Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Preventing childhood obesity Preventing childhood obesity Jeffrey P. Koplan,Catharyn T. Liverman,Vivica I. Kraak,Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth. "Preventing Childhood Obesity provides a broad-based examination of the nature, extent, and consequences of obesity in U.S. children and youth, including the social environmental medical and dietary … OL11637591W
Securing our future Securing our future United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa. Across Africa, people dying prematurely from AIDS continues to pose serious challenges to the ability of African States to maintain efficient public institutions and deliver sound policies and promot… OL15028494W
Ecological public health Ecological public health Geof Rayner "What is public health? To some, it is about the infrastructure for health - drains, water, food, housing. These require engineering and expert management. To others, it's about the State using medic… OL16263717W
Sick societies Sick societies David Stuckler,Karen Siegel xv, 352 p. : 25 cm OL16617507W
Safe food Safe food Marion Nestle Previous edition published in : 2003. OL16964336W
The patient as victim and vector The patient as victim and vector M. Pabst Battin Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient a… OL18350811W
Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System Leiyu Shi p. ; cm OL1894144W
A New dawn in Guatemala A New dawn in Guatemala Richard Luecke xxii, 264 pages : 23 cm OL19221121W
Saving Gotham Saving Gotham Tom Farley A behind-the-scenes look at a controversial -- and successful -- public health initiative recounts how Dr. Thomas Frieden, as the health commissioner of New York City in 2002, and his team prohibited… OL20018864W
The new public health The new public health Theodore H. Tulchinsky,Elena A. Varavikova Countries around the world are engaged in health reform, which places great demands on health care providers and systems managers. From the managed care revolution in the United States to the rebuild… OL20694492W
Society and health Society and health Sol Levine,Diana C. Walsh How do some families create more healthful environments for their children? How do we explain the health status differences between men and women, blacks and whites, and different communities or cult… OL20801473W
Medicines management Medicines management Stephen Chapman,Rhona Panton "This book from the Department of Medicines Management at Keele University contains all the key aspects of medicines management, written in an accessible and concise style. Most importantly, it gives… OL24717762W
Politics of Cancer Politics of Cancer Wendy Whitman Cobb xiv, 195 pages : 24 cm OL25747732W
The economics of health and health care The economics of health and health care Miron Stano,Allen Goodman,Sherman Folland xxviii, 723 pages ; 26 cm OL3277081W
The origin, persistence, and failings of HIV/AIDS theory The origin, persistence, and failings of HIV/AIDS theory Henry H. Bauer "This work challenges the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Among the many topics explored are the failings of HIV testing, statistical evidence that HIV is not a sexually transmitted disease, an… OL4092032W
Health capital financing Health capital financing Jonathan Betz Brown xx, 218 pages : 23 cm OL4984148W
Health Care in America Health Care in America Susan Reverby,S. Reverby,David Rosner The essays in this collection have been written by a new generation of social historians who seek to ground the internal developments in medicine and health care in a political, social, and cultural … OL8553902W
Beware the grieving warrior Beware the grieving warrior John E. Lewis Ph. D.,Larry Hicock Beware the Grieving Warrior describes the fight of one registered nurse and father who fought to expose the neglect of a hospital staff and administration after the tragic deaths of two children due … OL8816985W