Global Public Health

Approaching global health through a social justice lens, this text explores both established and emerging issues for contemporary health and wellbe...

A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global ineq...

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern. In this book, Mari Armstrong-Hough examin...

Reducere. While many scientists believed influenza would cause the next great pandemic, no one was prepared for the new strain of coronavirus that appeared i...

Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionAuthor(s): Debbie S. (Former Research Associate, Department of Nutrition Gillings School of Global Pu...

DescriptionA comprehensive overview of the integrative study of violence Violence continues to be one of the most urgent global public health probl...

With lessons learned from COVID-19, a world-leading expert on pandemic preparedness proposes a pragmatic plan urgently needed for the future of glo...

DescriptionPublic Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, 3rd Edition probes the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health through an incisiv...

Reducere. Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides a...

DescriptionThis book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public he...

Stigma is a dehumanizing process, a method of shaming and blaming that is embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within soc...

Reducere. The bestselling environmental health text, with all new coverage of key topics Environmental Health: From Global to Local is a comprehensive introd...

A resource for scholars and students of international public health, this volume analyses the global system for sharing pathogens for research into...

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role--from opioid addiction to global pandemi...

Reducere. The public health landscape is one of the most rapidly growing and cutting-edge fields at the moment and, in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandem...

Population Health: Management, Policy and Innovation, Second Edition builds upon the work in the First Edition. The institutions of healthcare and ...

What part should corporate actors play in global governance? With regard to concerns over such issues as public health, education, human rights, an...

Reducere. COVID-19 and the Global Predators is much more than an analysis of the current exploitation of humanity under cover of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It ...

Reducere. Description"Doubt is our product, " a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exis...

Reducere. DescriptionThe core content difference between this Fourth and the Third Edition is minimal. In addition to the correction of the typos found in th...

Low and middle income countries bear a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases. This book synthesizes evid...

Reducere. The emergence of COVID-19 has raised urgent and important questions about the role of Canadian intelligence and national security within a global h...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter H. Lindert provides a compelling global...

Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), this second volume of The Gl...

This reader collects together for the first time a comprehensive range of key papers by leaders in the field from a wide range of sources that expl...

DescriptionRadical changes in our understanding of health and healthcare are reshaping twenty-first-century personhood. In the last few years, ther...

DescriptionPlanetary Health -- the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked -- encourages the preservation ...

Reducere. The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as...

DescriptionThis groundbreaking resource explores core issues in participatory health research (PHR) and traces its global emergence as a force for ...

Publisher: Skyhorse PublishingAuthor(s): Robert F., Jr. KennedyNumber of pages: 480Collection: Children's Health DefensePublication date: 2022Dimen...

COVID-19 is the biggest public health and economic disaster of our time. It has posed the same threat across the globe, yet countries responded ver...

Reducere. Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhoo...

An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Although the scienc...

Reducere. Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinching...

Reducere. Health Care Social Work aims to directly empower health care social workers around the world by providing valuable new information about the breadt...

From "pharma bros" to everday household budgets, just how did the pharmaceutical industry betray its own history--and how can it return to its trad...

Reducere. A bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in financial markets and how we can and need to maximize value for the many, not few.As an eco...

Reducere. DescriptionBuilding emotional health levels has always been at the heart of our work together. It was our intent for the Global Leadership Foundati...

Reducere. Now in its fourth edition, Essential Epidemiology is an engaging and accessible introduction to the foundations of epidemiology. It addresses the s...

Reducere. An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and global human health and environmental crises The widespread...

Reducere. "A...well-researched and convincingly argued case." -Kirkus Reviews"Powerful and Timely" -Chanticleer International Book ReviewsSHAPING PUBLIC OPIN...

Reducere. "A...well-researched and convincingly argued case." -Kirkus Reviews"Powerful and Timely" -Chanticleer International Book ReviewsSHAPING PUBLIC OPIN...

Contributor(s): Author: George S. EverlyAuthor: Jeffrey M. LatingPsychological first aid, or PFA, is designed to mitigate the effects of acute stre...

Reducere. The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny. To that end, it use...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Adm Richard E. ByrdIS THERE A GREAT UNKNOWN LAND -- A PARADISE -- BEYOND THE POLES? DID ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS EXPLORERS OF...

Reducere. People in a resilient society are able to bounce back from shocks, such as pandemics and economic crises. The Resilient Society, by Princeton Unive...

Every year billions of animals, from housecats to racehorses to pythons, are treated by veterinarians. The use of veterinary science to treat the h...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Using Evidence to Advance Research, Practice, Policy, and Prevention defines ACEs, provides a summary of the past 20...

Reducere. Gold Medal Winner 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award Best Holiday Book. 1st place winner for the Global International Best Christian Children's Bo...

The USA Today Bestseller'The infectious disease expert who predicted the spread of coronavirus' - Daily Mail'Osterholm has produced a sharp, persua...

An incisive and powerful investigation of corporate impact on human and planetary well-being Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American societ...

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review. From the COV...

Reducere. Our visions of the future - whether dark or hopeful, thrilling or mundane - have always challenged us to examine our world. How can we improve? Wha...

Reducere. This book covers a wide range of malnutrition manifestations across the globe. Malnutrition in any form has a very important, long-term impact on c...

A Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestseller! Multiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins, founder...

DescriptionEssential Demographic Methods brings to readers the full range of ideas and skills of demographic analysis that lie at the core of socia...

Reducere. Is there evidence of a joint alien-military plot to control humankind? Has a secret cabal of the planet's movers and shakers made an unholy allianc...

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy...

DescriptionDigital innovation -- involving the Internet, its content and ecosystems of global users -- is a rapidly evolving way of creating strate...

Reducere. Ontological mathematics is the rational core of Hyperianism. It's the science of the future that proves the shocking truth that the world is not ma...

Fear and loathing on the 2020 campaign trail...'26 February, White House Briefing RoomThe coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenl...

Reducere. In this seventh edition, John A. Booth, Christine J. Wade, and Thomas W. Walker update a classic in the field which invites students to explore the...

Cut to the facts about coronavirus in Corona, False Alarm?, the runaway German bestseller. In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the Ger...

Reducere. DescriptionINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the w...

Reducere. Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat--real meat--wit...

Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea, is a man who has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children s c...

Reducere. THIS IS THE ONLY FULLY AUTHORIZED -- COMPLETE -- EDITION OF THIS RARE MANUSCRIPT THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED AND CONTAINS ALL MISSING TEXT AND ILLUSTRATI...

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in...

Reducere. COVID Operation is the story of how the COVID-19 Hoax began, who the major players are, and how the plan was executed. It's a disturbing account of...

In a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened and...