Public health and preventive medicine Books

Book SynopsisThis text brings together classic and up-to-date research by economists and public-health experts on theories and measurements of health values. It examines various models of health valuation, including the cost-of-illness, preventive-expenditures and quality-adjusted-life-year approaches.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Overview George Tolley, Donald Kenkel, Robert Fabian. 2: Framework for Valuing Health Risks Mark Berger, Glenn Blomquist, Donald Kenkel, George Tolley. 3: Cost of Illness Approach Donald Kenkel 4: Contingent Valuation of Health Donald Kenkel, Mark Berger, Glenn Blomquist. 5: Household Health Production, Property Values, and the Value of Health Richard Clemmer, Donald Kenkel, Robert Ohsfeldt, William Webb. 6: The Qualy Approach Robert Fabian 7: Issues in Questionnaire Design Robert Fabian, George Tolley. 8: Empirical Results from Household Personal Interviews Michael Brien, Donald Kenkel, Austin Kelly, Robert Fabian. 9: Empirical Results from Mail Questionnaires Wallace Wilson 10: Defining and Measuring Health over Life Lyndon Babcock, Anthony Bilotti. 11: The Quantity and Quality of Life: A Conceptual Framework Sherwin Rosen 12: Modeling of Choices with Uncertain Preferences Charles Kahn 13: Design of Contingent Valuation Approaches to Serious Illness Robert Fabian, Lyndon Babcock, Anthony Bilotti, George Tolley. 14: Future Directions for Health Value Research George Tolley, Robert Fabian. 15: State-of-the-Art Health Values George Tolley, Donald Kenkel, Robert Fabian. 16: The Use of Health Values in Policy George Tolley, Donald Kenkel, Robert Fabian, David Webster. References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The concept of ‘appropriate technology,’ Janus-faced, has been used both to inspire and to prevent technological assistance to people in resource-poor communities. Morefield’s Developing to Scale provides a fascinating and surprising global history of the origins of the idea and its far-reaching influence on international health and development worldwide. Who should decide what technology is right for whom? What social systems do technologies require to succeed? These questions remain vitally important today.” -- David S. Jones, Harvard University“With engaging prose and illuminating detail, Developing to Scale provides a crucial history of appropriate technology in international aid. Anyone nursing a clever fix to improve the world should first read this book.” -- Peter Redfield, University of Southern California“The first comprehensive history of advocacy for ‘appropriate technology’ for global health, Developing to Scale provides a fresh analytical route into understanding the enduring enthusiasm for cheap technological fixes for fundamental problems of global health inequalities. With an extraordinary combination of scholarly rigor and narrative lucidity, the book works across scales to provide a careful account of key individuals, groups, and encounters, while also illuminating anew the broader social and technological field of global health in an era of emerging postcolonial aspirations and complexly intertwining neoliberal endeavors.” -- Anne Pollock, King’s College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Buddhist Economics Chapter Two: Small Is Beautiful Chapter Three: Networking Development Chapter Four: Carrots and Sticks Chapter Five: Visions of the Future Chapter Six: The Silver Bullet Boys Chapter Seven: Bantu Technology Chapter Eight: Scaling Up Epilogue: COVID-19 Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culpritsand the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks. Starting in 2005, people in the US and Europe were inundated with media coverage announcing the link between cervical cancer and the sexually transmitted virus HPV. Within a year, product ads promoted a vaccine targeting cancer's viral cause, and girls and women became early consumers of this new cancer vaccine. An understanding of HPV's broadening association with other cancers led to the identification of new at-risk populationsnamely boys and menand ignited a plethora of gender and sexual issues related to cancer prevention. Sexualizing Cancer is the first book dedicated to the emergence and proliferation of the HPV vaccine along with the medical capacity to screen for HPVcrucial landmarks in the cancer prevention arsenal based on a novel connection between sex and chronic disease. Interweaving accounts from the realms of biomedical science, publiTrade Review“An engaging, informative, and exceptionally erudite effort to explicate and analyze the complex, decades-long intertwining of HPV, cancer, gender, and sexuality. Sexualizing Cancer will be a welcome resource for scholars, clinicians, and policymakers.” -- Laura M. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University“Mamo has put together an exciting and lively read, highlighting historically through to the present day the many ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality underpin much of public health decision making. With a focus on HPV, she sets out an extremely compelling and well written narrative that places current debates within their larger economic, social, cultural, and political contexts. Weaving together the local and the global, she ultimately asks us to query how our own assumptions about gender, sexuality, race, and class impact how we read and understand public health, and the social connections and actions we take.” -- Sofia Gruskin, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Sexual Politics of Cancer and a New Regime of Cancer Prevention Chapter One: Producing and Protecting Risky Girls Chapter Two: “What’s In It for the Boys?” Chapter Three: The Cancer That Dare Not Speak Its Name Chapter Four: A Tale of Two Trials: Settling Debate through Evidence-Based Medicine Chapter Five: A “Coming Epidemic” of HPV-Associated Oral Cancer Chapter Six: Sex at the Oncology Office: Oral Cancer Care and the Politics of Prevention Chapter Seven: Cervical Cancer’s Screening Politics Chapter Eight: The Precision Imaginary: Optimizing Cancer Prevention Tools Chapter Nine: Commodities of Sexual Health Care Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically underserved. In The City and the Hospital two sociologists, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz, and a political scientist, Daniel Skinner, track the multiple causes of this problem and offer policy solutions. Focusing on three urban hospitalsConnecticut's Hartford Hospital, the flagship of the Hartford Healthcare system; the Cleveland Clinic, which coordinates with other providers for routine care whileits main campus provides specialty care; and the University of Colorado Hospital, a rare example of an urban institution that relocated to a new communitythe authors analyze the complicated relationship between a hospital and its neighborhoods. On the one hand, hospitals anchor the communities that surround them, often staying in a neighborhoTrade Review“By comparing three different hospitals and their communities, The City and the Hospital shows how hospitals are not only medical institutions but powerful and complex forces within urban contexts. This truly novel recasting generates important insights about policy interventions that could transform hospital/city relationships and improve population health.” -- Sara Shostak, Brandeis University“Across America, communities are often excluded from the world-class care provided walking-distance from their homes. This book chronicles these gut-wrenching urban health disparities—how they came to be, how hospitals and policymakers learned to tolerate them, and what we must do about them. The City and the Hospital is essential reading for any citizen, policymaker, and hospital leader who wishes to address this profound failure of America’s medical political economy.” -- Harold Pollack, University of Chicago"An important and timely contribution for those who care about the life of the American city, about inequalities, and about our medical system. Benefiting from three scholarly perspectives, this work provides a beautifully written and empirically rich assessment of how hospitals fit within communities, and provides clear policy prescriptions for how these institutions could better serve their mission and our cities." -- Shamus Khan, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcronyms Introduction 1 Why Are So Many Hospital Neighborhoods Health Poor? 2 How History “Keys” the Hospital and Community Relationship 3 “What’s Your Total Commitment to the Community?”: Explicit and Implicit Hospital Development Strategies 4 Healthcare in the Contact Zone: Unconventional Spaces, Institutional Changes, and Communities of Color 5 Ambiguous Obligations and Mixed Expectations 6 Six Policy Areas for Communities and Hospitals Acknowledgments Appendix A: On Methods Appendix B: Comparative Data Appendix C: Hospital-Identified Needs and Programs Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, medically underserved. In The City and the Hospital two sociologists, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz, and a political scientist, Daniel Skinner, track the multiple causes of this problem and offer policy solutions. Focusing on three urban hospitalsConnecticut's Hartford Hospital, the flagship of the Hartford Healthcare system; the Cleveland Clinic, which coordinates with other providers for routine care whileits main campus provides specialty care; and the University of Colorado Hospital, a rare example of an urban institution that relocated to a new communitythe authors analyze the complicated relationship between a hospital and its neighborhoods. On the one hand, hospitals anchor the communities that surround them, often staying in a neighborhood for decades. Hospitals also craft strategies to engage with the surrounding community, many of those focused on buying locally and hiring staff from their surrounding area. On the other hand, hospitals will often only provide care to the neighboring community through emergency departments, reserving advanced medical care and long-term treatment for those who canpay a premium for it. In addition, the authors show, hospitals frequently buy neighborhood real estate and advocate for development programs that drive gentrification and displacement. To understand howurban healthcare institutions work with their communities, the authors address power, history, race, and urbanity as much as the workings of the medical industry. These varied initiatives and effects mean that understanding urban hospitals requires seeing them in a new lightnot only as medical centers but as complicated urban forces. Trade Review“By comparing three different hospitals and their communities, The City and the Hospital shows how hospitals are not only medical institutions but powerful and complex forces within urban contexts. This truly novel recasting generates important insights about policy interventions that could transform hospital/city relationships and improve population health.” -- Sara Shostak, Brandeis University“Across America, communities are often excluded from the world-class care provided walking-distance from their homes. This book chronicles these gut-wrenching urban health disparities—how they came to be, how hospitals and policymakers learned to tolerate them, and what we must do about them. The City and the Hospital is essential reading for any citizen, policymaker, and hospital leader who wishes to address this profound failure of America’s medical political economy.” -- Harold Pollack, University of Chicago"An important and timely contribution for those who care about the life of the American city, about inequalities, and about our medical system. Benefiting from three scholarly perspectives, this work provides a beautifully written and empirically rich assessment of how hospitals fit within communities, and provides clear policy prescriptions for how these institutions could better serve their mission and our cities." -- Shamus Khan, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsAcronyms Introduction 1 Why Are So Many Hospital Neighborhoods Health Poor? 2 How History “Keys” the Hospital and Community Relationship 3 “What’s Your Total Commitment to the Community?”: Explicit and Implicit Hospital Development Strategies 4 Healthcare in the Contact Zone: Unconventional Spaces, Institutional Changes, and Communities of Color 5 Ambiguous Obligations and Mixed Expectations 6 Six Policy Areas for Communities and Hospitals Acknowledgments Appendix A: On Methods Appendix B: Comparative Data Appendix C: Hospital-Identified Needs and Programs Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCOVID-19: A History presents a global history of the virus, with a focus on Canada. Jacalyn Duffin’s broad approach ranges from medical interventions, such as the development of tests, treatments, and vaccines, to the practical politics behind quarantines, barrier technologies, lockdowns, and social and financial supports.Trade Review“As a physician, historian, and now volunteer contact-tracer, Duffin provides a unique perspective on the history of COVID-19. This well-written and engaging book is the most detailed historical overview to date on the first waves of the pandemic in Canada and around the world.” Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph and author of The Smile Gap: A History of Oral Health and Social Inequality“Although there is a COVID book on almost every topic, Jacalyn’s Duffin’s history instantly stands out. She has written a global history that is both measured and sophisticated. Although there will be other histories of the pandemic, I am confident that Duffin’s analysis will occupy an important place in the historiography of COVID-19 for years to come.” The American Review of Canada Studies“With verve and skill, Duffin tells a compelling story that is familiar in its big picture and new in its fine details. In the hands of most any other scholar, a short history of COVID-19 would be a blur, but in the hands of this leading medical historian, it’s a tour-de-force of smart analysis and clear writing. Among Duffin’s many strengths are her ability to draw on ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern history to deepen our understanding of the present, as well as her ability to weave different themes in and out of her text. Two stand out: scapegoating and the social determinants of health.” Literary Review of Canada

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Book SynopsisA social, political, and human history of the epidemic, with a look at its ongoing challenges, written by a scientist, physician, and pioneering world health leader.Trade ReviewAIDS Between Science and Politics is superb, well-crafted, and timely. The book is an excellent and valuable addition to the scientific literature. And who is better placed to address the multitude of issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS than Peter Piot? -- Mark Wainberg, McGill University AIDS Between Science and Politics is a compelling, expert analysis from the founding director of UNAIDS. A must-read for anyone interested in the international AIDS response and the ongoing social, political, and medical challenges posed by HIV. -- Nicoli Nattrass, author of The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back The author's findings, updated to 2012, should give anyone pause who thinks that AIDS is a thing of the past... of considerable use to readers with an interest in public health issues. Kirkus Reviews An enlightening account of how HIV and AIDS have shaped-and continue to shape-international public health policy. -- Beth Mole Science News AIDS Between Science and Politics is a must-read for anyone interested in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. More broadly, it offers lessons- and interesting anecdotes - useful in the response to Ebola and indeed to every challenge in global health and development. Nature Highly Recommended. CHOICE It is quite a task to write a history of the emergence and response to HIV/AIDS around the world and to do so in an accessible fashion. Yet this is precisely what AIDS Between Science and Politics accomplishes, appealing equally to AIDS experts and novices. -- Claire Laurier Decoteau Isis: A Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Heterogeneous and Still-Evolving Epidemic 2. Hyperendemic HIV in Southern Africa: The Heritage of Apartheid 3. AIDS as an International Political Issue 4. A New Type of Transnational Civil Society Movement 5. The Right to Treatment 6. Combination Prevention 7. The Economics of AIDS 8. Prominence of Human Rights 9. The Long-Term View Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA leading bioethicist explores the intractable threats to our well-being that persist despite the multigenerational effort to defeat them.Trade ReviewThis book is a wide-ranging, sincere, and syncretic attempt to identify and analyze the greatest threats to the planet today. It is a work of tremendous breadth of vision, with an earnest concern about some of the most serious problems of our time. Callahan is a master of clear communication. -- Donna Dickenson, author of Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good Daniel Callahan's powerful, lucid book offers a sober confrontation with some of the most serious problems facing the world today, asking us to change our ideas of progress to mitigate the catastrophic consequences of how we have come to live. -- Michael Roth, Wesleyan University Callahan, a pioneer in bioethics, has written a thoughtful meditation on our most recalcitrant worldly challenges, from the health of our bodies to the wellbeing of our planet. Well-written and accessible, The Five Horsemen of the Modern World demonstrates how the complex mix of technology, politics, and media have slowed progress and calls for a more productive partnership with sustainable businesses to chart a path forward. -- Paul Sabin, author of The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon and Our Gamble Over Earth's Future Callahan is subtle in expressing his point of view-you never feel like he is pushing an ideology or a single-minded solution at the reader. He lets the data speak first, and then he sets the path. -- Sheldon Krimsky, author of Stem Cell Dialogues: A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers Callahan's analysis of the evolution of global problems is instructive and accessible; his use of data, clear and persuasive. A work of impressive scope. -- Steve Cohen, Columbia University It is hard enough to write a wise book on a single major social problem, but Daniel Callahan has written a wise book about five of them, ultimately proposing important suggestions for moving forward. The Five Horsemen should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in climate change, food distribution, the water supply, chronic illness or obesity-in other words, all of us. This book challenges us to look at the global and local ramifications of everything we know and do. -- Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, Author of The Good Doctor: A Father, A Son and the Evolution of Medical Ethics Pragmatic and measured. Nature Recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I. Mapping an Irregular Terrain 1. Our Overheating, Fraying Planet 2. Feeding a Growing Population: How, and with What Kind of Food? 3. Water: Not Everywhere and Not Always Fit to Drink 4. Chronic Illness: Rich or Poor, Few Escape 5. Obesity: The Scourge of Bad Diets and Sedentary Habits II. Examining the Pathways Through the Thickets 6. Always More People and Ever More Elderly: Caring and Paying 7. The Technology Fix: A Way Out? 8. A Volatile Mix: Public Policy, the Media, and Public Opinion 9. Law and Governance: Managing Our Public Planet and Our Private Bodies III. Toward the Future: Progress, Hope, and Fear 10. Progress and Its Errant Children: More Is Never Enough 11. The Necessary Coalition: Social Movements, Legislatures, and Business Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of Michael Grossman’s most important papers adds essential background and depth to his work on economic determinants of public health. It contextualizes the issues and addresses the larger stakes of his work. Determinants of Health explains how the economic choices people make influence health and health behaviors.Trade ReviewA volume of Grossman's selected works is long overdue. One of the founders of the field of health economics, he has been an incredibly prolific researcher, and there is enormous value to having his seminal papers available in book form. -- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University They say that success has many fathers - and one clear share of paternity for the incredibly successful field of health economics belongs to Mike Grossman. His work on health capital defined the framework for economists' modeling health outcomes, and his broad empirical agenda has led the way in applying the model. And his research agenda on addictive behaviors paved the way for the entry of this area into mainstream health economics. This book is a terrific chance for those inside and outside the field to reflect on Mike's many accomplishments. -- Jonathan Gruber, MIT Michael Grossman is one of the founders of the field of health economics, who has contributed enormously to our understanding of the demand for health, the relationship between education and health, determinants of infant health, and the economics of risky health behaviors. This volume of his best, most often-cited articles (which are required reading in graduate courses in health economics) is long overdue. I use and cite these papers routinely, and this volume will have a prominent place on my bookshelf, next to the works of Gary Becker. -- John Cawley, Cornell University, coeditor of the Journal of Health Economics This volume collects papers that rest on and flow from Michael Grossman's seminal 1972 model of health capital. The coherent and impressive body of work informs and serves as a "hypothesis generating machine." Discerning readers will be inspired to push the frontier of knowledge about the rational production of health. -- Dean Lillard, The Ohio State University Michael Grossman was the original intellectual leader in the economics of population health and health behaviors, and his leadership internationally has persisted over five decades. This book assembles his work from disparate sources in one place. His commentaries on his studies provide helpful perspective, especially for relative newcomers to the field. However, even old-timers are likely to discover papers relevant to their own work that they wish they had read previously. -- Frank Sloan, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by John MullahyIntroduction and AcknowledgmentsPart 1. The Demand for Health: Theoretical Underpinnings and Empirical ResultsIntroduction to Part 11. On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health, by Michael Grossman2. The Human Capital Model, by Michael GrossmanAfterword to Part 1Part 2. The Relationship between Health and SchoolingIntroduction to Part 23. The Correlation between Health and Schooling, by Michael Grossman4. An Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship between Health and Cognitive Development in Adolescence, by Robert A. Shakotko, Linda N. Edwards, and Michael Grossman5. Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan, by Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, Michael Grossman, and Ted Joyce6. Women’s Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey, by Mehmet Alper Dinçer, Neeraj Kaushal, and Michael GrossmanAfterword to Part 2Part 3. Determinants of Infant Health with Special Emphasis on Public Policies and ProgramsIntroduction to Part 37. Variations in Infant Mortality Rates among Counties of the United States: The Roles of Public Policies and Programs, by Michael Grossman and Steven Jacobowitz8. Determinants of Neonatal Mortality Rates in the United States: A Reduced Form Model, by Hope Corman and Michael Grossman9. Birth Outcome Production Functions in the United States, by Hope Corman, Theodore J. Joyce, and Michael Grossman10. Unobservables, Pregnancy Resolutions, and Birth Weight Production Functions in New York City, by Michael Grossman and Theodore J. Joyce11. The Impact of National Health Insurance on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan, Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, and Jin-Tan LiuAfterword to Part 3Part 4. The Economics of Unhealthy BehaviorsIntroduction to Part 412. The Effects of Government Regulation on Teenage Smoking, by Eugene M. Lewit, Douglas Coate, and Michael Grossman13. Beer Taxes, the Legal Drinking Age, and Youth Motor Vehicle Fatalities, by Henry Saffer and Michael Grossman14. Effects of Alcoholic Beverage Prices and Legal Drinking Ages on Youth Alcohol Use, by Douglas Coate and Michael Grossman15. Rational Addiction and the Effect of Price on Consumption, by Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman, and Kevin M. Murphy16. An Empirical Analysis of Cigarette Addiction, by Gary S. Becker, Michael Grossman, and Kevin M. Murphy17. An Empirical Analysis of Alcohol Addiction: Results from the Monitoring the Future Panels, by Michael Grossman, Frank J. Chaloupka, and Ismail Sirtalan18. The Demand for Cocaine by Young Adults: A Rational Addiction Approach, by Michael Grossman and Frank J. Chaloupka19. An Economic Analysis of Adult Obesity: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, by Shin-Yi Chou, Michael Grossman, and Henry Saffer20. Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity, by Shin-Yi Chou, Inas Rashad, and Michael Grossman21. Food Prices and Body Fatness among Youths, by Michael Grossman, Erdal Tekin, and Roy WadaAfterword to Part 4ReflectionsIndex

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Book SynopsisA seminal work in health economics first published in 1972, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status of the population. His work uniquely synthesized economic and public health knowledge and has catalyzed a vastly influential body of health economics literature.Trade ReviewA most remarkable study, which ranks among the very most important and pioneering ones in health economics. -- Gary S. Becker A seminal work in health economics, which led to a major stream of literature dealing with the determinants of the health status of the population. -- Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University Grossman's The Demand for Health did for health economics what Gary Becker's Human Capital did for labor economics by describing the broad, integrative power of human capital theory. -- Robert Michael, University of Chicago The Demand for Health revolutionized economists' theorizing about health. -- Arleen A. Leibowitz, University of California, Los Angeles The Demand for Health quickly had a major impact on health economics and has continued to inspire streams of research ever since. -- Victor Fuchs, Stanford University A pathbreaking work on the demand for health, the production of health, and health capital. -- John Mullahy, University of Wisconsin An elegant study in the tradition of Becker, using micro-economic methods to explore an area of non firm capital formation, and then ingeniously exploiting survey data to test some interesting theoretical propositions. -- J. D. Pole Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A ground breaking work which has produced a model that is theoretically sound, intuitively appealing, and yields significantly testable implications. -- Ronald Anderson The Journal of Economic Literature Grossman's theoretical model, which is a major innovation, treats the demand for health (and the derived demand for medical care) as determined in the context of a life-cycle model of human capital investment. -- David Salkever American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsTable of ContentsList of TablesForeword to the 2017 EditionForeword to the 1972 EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and Summary1. A Stock Approach to the Demand for Health2. The Shadow Price of Health3. The Pure Consumption Model4. An Empirical Formulation of the Model5. Empirical Results: The Norc Sample6. Joint Production and the Mortality DataAppendix A. Utility MaximizationsAppendix B. Derivation of Investment Model FormulasAppendix C. Derivation of Consumption Model FormulasAppendix D. Statistical Properties of the ModelAppendix E. Additional Empirical ResultsAppendix F. Sources and Methods: Mortality AnalysisNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is a layperson’s guide to understanding chemical risk. The toxicologist Gerald A. LeBlanc offers a nontechnical overview of the key factors in evaluating whether exposure to chemicals in our daily lives could be harmful.Trade ReviewEveryday Chemicals makes an essential yet fairly nuanced topic both intelligible and engaging. LeBlanc's narrative voice, humor, and good wit help readers navigate information and decision making regarding personal choice around toxicological risk. -- James C. Zimring, author of Partial Truths and What Science Is and How It Really WorksEngaging. Well-written. Recommended. * Choice Reviews, the American Library Association (ALA) *Table of ContentsPrefaceList of Abbreviations1. The Chemical Paradox2. Lessons from the Past3. Elements of Risk4. Coping with Uncertainty and Variability5. Assessing Risks6. Susceptible Populations7. A Cumulative Risk Assessment: Chemicals on the Produce Shelf8. Assessing Risks: Pharmaceuticals9. Assessing Risks: Herbal Supplements10. Assessing Risks: Chemicals in Our Water11. Assessing Risks: Chemicals in Our Food12. Assessing Risks: Chemicals on Our Skin13. Assessing Risks: The Curious Case of BPAEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines.

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Book SynopsisExamines important aspects of China's century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people.Trade ReviewMedical Transitions in Twentieth Century China provides rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens. Yet the book sheds light on more than simply China's own medical transitions, and should appeal to anyone interested more broadly in the modern history of health. * The Lancet *Anyone interested in the history of modern medicine will find this an especially instructive book for its focus on China, its treatment of political and social issues, and its explanation of how decollectivization and China's opening to a market economy have impacted medicine and health care. A substantial bibliography and detailed index make this a particularly useful volume for promoting further scholarship on the history and politics of medicine in contemporary China. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[T]his volume provides an invaluable synthesis of modern medical development in China, and useful sources for survey courses on medical history, public health and the global circulation of knowledge. * Social History of Medicine *Overall, this work achieves what it set out to do: write a general overview of the great changes in the history of health and health care in twentieth-century China. The collection of papers is impressive and gives the reader a good introduction into the transformations in health and medical care in China. * Frontiers of History in Chinca *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: Health Transitions 1. China's Exceptional Health Transitions: Overcoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Lincoln Chen and Chen Ling2. Changing Patterns of Diseases and Longevity: The evolution of health in 20th century Beijing / Zhang Daqing3. Maternal and Child Health in Nineteenth- to Twenty-first-Century China / Yi-li Wu and Tina Johnson4. Tobacco Smoking and Health in Twentieth-Century China / Carol BenedictPart 2: Disease Transitions5. Epidemics and Public Health in Twentieth-Century China / Yu Xinzhong6. Schistosomiasis / Miriam Gross and Fan Ka Wai7. Tuberculosis control in Shanghai: bringing health to the masses, 1928-present / Rachel Core8. The Development of Psychiatric Services in China: Christianity, Communism and Community / Veronica PearsonPart 3: Adaptations and Innovations9. Foreign Models of Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Part One / Gao Xi10. John B. Grant: Public Health and State Medicine / Bu Liping11. The Influence of War on China's Modern Health Systems / Nicole Barnes and John Watt12. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine / Volker Scheid and Sean Hsiang-lin Lei13. Barefoot doctors and the provision of rural health care / Fang XiaopingPart 4: Professional Transitions14. A Case Study of Transnational Flows of Chinese Medical Professionals: China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation Fellows / Mary Brown Bullock15. The Development of Modern Nursing in China / Sonya Grypma and Zhen Cheng16. The Evolution of the Hospital in Twentieth-Century China / Michelle RenshawConclusionAppendix: TimelineNotesGeneral BibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisHealth patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. This volume provides an approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewThe essays in this volume . . . deserve a wide readership, not only by those interested in the history of medicine but by all who are interested in the history of Southeast Asia. * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *[T]his volume is a remarkable addition to scholarship. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sunil Amrith and Tim HarperPart I. The Long Duree1. Knowledge Transition and the Transformation of Medicine in Early Modern Siam / Komatra Chuengsatiansup & Nopphanat Anuphongphat Part II. Health and Crisis2. Pilgrim Ships and the Frontiers of Contagion: Quarantine Regimes from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 / Kirsty Walker4. Disaster Medicine in Southeast Asia / Greg BankoffPart III. Uneven Transitions5. The Demographic History of Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century / Peter Boomgaard6. "Rural" Health in Modern Southeast Asia / Atsuko Naoko 7. Population Ageing and the Family: The Southeast Asian Context / Theresa W. Devasahayam8. Epidemic Disease in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia / Mary WilsonPart IV. The Politics of Health9. The Internationalization of Health in Southeast Asia / Sunil Amrith10. Modernising yet Marginal: Hospitals and Asylums in Southeast Asia in the 20th Century / Loh Kah Seng11. Healing the Nation: Politics, Medicine and Analogies of Health in Southeast Asia / Rachel Leow12. Health or Tobacco: Competing Perspectives in Modern Southeast Asia / Loh Wei Leng13. The Role of Non-governmental Organizations in the Field of Health in Modern Southeast Asia: the Philippine Experience / Teresa S Encarnacion TademNotesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe therapeutic gap between traditional and modern medicineTrade ReviewBodies, Politics, and African Healing is a bold and imaginative account that deserves to be read not only as an ethnography of medical pluralities in postcolonial Tanzania but also as an exemplary investigation into the field of ontological politics that unsettles deep-seated assumptions about truth and power. It will change the way many anthropologists think and write about medical ontologies in Africa and elsewhere. * Anthropology and Humanism *This book contributes to the understanding of traditional medicine in a contemporary African setting. It makes clear the inequalities that shape the space under which healers must operate, and their efforts to work this to their advantage. * Anthropos *This is an important and convincing reframing not only of the meaning of healing in postcolonial Tanzania, but also of what healing does. Bodies, Politics, and African Healing successfully challenges us to reconsider the very way in which we think about African healing. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *Stacey Langwick draws on the insights raised by science technology studies and anthropological–historical analyses to reconsider what health and healing means in the town–district of Newala, situated on the edge of the Makonde Plateau, in southeastern Tanzania. . . She pushes readers to consider seriously how healers bring into material being the often unseen entities from other realms, an important part of their therapeutic practice39.2 May 2012 * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Translation Prologue: AIDS, Rats, and Soldiers' Belts 1. Orientations Part 1. A Short Genealogy of Traditional Medicine 2. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Native Medicine 3. Making Tanzanian Traditional MedicinePart 2. Hailing Traditional Experts 4. Healers and Their Intimate Becomings 5. Traditional Birth Attendants as Institutional EvocationsPart 3. Healing Matters 6. Alternative Materialities 7. Interferences and Inclusions 8. Shifting Existences, or Being and Not-Being Conclusion: Postcolonial Ontological Politics EpilogueGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Smell Detectives is a brilliant, entertaining book informed by careful archival research. Supplemented by fascinating illustrations, the book navigates a rich and eclectic archive that is frequently obscured when historians overemphasize the perspectives of health experts and government officials. . . . Kiechle's remarkable study opens up productive new questions and lines of inquiry." -- Hsuan L. Hsu * Journal of Historical Geography *"Kiechle’s addition to sensory history provides many points to discuss about the people who made the smells that they did not like." -- Alexandra Kindell * H-Net Reviews (H-Socialisms) *"This book is a highly creative and unusual glimpse into a realm of environmental history that is rarely accessible to modern observers." -- Sean Munger * New Books Network podcast *"An attractive edition . . . beautifully written, with a flair for the attention-grabbing turn of phrase that is compulsory in sensory studies. The work is also finely illustrated, offering prints from the nineteenth century that are at no occasion superfluous. As environmental history, Smell Detectives is an essential read, offering new contexts for a field in search of freshly radical tones to combat environmental degradation." -- Andrew J. Kettler, University of Toronto * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsForeword / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction | What’s That Smell? 1. The Smells of Sick Cities 2. Navigating by Nose: Common Sense and Responses to Urban Odors 3. Smells like Home: Odors in the Domestic Environment 4. The Stenches of Civil War 5. Smelling Committees and Authority over City Air 6. Learning to Smell Again: Managing the Air between the Civil War and Germ Theory 7. Visualizing Vapors and Seeing Smells 8. Dirty Cities, Smelly Bodies: City Odors after Germ Theory Conclusion: If You Smell Something, Say Something

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Book SynopsisA forceful intervention into the philosophy of therapeutics at the level of the individualTrade Review"Meyers’ exceptional work does a wonderful job of making ‘visible what is visible’ about the lived realities of adolescent drug users, the emergent geographies of contemporary drug treatment, and the philosophical foundations of the clinic." -- Jessie Proudfoot * Society and Space—Environment and Planning *"Central to this compelling ethnographic monograph, as indicated by its subtitle, is what the author calls the ‘afterlife’ of therapy: what happens to teenagers following buprenorphinetreatment?...There is much to recommend here for scientists concerned with what happens to the substances they develop once they have left the walls of the laboratory, and how young lives are impacted and changed in the process." -- Dr. Martyn Pickersgill * The Biologist *"Unlike the more commonly encountered statistics of drug use and abuse found in other books, the author’s ethnographic approach provides a very real sense of the subjects’ lives, their experiences, and their definitions of success and failure." * Choice Reviews *"A book rich in ideas and one that resists oversimplification…the richness, the layers, and the range of theoretical and methodological discussions that form part of the book are what makes Meyers’ contribution relevant to ongoing discussions in a range of fields." -- Patricia Thille * Health *"[A]n appropriate book to teach a wide range of anthropology classes. . . . [A]n excellent example of writing about the intersection of methodology and theory. . . . Through its seriousness of purpose and intellectual rigor, The Clinic and Elsewhere leaves us, thankfully, curious and unsettled, asking: What will happen next in addiction medicine? And, equally important, how will we think about it?" -- Kelly Ray Knight * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. New Uses for Old Things 2. Monasticism 3. Appropriations of Care 4. Therapy and Reason 5. Patienthood 6. Disappearances Conclusion: Enduring Presence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.Table of Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xvii Introduction 3 Part I: A History of Population and Disease in the Lower Congo 1 Population Decline and Rise 41 2 Postcolonial Population and Disease Trends 65 Part II: The Social Reproduction of Health 3 Health in Household, Family, and Clan 89 4 Public Health and Health Care Institutions, Reconfigured 109 5 Rejoicing in Our Bodies: Popular Meanings of Health 145 Part III: The Legitimation of Power and Knowledge 6 Dumuna: Creating Authority from Below 159 7 Science, Sorcery, and Spirit 190 8 Legitimation and Disease Control 214 Conclusion 229 Notes 235 Bibliography 243 Index 251

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Book SynopsisIn rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, and increasing educational and economic opportunities for South Africa's Black middle class. Leslie Anne Hadfield demonstrates how these women were able to reshape notions of health and healing.Trade ReviewThis timely monograph on the history of nursing vocation, tenaciously pursued by women apartheid South Africa's Ciskei area, is a captivating read. One marvels how A Bold Profession, adeptly elucidates transcending intricacies of nursing beyond mere conventional health practice, onto other facets of social history in this region."" - Luvuyo Wotshela, University of Fort Hare, South Africa ""Hadfield's sensitive and respectful study is a reminder that every day, nurses are out on the front line and can be found serving communities in remote rural areas accessed with difficulty. This is an important book for anyone interested in health care and in making sense of how the past continues to shape the present in South Africa."" - Anne Mager, University of Cape Town

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Book SynopsisIn rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Leslie Anne Hadfield compellingly demonstrates how these women were able to successfully carve out their own professional space and reshape notions of health and healing in the Eastern Cape.Trade ReviewThis timely monograph on the history of nursing vocation, tenaciously pursued by women apartheid South Africa’s Ciskei area, is a captivating read. One marvels how A Bold Profession, adeptly elucidates transcending intricacies of nursing beyond mere conventional health practice, onto other facets of social history in this region." - Luvuyo Wotshela, University of Fort Hare, South Africa"Hadfield’s sensitive and respectful study is a reminder that every day, nurses are out on the front line and can be found serving communities in remote rural areas accessed with difficulty. This is an important book for anyone interested in health care and in making sense of how the past continues to shape the present in South Africa." - Anne Mager, University of Cape Town"A much-needed, detailed narrative history of Black nurses in rural South Africa from the middle to late twentieth century. . . . The women who became nurses and worked in the Ciskei during the apartheid years made consequential differences in the lives of their patients and communities. Hadfield’s book adds significant richness to the history of medicine, nursing, and women and gender in South Africa. Rather than heroic tales, the nurses’ personal accounts are deeply human, making their lives that much bolder." - H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisA study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity over the last six centuries. It examines the connections between the movement of epidemics and the manifestations of imperial power in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe, showing how perceptions of whom a disease targeted changed over time.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Adding a new angle…The Great Inoculator tells the forgotten story of Daniel Sutton, a lowly surgeon from Essex who became an inoculation entrepreneur.”—Kate Womersley, The Spectator“Weightman relates [this story] with clarity and verve.”—Gareth Williams, BBC History Magazine ‘Best Books of 2020’ ‘This engagingly written account shows the debt Jenner owed to Daniel Sutton, a young unqualified surgeon working in Ingatestone in Essex from the 1760s. Sutton’s practice of inoculation played a vital part in the acceptance of the procedure worldwide. This fascinating book throws light on the cut throat commercial world of eighteenth century medicine and surgery, and its connections with royalty, aristocracy and the lower orders.’— Virginia Berridge, author of Public Health

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Book SynopsisThe "riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle) story of the discovery that handwashing helps prevent the spread of disease.Trade Review"Nuland has managed to rediscover a critical moment in the history of medicine, the anxieties of which…persist today." -- New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live.Trade Review"A Good Time to be Born is an ambitious, elegant meditation on what the doctor-writer Perri Klass describes as one of our greatest human achievements: a reduction in child mortality... [Klass] takes the most complex human patterns of all—history, medicine, politics, art—and knits them into something unique and beautiful... This is an important book for many reasons, but that Klass has given voice to the voiceless is perhaps the most significant." -- The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisDesigned to help those suffering the lasting effects of accidents, assaults, injuries and disasters, this book guides trauma victims in getting medical, psychological and legal help, and instructs clinicians on how to treat these patients effectively.

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Book SynopsisThe fight against child mortality that transformed parenting, doctoring and the way we live

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Book SynopsisThe recent expansion in genome data and the parallel increase in cheap computing power has placed the bioinformatics exploration of pathogen genomes centre stage for vaccine researchers. The book shows how bioinformatic techniques can solve key problems from vaccinology and immunology.Trade Review“It pulls a number of different disciplines into a concise review that illustrates the potential we have in science to change our world.” (Doody's, April 2009) "This book may well serve as a first line of reference for all biologists and computer scientists. This textbook would be an excellent addition to the bookshelf of most scientists who encounter vaccinology in the drug discovery and development processes." ( Virology Journal - October -2009) Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgements xv Exordium xvii 1 Vaccines: Their place in history 1 Smallpox in history 1 Variolation 3 Variolation in history 5 Variolation comes to Britain 6 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 9 Variolation and the Sublime Porte 11 The royal experiment 13 The boston connection 14 Variolation takes hold 17 The Suttonian method 18 Variolation in Europe 19 The coming of vaccination 21 Edward Jenner 23 Cowpox 26 Vaccination vindicated 28 Louis Pasteur 29 Vaccination becomes a science 30 Meister, Pasteur and rabies 31 A vaccine for every disease 33 In the time of cholera 34 Haffkine and cholera 36 Bubonic plague 37 The changing face of disease 39 Almroth wright and typhoid 40 Tuberculosis, Koch, and Calmette 43 Vaccine BCG 44 Poliomyelitis 46 Salk and Sabin 47 Diphtheria 49 Whooping cough 50 Many diseases, many vaccines 51 Smallpox: Endgame 53 Further reading 54 2 Vaccines: Need and opportunity 55 Eradication and reservoirs 55 The ongoing burden of disease 57 Lifespans 57 The evolving nature of disease 59 Economics, climate and disease 60 Three threats 60 Tuberculosis in the 21st century 61 HIV and AIDS 62 Malaria: Then and now 63 Influenza 64 Bioterrorism 65 Vaccines as medicines 67 Vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry 68 Making vaccines 70 The coming of the vaccine industry 70 3 Vaccines: How they work 73 Challenging the immune system 73 The threat from bacteria: Robust, diverse, and endemic 74 Microbes, diversity and metagenomics 75 The intrinsic complexity of the bacterial threat 76 Microbes and humankind 77 The nature of vaccines 78 Types of vaccine 80 Carbohydrate vaccines 82 Epitopic vaccines 82 Vaccine delivery 83 Emerging immunovaccinology 84 The immune system 85 Innate immunity 86 Adaptive immunity 88 The microbiome and mucosal immunity 90 Cellular components of immunity 90 Cellular immunity 93 The T cell repertoire 93 Epitopes: The immunological quantum 94 The major histocompatibility complex 95 MHC nomenclature 97 Peptide binding by the MHC 98 The structure of the MHC 99 Antigen presentation 101 The proteasome 101 Transporter associated with antigen processing 103 Class II processing 103 Seek simplicity and then distrust it 104 Cross presentation 105 T cell receptor 106 T cell activation 108 Immunological synapse 109 Signal 1, signal 2, immunodominance 109 Humoral immunity 110 Further reading 112 4 Vaccines: Data and databases 113 Making sense of data 113 Knowledge in a box 114 The science of -omes and -omics 115 The proteome 115 Systems biology 116 The immunome 117 Databases and databanks 118 The relational database 119 The XML database 119 The protein universe 120 Much data, many databases 122 What proteins do 122 What proteins are 124 The amino acid world 124 The chiral nature of amino acids 127 Naming the amino acids 130 The amino acid alphabet 132 Defining amino acid properties 134 Size, charge and hydrogen bonding 135 Hydrophobicity, lipophilicity and partitioning 136 Understanding partitioning 139 Charges, ionization, and pka 140 Many kinds of property 143 Mapping the world of sequences 146 Biological sequence databases 147 Nucleic acid sequence databases 148 Protein sequence databases 149 Annotating databases 150 Text mining 151 Ontologies 153 Secondary sequence databases 154 Other databases 155 Databases in immunology 156 Host databases 156 Pathogen databases 159 Functional immunological databases 161 Composite, integrated databases 162 Allergen databases 163 Further reading 165 Reference 165 5 Vaccines: Data driven prediction of binders, epitopes and immunogenicity 167 Towards epitope-based vaccines 167 T cell epitope prediction 168 Predicting MHC binding 169 Binding is biology 172 Quantifying binding 173 Entropy, enthalpy and entropy-enthalpy compensation 174 Experimental measurement of binding 175 Modern measurement methods 177 Isothermal titration calorimetry 178 Long and short of peptide binding 179 The class I peptide repertoire 180 Practicalities of binding prediction 181 Binding becomes recognition 182 Immunoinformatics lends a hand 183 Motif based prediction 184 The imperfect motif 185 Other approaches to binding prediction 186 Representing sequences 187 Computer science lends a hand 188 Artificial neural networks 188 Hidden Markov models 190 Support vector machines 190 Robust multivariate statistics 191 Partial least squares 191 Quantitative structure activity relationships 192 Other techniques and sequence representations 193 Amino acid properties 194 Direct epitope prediction 195 Predicting antigen presentation 196 Predicting class II MHC binding 197 Assessing prediction accuracy 199 ROC plots 202 Quantitative accuracy 203 Prediction assessment protocols 204 Comparing predictions 206 Prediction versus experiment 207 Predicting B cell epitopes 208 Peak profiles and smoothing 209 Early methods 210 Imperfect B cell prediction 211 References 212 6 Vaccines: Structural approaches 217 Structure and function 217 Types of protein structure 219 Protein folding 220 Ramachandran plots 221 Local structures 222 Protein families, protein folds 223 Comparing structures 223 Experimental structure determination 224 Structural genomics 226 Protein structure databases 227 Other databases 228 Immunological structural databases 229 Small molecule databases 230 Protein homology modelling 231 Using homology modelling 232 Predicting MHC supertypes 233 Application to alloreactivity 235 3D-QSAR 236 Protein docking 238 Predicting B cell epitopes with docking 238 Virtual screening 240 Limitations to virtual screening 241 Predicting epitopes with virtual screening 243 Virtual screening and adjuvant discovery 244 Adjuvants and innate immunity 245 Small molecule adjuvants 246 Molecular dynamics and immunology 248 Molecular dynamics methodology 249 Molecular dynamics and binding 249 Immunological applications 250 Limitations of molecular dynamics 251 Molecular dynamics and high performance computing 252 References 253 7 Vaccines: Computational solutions 257 Vaccines and the world 257 Bioinformatics and the challenge for vaccinology 259 Predicting immunogenicity 260 Computational vaccinology 261 The threat remains 262 Beyond empirical vaccinology 262 Designing new vaccines 263 The perfect vaccine 264 Conventional approaches 265 Genome sequences 266 Size of a genome 267 Reverse vaccinology 268 Finding antigens 269 The success of reverse vaccinology 271 Tumour vaccines 273 Prediction and personalised medicine 275 Imperfect data 276 Forecasting and the future of computational vaccinology 277 Index 283

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Book SynopsisPraise for Urban Health and Society This is a spectacular resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students interested in improving the lives and health of individuals and families in urban settings. This book provides the most current frameworks, research, and approaches for understanding how unique features of the urban physical and social environments that shape the health of over half of the world''s population that is already residing in large cities. Its interdisciplinary research and practice focus is a welcome innovation. ?Hortensia Amaro, associate dean, Urban Health Research; Distinguished Professor, Bouve College of Health Sciences; and director, Institute on Urban Health Research, Northeastern University Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice provides students in public health, urban planning, social work, and other professions with the critical knowledge and practical guidance tTrade Review... Takes a practical focus to introducing researchers and graduate students to the connections between population health and social justice, the variety of approaches to studying those connections from an interdisciplinary vantage point, the creation of interventions to address disparities, and potential applications of these approaches for research. The editors and contributing authors succeed with a book that provides examples of and formulas for interdisciplinary research in a variety of fields related to urban health. The authors do a superb job of tying the chapters together, beginning with why these approaches to research and practice are warranted and ending with potential limitations and benefits. This book brings practical knowledge together from a variety of disciplines to enhance population health and social justice research. —Doody's Book Review Service, April 2010Table of ContentsPreface xi The Contributors xiii PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1 1 FRAMEWORKS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY URBAN HEALTH RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 3Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert Introduction 4 The Implications of Urban Life for Health 6 Levels and Types of Interdisciplinarity 8 Conundrums in Interdisciplinarity 10 Interdisciplinarity and Theories of Knowledge 11 Methodological Challenges and Approaches to Interdisciplinarity 12 Interdisciplinarity: Which Disciplines When? 12 Role Defi nitions in Interdisciplinary Research and Practice 13 Multiple Levels of Intervention 14 Summary 15 2 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PRAXIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY URBAN PUBLIC HEALTH 19Tom Angotti, Julie Sze Environmental Justice and Public Health 22 The Built Environment, Urban Planning, and Urban Public Health 23 Environmental and Social Justice, Interdisciplinarity, and the Politics of Knowledge 26 Asthma and the Environmental Justice Campaign for a Solid Waste Plan in New York City 29 Asian Immigrant and Refugee Organizing for Environmental Health and Housing in the Bay Area 34 Conclusion 37 Summary 38 PART TWO INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO STUDYING CAUSES OF URBAN HEALTH PROBLEMS 43 3 INTERDISCIPLINARY, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH ON URBAN FOOD ENVIRONMENTS AND DIETARY BEHAVIORS 45Shannon N. Zenk, Amy J. Schulz, Angela M. Odoms-Young, Murlisa Lockett Introduction 46 Determinants of Retail Food Environments in Cities 47 Using CBPR to Understand the Health Implications of Detroit’s Food Environment 48 Directions for Future Research 54 Summary 56 4 AN ECOLOGICAL MODEL OF URBAN CHILD HEALTH 63Kim T. Ferguson, Pilyoung Kim, James R. Dunn, Gary W. Evans Introduction 64 An Ecological Model 64 Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Model 65 Influences on Children’s Health in the Urban Context 68 Research Across Multiple Levels 76 Agenda for Future Research and Practice 78 Summary 80 5 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 93Juliana Maantay, Andrew R. Maroko, Carlos Alicea, A. H. Strelnick Introduction 94 Community-Based Participatory Research 95 Multilevel Models of Causation 96 Role of Geographic Information Systems 96 Environmental Justice and Health in the Bronx 97 Methods 101 Findings 110 Implications of Findings 111 Lessons on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Health Research 117 Conclusion 119 Summary 119 6 RACIAL INEQUALITY IN HEALTH AND THE POLICY-INDUCED BREAKDOWN OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 127Arline T. Geronimus, J. Phillip Thompson Introduction 128 Racialized Ideologies: Developmentalism, Economism, and the American Creed 131 Implications for Public Policy 138 Building a Movement for Policy Reform 144 Summary 148 7 AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. FORECLOSURE CRISIS AS IT RELATES TO HEALTH 161Susan Saegert, Kimberly Libman, Desiree Fields Housing and Health: What’s the Connection? 162 The Social Ecology of Foreclosure 164 The Research and Its Context 166 Focus Group Analysis and the Emergence of Health as an Issue 170 Foreclosure and Public Health 173 Neoliberalism, the Foreclosure Crisis, and Health Consequences 174 Conclusion 176 Summary 178 PART THREE INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE URBAN HEALTH 183 8 TRANSDISCIPLINARY ACTION RESEARCH ON TEEN SMOKING PREVENTION 185Juliana Fuqua, Daniel Stokols, Richard Harvey, Atusa Baghery, Larry Jamner Introduction 186 Review of Transdisciplinary Action Research 186 Transdisciplinary Action Research Cycle 187 Translating Transdisciplinary Research into Community Intervention and Policy 189 Factors Facilitating or Impeding Collaboration Among TPC Members 196 Implications and Additional Lessons Learned from the TPC Study 205 Future Directions 207 Summary 211 9 HOW VULNERABILITIES AND CAPACITIES SHAPE POPULATION HEALTH AFTER DISASTERS 217Craig Hadley, Sasha Rudenstine, Sandro Galea Social and Economic Determinants of Health After Disasters 218 Humanitarian Crises in Angola and the Balkans 223 Hurricane Katrina 224 September 11, 2001, Terrorist Attacks on New York City 226 Implications for Prevention and Intervention 229 Summary 231 10 IMMIGRANTS AND URBAN AGING: TOWARD A POLICY FRAMEWORK 239Marianne Fahs, Anahí Viladrich, Nina S. Parikh The New Urban Demography: Baby Boomers and Immigrants 240 Economic and Social Influences on Aging and Health Policy 242 Social and Environmental Considerations 246 Toward a Conceptual Framework 254 A Public Health Research and Policy Agenda 255 Summary 258 11 REVERSING THE TIDE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH 271Hollie Jones, Leandris C. Liburd A Dialogue Between Two Disciplines: Psychology and Medical Anthropology 273 Ethnic Identity and the Experience of Being African American with Type 2 Diabetes 278 Interdisciplinary Research Methods 281 Integrating Social Psychology and Medical Anthropology to Reduce the Burden of Diabetes 284 Summary 285 PART FOUR PUTTING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES INTO PRACTICE 293 12 USING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO STRENGTHEN URBAN HEALTH RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 295Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert Doing Interdisciplinary Research and Practice 296 Defining the Problem 299 Creating a Process for Interdisciplinary Work 302 Choosing Institutional and Community Partners 305 Influencing Policy and Practice 309 Evaluating Impact 311 Wanted: Interdisciplinary Researchers and Practitioners 312 Summary 314 GLOSSARY 319 INDEX 325

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Book SynopsisWritten by Peter J. Fos?an expert in epidemiology with more than twenty years teaching experience?Epidemiology Foundations offers an ideal introduction to the theory and practice of public health epidemiology. This important text discusses both the historical perspective and future trends of epidemiology, reviews health and disease, and explains how they are measured. The book''s overview of epidemiological studies shows how they are used in practice. Epidemiology Foundations takes a social and community perspective and includes information about global diseases and epidemics. Emphasis on concepts such as population health, social determinants, and global health make this book especially interesting and accessible to those new to the subject. Each chapter is supplemented with problem-solving exercises and research assignments to aid readers in understanding its epidemiology principles. Reflecting and expanding on recommendations of the Association of American Colleges and UniTable of ContentsFigures ix Tables xi Preface xv The Author xix Chapter 1: Why Epidemiology? 1 Introduction 2 Public Health and Community Medicine 2 Defi nition of Epidemiology 3 Population Health 9 Population Trends 10 Health Costs 15 Global Health Threats 17 Summary 17 Chapter 2: History of Epidemiology 21 Historical Perspectives 22 Uses of Epidemiology 29 Examples of Cohort Studies 30 Summary 31 Chapter 3: Health and Disease 35 Defi nitions 36 Distinction Between Health and Disease 37 Disease Progression 39 Cause and Effect 43 Summary 49 Chapter 4: Describing Health and Disease 53 Descriptive Epidemiology 54 Hypotheses 55 Descriptive Variables 56 Examples of Use of Descriptive Information 75 Summary 76 Chapter 5: Measuring Health and Disease 79 Morbidity 80 Mortality 90 Other Measures 97 Graphing Health and Disease Measurements 102 Confounding 105 Summary 108 Chapter 6: Epidemiology Study Designs: Observational and Experimental Studies 113 Defi nition of Observational Studies 114 Framework and Types of Observational Studies 114 Descriptive Studies 115 Analytical Studies 119 Examples of Observational Studies 123 Definition of Experimental Studies 124 Framework and Types of Experimental Studies 125 Clinical Trials 126 Bias and Validity 131 Examples of Experimental Studies 132 Summary 133 Chapter 7: Uses of Epidemiological Studies 137 Introduction 137 Observational Studies 139 Experimental Studies 152 Summary 153 Chapter 8: Epidemics 159 Definition 160 Transmission 161 Response to Epidemics 165 Surveillance 170 Reportable Diseases 171 Examples 171 Summary 174 Chapter 9: Epidemiology and Society 179 Introduction 180 Social Determinants 181 Socioeconomic Factors and Health 183 The Built Environment 185 Summary 188 Chapter 10: Screening for Disease 193 Prevention and Epidemiology 194 Screening 195 Accuracy of Screening Tests 196 Summary 207 Chapter 11: Community Public Health 211 Introduction 212 Community Health Workers 213 Community Level Planning and Evaluation 214 Examples 218 Public Health Programs 219 Public Health Agencies 224 Summary 225 Chapter 12: Epidemiology Today 229 Emergency Preparedness 230 Global Health 232 Emerging Diseases 236 Chronic Diseases 247 Summary 256 Notes 259 Index 275

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Book SynopsisThis book assists scientists, toxicologists, clinicians, and public health regulators to understand the complex issues that determine the impact of air pollution on the cardiovascular system.Trade Review"It is timely and detailed in its account of complex issues attending air pollution related to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary systems. . . This book could well be the most important occupational and environmental health book I have ever read." (Doody's, 16 September 2011) Table of ContentsFOREWORD. PREFACE. THE EDITORS. CONTRIBUTORS. PART I. ISSUE FRAMING. CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW (Flemming R. Cassee and Morton Lippmann). CHAPTER 2 ACUTE EFFECTS OF PARTICULATE MATTER ON THE RISK OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (Krishnan Bhaskaran, Shakoor Hajat, and Liam Smeeth). CHAPTER 3 CHRONIC EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH (Ranjini M. Krishnan, Joel Kaufman, and Gerard Hoek). PART II. EXPOSURE. CHAPTER 4 PARTICLE CHARACTERIZATION (Thomas A.J. Kuhlbusch and Christof Asbach). CHAPTER 5 EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT FOR AMBIENT ULTRAFINE PARTICLES (Timo Lanki, Josef Cyrys, H.-Erich Wichmann, and Jeroen de Hartog). CHAPTER 6 FROM EXPOSURE TO DOSE (Werner Hofmann and Bahman Asgharian). CHAPTER 7 TRANSLOCATION OF INHALED NANOPARTICLES (Wolfgang G. Kreyling, Winfried Möller, Otmar Schmid, Manuela Semmler-Behnke, and Günter Oberdörster). CHAPTER 8 ROLE OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION IN DETERMINING THE CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS OF PARTICLES (Andrew J. Ghio and Yuh-Chin T. Huang). PART III. METHODOLOGY. CHAPTER 9 IN VITRO STUDIES (Per E. Schwarze and Gerrit M. Alink). CHAPTER 10 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN ANIMALS (Urmila P. Kodavanti, Lung-Chi Chen, and Daniel L. Costa). CHAPTER 11 HUMAN EXPOSURE STUDIES (Jeremy P. Langrish, Mark W. Frampton, and Anders Blomberg). CHAPTER 12 PANEL STUDIES (Joel Schwartz). PART IV. PARTICLES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: MECHANISMS. A. ATHEROGENESIS. CHAPTER 13 PARTICULATES AND OXIDATIVE STRESS (Steffen Loft, Roel P.F. Schins, and Peter Møller). CHAPTER 14 ROLE OF INFLAMMATION IN THE ATHEROGENIC EFFECTS OF PARTICULATE MATTER (Thomas Sandström and David Newby). CHAPTER 15 INHALED PARTICLES, POSTPRANDIAL LIPIDS, AND THEIR POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTION TO ATHEROGENESIS: THE TROJAN HORSE HYPOTHESIS (Carlijne Hassing, Maarten J.M. Cramer, and Marcel Th.B. Twickler). CHAPTER 16 INHALED PARTICULATE MATTER AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN HUMANS (Barbara Hoffmann and Nino Künzli). CHAPTER 17 EFFECTS OF NANOPARTICLES ON THE PULMONARY VASCULATURE (Laurel E. Plummer, Kent E. Pinkerton, Amy K. Madl, and Dennis W. Wilson). CHAPTER 18 PARTICULATE MATTER, HYPERTENSION, AND THE METABOLIC SYNDROME (Robert D. Brook and Sanjay Rajagopalan). CHAPTER 19 PARTICLES AND THE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM (Nicholas L. Mills and Mark R. Miller). PART IV. PARTICLES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: MECHANISMS. B. VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION. PART IV. PARTICLES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: MECHANISMS. C. THROMBOSIS. CHAPTER 20 PARTICLES, COAGULATION, AND THROMBOSIS (Evren Kilinç, Goran Rudež, Henri M.H. Spronk, Abderrahim Nemmar, Moniek P.M. de Maat, Hugo ten Cate and Marc F. Hoylaerts). CHAPTER 21 PARTICLES AND THE PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROTHROMBOSIS (Qinghua Sun and Xiaohua Xu). PART IV. PARTICLES AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: MECHANISMS. D. ARRHYTHMIA. CHAPTER 22 PARTICLES AND THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (Swapna Upadhyay, Alison Elder, Wayne E. Cascio, and Holger Schulz). CHAPTER 23 AIR POLLUTION AND ARRHYTHMIA (Helen C. Routledge and Jonathan N. Townend). PART V. ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY. CHAPTER 24 RISK ASSESSMENT (Robert L. Maynard and Jon G. Ayres). CHAPTER 25 ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION OF PARTICULATE MATTER (Richard Damberg, Klaas Krijgsheld, May Ajero, and Sophie Punte). CHAPTER 26 FROM AMBIENT ULTRAFINE PARTICLES TO NANOTECHNOLOGY AND NANOTOXICOLOGY (Ken Donaldson and David B. Warheit). INDEX.

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Book SynopsisAccording to the U.S. Department of Labor, nearly 6,000 workers were killed on the job in 2006.Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, and Exhibits xi Introduction xv Acknowledgments xix The Authors xxi The Contributors xxiii Part One Public Health Prevention Focus 1 1 History and Importance of Public Health 3 A Brief History of U.S. Public Health 4 Healthy People 2010 8 Responsibilities of Public Health 11 Public Health Accomplishments 11 Emphasis on Prevention Not Control 14 Public Health and Occupational Health 16 Summary 25 Key Terms 25 Questions for Discussion 25 2 Epidemiology of Occupational Safety and Health 27 Introduction to Epidemiology 28 Surveillance Systems 31 Epidemiology Studies 33 Health Hazard Evaluations 35 Public Health Systems in the Workplace 37 Chronic Disease Epidemiology in the Workplace 38 Summary 39 Key Terms 39 Questions for Discussion 39 Part Two Occupational Safety and Health 41 3 History and Importance of Occupational Safety and Health 43 Health, Disease, and Prevention 48 The Role for Public Health 51 Summary 54 Key Terms 55 Questions for Discussion 55 4 Occupational Injuries 57 Epidemiology of Injuries 58 The Case for an Epidemiological Approach 59 Epidemiology of Accidents 66 Epidemiology of Violence 68 Surveillance Systems for Occupational Injuries 69 Surveillance Results 70 Injury Prevention Programs 73 Future Challenges 77 Summary 78 Key Terms 80 Questions for Discussion 80 5 Compliance versus Prevention 81 OSHA Standards Development 84 The Inspection Process 88 Compliance or Prevention 90 Prevention of Cumulative Problems 93 Summary 93 Key Terms 93 Questions for Discussion 93 Part Three Public Health Issues in Occupational Safety and Health 95 6 Toxicology 97 Application to Occupational Epidemiology 98 Subdisciplines in Toxicology 99 Classification of Toxic Agents 100 Environmental Tobacco Smoke 103 Risk Assessment 104 Toxicology Case Studies 105 Toxin Regulation and Research 105 Summary 108 Key Terms 109 Questions for Discussion 109 7 Stress 111 Stress Basics 112 Workplace Characteristics and Stress 116 Organizational Response to Stress 117 When to Get Help 122 Summary 122 Key Terms 122 Questions for Discussion 123 8 The Impaired Employee 125 Drug Use Frequency and Demographics 127 Epidemiology of Addiction 129 Substances Often Abused 134 Drug-Free Workplaces and EAPs 136 Summary 140 Key Terms 140 Questions for Discussion 141 9 Wellness Programs 143 Chronic Diseases in the Workplace 145 The Value of Wellness Programs 146 Addressing Obesity and Nutrition 147 Addressing Physical Inactivity 151 Addressing Tobacco Use 153 Developing Comprehensive Health Programs 155 The Role for Public Health 157 Summary 159 Key Terms 160 Questions for Discussion 160 10 Emergency Response Planning 161 Definitions 162 Emergency Management Planning Steps 162 Terrorism and Bioterrorism 164 Workplace Preparedness for Terrorism 167 CDC’s Strategic Workplace Plan 168 Applying Epidemiology to Preparedness 168 Applying an Information Model to Preparedness 174 Involving OSHA and NIOSH in Planning 175 Summary 176 Key Terms 177 Questions for Discussion 177 11 Ergonomics 179 Two Approaches: Broad and Narrow 181 Ergonomists’ Roles and Experience 187 Few Absolute Limits 188 Cumulative Trauma Disorders 189 The Industrial Athlete 195 Summary 198 Key Terms 198 Questions for Discussion 198 12 Communicable Diseases 199 Epidemiology of Communicable Diseases 200 Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases 202 Tuberculosis 203 Hepatitis 204 HIV and AIDS 207 Influenza 208 Emerging Infections 209 Summary 213 Key Terms 213 Questions for Discussion 214 13 Vision and Hearing Issues 215 Protecting Vision in the Workplace 216 Protecting Hearing in the Workplace 223 Summary 231 Key Terms 232 Questions for Discussion 232 14 Occupational Health Disparities 233 Disparate Populations 234 How Do Health Disparities Persist? 251 Future Trends in Health Disparities 256 Summary 257 Key Terms 258 Questions for Discussion 258 Part Four Evaluation and Leadership Issues in Prevention 259 15 Economic Impacts of Prevention 261 Premature Mortality 262 Employer Health Insurance Costs 262 The Purposes of Economic Evaluation 264 The Burden of Injury and Illness 264 Types of Economic Analysis 266 Target Areas for Evaluation 268 Summary 276 Key Terms 277 Questions for Discussion 277 16 Impacts of Leadership and Culture 279 Using Vision and Management Skills 282 Using Power Effectively 284 Exercising Transformational Leadership 286 Changing the Process of Work 287 Motivating Employees 287 Building a Culture 288 Empowering Workers 290 Improving Team Effectiveness 291 Summary 292 Key Terms 292 Questions for Discussion 292 References 293 Index 313

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Book SynopsisMany universities, hospitals, and medical research facilities offer short courses in introductory biostatistics for the clinicians, fellows, nurses, and health practitioners to become familiarized with statistical methods.Trade Review"This book should be very useful for its intended readers, but it would be helpful if they had a beginning understanding of basic statistics and terminology." (Doody's, 10 February 2012)Table of ContentsPreface ix 1. The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research 1 1.1 Defi nition of Statistics and Biostatistics, 1 1.2 Why Study Statistics?, 3 1.3 The Medical Literature, 9 1.4 Medical Research Studies, 11 1.4.1 Cross-sectional studies including surveys, 11 1.4.2 Retrospective studies, 12 1.4.3 Prospective studies other than clinical trials, 12 1.4.4 Controlled clinical trials, 12 1.4.5 Conclusions, 13 1.5 Exercises, 14 2. Sampling from Populations 15 2.1 Definitions of Populations and Samples, 17 2.2 Simple Random Sampling, 18 2.3 Selecting Simple Random Samples, 19 2.4 Other Sampling Methods, 27 2.5 Generating Bootstrap Samples, 28 2.6 Exercises, 32 3. Graphics and Summary Statistics 34 3.1 Continuous and Discrete Data, 34 3.2 Categorical Data, 35 3.3 Frequency Histograms, 35 3.4 Stem-and-Leaf Diagrams, 38 3.5 Box Plots, 39 3.6 Bar and Pie Charts, 39 3.7 Measures of the Center of a Distribution, 42 3.8 Measures of Dispersion, 46 3.9 Exercises, 50 4. Normal Distribution and Related Properties 51 4.1 Averages and the Central Limit Theorem, 51 4.2 Standard Error of the Mean, 53 4.3 Student's t-Distribution, 53 4.4 Exercises, 55 5. Estimating Means and Proportions 58 5.1 The Binomial and Poisson Distributions, 58 5.2 Point Estimates, 59 5.3 Confi dence Intervals, 62 5.4 Sample Size Determination, 65 5.5 Bootstrap Principle and Bootstrap Confidence Intervals, 66 5.6 Exercises, 69 6. Hypothesis Testing 72 6.1 Type I and Type II Errors, 73 6.2 One-Tailed and Two-Tailed Tests, 74 6.3 P-Values, 74 6.4 Comparing Means from Two Independent Samples: Two-Sample t-Test, 75 6.5 Paired t-Test, 76 6.6 Testing a Single Binomial Proportion, 78 6.7 Relationship Between Confi dence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests, 79 6.8 Sample Size Determination, 80 6.9 Bootstrap Tests, 81 6.10 Medical Diagnosis: Sensitivity and Specificity, 82 6.11 Special Tests in Clinical Research, 83 6.11.1 Superiority tests, 84 6.11.2 Equivalence and bioequivalence, 84 6.11.3 Noninferiority tests, 86 6.12 Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance and Longitudinal Data Analysis, 86 6.13 Meta-Analysis, 88 6.14 Exercises, 92 7. Correlation, Regression, and Logistic Regression 95 7.1 Relationship Between Two Variables and the Scatter Plot, 96 7.2 Pearson's Correlation, 99 7.3 Simple Linear Regression and Least Squares Estimation, 101 7.4 Sensitivity to Outliers and Robust Regression, 104 7.5 Multiple Regression, 111 7.6 Logistic Regression, 117 7.7 Exercises, 122 8. Contingency Tables 127 8.1 2 x 2 Tables and Chi-Square, 127 8.2 Simpson's Paradox in the 2 x 2 Table, 129 8.3 The General R x C Table, 132 8.4 Fisher's Exact Test, 133 8.5 Correlated Proportions and McNemar's Test, 136 8.6 Relative Risk and Odds Ratio, 138 8.7 Exercises, 141 9. Nonparametric Methods 145 9.1 Ranking Data, 146 9.2 Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test, 146 9.3 Sign Test, 149 9.4 Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient, 150 9.5 Insensitivity of Rank Tests to Outliers, 153 9.6 Exercises, 154 10. Survival Analysis 158 10.1 Time-to-Event Data and Right Censoring, 159 10.2 Life Tables, 160 10.3 Kaplan–Meier Curves, 164 10.3.1 The Kaplan-Meier curve: a nonparametric estimate of survival, 164 10.3.2 Confidence intervals for the Kaplan-Meier estimate, 165 10.3.3 The logrank and chi-square tests: comparing two or more survival curves, 166 10.4 Parametric Survival Curves, 168 10.4.1 Negative exponential survival distributions, 168 10.4.2 Weibull family of survival distributions, 169 10.5 Cox Proportional Hazard Models, 170 10.6 Cure Rate Models, 171 10.7 Exercises, 173 Solutions to Selected Exercises 175 Appendix: Statistical Tables 192 References 204 Author Index 209 Subject Index 211

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Book SynopsisService user involvement in mental health research poses specific challenges for both researchers and service users.Trade Review“Anyone involved or wanting to become involved in service user involvement in research would find plenty to inspire and challenge in this book.” (Nursing Times, 17 September 2012) "The emphasis in the handbook is of recovery and for research to be purposeful and useful in supporting this ... Reading this as a service user/carer, it gives optimism and hope as there are many good examples of personal stories and recovery – including recovery from schizophrenia which sends out a strong message." (MHRN newsletter, July 2011) "This engaging, helpful and well-informed handbook offers a comprehensive and thorough revievw of service user involvement in mental health research, covering issues ranging from values and collaboration to control and power." (Mental Health Practice, 1 June 2011) "The book may be of interest to those wanting to understand what user involvement can mean as well as those who have experienced it and want to extend their knowledge and research skills. Its scope means that chapters are necessarily brief but references are provided to follow up on interesting debates and topics." (British Journal of Psychiatry, December 2010) "My perspective, as a researcher who works with service users, is that this is a useful resource to dip in and out of for advice about practical issues that arise when working with service users, e.g. payment. The book clearly explains what needs to be considered in paying service users. I found this advice was not readily available elsewhere when I needed it." (The Bridge Newsletter, 2011) Table of ContentsForeword. Preface. About the Editors. About the Authors. Chapter 1 History, Context and Language (Jan Wallcraft and Mary Nettle). Chapter 2 Principles and Motives (Alison Faulkner). Chapter 3 Levels and Stages (Angela Sweeney and Louise Morgan). Chapter 4 Values (Bill (KWM) Fulford and Jan Wallcraft). Chapter 5 Roles (Jasna Russo and Peter Stastny). Chapter 6 Capacity-building (Kim Hopper and Alisa Lincoln). Chapter 7 Purposes and Goals (Larry Davidson, Priscilla Ridgway, Timothy Schmutte and Maria O'Connell). Chapter 8 Topics (Paulo Del vecchio and Crystal R. Blyler). Chapter 9 Methods (Jean Campbell). Chapter 10 Service Users as Paid Researchers (Jonathan Delman and Alisa Lincoln). Chapter 11 Consultation (Virginia Minogue). Chapter 12 Collaboration (Diana Rose). Chapter 13 Control (Peter Beresford). Chapter 14 Power (Paddy McGowan, Liam Mac Gabhann, Chris Stevenson and Jim Walsh). Chapter 15 Money (Sarah Hamilton). Chapter 16 Politics (Daniel B. Fisher). Chapter 17 Good Practice Guidance (Beate Schrank and Jan Wallcraft). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe basic focus of Chemical Concepts in Pollutant Behavior is to demonstrate how the properties of a chemical determine its fate and distribution in the environment.Trade Review"…a valuable text that will…[readers] understand the application of chemistry in the environmental area." (Energy Sources, June 2005) "The book is well written, well referenced and the topics are logically developed." (Journal of Hazardous Materials, October 2004)Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction. 2. Physical Chemical Parameters. 3. Sorption. 4. Evaporation. 5. Absorption and Bioconcentration. 6. Photochemical Processes. 7. Redox Processes. 8. Hydroloysis. 9. Metabolic Transformation. 10. Synthesis. Appendix. Index.

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Book SynopsisPublic health officials and occupational medical professionals who need to design and maintain public health surveillance programs will find the guidelines they need in this book. Public Health Surveillance covers uses of public surveillance programs for vaccine preventable diseases, as well as for viruses such as AIDS/HIV.Table of ContentsHistory of Public Health Surveillance (S. Thacker & R. Berkelman). Surveillance: The Sentinel Health Event Approach (P. Seligman & T. Frazier). Evaluating Public Health Surveillance Systems (D. Klaucke). Disease Surveillance at the State and Local Levels (G. Istre). Surveillance in Developing Countries (M. Malison). Hazard Surveillance (D. Wegman). Surveillance in the Control of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (W. Orenstein & R. Bernier). Surveillance of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (R. Berkelman, et al.). The Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (R. Gaynes). Chronic Disease Surveillance (P. Garbe & S. Blount). Injury Surveillance (P. Graitcer). Surveillance of Birth Defects (M. Lynberg & L. Edmonds). Surveillance of Occupational Illness and Injury (E. Baker & T. Matte). Epidemiologic Surveillance Following Disasters (R. Glass & E. Noji). Pharmacosurveillance: Public Health Monitoring of Medication (H. Tilson). Index.

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Book SynopsisChemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes explains how day-to-day variations in chemical exposure may cause unusual and seemingly unpredictable symptoms, including many that have been termed psychosomatic in the past.Table of ContentsDEFINING CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY. Chemical Exposures and Sensitive Populations. Key Terms and Concepts. Origins of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Effects on Health. MECHANISMS, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT. Mechanisms of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. Diagnosis and Treatment. RESPONDING TO THE PROBLEM. Needs, Concerns, and Recommendations. UPDATE SINCE THE FIRST EDITION. Recent Developments. Key Research Findings Since the First Edition. Reviews, Commentaries, and Polemics. Research and Medical Needs. Epilogue. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisAs methods for testing and analysing foods become increasingly sophisticated, and as laws guarding against toxic food contamination become more and more stringent, analytical chemists in environmental, agricultural, and food laboratories need a practical guide in order to stay on top of all the latest analysis techniques and regulations.Table of ContentsThe Analytical Approach (J. Seiber). Extraction, Cleanup, and Fractionation Methods (J. Seiber). Determination Methods (J. Seiber). Mass Spectrometry (J. Toth). Emerging Methods: Extractions and Cleanup (H. Moye). Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (Elisa) (H. Moye). Regulatory Aspects: Pesticide Registration, Risk Assessment and Tolerance, Residue Analysis and Monitoring (W. Fong). Appendix. Index.

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Book SynopsisMDI and TDI are polymer building blocks with a wide range of applications in industry. Both are used in large quantities and can be found in a wide variety of industries and applications. As there use will often involve large numbers of workers they are also subject to stringent health and safety regulations.Trade Review“...this book is a superb contribution to the literature.” (Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol. 106, 2004) "....This book covers all the important topics concerning MDI and TDI and provides comprehensive coverage on the health and environmental science associated with these. (European Occupational Health & Safety Magazine, June 2003)Table of ContentsList of authors and affiliations ix A book of distinction xv Acknowledgements xvii MDI and TDI usage: responsible risk management 1D C Allport, D S Gilbert and S M Outterside Exposure, hazard and risk 1 Responsible Care®: a framework for industry action 5 Reading 10 1 MDI, TDI and the polyurethane industry 11D C Allport, D S Gilbert and S M Outterside Types of MDI 13 Types of TDI 15 Test substances 16 Misapprehensions 16 Polyurethanes made from MDI and TDI 17 Reading 23 2 Handling MDI and TDI 25D C Allport, R C Blake, C Bastian, C Galavitz, D S Gilbert, R Hurd, B Reeve, W Robert, S M Outterside, A Solinas, D Walsh, U Walber and H Wolfson Pride in safety 25 Successful systems 25 Safety systems for the handling of MDI and TDI 26 Key Theme 1: Know your product 28 Health 31 Environment 32 Key Theme 2: Protecting health 33 Duty of care 33 Exposure: how can MDI or TDI enter the body? 34 Medical symptoms 35 Medical checks 36 Key Theme 3: Neutralization, decontamination and disposal of wastes 39 Types of neutralizer 40 Routine cleaning of equipment and drums 40 Neutralization after a spillage 43 Neutralizer formulations 46 Key Theme 4: Using personal protective equipment 47 Normal operations 47 Emergency situations 48 Selection of personal protective equipment 49 Protective clothing 50 Respiratory protection 51 Key Theme 5: Monitoring exposure 59 How should monitoring be carried out? 60 When should monitoring be carried out? 61 Key Theme 6: Dealing with accidents 62 Accidents can happen 62 Spillages 63 Development of excess pressure inside containers 68 Incidents involving fire 70 Transport of MDI and TDI 72 Transport regulations 73 MDI and TDI: transport temperatures 73 Typical containers for the transport of diisocyanates 75 Accidents and emergencies 85 The workplace: storage and use of MDI and TDI 86 Designing the systems and minimizing the risks 87 Physical and chemical properties relating to storage and processing 93 Storage of MDI and TDI 95 Safety issues in workplaces using MDI and TDI 106 Safety issues in some important polyurethane processes 117 Use of MDI and TDI in laboratories 122 Visitors to the workplace 123 Emergencies in the workplace 124 Releases to atmosphere from polyurethane manufacturing sites 126 Properties of MDI and TDI relevant to releases to atmosphere 127 Releases from polyurethane processes 127 Abatement of releases 138 Reading 148 3 Health 155DC Allport, P Davies, W F Diller, J E Doe, F Floc’h H D Hoffmann, MKatoh and J P Lyon. Appendices by D I Bernstein Perspective on immediate effects following over exposure 156 First aid procedures 156 Commentary on first aid procedures 157 Human health: the medical background 160 Effects on the eyes 163 Effects on the skin 163 Effects when swallowed 165 Effects on the respiratory tract 165 Other health effects of MDI and TDI 185 Biomonitoring of MDI and TDI 186 Experimental toxicology 187 The interaction of MDI and TDI with biological systems 188 Toxicology studies 193 Diagnosis of diisocyanate asthma 203 Appendices (David I. Bernstein) 203 Reading 216 4 The environment 229RE Bailey, A Gard, K H den Haan, F Heimbach, D Pemberton, II Tadokoro, M Takatsuki and Y Yakabe A general approach to environmental risk assessment 229 Exposure 233 Sources of exposure 233 Distribution and persistence 237 Biodegradation 256 Bioaccumulation 257 Hazard 258 Test procedures 258 Aquatic ecotoxicity 259 Terrestrial ecotoxicity 264 Risk assessment 265 Accidental release of MDI and TDI 266 Normal usage 268 Reading 273 5 Supporting sciences 277 5.1 Chemistry of manufacture of MDI and TDI 277D C Allport, D S Gilbert and B Tury Manufacture of MDI 277 Manufacture of TDI 280 Modified MDI and TDI 282 Reading 284 5.2 Structures and nomenclature 285DC Allport, D S Gilbert and B Tury Structures 285 CAS Registry numbers and preferred names 286 IUPAC names 287 Convenient names for MDI and TDI 288 Synonyms 289 Commercial product names 289 Reading 291 5.3 Chemical reactions of MDI and TDI 291DC Allport, D S Gilbert, D Pemberton and B Tury Reaction with –OH groups 292 Reaction with –NH groups 293 Reaction with –SH groups 293 Reaction with biological molecules 294 Self-reactions 295 Catalysts 298 Reading 299 5.4 Physical and fire properties 300SM Outterside and D Pemberton MDI 301 TDI 311 Reading 319 5.5 Fire behaviour of MDI and TDI 321J F Chapman, B Cope, G Marlair and F Prager Test methodology 321 Fire tests on MDI and TDI 323 Reading 340 5.6 Occupational exposure limits, stack limits and community limits 343D C Allport, D S Gilbert, S M Outterside and B Tury Occupational exposure limits 343 Stack release limits and community limits 351 Reading 357 5.7 Sampling and analysis 358K S Brenner, V Dharmarajan and P Maddison Materials to be measured 358 Airborne MDI and TDI species 359 Choice of methods for the sampling and analysis of MDI and TDI in air 360 Analysis of nonairborne MDI and TDI 418 A critical review of exposure assessment techniques used in occupational health studies of MDI and TDI 420 Reading 422 Index 431

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Book SynopsisIn 1993, an International Task Force for Disease Eradication evaluated over 80 potential candidate diseases and made recommendations. However, little has been done to develop the science of eradication systematically. This book reports the findings of a multidisciplinary workshop on the eradication of infectious diseases. It reviews the history of eradication efforts and lessons from previous campaigns and distinguishes among eradication, elimination, and control programs and extinction of an etiologic agent. It addresses a wide range of related issues, including biological and socio-political criteria for eradication, costs and benefits of eradication campaigns, opportunities for strengthening primary health care in the course of eradication efforts, and other aspects of planning and implementing eradication programs. Finally, it stresses the importance of global mechanisms for formulating and implementing such programs.Table of ContentsWhat Is Eradication? (F. Fenner, et al.). Lessons from Previous Eradication Programs (A. Hinman D. Hopkins). The Role of Mathematical Models in Eradication of Infectious Disease (G. Medley, et al.). Group Report: How Is Eradication to Be Defined and What Are the Biological Criteria? (E. Ottesen, et al.). Disease Eradication Initiatives and General Health Services: Ensuring Common Principles Lead to Mutual Benefits (R. Aylward, et al.). Economic Appraisal of Eradication Programs: The Question of Infinite Benefits ( A. Acharya C. Murray). An Economic Perspective on Programs Proposed for Eradication of Infectious Diseases (M. Gyldmark A. Alban). Group Report: What Are the Criteria for Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Disease Eradication? (R. Hall, et al.). Roles for Public and Private Sectors in Eradication Programs (C. de Quadros, et al.). Overcoming Political and Cultural Barriers to Disease Eradication (S. Foster). Advantages and Disadvantages of Concurrent Eradication Programs (S. Cochi, et al.). Designing Eradication Programs to Strengthen Primary Health Care (C. Taylor R. Waldman). Group Report: What Are the Societal and Political Criteria for Eradication? (S. Cochi, et al.). Are There Better Global Mechanisms for Formulating, Implementing, and Evaluating Eradication Programs? (I. Arita). Thoughts on Organization for Disease Eradication (W. Foege). Group Report: When and How Should Eradication Programs Be Implemented? (R. Goodman, et al.). Indexes.

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Book SynopsisOffers an in-depth report on advanced statistical tools for public health disease surveillance, which is the result of a prestigious World Health Organisation (WHO) and EU Biomed programme initiative. Traditionally, the role of public health disease surveillance has been to identify and evaluate morbidity and mortality but increasingly, more sophisticated methods are being applied as the authorities extend their studies to include control and prevention of disease. This book brings together leading experts to discuss complex methodologies for the statistical evaluation of disease mapping and risk assessment. It includes a broad variety of statistical techniques and where appropriate, examples are included on topical issues such as the analysis of putative health hazards. For easy reference the text is presented in five distinct sections, each with an introductory review: * Disease Mapping * Clustering of Disesase * Ecological Analysis * Risk AsseTrade Review"…full of rich ideas and methods that are useful..." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, April 2005) "...sure to be an essential reference for anyone working in this area" (ISCB Newsletter, December 2000)Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: DISEASE MAPPING. Disease Mapping and Its Uses. Disease Mapping with Hidden Structures Using Mixture Models. CLUSTERING OF DISEASE. Inference for Extremes in Disease Mapping. Edge Effects in Disease Mapping. Empirical Studies of Cluster DetectionDifferent Cluster Tests in Application to German Cancer Maps. ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. Introduction to Spatial Models in Ecological Analysis. Multilevel Modelling of Area-Based Health Data. RISK ASSESSMENT FOR PUTATIVE SOURCES OF HAZARD. A Review of Modelling Approaches in Health Risk Assessment around Putative Sources. Lung Cancer Near Point Emission Sources. PUBLIC HEALTH APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES. Environmental Epidemiology, Public Health Advocacy and Policy. The Character and the Public Health Implications of Ecological Analyses. Estimating the Presence and the Degree of Heterogeneity of Disease Rates. Ecological Regression with Errors in Covariates: An Application. Lung Cancer Mortality in Women in Germany 1995: A Case Study in Disease Mapping. Appendix. Index.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the world of mental patients and their doctors in the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows how well-intentioned physicians could rationalize and regard as therapeutic treatments that often had dreadful consequences, and how much the social and cultural world is inscribed within the practice of biological psychiatry.Trade Review"Braslow writes with a light touch, and the book makes riveting reading, particularly the bits of dialogue between psychiatrists and patients that he excerpted from the transcripts. Anyone interested in learning how the arrogance of science and pseudoscience can lead medicine over the brink will profit from reading this biased but rewarding study." * New England Journal of Medicine *

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States, this work tells the story of how vaccination became a widely accepted public health measure over the course of the twentieth century. It examines the strategies that health officials have used to gain public acceptance of vaccines.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Daniel M. Fox Acknowledgments Introduction: Vaccination Politics and Law in American History 1. Between Persuasion and Compulsion: Vaccination at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2. Science in a Democracy: Smallpox Vaccination in the Progressive Era and the 1920s 3. Diphtheria Immunization: The Power, and the Limits, of Persuasion 4. Hard Cores and Soft Spots: Selling the Polio Vaccine 5. Eradicationism and Its Discontents 6. Consent, Compulsion, and Compensation: Vaccination Programs in Crisis 7. Expansion and Backlash: Vaccination at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Notes Archival Sources Index

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Book SynopsisThe genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform - but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse. This book gives the background information critical to understanding how genetics is affecting our everyday lives.Trade Review"Goes a long way toward exploring these issues in a painstaking yet readable scholarly treatise... Throughout, they make a convincing case that we are not our genome alone." New England Journal Of Medicine "The book is anything but dry reporting... An enjoyable and stimulating read for specialists in the field and the curious public alike." Science (AAAS) "Readers will come away with a realistic and encouraging perspective on medical genetics, providing that neither fantastic optimism nor abject fear is necessary to make the true story of DNA exciting." Qtly Review Of Biology "Readers will come away with a realistic and encouraging perspective on medical genetics, proving that neither fantastic optimism nor abject fear is necessary to make the true story of DNA exciting." Qtly Review Of BiologyTable of ContentsForeword by Victor A. McKusick Acknowledgments 1. DNA Sequence Does Not Equal Destiny 2. What Is Genomics? 3. Genetic Determinism 4. The Evolution and Deconstruction of Human-Centered Biology 5. Race and Ethnicity: Your History Is Written in Your Genes 6. Gender as a Spectrum, Not a Dichotomy 7. Genome-Based Forensics 8. When Genes Belong to Groups and Not Individuals 9. Genes as Commodities: Ownership of Genes by Business Interests 10. Protection against Genetic Discrimination: The New Civil Right 11. Reproductive Technologies: On the Road to Designer Babies? 12. Reproductive Cloning: From Farm Animals to Pets to Humans? 13. Therapeutic Cloning and Regenerative Medicine 14. Gene Therapy: Can the Promise Be Fulfilled? 15. Large Population Assessments: The Foundation for Genomic Medicine 16. Hidden Destiny: Unbounded by Your DNA Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider's deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary--and extraordinarily ambitious--legislative effort to reform the nation's health care system. Dr. John E. McDonough, DPH, a health policy expert who served as an advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, provides a vivid picture of the intense effort required to bring this legislation into law. McDonough clearly explains the ACA's inner workings, revealing the rich landscape of the issues, policies, and controversies embedded in the law yet unknown to most Americans. In his account of these historic events, McDonough takes us through the process from the 2008 presidential campaign to the moment in 2010 when President Obama signed the bill into law. At a time when the nation is taking a second look at the ACA, Inside National Health Reform provides the essential information for Americans to make informed judgments about this landmark law.Trade Review"Superb... Likely to become required reading for anyone who wishes (or claims) to understand health care in the United States." -- Rick Mayes Health Affairs "Read McDonough's book." The Incidental Economist "McDonough has done the hard work of breaking a large and historic piece of legislation down into a sober, balanced, thorough, readable, and important book. Recommended." -- Dick Maxwell Library Journal "Admirably clear ... provides the best explanation available, which occupies most of his book, of the many individual components of the ten titles of the final act." -- Jeff Madrick New York Review Of Books "Unique... Offers a perspective available to few others... Accessible, highly informative, and well worth [the reader's] time." -- Paul Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities World Medical & Health Policy JrnlTable of ContentsList of Tables Foreword by Carmen Hooker Odom and Samuel L. Milbank Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction—A Meeting in Minnesota Part I. Preludes and Process 1. The Knowledge Base—Why National Health Reform? 2. Social Strategy—Massachusetts Avenue 3. Political Will I—Prelude to a Health Reform Campaign 4. Political Will II—A Health Reform Campaign Part II. Policies—Ten Titles 5. Title I—The Three Legged Stool 6. Title II—Medicaid, CHIP, and the Governors 7. Title III—Medical Care, Medicare, and the Cost Curve 8. Title IV—Money, Mammograms, and Menus 9. Title V—Who Will Provide the Care? 10. Title VI—The Stew 11. Title VII—Biosimilar Biological Products 12. Title VIII—CLASS Act 13. Title IX—Paying for the ACA (or about Half of It) 14. Title X Plus—The Manager’s Amendment and the Health Care Education and Reconciliation Act Conclusion Notes Health Reform Timeline Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the study of migrant populations that poses challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.Table of ContentsForeword Michael V. Drake, MD SECTION ONE. Introductory Materials Section Editor: Marc B. Schenker 1. Introduction Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 2. Studying Migrant Populations: General Considerations and Approaches Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz (CDC, US) Xochitl Castaneda (UC Berkeley, US) 3. Life Course Epidemiology: A Conceptual Model for the Study of Migration and Health Jacob Spallek (Bielefeld University, Germany) Hajo Zeeb (University of Bremen, Germany) Oliver Razum (Bielefeld University, Germany) SECTION TWO. Quantitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz 4. Use of Existing Health Information Systems in Europe to Study Migrant Health Katia Levecque (University of Ghent, Belgium) Elena Ronda-Perez (University of Alicante, Spain) Emily Felt (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Fernando G. Benavides (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) 5. Use of National Data Systems to Study Immigrant Health in the United States Gopal K. Singh (DHHS, US) 6. The Community-Based Migrant Household Probability Sample Survey Enrico A. Marcelli (San Diego State University, US) 7. Respondent-Driven Sampling for Migrant Populations Lisa Johnston (UC San Francisco, US) Mohsen Malekinejad (UC San Francisco, US) 8. Time-Space Sampling of Migrant Populations Salaam Semaan (CDC, US) Elizabeth DiNenno (CDC, US) 9. Prior Enumeration: A Method for Enhanced Sampling with Migrant Surveys Richard Mines (Agricultural Economics Consultant, US) Coburn C. Ward (University of the Pacific, US) Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 10. Telephone-Based Surveys David Grant (UCLA, US) Royce J. Park (UCLA, US) Lin Yu-chieh (University of Michigan, US) 11. Case-Control Studies Clelia Pezzi (CDC, US) Philip H. Kass (UC Davis, US) 12. Longitudinal Studies Guillermina Jasso (New York University, US) SECTION THREE. Qualitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Xochitl Castaneda 13. Ethnographic Research in Migration and Health Seth M. Holmes (UC Berkeley, US) Heide Castaneda (University of South Florida, US) 14. Participant Observation and Key Informant Interviews Rosa Maria Aguilera (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico) Ana Amuchastegui (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana--Xochimilco, Mexico) 15. Focus Groups/Group Qualitative Interviews Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz, US) 16. Full Circle: The Method of Collaborative Anthropology for Regional and Transnational Research Bonnie Bade (California State University, San Marcos, US) Konane Martinez (California State University, San Marcos, US) 17. Photovoice as Methodology Regina Day Langhout (UC Santa Cruz, US) SECTION FOUR. Crosscutting Issues Section Editors: Marc B. Schenker, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, and Xochitl Castaneda 18. Ethical Issues across the Spectrum of Migration and Health Research Kevin Pottie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Patricia Gabriel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach for Studying and Addressing Immigrant Health Meredith Minkler (UC Berkeley, US) Charlotte Chang (UC Berkeley, US) 20. Occupational Health Research with Immigrant Workers Michael A. Flynn (CDC, US) Donald E. Eggerth (CDC, US) 21. Methodological Recommendations for Broadening the Investigation of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Andrew Rasmussen (Fordham University, US) 22. Working Internationally Carol Camlin (UC San Francisco, US) David Kyle (UC Davis, US) 23. Binational Collaborative Research Sylvia Guendelman (UC Berkeley, US) 24. Ensuring Access to Research for Nondominant Language Speakers Francesca Gany (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Lisa Diamond (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Rachel Meislin (New York University, US) Javier Gonzalez (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) 25. Extended Case Study: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Internal Migrant Access to Health Care and the Health System's Response in India Bontha V. Babu (Indian Council of Medical Research, India) Anjali B. Borhade (Indian Institute of Public Health, India) Yadlapalli S. Kusuma (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Contributors Index

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