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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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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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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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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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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Critical Epidemiology and the People's Health
Jaime BreilhNancy Krieger
This book provides a groundbreaking approach to critical epidemiology for understanding the complexity of the health process and studying the social determination of health. It presents a ...
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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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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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Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials (2 ed.)
Henry A. Glick, Jalpa A. Doshi, Seema S. Sonnad, and Daniel Polsky
It is becoming increasingly important to examine the relationship between the outcomes of a clinical trial and the costs of the medical therapy under study. The results of such analysis can ...
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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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Epidemiological Studies: A Practical Guide (3 ed.)
Alan J. Silman, Gary J. Macfarlane, and Tatiana Macfarlane
This volume provides a practical, hands on guide to the design, planning, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiological studies. The learning points are applicable to all human ...
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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 Clinical Informatics
Mark E. Frisse and Karl E. Misulis (eds)
The American healthcare system is increasingly dependent on clinical informatics professionals to ensure that information technology contributes fully to measurably improve patient ...
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Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection: A handbook for field professionals
Irene A. Kreis, Araceli Busby, Giovanni Leonardi, Jill Meara, and Virginia Murray (eds)
Essentials of Environmental Epidemiology for Health Protection guides front-line public health practitioners through the decisions they are likely to face when dealing with environmental ...
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