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Preventing childhood obesity
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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 … |
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Securing our future
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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… |
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Ecological public health
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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… |
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Sick societies
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David Stuckler,Karen Siegel |
xv, 352 p. : 25 cm |
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Safe food
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Marion Nestle |
Previous edition published in : 2003. |
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The patient as victim and vector
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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… |
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Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System
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Leiyu Shi |
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A New dawn in Guatemala
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Richard Luecke |
xxii, 264 pages : 23 cm |
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Saving Gotham
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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… |
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The new public health
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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… |
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Society and health
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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… |
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Medicines management
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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… |
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Politics of Cancer
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Wendy Whitman Cobb |
xiv, 195 pages : 24 cm |
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The economics of health and health care
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Miron Stano,Allen Goodman,Sherman Folland |
xxviii, 723 pages ; 26 cm |
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The origin, persistence, and failings of HIV/AIDS theory
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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… |
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Health capital financing
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Jonathan Betz Brown |
xx, 218 pages : 23 cm |
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Health Care in America
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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 … |
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Beware the grieving warrior
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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 … |
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