Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline.
This book analyses the complexity of our human interaction with nature and includes sections for example epigenetics, stress physiology, and impact assessments.
This handbook is designed to assist students and practitioners around the world, for improved management of disasters, epidemics, health behaviour, acute and chronic disease prevention, community and government action, environmental health, ...
Posing child health against maltreatment, injury, and malnutrition,this book asks uncomfortable but necessary questions, and discusses how to influence policy and inspire change.
THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED "This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them.
The 3 volumes of which this reference work is comprised cover the development and philosophy behind public health, its ways of dealing with health problems, and the applications of public health science at national and international levels.
The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics provides an authoritative overview and assessment of research on this important and complicated subject. The volume is motivated by two arguments.
In an attempt to reduce mortality among cattle from Texas cattle fever in 1889, Fred Kilbourne, Cooper Curtice, both veterinarians, and bacteriologist Theobold Smith discovered the role of ticks as vectors in the disease.22 The ...
This book will serve as an essential resource for mental and public health professionals, as well as for commissioners of services, nurses and community health visitors.
V.1. Influences of public health. v.2. Methods of public health. v.3. Applicati ons in public health. The Oxford textbook of public health attempts to portray the philosophy and underlying principles of the practice of public health.
Natural disasters and cholera outbreaks. Ebola, SARS, and concerns over pandemic flu. HIV and AIDS. E. coli outbreaks from contaminated produce and fast foods. Threats of bioterrorism. Contamination of compounded drugs.