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Environmental Health Hazards and Social Justice

Geographical Perspectives on Race and Class Disparities

by Florence Margai
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

This book provides geographic perspectives and approaches for use in assessing the distribution of environmental health hazards and disease outcomes among disadvantaged population groups. Estimates suggest that about 40 per cent of the global burden of disease is attributable to exposures to biological...
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Needs Assessment in Public Health

A Practical Guide for Students and Professionals

by Donna J. Petersen, Greg R. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007

This volume is for students and practitioners interested in improving their understanding and skills in the area of needs assessment. The text follows the typical sequence of an actual needs assessment process. Case studies are used to illustrate conceptualization of the task through the application...
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In Sickness and In Health

Disease and Disability in Contemporary America

by Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015

The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central to demographic...
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Preventing HIV in Developing Countries

Biomedical and Behavioral Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006

Globally, action to prevent HIV spread is inadequate. Over 16,000 new infections occur every day. Yet we are not helpless in the face of disaster, as shown by the rich prevention experience analyzed in this valuable new compendium. “Best pr- tice” exists—a set of tried and tested ways of slowing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013

Rates of childhood obesity are alarmingly high and increasing each year. Studies have shown that obese children are more likely to become obese adults and are likely to suffer with numerous health consequences like coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type II diabetes, among others. Studies...
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Influenza and Public Health

Learning from Past Pandemics

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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010

Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007

This comprehensive reference book addresses the unique challenges facing many African nations as poor infrastructure and economics continue to obstruct access to advanced treatments and AIDS care training. It takes into account the context of settings with limited resources. Information on how to...
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Risking Your Health

Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors

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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013

Behaviors that pose risks for an individual’s health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer...
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Beyond Condoms

Alternative Approaches to HIV Prevention

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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007

This book reflects cutting-edge science that has only recently become available. It is a comprehensive assortment of new approaches to HIV prevention. It describes a set of prevention strategies that do not solely rely on male condoms, including: the use of HIV antibody testing and `negotiated safety',...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016

This volume recognizes and addresses the health care issues of prisoners, to establish best practices and to learn about approaches to these challenges from around the world. It presents new evidence on several emerging and classical prison health issues. The first goal of this volume is to address...
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by Steve Dimon
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016

Steve Dimon believes that over 80% of all modern diseases are preventable, treatable, and beatable through proper diet, nutrition, exercise, supplementation, and lifestyle change. And he’s living proof of that. On April 22, 2012 Steve Dimon suffered an Ischemic stroke. Paralyzed from head...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2008

More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating. Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the...
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Building a Culture of Health

A New Imperative for Business

by John A. Quelch, Emily C. Boudreau
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016

This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2014

The notion that contaminated environments in hospital settings significantly contribute to the risk of an individual acquiring an infection while hospitalized is continuously gaining recognition by the medical community. There is a clear correlation between the environmental bioburden present in a...
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