoking, overeating, inactivity, and drug or alcohol use, medical education has generally failed to address how these behaviors are influenced by...

Throughout its history, New York City has been challenged by a variety of public health crises. Since the nineteenth century-when it became one of the first American cities to develop a comprehensive public health infrastructure-New York has also stood...

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A comprehensive collection of best practices in public health education.As more students are drawn to public health as a field of study and a profession, bringing varied backgrounds and experiences with them, the number of public health programs and...

Designed for courses in health promotion, public health, health science, and social science, "Technology-Based Health Research & Program Evaluation" examines the role that technology can play in the promotion of health and the prevention of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241564939Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

An insider account of how an African public health leader responded to an unprecedented Ebola outbreak.Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, MPH, DrPH, was the assistant minister of health and deputy chief medical officer in Liberia when the 2014 Ebola epidemic struck...

The radiography student’s ultimate guide to acing the ARRT® Certification ExamHailed by Doody’s Review Service as “the gold standard among instructors and students,” Radiography PREP delivers a concise summary of the entire radiography curriculum in a...

The genus Fusarium are among the most common contaminants of cereals and their products, and many species have acquired additional importance because they have been shown to produce mycotoxins (fumonisins), causing both animal and human diseases...

The cost and quality of health care services can vary significantly, with high cost not necessarily indicating high quality. As consumers pay for a growing proportion of their care, they have an increased need for cost and quality information before they...

The U.S. Armed Forces used a variety of chemical defoliants to clear dense jungle land in Vietnam during the war. Agent Orange (named for the orange-colored identifying stripes on the barrels) was by far the most widely used herbicide during the Vietnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634634465Author Norbert HowseFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 350g

This book represents a body of work performed by students from a diverse set of disciplines and a variety of universities. Each project was developed by the students to "break the cycle of social, economic and environmental health disparities."...

Federal financial reporting, defined here as the process of recording retrospective executive department-level financial and performance information, can provide both a snapshot of the government's financial health at a given moment in time, as well as...

The book was developed based on the expertise of four research groups, three of them linked to the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP): Studies on Hearing; Public Safety Observatory of UNESP; Research and Urban Management Organized Labor Group (GUTO);...

International trade is a critical component of the U.S. economy, with U.S. merchandise imports and exports amounting to $2.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion in 2011, respectively. The efficient flow of legally traded goods in and out of the United States is...

In this book the authors examine the contribution of social scientists to the topics of health and environment. They present diverse perspectives on classical and contemporary debates by focusing on social scientific framing of environment and health, as...

This book provides a summary and legislative history of P.L. 111-139, focusing on the features of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010. PAYGO establishes a process intended to enforce a rule of budget neutrality on new revenue and direct...

Virtual reality and human interaction with it is a complex topic, and certainly not one which will be mastered overnight; but across the world, there is excellent research being carried out for all of these important domains. As humanity extends its...

Human rights violations are underlying causes of adverse health outcomes for vulnerable people and populations around the world. Public Health and Human Rights provides critical, evidence-based assessments and tools with which to investigate the role of...

Learn the basics of the five core areas of community and public health Introduction to Community and Public Health covers the basics in each area of community and public health as identified by the Association of Schools of Public Health. In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789283212973Author The International Agency for Research on CancerFormat PaperbackPage Count 519Imprint International Agency for Research on CancerPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241597791Author Who Division of Food SafetyFormat PaperbackPage Count 43Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health OrganizationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241209670Author WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product RegulationFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241548755Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789290211907Author Cees Smit SibingaFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint WHO Regional Office for the Eastern MediterraneanPublisher WHO Regional Office for...