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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection (2 ed.)
David Baker, Lakshman Karalliedde, Virginia Murray, Robert Maynard, and Norman HT Parkinson (eds)
Essentials of Toxicology for Health Protection is ideal as both a course resource for students and a reference for field professionals involved in responding to chemical incidents and local ...
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Field Trials of Health Interventions: A Toolbox (3 ed.)
Peter G. Smith, Richard H. Morrow, and David A. Ross (eds)
Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in `field trials'. These may be complex and expensive undertakings, ...
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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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Health Measurement Scales: A practical guide to their development and use (5 ed.)
David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, and John Cairney
Health Measurement Scales is the ultimate online guide to developing and validating measurement scales that are to be used in the health sciences. It covers how the individual items are ...
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Health Promotion: Ideology, Discipline, and Specialism
John Kemm
This online resource is a thorough examination of the field, advancing clear proposals for its development and future, as well as the theoretical background, historical context, or the ...
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Human Factors in Healthcare: Level One
Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng
The majority of errors, litigation, and complaints in the health service are due to 'human factors', yet the term is still not widely understood and is sometimes used interchangeably to ...
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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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Integrating Health Impact Assessment with the Policy Process: Lessons and experiences from around the world
Monica O'Mullane (ed.)
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a policy-support instrument and approach that seeks to assess the health impacts of projects, programmes and policies on population health. The ultimate ...
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Integrative Environmental Medicine
Aly Cohen (ed.) , Frederick S. vom Saal (ed.) , and Andrew Weil
Integrative Environmental Medicine looks at the history and changing landscape of environmental issues in the United States, including water supply, air quality, extensive ...
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