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Book SynopsisAcross the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events. A now-classic text, the second edition of this essential introduction to epidemiology presents the core concepts in a unified approach that aims to cut through the fog and elucidate the fundamental concepts. Rather than focusing on formulas or dogma, the book presents basic epidemiologic principles and concepts in a coherent and straightforward exposition. By emphasizing a unifying set of ideas, students will develop a strong foundation for understanding the principles of epidemiologic research.Trade ReviewThe small size and relaxed narrative style almost persuade the reader that they are enjoying an interesting novel, and, unlike bulkier tomes, it lends itself to reading on the move or at home. However, far from light reading, the content provides indepth, well constructed descriptions of theories and concepts. These are supported by practical examples, using widely-known studies and common conditions, which even someone at the beginning of their epidemiology education could easily connect with with... In this respect. the book is useful to the graduate student and encourages an appreciation of the public health considerations common to many diseases and conditions. The narrative style is used to great advantage in some chapters, to discuss causation, measures of disease occurrence and epidemiology in clinical settings, as well as in the new chapters in this edition which describe the pioneers of epidemiology and infectious disease epidemiology. * Public Health Today, June 2013 *In summary, this book is a brilliant introductory book to learn concepts of epidemiology. In contrast to the many available introductory books (several of them written in a naive way), this book does not trivialize these concepts. It perfectly prepares the reader for the reference book of epidemiologic methods entitled "Modern Epidemiology" by Rothman et al... I am not aware of any other introductory book of epidemiology that presents these many epidemiologic concepts. It is a perfect--although demanding--reader for an introductory course of epidemiology in master programs of epidemiology, public health, and at medical schools. * European Journal of Epidemiology *If you want a thorough grounding in technical terms, Rothman is unsurpassed. * Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, Feb 2013 *This is an excellent introduction to the principles and concepts of epidemiology. In a little over 200 pages Rothman covers all the essential topics for an introductory graduate level course in epidemiology. * European Journal of Public Health *Epidemiology: An Introduction is a superb addition to other publications that have appeared in the past decade. The author has achieved the stated goal of providing a coherent overview of epidemiologic principles and concepts. * American Journal of Epidemiology *Kenneth Rothman has taken the time to write a short and excellent introductory epidemiology textbook....Frequently introductory texts strive for brevity through superficiality of coverage. Rothman chose a different approach: selectivity of subject matter. As a result, Epidemiology: An Introduction provides an exceptionally lucid overview of analytic epidemiology.... The mix of text, graphics, tables, and sidebars that is used throughout the book proves very useful in explicating important concepts such as confounding, interaction, study design, and biases, which may be challenging to the student in an introductory course.... The clarity of expression in this book should be an inspiration to other authors and teachers of epidemiology. * The Epidemiology Monitor *This text is ideal for beginners in epidemiological statistics to learn the terminology and understand how and when to use statistical tools. The text focuses on concepts, not on mathematics, and discusses statistical techniques in the context of the real problems they can solve. This text bridges the gap between what is taught in an introductory statistics text and what you need to be an effective researcher and analyst. * STATA *Students and scholars who pursue epidemiology as a career should find this book a useful addition to their library ... a worthwhile new edition * Doody's Notes, April 2013 *Table of Contents1. Introduction to Epidemiologic Thinking ; 2. Pioneers in Epidemiology and Public Health ; 3. What is Causation? ; 4. Measuring Disease Occurrence and Causal Effects ; 5. Types of Epidemiologic Studies ; 6. Infectious Disease Epidemiology ; 7. Dealing with Biases ; 8. Random Error and the Role of Statistics ; 9. Analyzing Simple Epidemiologic Data ; 10. Controlling Confounding by Stratifying Data ; 11. Measuring Interactions ; 12. Using Regression Models in Epidemiologic Analysis ; 13. Epidemiology in Clinical Settings ; Appendix ; Index

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Book SynopsisAntibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. This book deals with this topic.Trade ReviewA horror story . . . A startling and disturbing read * Scotsman *Gets across a single point with devastating effect . . . A highly important message that, for a start, every MP and GP should be reading -- Popularscience.co.ukIf we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again * David Cameron, Prime Minister *

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Book SynopsisBiotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In this text, Bill Lambrecht investigates how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live and the global politics of food.

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Book SynopsisAn incredibly important and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women in medical and social contexts. A polemic on the state of women''s health and healthcare.One in ten women worldwide have endometriosis, yet it is funded at 5% of the rate of diabetes; women are half as likely to be treated for a heart attack as men and twice as likely to die six months after discharge; over half of women who are eventually diagnosed with an autoimmune disease will be told they are hypochondriacs or have a mental illness. These are just a few of the shocking statistics explored in this book.Fourteen years after being diagnosed with endometriosis, Gabrielle Jackson couldn''t believe how little had changed in the treatment and knowledge of the disease. In 2015, her personal story kick-started a worldwide investigation into the disease by the Guardian; thousands of women got in touch to tell their own stories and many more read and shared theTrade ReviewGabrielle Jackson pulls no punches in this timely and anger-inducing book which explores how our culture treats women in medical and social contexts. From medical research to bedside manners, women's pain and disease is not taken as seriously as men's (one in 10 women worldwide have endometriosis 'the silent disease' and yet it receives just 5% of the funding of diabetes). Exploring how the patriarchy has systematically swept aside women's needs both historically and now, Jackson rightly calls for a huge cultural shift backing up her research with moving first-hand accounts and shocking statistics. -- Francesca Brown * Stylist *What Jackson details in her book is how women are - historically, and to the present day - under-served by the systems that should keep us healthy, happy and informed about our bodies. -- Nicole Mowbray * Metro *This book could not be more timely or important. -- Katharine Viner * the Guardian *Gabrielle Jackson is a brilliant journalist and a wonderful feminist, and incapable of being dull. -- Emily Wilson * New Scientist *A major contribution to feminist writing of the 21st century -- Caroline de Costa, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, James Cook University

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Book SynopsisDIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN DERMATOLOGYFifth EditionRICHARD ASHTON, MA, MD, FRCP, Consultant Dermatologist, Lighthouse Clinic, Isle of Wight, UK, formerly Consultant Dermatologist to the Royal NavyBARBARA LEPPARD, DM, FRCP, Retired Consultant Dermatologist, Southampton University NHS Trust, UKThe ethos of this bestselling text is that however much or little you know about skin disease you can always arrive at the right diagnosis. The secret is to examine the surface of the rash or skin lesion which will help you classify the clinical features correctly - colour, surface features, type of lesion, border and how long it has been present. Algorithms throughout each chapter give the differential diagnosis for the features you have elicited. Accompanying clinical photographs and clear descriptions of the conditions will enable you to check whether you are right or not. If your choice seems unlikely, any conditions that could be confused with the one you selectedTable of Contents1.Introduction to dermatological diagnosis. 2.Introduction to dermatological treatment. 3.Hairy scalp. 4.Acute erythematous rashes on the face. 5.Chronic erythematous rashes on the face. 6.Mouth, lips, tongue & ear. 7.Acute erythematous rashes on the trunk & limbs. 8.Chronic erythematous rashes on the trunk & limbs. 9.Non-erythematous lesions. 10.Flexures. 11.Genitalia and perineum. 12.Lower legs. 13.Hands and feet. 14.Nails. General index. List of drugs and associated drug reactions. Classification of topical steroid by potency. Emollient products – how and when to use. Wash products & bath emollients. Summary of types of wound and dressings to use. Debriding agents. Reducing bacterial counts and odour. Absorption of exudate. Wound and ulcer dressings. Index of algorithms. Non-erythematous lesions. Erythematous lesions inside back cover.

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Book SynopsisHypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a disease of the cardiac muscle leading to severe debilitating symptoms with relentless progression. Medical options in treating this disease are limited to its early stages, with the disease often becoming resistant to pharmacological interventions. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management describes the various sub-types of this condition, including its unique anatomic features, with an emphasis on a therapeutic approach, encapsulating several techniques. Surgical myectomy has become the gold standard of effective treatment. This book also throws light on patient selection, newer surgical techniques, and novel image-based pre-operative planning modalities for surgical myectomy.Key Features Explores the surgical aspects along with the clinical coverage of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Provides ready resource for practicing cardiologists, practitioners, trainees, and feTable of ContentsTable of Contents: Chapter 1: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: An overview Chapter 2: Genetics and Genetic Testing in HCM Chapter 3: Natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Chapter 4: Echocardiographic features of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopath Chapter 5: Role of CMR in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Chapter 6: Surgical Strategies of Myectomy for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy Chapter 7: Mitral valve pathology in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Implications for surgical repair Chapter 8: Anaesthesia for HCM surgery Chapter 9: Post-operative complications of myectomy and their management Chapter 10: Virtual Surgical Planning for Left-Ventricular Myectomy In Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Chapter 11: Arrhythmias in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and their management Chapter 12: Percutaneous Transluminal Septal Myocardial Ablation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Systemic Drug Treatment in Dermatology helps prescribers and patients make rational decisions about drug treatment while considering known risks and potential unwanted effects. Written for dermatologists, family practitioners, pharmacists and specialist nurses, this completely revised and updated third edition of a bestseller provides an accessible and concise aid to prescribing and monitoring systemic dermatologic therapy. For each drug or drug class, the book lists its classification, mode of action, formulations, dosages, suggested regimens, contraindications, important drug interactions, adverse effects, patient information, and more. This third edition includes new classes of drugs as well as information on updated guidelines for prescribing and monitoring established drugs.FROM REVIEWS OF PREVIOUS EDITIONSThis updated edition includes new arrivalsâ Quite simply, it is indispensable! I have it with me in every clinic and oftTable of Contents1. Acitretin. 2. Acne Antibiotics. 3. Alitretinoin 4. Antiandrogens. 5. Antibiotics Commonly Used for Skin Infections. 6. Antifungals. 7. Antimalarials. 8. Antivirals. 9. Apremilast. 10. Azathioprine. 11. Azole Antihelminths. 12. Bexarotene. 13. Ciclosporin. 14. Colchicine. 15. Corticosteroids. 16. Cyclophosphamide. 17. Dapsone. 18. Dimethyl Fumarate. 19. Interleukin 4/13 inhibitors. 20. Interleukin (IL)-12/23 and IL-23 Inhibitors. 21. Interleukin-17. antagonists. 22. Isotretinoin. 23. Ivermectin. 24. Intravenous Immunoglobulin. 25. Janus Kinase (JAK) Inhibitors. 26. Malignant Melanoma Drug Treatments. 27. Methotrexate. 28. Mycophenolate Mofetil. 29. Omalizumab. 30. Potassium Iodide. 31. Propranolol. 32. Psoralens. 33. Rituximab. 34. Sulfapyridine & Sulfamethoxy- pyridazine. 35. Thalidomide. 36. Tumour Necrosis Factor Antagonists. 37. Vismodegib. 38. Systemic Treatment in Children. 39. Kidney Disease. 40. Systemic Therapy & Liver Disease. 41. Systematic Therapy in Older People.

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Book SynopsisDivided into four sections, this book covers clinical approaches to the patient; syndromes of disorder; disorders related to stages of the life cycle; and, services, ethics and the law. It is useful for medical students and doctors in training who are involved with psychiatry. It is also a useful for those who are more experienced in the field.Trade Review"This is an outstanding revision of the excellent text which has successfully supported many medical students through their training, and into their subsequent clinical careers. Whether the student plans to go into general practice, study psychiatry or become a medical or surgical specialist, this book provides an essential grounding in psychiatry in medical practice." – Professor Rachel Jenkins, Director of WHO Collaborating Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and Director of International affairs, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK"Overall this is an up-to-date, accesible and well-referenced textbook, the sort of straightforward resource that GP's and physicians should have at hand, as a quick update or refresher on what psychiatry is about." - Trevor Turner, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, Vol. 70, No. 2, Feb 2009Table of ContentsPart I: Clinical Approach to the Patient. Introduction. Interview Techniques and History Taking. Examination of the Mental State. Risk Assessments. Syndromes and Diagnosis. Aetiology. Investigations. Treatment. Prognosis. Formulation. Part II: Syndromes of Disorder. Psychiatric Aspects of Physical Disease. Organic Brain Disease. Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorders. Bipolar Illness. Internalising Disorders: 1 Anxiety and Depression. Internalising Disorders 2: Somatisation. Externalising Disorders - Dependence on Alcohol and Drugs and Eating Disorders. Personality Disorders. Part III: Particular Parts of the Life Cycle. Learning Disability. Childhood and Adolescence. Sexual and Reproductive Disorders. Old Age. Part IV: Services, Ethics and the Law. Mental Health Services. Ethical Dilemmas and Legal Aspects.

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Book SynopsisEthics: The Heart of Healthcare, Third Edition provides clarification and extension of the argument that ethics is everywhere in health care, and that therefore codes and principles are just not enough to help us practice in the best ways.Table of ContentsAbout the Author. Preface (3E). Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Acknowledgements. Introduction (3E). Introduction to the Second Edition. Chapter One: Growing Pains. Chapter Two: Ethics is the Key. Chapter Three: Problems of Practice. Chapter Four: The Search for Morality. Chapter Five: Persons and Potentials. Chapter Six: Theories of Ethics. Chapter Seven: Obstacles to Clear Moral Reasoning. Chapter Eight: The Rings of Uncertainty. Chapter Nine: The Background to the Ethical Grid. Chapter Ten: The Use of the Ethical Grid. Chapter Eleven: The Values Exchange.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Basics of community public health practice: theory and application 2. Public Health Practice within Communities 3. Complex Place-based Interventions for Health 4. Planning public health strategies 5. Leadership for policy and practice 6. Health needs assessment 7. Relationships and partnership working for public health 8. Public health and the life course 9. Public health practice in a digital world 10. Health program decision-making and implementation science 11. The economics of prevention in the early years 12. Breastfeeding for a healthy start 13. Safeguarding children: a public health imperative 14. Immunisation: ethics, effectiveness, organisation 15. Leadership through alongsideness

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Book SynopsisThe NHS is in crisis. The past 10 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding has been disastrous. This book looks at the threat to the NHS posed by the combination of two years of a global pandemic with the relentless policies pursued by Tory-led governments since 2010.Table of ContentsPart 1: 1. How did we get to this? The state of our NHS after a decade of decline; 2. The Decade of 'austerity', 2010-2019; 3. Austerity and the staffing crisis in health and care, 2010-2019; 4. 2020 - Covid crisis worsens an already bad situation; 5: 2021 - Post-Covid crisis: NHS rolling backwards on non-Covid treatment; 6: 2021 - onwards: no end to starvation of resources Inadequate spending review; 7: The growing costs of privatisation; 8: Repairing the damage and restoring the NHS. Part 2: Short expert contributions on key issues: David Wrigley, Deputy Chair British Medical Association, on primary care; Neena Modi, Prof. Neonatal Medicine at Imperial College, on child and adolescent health, including mental health; Jan Shortt, General Secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, on care for the elderly; Michael Mansfield, barrister QC, on holding the government to account; Martin McKee, Prof. European Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, on public health; Sara Gorton, Head of Health UNISON, Privatisation, on pay and conditions of NHS staff; Colenzo Jarret-Thorpe, National Officer Unite, the Health & Care Bill, on ambulance and other staff; Rehana Azam, National Secretary Public Services GMB, on the Covid enquiry and outsourced staff; Roy Lilley, health policy analyst, on management views; Roger Kline, Research fellow at Middlesex University, on equalities and BAME; Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary, National Education Union, on Covid, education and schools; Sir Michael Marmot, Prof. of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, on health inequality. About the Authors: Dr John Lister has been a health journalist for 38 years, Editor of Health Campaigns Together and The Lowdown, a founder member of Keep Our NHS Public, a public speaker, and the author of books on the NHS and global health policy; Dr Jacky Davis is a consultant radiologist in north London. She is a founder member of the Keep Our NHS Public campaign, a member of the BMA UK Council and recently sat on the panel of the People's Covid Inquiry. She is co-author of NHS SOS and NHS For Sale.

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Book SynopsisLessons from service and system failures describe how governance and leadership each play a pivotal role in high-quality, safe care. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Why Are Governance and Leadership Important to Healthcare Quality and Safety?; 3. A Brief History; 4. Approaches in Action; 5. Critiques of Governance and Leadership; 6. Conclusions; 7. Further Reading; Contributors; References.

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Book SynopsisSocial marketing, a field first introduced by Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman in a pioneering article in the Journal of Marketing in 1971, uses marketing concepts to influence the behaviors of individuals and communities for the greater social good. Now, as the discipline celebrates its 50th anniversary, Success in Social Marketing provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the field, introducing stories from around the world  including public health, injury prevention, environmental protection, community engagement, financial well-being, and education. The 100 case examples contained in this book, each about two pages in length, follow an outline that includes key components of a campaign: Wicked Problem, Purpose & Focus, Priority Audience, Desired Behavior, Audience Insights, Marketing Intervention Mix, and Results. This common structure provides the reader with a clear sense of how success in social marketing may best be achieved in a wide variTrade Review"Kotler and Lee have over many years developed the concept of social marketing as a practical set of principles that can be applied to inform and augment programmes that seek to influence positive social behaviour. This book is an invaluable guide to both those familiar with social marketing and those new to the field . The book provides an invaluable overview of real examples of the contribution that social marketing principles can make across a broad range of social challenges. The book includes case studies form a spectrum of public interest topics such as public health, education, safety, financial wellbeing and environmental issues. The book helpfully uses a consistent strategic presentation framework based on social marketing principles to tell the story of the cases set out in the book. This Consistent and helpful framework helps to emphasise the power of social marketing to help shape, develop, deliver and evaluate social interest programmes. This book is a fantastic addition to the social marketing literature and is an invaluable guide how it can enhance both the effectiveness and efficiency of such programmes. This is a book that every scholar and practitioner should have in their library." - Professor Jeff French, President of the International Social Marketing Association.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Framework Used for Each Case Story 2. Improving Public Health 3. Preventing Injuries 4. Protecting the Environment 5. Engaging Communities 6. Enhancing Financial Well Being 7. Supporting Educational Milestones Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis important book provides a comprehensive guide to understanding vaccine hesitancy, as well as the nuances of antivaccination claims. It is designed to give clinicians and other professionals targeted information to help them address vaccine hesitancy and antivaccination claims, as well as ways of responding to immunisation concerns. Alongside the scientific facts around vaccinations, it considers the historical foundations of modern vaccine scepticism, while offering key insights into the psychology behind vaccine hesitancy and the factors which influence an individual's decision-making. Separating fact from fiction, the book explores the most well-known antivaccine myths, many of which proliferate online, uncovering ways that counter-vaccine narratives can influence audiences. Importantly, it also outlines the most effective strategies to address both doubts and misinformation, detailing five general principles to improve communications, with tips and guidance to debunk Table of Contents1. Understanding Vaccination and Antivaccination 2. Why Do People Have Vaccine Hesitancy? 3. Suspicious Hesitancy: Distrust and Confidence 4. Questioning Safety: Danger and Persuasion 5. Starting Strong: General Guidelines for Vaccine Advocacy 6. Better Advocacy: Debunking and Sticky Facts

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the role of vitamins in preventing or reducing the pathogenesis or treatment of infectious viral diseases based on current ongoing research and past work. Using clinical evidence and trials that suggest the potential benefits of vitamin supplementation as prophylactic and therapeutic in infectious viral diseases, each individual vitamin is described in this context in separate chapters. It will be a valuable reference aid to researchers, clinicians, and medical bodies to develop improved therapeutic regimens.Key Features: Acts as a one-stop resource on the relevance of vitamins in infectious viral diseases. Provides a clinical focus on disease prevention and therapy using vitamins for clinicians and researchers. Discusses the molecular mechanisms of vitamins in COVID-19 and other viral diseases.

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Book SynopsisThis new book is designed around 20 clinical cases, each representative of scenarios encountered by doctors who work in primary care and which will prompt learning in related issues surrounding each clinical scenario. Each case description concludes with an initial exam style question which MRCGP candidates will recognize as being directed towards learning for the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT). An expanded answer to that initial question is followed by a detailed explanation, concluding with further questions for self-assessment and reflection.The cases also provide a template for the preparation of the Simulated Consultation Assessment (SCA) component of the MRCGP exam and can be used by trainers and trainees alike as a prototype for role play. Some cases offer learning opportunities through discussion of discrete clinical entities, whilst others use the clinical cases to introduce the reader to broader concepts which often need grappling with in primary care.Key Featu

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing the health of disadvantaged communities through equitable community development systems (CDSs).The core concepts underlying the book are three dimensions of support infrastructure (people: human-centering; place: place-cultivating; and ecosystem: sustainable capitalization), leveraging several theories (community capital, social justice) from community development. This book is based on the results of a recent grassroots, citywide engagement-driven initiative in Detroit, and on best-practice case studies in Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Richmond, and Portland. The initiativeâs significant outcomes include a consensusâbolstered by those case studiesâon seven components deemed essential to an equitable system for community development. The book proposes that the CDS can enhance community health if at least the following requirements are met: (1) adoption of a community-vitality framework as a citywide shared narrative; (2) coordination across financial institutions to allocate funds equitably to underserved communities; and (3) implementation of system governance with stronger attention to resident voices.This book demonstrates that bottom-up CDSs can and should be leveraged to enhance the health of underserved communities and investigates how best to address the three requirements to make the equitable system-based approach work effectively in practice.. The audience of community development and community health actors will learn from Detroit and the case studiesâoffering lessons for other cities facing similar issuesâhow to leverage equitable CDSs to promote healthy communities.

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement yet impactful actions that can be taken to reduce and mitigate the impact of primary care on the living world while also looking at the impact of the changing planet on health care that people will encounter.The chapters address the following key questions: What is the issue? What can I do/what can my practice do? How do my actions help patients, practice, and planet? Included throughout are case studies, vignettes, and anecdotes of previous successful interventions, while a checklist of the most impactful actions for others to follow, as supported by the current evidence base, provides a convenient summary. References and additional resource recommendations give directions for further guidance. The book looks at the four pillars of primary care â dentistry, General Practice, optometry, and pharmacy â and includes international contributions.Providing invaluable direction to turn good intentions into meaningful action, this book will be invaluable to health professionals and practice managers across all primary care disciplines and to students preparing to enter practice in those fields. It will also be of interest to integrated care system administrators and to health policymakers.

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Book SynopsisThis is the most comprehensive resource for trainees sitting the RCGPâs new Simulated Consultation Assessment (SCA) exam, offering 60 roleplays that can be practised in pairs or small groups. With chapters seamlessly aligned to the new Blueprint groups, our 3rd edition of The Complete MRCGP Blueprint Casebook is designed to provide a HOW TO approach and give you as much help as possible as you prepare for the SCA exam. Whether using this book alone, to learn how to approach cases, or practising in pairs or small groups, The Complete MRCGP Blueprint Casebook is essential reading for preparation for the SCA Exam and will remain an invaluable resource for best practice after qualification.

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Book SynopsisPublic Health and Epidemiology at a Glance is a highly visual introduction to the key concepts and major themes of population health.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition vii Acknowledgements viii About the Authors ix How to Use Your Textbook x Part 1 Introduction 1 1 Introduction to public health 2 2 Public health old and new 4 Part 2 Epidemiology and evidence-based practice 7 3 Incidence and prevalence 8 4 Risks and odds 10 5 Hierarchy of evidence and investigating causation 12 6 Bias, confounding and chance in epidemiological studies 14 7 Standardisation 16 8 Ecological and cross-sectional studies 18 9 Case–control studies 20 10 Cohort studies 22 11 Trials (experimental studies) 24 12 Systematic reviews and meta-analysis 26 13 Diagnostic tests 28 14 Developing clinical guidelines 30 Part 3 Assessing population health 33 15 Health and illness 34 16 Demographic and epidemiological transitions 36 17 Health information 38 18 Measuring population health status 40 19 Determinants of health 42 20 Lifestyle determinants of health 44 21 Social determinants of health 46 22 Environmental determinants of health 48 23 Inequalities in health 50 24 Health needs assessment 52 25 Maternal and infant health 54 26 Health of older people 56 Part 4 Improving and protecting health 59 27 Disease prevention 60 28 Principles of disease transmission 62 29 Communicable disease control 64 30 Surveillance 66 31 Immunisation 68 32 Screening principles 70 33 Screening programmes 72 34 Health promotion 74 35 Changing behaviour 76 Part 5 Health economics 79 36 Economic perspectives on health 80 37 Economic evaluation 82 38 Economic perspectives on measuring health-related outcomes 84 39 Economics of public health problems 86 Part 6 Effective healthcare 89 40 Healthcare systems 90 41 Planning health services 92 42 Improving services 94 43 Healthcare evaluation 98 Self-assessment questions 100 Self-assessment answers 102 Appendix: practical issues in conducting epidemiological studies 105 Further reading 107 Index 108

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health Lecture Notes: Issues, Challenges and Global Action provides a thorough introduction to a wide range of important global health issues and explores the resources and skills needed for this rapidly expanding area. Global Health is a growing area that reflects the increasing interconnectedness of health and its determinants. Major socio-economic, environmental and technological changes have produced new challenges, and exacerbated existing health inequalities experienced in both developed and developing countries. This textbook focuses on managing and preventing these challenges, as well as analysing critical links between health, disease, and socio-economic development through a multi-disciplinary approach. Featuring learning objectives and discussion points, Global Health Lecture Notes is an indispensable resource for global health students, faculty and practitioners who are looking to build on their understanding of global health issues.Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Essentials of global health 1 2 Globalization, infectious diseases, and global health 13 3 Noncommunicable diseases 25 4 Global burden of disease and measurement 47 5 Culture, behavior, and global health 59 6 Water, sanitation, and global health 69 7 Global hunger, nutrition, and food security 85 8 Global health and human rights 97 9 Natural disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies 107 10 Gender and global sexual and reproductive health 119 11 Health systems and global health 131 12 Financing global health 139 13 Ethics in global health research, design, and practice 153 14 Health‐related Millennium Development Goals and global health 161 15 Global health partnerships and governance 173 16 Evaluating global health projects 185 Index 197

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Book SynopsisDesigned to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.Trade ReviewFrequent epidemics of yellow fever, the first disease threatening to destroy continents, and the more recent scourges of HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola show Packard's scope in enlightening readers who are rarely likely to be so captivated by a university publication. This is a powerful book demanding substantial time and attention. Manhattan Book Review A History of Global Health gives us an unrivalled view from within the belly of the beast, revealing the physiology and pathologies of the organism. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationsList of Illustrations and TablesIntroductionPart One1. Colonial Training Grounds2. From Colonial to International HealthPart Two3. The League of Nations Health Organization4. Internationalizing Rural Hygiene and NutritionPart Three5. Planning for a Postwar World6. A Narrowing VisionPart Four7. Uncertain Beginnings8. The Good and the Bad CampaignsPart Five9. The Birth of the Population Crisis10. Accelerating International Family-Planning Programs11. Rethinking Family PlanningPart Six12. Rethinking Health 2.013. Challenges to Primary Health CarePart Seven14. AIDS and the Birth of Global Health15. The Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the Transformation of Global Health16. Medicalizing Global HealthConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence. Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights. Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L. F. Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, and nonfatal physical violence as well. Arguing that excessive policTrade ReviewMany public health readers of From Enforcers to Guardians will come away with the centrality of better data to improve transparency and accountability. This book meets a critical need that sets public health on a path to fewer lives cut short, the goal of our field. It also creates room for additional conversations to address what is still missing. That is why it is such an important book.—Mary T. Bassett MD, MPH, American Journal of Public HealthA thoughtful, incisive public health primer on the deeply entrenched and damaging practice of police brutality.—World Medical & Health PolicyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceTimelineChapter 1. Coming to TermsPart I. Distorted Policing and Its OriginsChapter 2. Peelers and Slave PatrolsChapter 3. Community CollapseChapter 4. War on DrugsPart II. Measuring Distorted Policing and Its EffectsChapter 5. Public Health InvestigationsChapter 6. Pattern and Practice Investigations I: Distorted Policing in Urban Contexts 000Chapter 7. Pattern and Practice Investigations II: Types of Violence Documented 000Part III. Getting to GuardianshipChapter 8. Interventions That Have Been TriedChapter 9. A Magic StrategyConclusion. Moving ForwardAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDissecting the biggest medical myths and pseudoscience, Viral BS explores how misinformation can spread faster than microbes. Can your zip code predict when you will die? Should you space out childhood vaccines? Does talcum powder cause cancer? Why do some doctors recommend e-cigarettes while other doctors recommend you stay away from them? Health informationand misinformationis all around us, and it can be hard to separate the two. A long history of unethical medical experiments and medical mistakes, along with a host of celebrities spewing anti-science beliefs, has left many wary of science and the scientists who say they should be trusted. How do we stay sane while unraveling the knots of fact and fiction to find out what we should really be concerned about, and what we can laugh off? In Viral BS, journalist, doctor, professor, and CDC-trained disease detective Seema Yasmin, driven by a need to set the record straight, dissects some of the most widely circulating medical myths andTrade Review[Yasmin] analyzes the pseudoscience that becomes hard to shake and reviews related research that presents the truth. The antidote is easy to swallow, thanks to Yasmin's approach.—Science NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Do the flat tummy detox teas touted by Instagram celebrities actually work?2. Should you eat your baby's placenta?3. Do vaccines cause autism?4. Can autism be cured?5. Are children being paralyzed by the common cold virus?6. Do we inherit trauma from our parents?7. Are genetically modified foods safe?8. How long can you eat leftovers?9. Is MSG addictive?10. Is drinking diet soda linked to Alzheimer's disease and stroke?11. Do mammograms cause more problems than they detect?12. Is it dangerous to be pregnant in America?13. The raging statin debate: Should you take a cholesterol-lowering drug?14. Does aspirin prevent cancer?15. Did the maker of aspirin test medicines in Nazi concentration camps?16. Does the birth control pill cause depression?17. Do vitamin D supplements protect against obesity, cancer, and pneumonia?18. Will fish oil supplements prevent heart disease or give you cancer?19. Are heartburn medicines linked to a serious gut infection?20. Were dietary supplements linked to a deadly outbreak of hepatitis?21. Can gay and bisexual men donate blood?22. Are e-cigarettes helpful or harmful?23. Is marijuana a performance-enhancing drug for athletes?24. Did a morning sickness pill for pregnant women cause birth defects in thousands of babies?25. Is there lead in your lipstick?26. Why do immigrants in America live longer than American-born people?27. Has the US government banned research about gun violence?28. The Frackademia Scandal: Did oil and gas companies pay academics to say fracking was safe?29. Does playing American football give players brain damage?30. Did the US government infect people with syphilis and gonorrhea?31. Does talcum powder cause ovarian cancer?32. Does infection with Ebola cause lifelong symptoms?33. Are older adults at higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections?34. Did genetically modified mosquitoes spread Zika, and does the virus cause birth defects?35. Can your cat's poop make you better at business?36. Is suicide contagious?37. Are suicide rates linked to the economy?38. Are there more suicides during the holiday season?39. Are you more likely to die from a medical mistake than from a car crash?40. Is it dangerous to go to the hospital in July?41. Do patients cared for by female doctors live longer?42. Can a pill make racists less racist?43. Are airplane condensation trails, aka chemtrails, bad for your health?44. Do bad teeth cause heart disease?45. Can your zip code predict when you will die?46. Does debunking a myth help it spread?Dr. Yasmin's Bullshit Detection KitAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIndex

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Book SynopsisMastering Public Health: A Postgraduate Guide to Examinations and Revalidation, Second Edition is an essential study aid for all those preparing for postgraduate, masters, and higher examinations in public health. Now updated and revised for the second edition, the book continues to provide all postgraduate students taking higher public health examinations with a proven, successful core revision text. The book covers the five key areas of public health knowledge: research methods; disease prevention and health promotion; health information; sociology, policy, and health economics; and organisation and management of health care. It is structured to follow the entire MFPH Part A exam syllabus, with appendices on revision strategies, exam technique and essay frameworks. Written in conjunction with an international team of editors, the book is aimed at public health practitioners who are training or re-validating in the UK and worldwide. Its concTrade Review"I am confident that this will rapidly become required reading for all those taking the faculty's exams, as well as for those undertaking training in public health in many other countries."—Professor Martin McKee, CBETable of ContentsSection 1 Research Methods 1. Epidemiology 2. Statistics 3. Assessment and Evaluation 4. Principles of Qualitative Methods Section 2: Disease Causation and the Diagnostic Process in Relation to Public Health 5. Epidemiological 6. Epidemiology of Specific Diseases 7. Diagnosis and Screening 8. Genetics 9. Health and Social Behaviour 10. Environment 11. Communicable 12. Principles and Practice of Health Promotion 13. Disease Prevention and Models of Behaviour Change Section 3: Health Information 14. Populations 15. Sickness and Health 16. Applications of Health Services Information Section 4: Medical Sociology, Social Policy, and Health Economics 17. Health and Illness 18. Healthcare 19. Equality, Equity, and Policy 20. Health Economics Section 5: Organisation and Management of Healthcare and Healthcare Programmes 21. Understanding Individuals, Teams/Groups, and Their Development 22. Understanding Organisations, Their Function, and Structure 23. Management and Change 24. Policy and Strategy Development and Implementation 25. Health and Social Service Quality 26. Finance, Management Accounting, and Relevant Theoretical Approaches Section 6: Skills Tested in the Part A MFPH Examination 27. Research Design and Critical Appraisal 28. Drawing Conclusions from Data 29. Written Presentation Skills

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Book SynopsisWith examples of policy and approaches, this book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Scene Setting 1. Evidence Case for Action 2. Policy and Professional Skills Context 3. Current State of Planning for Health Part 2: Health, Wellbeing and Equity Impacts 4. Health in All Policies 5. Health Impact Assessment in Planning 6. Health in Other Impact Assessments Part 3: Actions to Improve Practice 7. Health and Wellbeing in Planning Policy 8. Health and Wellbeing in Planning Decisions 9. Rise of the Public Health Spatial Planning Practitioner Part 4: Health Benefits and Outcomes 10. Value and Outcomes 11. Securing Value Concluding Reflections

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Book SynopsisA number of diseases and conditions that occur primarily in remote rural or poor urban areas of low-income countries have traditionally been neglected by the neuroscience research community.Table of ContentsTHE “GLOBAL WORLD VILLAGE” AND NEGLECTED DISEASES 1. Overview on neglected nervous system diseases: past, present and perspectives The volume editors 2. Travel, migration and neglected tropical diseases Zeno Bisoffi, Dora Buonfrate and Andrea Angheben, Centre for Tropical Diseases, Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy 3. Stigma in neurological diseases at the Tropics Faustin Yepnjio, EN Tabah and Alfred Njamnshi, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon NEGLECTED INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 4. Nematode infections: Neurological involvement and neurobiology Yukifumi Nawa, Khon Kaen, University, Bangkok, Thailand 5. Amoebiasis: Neurological involvement and neurobiology Naveed Ahmed Khan, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan 6. Neuroschistosomiasis Teresa Cristina A Ferrari, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil 7. Neurocysticercosis: Neurology and neurobiology Arturo Carpio, University of Cuenca, Ecuador and Agnes Fleury INNN, Mexico City 8. Onchocerciasis: Neurological involvement Alfred Njamnshi and AC Zoung-Kanyi Bissek, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon 9. Human African trypanosomiasis: A highly neglected neurological disease Alain Buguet, Polyclinique Marie-Louise Poto-Djembo, Pointe Noire, République du Congo, Ghislain Mpanzou, Clinique Municipale Albert Leyono, Brazzaville, République du Congo, and Marina Bentivoglio, University of Verona, Verona, Italy , 10. Human African trypanosomiasis: Neurobiology Willias Masocha, Krister Kristensson and Martin Rottenberg, University of Kuwait and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 11. Chagas’ disease: Neurology and neurobiology José Rodrigues Coura, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12. Neurodegeneration in leprosy: Insights from model systems and patients Toshihiro Masaki, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan, and Anura Rambukkana, University of Edinburgh, UK 13. Rabies: Neurology Alan Jackson, University of Manitoba, Canada– 14. Rabies : Neurobiology Monique Lafon, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France 15. Japanese encephalitis and other arbovirus infections: Neurology and neurobiology Usha Kant Misra and Jayantee Kalita, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India NEGLECTED TOXIC DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM 16. Khat addiction: Neurology Michael Odenwald, University of Konstanz, Germany 17. Khat addiction: Neurobiology Nilesh Patel, University of Nairobi, Kenya 18. Konzo: neurology of a permanent and non-progressive motor neuron Daniel Okitundu, University of Kinshasa, DR Congo, Dieudonné Mumba, Tropical Medicine, University of Kinshasa & National Institute of Biomedical Research, DR Congo and Desire Tshala-Katumbay, Center for Research on Occupational & Environmental Toxicology, Portland, USA 19. Food preservation, snake venoms and stroke in the Tropics Albert Akpalu, University of Accra, Ghana SEQUELS AND CONSEQUENCES 20. Infectious causes of epilepsy? Charles R. Newton, Wellcome Trust, Kilifi, Kenya, Ryan G. Wagner, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 21. Cognitive impairment and behavioural disturbances following malaria or HIV infection in childhood Michael Kihara, Amina Abubakar, Charles RJC Newton, The Centre for Geographical Medicine Research (Coast), Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya

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Book Synopsis''Read this breakthrough book!'' Deepak ChopraThrow away your statins, painkillers and antidepressants and pick up this book to find out how you can harness the body''s natural powers to heal itself.Doctor You contains the first hard scientific evidence to show that some so-called alternative or natural treatments are not only cheaper than industrially produced drugs and lacking the harmful side effects, they are also equally effective.Written using the latest, high quality, conventional evidence Doctor You arms you with knowledge that will empower you to make the right choices about what drugs to take, what drugs to give your children, and when you should let your body do its thing.Trade ReviewJeremy Howick reveals the science behind self- healing. Read this groundbreaking book! * Deepak Chopra *Dr. Howick provides an accessible and thoughtful explanation of what it means to be healthy and how modern health care can lead us astray. Through engaging storytelling, he weaves together a vast body medical science, fascinating psychological research, and philosophical insights about mind and body. An ambitious and integrative book that is perfect if you are looking to intelligently navigate the maze of modern health care. * Ty Tashiro, Author of The Science of Happily Ever After *Jeremy Howick shines a powerful light on the conscious mind that recognises its own innate healing power. He uses clean scientific evidence to validate the mind-body connection and shows in an inspired and simple-to-understand way how conscious and positive thinking can augment the inner healing intelligence of the body thus transforming health and wellbeing. This is a must read for all who wish to take responsibility for their health and who wish to participate in their wellbeing. * Raoul Goldberg, From Esalen, author of Addictive Behaviour – the Struggle for Freedom *Jeremy is a very intelligent thinker and writer about medicine. * Sir Muir Gray, Author of Sod 70 *Jeremy Howick knows placebos and how to make it understandable to the public. He's a philosopher who understands the big picture and a researcher who understands the details that make good science. * Ted Kaptchuk *Jeremy Howick is a real expert on the placebo effect. He can be relied on to know the literature, including the technical literature, thoroughly, and to provide a clear, serious and just account of it. * Nancy Carwright *Engaging, informative, accessible and easy to read, Doctor You will tell you all that you need to know about how the body works. Based on his own extensive research, Jeremy Howick will arm you with knowledge empowering you to make the right choices when it comes to your health. This book gives guidance for your journey to a better and healthier lifestyle; It allowed me to see my physical wellbeing in a way that makes absolute sense! A must read if you are a parent of a child with ADHD, anxiety, or for anyone interested in improving their health. * Virginie Chiquri, Author of Thinking Mom's Revolution *This fascinating book ranges over a broad range of evidence, from telling incidents, to huge comparative scientific studies with thousands of human subjects, and many things in between, all aimed at helping you lead a more healthy, vigorous, active and meaningful life. Engagingly written by an academic who can row his own boat (really!), who is as adept at yoga as he is at statistics, it is really a good read. Imagine: Science for the Beach! * Professor Dan Moerman *This is a timely book on a timeless problem of how body and mind interact to affect our health and well-being. Beautifully written by an international expert in the field, it challenges old habits of thinking and promises new ways of exploring what it means to live an integrated life. * Mark Williams, author of Mindfulness, Professor of Clinical Psychology and former director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre *I really enjoyed reading this book, and everyone who is willing to understand the variety of psychological factors involved in the process of healing would benefit from its reading. The interaction between doctors and their patients as well as the so-called placebo effects are beautifully described throughout the book for the nonspecialist.' * Fabrizio Benedetti, MD, University of Turin, Italy, and Plateau Rosa Labs, Switzerland Author of Placebo Effects *A very important book contributing to an important shift in health care where the patient is involved in directing their body and mind to stimulate their natural resources in healing. It gives understanding and practical steps for individuals to wisely and kindly open their own doors and claim their natural inner potentials for healing. * Mark Abramson (Stanford Professor) *

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Book SynopsisWithin days of the first reports of patients suffering from a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, scientists in China had produced a complete genetic sequence of the virus and confirmed that it was a novel SARS-like coronavirus. The genetic sequence was deposited in a public database, making the genetic code available to scientists anywhere in the world. The result was that weeks before the WHO declared the outbreak a global public health emergency and months before COVID-19 was formally designated a pandemic, virologists around the world were already studying the protein spikes on the virus and designing vaccines, which were developed much more quickly, and turned out to be much more effective, than even the most optimistic had predicted. All of this was possible because a biological revolution had taken place a decade earlier: the world had moved into the postgenomic era. In this book, the distinguished microbiologist Hugh Pennington argues that COVID-19 is the first ‘postgenomic pandemic’ – that is, the first pandemic to sweep the world after the postgenomic era was initiated in 2008. Pennington explains the science behind this crucial development and shows how it has revolutionized our ways of understanding and dealing with pandemics, including the pandemic that brought our world to its knees.Trade Review‘A great read, making science accessible to all and demonstrating how advances build on previous science investments in leaps and bounds.’Dame Sally Davies, Master, Trinity College Cambridge ‘A scholarly and intellectually stimulating contribution which covers COVID-19 and sets this in the context of infectious diseases past and present. Pennington’s explanation of the molecular biological aspects of infectious diseases, which are of critical importance in diagnosis and vaccination, is a joy to read, even for those with limited experience.’Professor Jangu Banatvala, Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine, King’s College London 'informative'NatureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword 1 The Postgenomic Age; its antecedents 2 Coronaviruses, the beginning 3 COVID-19, the disease 4 Origins. December 2019- January 2020 5 Fangcangs and Nightingales. February-April 2020 6 Test test test! March 2020 7 The Epidemiologic Transition 8 Outbreaks - learning in real time 9 Whole Genome Sequencing 10 Variants 11 Vaccines 12 Pandemics 13 The Future Notes

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Book SynopsisPublic health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives. The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued – and either protected or not – in contemporary societies.Trade Review“Didier Fassin reinvents the image and language of public health through a daring ‘shift of gaze.’ These compelling lectures offer radical new perspectives on what it means to live under perpetual threat in the 21st century.”Richard Horton, The Lancet“Trespassing disciplinary boundaries and challenging methodological detachment, Didier Fassin’s timely excursion is a master class in ‘intellectual dishabituation.’ Set against a ravaging Covid pandemic, Fassin’s latest tour de force urges us to rethink the biopolitical and the ethical from the ground up. A much-needed compass for our imperiled present.”João Biehl, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceThe Birth of Public HealthThe Truth in NumbersEpistemic BoundariesConspiracy TheoriesEthical CrisesPrecarious ExilesCarceral OrdealsReadings of the PandemicEndnotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic America’s opioid epidemic continues to ravage families and communities, despite intense media coverage, federal legislation, criminal prosecutions, and harm reduction efforts to prevent overdose deaths. More than 450,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since the late 1990s. In Opioid Reckoning, Amy C. Sullivan explores the complexity of the crisis through firsthand accounts of people grappling with the reverberating effects of stigma, treatment, and recovery. Nearly everyone in the United States has been touched in some way by the opioid epidemic, including the author and her family. Sullivan uses her own story as a launching point to learn how the opioid epidemic challenged longstanding recovery protocols in Minnesota, a state internationally recognized for pioneering addiction treatment. By centering the voices of many people who have experienced opioid use, treatment, recovery, and loss, Sullivan exposes the devastating effects of a one-size-fits-all approach toward treatment of opioid dependency. Taking a clear-eyed, nonjudgmental perspective of every aspect of these issues—drug use, parenting, harm reduction, medication, abstinence, and stigma—Opioid Reckoning questions current treatment models, healthcare inequities, and the criminal justice system. Sullivan also imagines a future where anyone suffering an opioid-use disorder has access to the individualized care, without judgment, available to those with other health problems. Opioid Reckoning presents a captivating look at how the state that invented “rehab” addresses the challenges of the opioid epidemic and its overdose deaths while also taking readers into the intimate lives of families, medical and social work professionals, grassroots activists, and many others impacted by the crisis who contribute their insights and potential solutions. In sharing these stories and chronicling their lessons, Sullivan offers a path forward that cultivates empathy, love, and hope for anyone affected by chaotic drug use and its harms.Trade Review "From the Land of 10,000 Rehabs comes this generous and heartening testament to the power of empathy and the wisdom of harm reduction. Living with Amy Sullivan’s stories of ‘trauma parenting,’ we are compelled to take stock of how our own lives and losses intertwine with those who people these pages."—Nancy D. Campbell, author of OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose "An important contribution that documents the lives of those faced with America's overdose crisis in the state that originated the twelve-step/abstinence treatment approach. Addiction care must change—and this book shows why."—Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction and Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction "In this timely book, Amy C. Sullivan illuminates how the public health crisis of opioid use disorder cannot be adequately conveyed through abstract statistics. Rather, it is located in childhood bedrooms and around kitchen tables, affecting families and especially mothers. The personal narratives and oral histories Sullivan weaves together tell an indelible story of the trauma, stigma, and, above all, humanity of the experience of addiction and recovery."—Sarah Gollust, University of Minnesota School of Public Health "Dr. Sullivan’s work on behalf of addiction and treatment is remarkable and Opioid Reckoning offers a glimpse into the faces of the epidemic. With heart and soul and considerable scholarship, Sullivan has written a book that offers hope and help for anyone affected by addiction."—Superior Reads "More even than demonstrating empathy for persons affected by abuse, Sullivan models commitment to tackling stigma to best combat the abuse."—CHOICE "Although much of her book tells the stories of Addicts and their families and explores new initiatives in the recovery industry, Sullivan makes clear in the prologue that this isn't only an academic take on an important topic."—Minnesota Alumni Table of ContentsContentsPrologueIntroduction: Opioids, Oral History, and the Rehab State1. Mothering Addiction: Lessons in Trauma Parenting2. Prognosis Cloudy: Who’s to Blame for an Overdose?3. Prescription for Humility: Opioids and Addiction Medicine4. Women of Substance: Harm Reduction in Minnesota5. Dissecting Stigma: Treatment ReimaginedConclusion: My Son, Relapsed and RecoveredAbout the Minnesota Opioid ProjectAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive textbook designed to get you through the entirety of your Health and Social Care BSc degree. Covering all the important topics and pressing issues relevant to Health and Social Care today. The book is split into three parts, starting with the essential areas and core knowledge you will need as you start your degree, these include the sociology and psychology of illness, academic skills, key legal and ethical issues, reflective practice, and the research process. Before moving onto health and social care in practice, highlighting topics such as health promotion, safeguarding children and their rights, and working with people experiencing mental health disorders. The final part covers some of the challenges faced in present day health and social care, looking at social justice issues, legal and ethical considerations, leadership, and health inequalities. All content is supported by practical and reflective features to help you throughout your degree, these include: Interactive activities, real life case studies and examples related to chapter content, links and suggestions for further reading, and answers to key activities and case studies exercises. The perfect companion text for a Health and Social Care degree, or any other course related to the health and social care services.Trade ReviewOffers complete coverage of all the elements of a Health and Social Care programme and more. It is a comprehensive guide that is both informative and interesting; recommended for students and practitioners in the ever-changing field of Health and Social Care. -- Julie BurtonThis is a comprehensive, insightful and timely textbook that offers health and social care students and professionals an accessible approach to theory, legislation, and practice. -- Dr Yolanda ErasoCombining a multi-disciplinary approach to health and social care, this text book will help students link theory with practice in a highly effective way. Providing insights into the diversity of health and social care, alongside broader social influences upon health and wellbeing. -- Dr Joanne SmithThis book gives a great introduction to the many aspects of health and social care that students will want to be aware of and up to date with. -- Clare BellamyWhilst studying for my nursing degree, this book has provided me with a wealth of knowledge. In particular, around the different socio-economic impacts and determinants of health in relation to patient wellbeing. This information has proved vital in helping me structure my field-specific nursing assignments relating to public health, as well as also providing me with a plan of how to structure any research-based assignments/arguments. I particularly enjoyed the activities throughout the book as they made me question things that I don’t usually think about, such as theories in psychology. The activities also provided me with some much-needed time to think about more generic subjects, such as the ‘world we live in’. It provided me with the opportunity to think outside the box. Overall, a very enjoyable read. -- Felicity DalyAs a student who has dyslexia, I found this book to be particularly helpful in developing my academic skills. As a result of reading the textbook, the overall structure and clarity of my assignments improved. The book is comprehensive and covers many aspects of health and social care that students will find beneficial for their studies. The interactive text and case studies enabled me to link theory to practice and the activities throughout made for an enjoyable and valuable read. I would highly recommend this textbook to students, at any stage of their studies, to support them throughout their degree. I wish I had this book sooner! -- Eloise ClarkeWhat a fabulous publication! Very comprehensive and informative. The authors efficiently combined the most recent findings with a historical perspective highlighting the healthcare system′s changeable nature, its origins and consequences for all stakeholders. Each chapter, written by an expert in a field, covers important for nurses and healthcare delivery issues ending with extending the topic reading list relevant for furthering the knowledge. As a third-year nursing student, I have found this book very helpful. It provided interesting discourse for all my assignments and enhanced my understanding of the healthcare system′s multifaceted nature. It is written in a sophisticated but accessible manner, even for a reader whose English is not a dominant language - a pleasure to read. -- Barbara JardineTable of ContentsPART 1: UNDERPINNING KNOWLEDGE Chapter 1: Sociology and Health and Illness - Ashley Frawley Chapter 2: Psychology and Health and Illness - Darren J. Edwards Chapter 3: Academic Skills and Practice - Pete Hanratty and Ben Martin Chapter 4: The Research Process in Health and Social Care - Pete King Chapter 5: The Law Relating to Health and Social Care: Introduction to Key Principles - Angela Smith and Julia Parkhouse Chapter 6: The Law Relating to Health and Social Care: Further Key Principles - Angela Smith & Julia Parkhouse Chapter 7: Reflective Practice and Critical Thinking - Sally Riggall Chapter 8: Physiological Effects of Ageing in the Older Adult - John Knight PART 2: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN ACTION Chapter 9: Safeguarding Children and Adults - Charlotte Chisnell and Caroline Kelly Chapter 10: Childcare in the UK - Pete King Chapter 11: Health Promotion and Health Psychology - Michelle Anderson and Llewellyn Morgan Chapter 12: Children’s Rights and Participation - Tracey Maegusuku-Hewett and Pete King Chapter 13: Working with Persons Experiencing Mental Disorder: Mental Health Conditions - Keith Bradley-Adams Chapter 14: Determinants of Poor Mental Health and the Road to Recovery - Keith Bradley-Adams PART 3: CONTEMPORARY TOPICS Chapter 15: Using and Developing Evidence in Health and Social Care Practice - Hazel M. Chapman Chapter 16: Leadership and Management - Stephanie Best Chapter 17: Legal and Ethical Considerations in Health and Social Care - Hugh Upton and Angela Smith Chapter 18: Equity, Intersectionality and Anti-Oppressive Practice - Sue Bond-Taylor and Ceryl Davies Chapter 19: Social Justice Issues in Health and Social Care - Gideon Calder Chapter 20: Disability Policy and provision in health and social care - Andrew Dunning Chapter 21: Health Inequalities - Lance Benny Goodman

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Book SynopsisUnderstand, manage, and treat Long Covid.Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long Covid (more than 1.5m in the UK) yet reliable, clear information and guidance remains scarce. This book is the definitive guide to understanding, managing and treating the condition.Written by the world's leading immunologist Professor Danny Altmann and expert patient Gez Medinger, The Long Covid Handbook translates cutting-edge science, patient-led research and practical guidance with clarity. This book will equip you with expert information and advice on:- Long Covid's 200 symptoms, which include fatigue, brain fog, breathlessness and more- Tips for recovery- Which treatments are most effective and why- Who is most susceptible to the condition and why- What we can learn about Long Covid from other chronic illnesses- The impact on mental healthThis is the essential guide for anyone living with the condition, as well as clinicians seeking to better understand this little-understood illness.

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Book SynopsisQuiet as it’s kept inside the United States, the Cuban Revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba’s agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent—and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his deep knowledge of Cuban history with his decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to bring us the story of how Cuba’s health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century. Fitz weaves together complex themes in Cuban history, moving the reader from one fascinating story to another. He describes how Cuba was able to create a unified system of clinics, and evolved the family doctor-nurse teams that became a model for poor countries throughout the world. How, in the 1980s and ‘90s, Cuba survived the encroachment of AIDS and increasing suffering that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then went on to establish the Latin American School of Medicine, which still brings thousands of international students to the island. Deeply researched, recounted with compassion, Cuban Health Care tells a story you won’t find anywhere else, of how, in terms of caring for everyday people, Cuba’s revolution continues.Trade Review“This is the best written and most accurate work published in years about the history and recent achievements of Cuban health care. The book gives inspiration for people around the world concerned about the future of health care and health itself.”—Howard Waitzkin, Coordinating Editor, Health Care Under The Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism For Our Health

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Book SynopsisHealth-Care Solutions from a Distant ShoreHealth care in the United States and other nations is on a collision course with patient needs and economic reality. For more than a decade, leading thinkers, including Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, have argued passionately for value-based health-care reform: replacing delivery based on volume and fee-for-service with competition based on value, as measured by patient outcomes per dollar spent.Though still a pipe dream here in the United States, this kind of value-based competition is already a reality--in India. Facing a giant population of poor, underserved people and a severe shortage of skills and capacity, some resourceful private enterprises have found a way to deliver high-quality health care, at ultra-low prices, to all patients who need it. This book shows how the innovations developed by these Indian exemplars are already being practiced by some far-sighted US providers--reversing the typical flow of innovation in the world.Govindarajan and Ramamurti, experts in the phenomenon of reverse innovation, reveal four pathways being used by health-care organizations in the United States to apply Indian-style principles to attack the exorbitant costs, uneven quality, and incomplete access to health care. With rich stories and detailed accounts of medical professionals who are putting these ideas into practice, this book shows how value-based delivery can be made to work in the United States. This "bottom-up" change doesn't require a grand plan out of Washington, DC, agreement between entrenched political parties, or coordination among all players in the health-care system. It needs entrepreneurs with innovative ideas about delivering value to patients. Reverse innovation has worked in other industries. We need it now in health care.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise for Reverse Innovation in Health Care:Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System, New York City--"A provocative volume of ideas."Robert Pearl, MD, professor, Stanford University School of Medicine; author, Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care--and Why We're Usually Wrong--". . . a must-read for both health-care leaders and policy experts."Donald M. Berwick, MD, President Emeritus, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services--"If American health-care leaders . . . do not take this astounding book seriously, shame on them."Mary Ackenhusen, President and CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health, Canada--"Reverse Innovation in Health Care offers inspirational and practical insights. It will be required reading for my leadership team."Judd A. Gregg, former US Senator--". . . should be part of any consideration of how we improve America's health-care system."Tawfig Al Rabiah, Minister of Health, Saudi Arabia--"Reverse Innovation in Health Care is a great and well-rounded approach to tackling many of the current health-care issues."John Cochran, MD, former Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Federation--"This book is timely and very important for American physicians, health-care executives, and legislators to read. Many of these case studies are very portable."Toby Cosgrove, MD, former President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic--". . . a rich new source of cost-saving medical innovation that deserves our most serious attention."

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Book SynopsisIn the last half of 1945, news of the war’s end and aftermath shared space with reports of a battle on the home front, led by a woman. She was Elizabeth O. Hayes, MD, doctor for a mining concern that owned the town of Force, PA, where sewage was contaminating the drinking water, ambulances were being stuck in muddy unpaved roads, and corrupt management was refusing to improve sanitation from their Manhattan high rises. When Hayes resigned to protest intolerable living conditions, 350 miners followed her in strike, shaking the foundation of the town and attracting a national media storm. Press – including women reporters, temporarily assigned to national news desks in wartime – flocked to the small mining town to champion Dr. Hayes’ cause. Slim, blonde, and 33, “Dr. Betty” became the heroine of an environmental drama that captured the nation’s attention, complete with mustache-twirling villains, surprises, setbacks, and a mostly happy ending.News outlets ranging from Business Week to the Daily Worker applauded her guts. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about her. Soldiers followed her progress in the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, flooding her with fan mail. A Philadelphia newspaper recommended Dr. Betty’s prescription to others: “Rx: Get Good and Angry.” President Harry S. Truman referred her grievances to his justice department, which handed her a victory.Force is the only book, popular or academic, written about Hayes. Readers interested in feminism, the environment, corporate accountability, and the World War II home front will be excited to discover this engaging, untold episode in women’s history. Fortunately, a fascinated press captured Hayes’s words and deeds in scores of news pieces. Author Marcia Biederman uses these pieces, written by major news outlets and tiny local papers, as well as interviews with descendants, letters written by Hayes’s opponents, union files, court records, an observer’s scrapbook, mining company data, and a journalist’s oral history to tell the story of Dr. Betty and her pursuit of public health for the first time.

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Book SynopsisWall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller2021 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal Winner - Aging Consciously CategoryThe prospect of living to 200 years old isn’t science fiction anymore. A leader in the emerging field of longevity offers his perspective on what cutting-edge breakthroughs are on the horizon, as well as the practical steps we can take now to live healthily to 100 and beyond.In The Science and Technology of Growing Young, industry investor and insider Sergey Young demystifies the longevity landscape, cutting through the hype and showing readers what they can do now to live better for longer, and offering a look into the exciting possibilities that await us. By viewing aging as a condition that can be cured, we can dramatically revolutionize the field of longevity and make it accessible for everyone.Join Sergey as he gathers insights from world-leading health entrepreneurs, scient

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between nutrition and behaviour is bi-directional in nature, with nutritional factors able to affect activity and disposition, and behavior impacting diet and food intake. This book reviews these links, starting with their complex neurobiological basis, such as in the case of folate deficiency and cognitive decline. It also illustrates how behaviour may determine nutritional choices or status through peer modelling and poor dietary habits. Micronutrients and eating disorders are then critically addressed, with a review of current research methods and results, before extra-nutritional influencers on behaviour such as caffeine, herbal supplements and alcohol are discussed in the final section.Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Concepts and Models in Nutrition and Behavior 3: Research Methods and Analytic Strategies 4: Direct Effects of Nutrition on Behavior: Brain–Behavior Connections 5: Short-term Effects of Nutrition on Behavior: Neurotransmitters 6: Effects of Chronic and Acute Forms of Undernutrition 7: B Vitamins, the Central Nervous System, and Behavior 8: Minerals, the Central Nervous System, and Behavior 9: Dietary Supplements and Mental Functioning 10: Bio-behavioral and Psychosocial Influences on Food Selection 11: Dietary Sugar and Behavior 12: Caffeine, the Methylxanthines, and Behavior 13: Alcohol, Brain Functioning, and Behavior 14: Eating Disorder Syndromes: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa 15: Behavioral Aspects of Overweight and Obesity

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Book SynopsisWelcome to the world of sexed-up medicine, where patients have been turned into customers, and clinics and waiting rooms are jammed with healthy people, lured in to have their blood pressure taken and cholesterol, smear test, bowel or breast screening done. In the world of sexed-up medicine pharmaceutical companies gloss over research they don't like and charities often use dubious science and dodgy PR to 'raise awareness' of their disease, leaving a legacy of misinformation in their wake. Our obsession with screening swallows up the time of NHS staff and the money of healthy people who pay thousands to private companies for tests they don't need. Meanwhile, the truly sick are left to wrestle with disjointed services and confusing options. Explaining the truth behind the screening statistics and investigating the evidence behind the hype, Margaret McCartney, an award-winning writer and doctor, argues that this patient paradox - too much testing of well people and not enough care for the sick - worsens health inequalities and drains professionalism, harming both those who need treatment and those who don't.

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Book SynopsisIn an increasingly urbanised world, the need to reconnect with nature is more important than ever. Originating from Japan, Shinrin-Yoku (translated to ''Forest Bathing'') is a therapeutic invitation to immerse oneself in the embrace of the woods and wild places. Covering both the philosophy and the practicalities, this is an evidence-based guide for practitioners seeking to increase their ecological awareness, explore the mental, emotional, and immunological healing capabilities of Shinrin-Yoku, and learn how to incorporate it into their practice. Building on the necessary in-person training, this book will help practitioners feel confident in guiding others in the woods as they discover their own connection to nature and is underpinned by a thorough understanding of the science behind the healing.Practical in its approach but spiritual and poetic in its nature, this timely book provides the knowledge and skills required to adopt Shinrin-Yoku into any therapist''s toolbox.

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