Public Health category: 1911 books
Climate Change and the Health of Nations
Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
When we think of "climate change," we think of man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human history, and populations have had to adapt to the climate's vicissitudes. Anthony J. McMichael, a renowned epidemiologist and...
Cleaner, Greener, Healthier
A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the...
Prevention Is Primary
Strategies for Community Well Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
The new edition of Prevention Is Primary provides models, methods, and approaches for building health and equity in communities. This comprehensive book includes the theory, concepts, and models needed to harness social justice and practice primary prevention of unnecessary illness and injury. Ideal...
Getting Health Reform Right
A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account...
Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support,...
Best Care Anywhere
Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about...
by Glenn Laverack
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The ‘Pocket Guide to Health Promotion’ is a short, punchy and practical guide to health promotion aimed at students and practitioners.
21st Century Sexualities
Contemporary Issues in Health, Education, and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Exploring sexuality in the twenty-first century, this unique book collects together more than fifty timely and accessible contributions to create a wide-ranging and compelling picture of contemporary American sexuality.
Incorporating the latest cutting-edge controversies, theory and methodological...
Growing Old in the Future
Scenarios on health and ageing 1984–2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This publication represents the report of the Scenario Committee on Ageing. The draft report was discussed with a wide range of experts, inter alia during the symposium 'Growing Old in the Future' held on October 27th, 1984. In addition to the scenario report, a background report containing the basic...
by Bernard Lo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. What are the ethical issues raised by the increasing use of big data and artificial intelligence in health care?...
Community-Based Participatory Health Research, Second Edition
Issues, Methods, and Translation to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
ìCommunity-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has become the preferred model for conducting research in communities. Most scientists who conduct such research now recognize that working in partnership with the community is preferable, and more ethical, than conducting research on a communityÖ....
Schools for Health and Sustainability
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Schools are unique places. They pay a central role in the formation of young people. The importance of how young people are educated and how they are encouraged to live and learn cannot be underestimated. This book advocates for the fostering of agency not only amongst school personnel but also amongst...
Medical Decision Making
A Health Economic Primer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision making under uncertainty by combining Test Information Theory with Expected Utility Theory. The book shows how the parameters of Bayes’ theorem can be combined with a value function of health states to arrive at informed test and...
by Anand M. Saxena
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
We have learned not to take food seriously: we eat as much as we want of whatwe want when we want it, and we seldom think about the health and environmental consequences of our choices. But the fact is that every choice we make has an impact on our health and on the environment. In The Vegetarian...