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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Health in Multicultural Societies (2 ed.)
Raj S. Bhopal
The globalization of trade and increasing international travel and migration poses huge challenges for health practitioners and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations ...
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Oxford Handbook of Epidemiology for Clinicians
Helen Ward, Mireille B. Toledano, Gavin Shaddick, Bethan Davies, and Paul Elliott
This comprehensive resource not only summarises the management of common symptoms and disorders but also outlines the increasing evidence base for the efficacy of these techniques. This new ...
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Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (4 edn)
Ichiro Kawachi, Iain Lang, and Walter Ricciardi (eds)
Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field. Structured into ...
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Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing: International perspectives on practice, policy and research
Stephen Clift and Paul M. Camic (eds)
There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health both in healthcare and community settings. This textbook is the first ...
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Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (6 ed.)
Roger Detels, Martin Gulliford, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, and Chorh Chuan Tan (eds)
The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. It has been thoroughly revised and updated, offering a global and ...
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Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control: A Geographical Analysis from Medieval Quarantine to Global Eradication
Andrew Cliff and Matthew Smallman-Raynor
The Oxford Textbook of Infectious Disease Control discusses the issues of geographical spread of human communicable diseases. Split into six chapters it tackles surveillance, quarantine, ...
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Oxford Textbook of Violence Prevention: Epidemiology, Evidence, and Policy
Peter D. Donnelly and Catherine L. Ward (eds)
This online resource brings together an international team of experts to provide an extensive global account of the mortality and morbidity burden caused by violence. It does this by ...
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Public and Community Psychiatry
James G. BakerSarah E. BakerSteven M. Strakowski
Physicians who choose to serve in public sector mental healthcare settings and physicians-in-training assigned to public sector mental health clinics may not be fully prepared for the many ...
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Quality and Safety in Radiology
Hani H. Abujudeh and Michael A. Bruno (eds)
The first comprehensive resource for patient safety and quality standards in radiology.
Includes section on special topics, including chapters on pregnancy in radiology and pediatric ...
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: How Medical Imaging Is Changing Health Care
Bruce Hillman and Jeff Goldsmith
This resource discusses medical imaging and the discipline which uses it, as well as how society can make the most responsible use of this powerful new tool, and how imaging and ...
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2030 - The Future of Medicine: Avoiding a Medical Meltdown
Richard Barker
This resource tackles questions that relate to the way medicine will be practised in the future, and provides some answers. It does not shrink from the uncomfortable challenges that lie ...
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