Public health and preventive medicine Books
University of California Press Migration and Health
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
£35.70
University of California Press Lead Wars
Book SynopsisFocuses on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. This book details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels of toxic exposure.Trade Review"In Lead Wars, CUNY's Gerald Markowitz and Columbia University's David Rosner convincingly show that the Baltimore toddler study emerged from a century of policymaking in which the US government, faced at times with a choice between protecting children from lead poisoning and protecting the businesses that produced and marketed lead paint, almost invariably chose the latter." New York Review Of Books "Lead Wars clearly shows that the scandalous and tragic history of lead is one that our society is doomed to repeat over and over again unless we develop and fight for better safeguards against chemicals and new technology." -- Helen Jupiter Mother Nature Network "A fascinating new book." -- Howard Markel PBS Newshour The Rundown Blog "Thoroughly researched and clearly written, this book does an excellent job of illustrating the problem society encounters when science and industry face off over likely harm versus economic benefit." -- Richard Maxwell Library Journal "A deeply conceived and well-written book by two of America's best public health historians. It's also an important background briefing on the politics and ethics of scientific research for journalists who will be covering environmental health issues like these." -- Bill Kovarik SE Journal "Chronicles the monstrous irresponsibility of companies in the lead industry over the course of the 20th century." -- Nicholas D. Kristof New York Times "I want to thank David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz for what that they've done to bring the story of the lead paint wars to the public." -- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse "The prolific team of Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner has done it again. Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children is a thoroughly researched, passionate, and gripping history of a major public health problem... Lead Wars challenges us to take better care of our children by fighting those industries that appear to regard them-especially poor black and Latino children-as disposable." -- Elizabeth Fee Health AffairsTable of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A Legacy of Neglect 2. From Personal Tragedy to Public Health Crisis 3. Peeling the Onion: New Layers of the Lead Problem 4. The Contentious Meaning of Low-Level Exposures 5. The Rise of Public Health Pragmatism 6. Controlled Poison 7. Research on Trial 8. Lead Poisoning and the Courts 9. A Plague on All Our Houses Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Bite Back
Book SynopsisThe food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who are challenging corporate powerby addressing injustices in our food system, from wage inequalityto environmental destructionto corporate bullying. In paired chapters, authors present a problem arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and consumers everywhere.Trade Review"In this cleverly titled collection, attorney Saru Jayaraman and rural sociologist Kathryn De Master conclude that corporations control much of our food because of 'their unbridled, unregulated power over our democracy.'" * Nature *“Offers a series of roadmaps for activists who are looking to change the status quo.” * FoodPrint *“A book for the present moment.” * Civil Eats *"Bite Back is a valuable source that brings together research, activism and strategies for action." * The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener *Table of ContentsForeword Marion Nestle Introduction Kathryn De Master and Saru Jayaraman 1. SEEDS Call to Action • How Corporations Control Our Seeds Philip H. Howard Collective Response • Taking Back Our Seeds Kristina “Kiki” Hubbard 2. PESTICIDES Call to Action • Pesticide Purveyors and Corporate Power Jill Lindsey Harrison Collective Response • Drift Catchers Combatting Pesticide Power Emily Marquez, Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, and Kristin Schafer 3. EXTRACTION Call to Action • Devil’s Bargain: Fractured Farms or Freedom? Kathryn De Master and Stephanie A. Malin Collective Response • Food and Water over Fracking Wenonah Hauter and Seth A. Gladstone 4 . LABOR Call to Action • Food Workers versus Food Giants Joann Lo and Jose Oliva Collective Response • Food Workers Taking On Goliath Saru Jayaraman 5. HEALTH Call to Action • Fast Food Embodied: Industrial Diets Kristine Madsen and Wendi Gosliner Collective Response • Moving a McMountain Anna Lappé and Kelle Louaillier 6. HUNGER Call to Action • Hunger Incorporated: Who Benefits from Anti-Hunger Efforts? Andy Fisher Collective Response • Progress over Poverty through Political Power Jim Araby 7. TRADE Call to Action • The Corporate Stock in Trade Raj Patel and Maywa Montenegro de Wit Collective Response • Food Sovereignty in Japan and Beyond Ayumi Kinezuka and Maywa Montenegro de Wit Conclusion: Stand Up, Bite Back Saru Jayaraman and Kathryn De Master Afterword: Taking Action to Create Change Judy Hertz Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
£18.90
University of California Press All I Eat Is Medicine
Book SynopsisAll I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.Trade Review"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword." * World Medical & Health Policy *
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University of California Press All I Eat Is Medicine
Book SynopsisAll I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.Trade Review"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword." * World Medical & Health Policy *
£22.50
University of California Press Medicine in Rural China
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Pressâs mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
£63.90
University of California Press American Health Crisis One Hundred Years of Panic
Book SynopsisA history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 191819 and COVID-19, the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria, the Reagan administration's antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates howdespite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the worldvulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisisconsiders the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.Trade Review"An ambitious work. . . .a book on public health can and should only be written in a way that is as inclusive, reflective, accessible in language, and structured as Halliwell’s. It is an important read for any practitioner of public health." * Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly *"Noteworthy." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1918: Woodrow Wilson, Crisis, and the Arc of Public Health Part 1: Geographies of Vulnerability: Environmental Health Crises 1. Disaster: Mississippi Flood, Buffalo Creek, Hurricane Katrina 2. Poverty: Dust Bowl, Urban Ghetto, Indian Reservation 3. Pollution: Nuclear Fallout, Water Contamination, Climate Change Part 2: States of Vulnerability: Crises of Prevention and Treatment 4. Virus: Influenza, Polio, HIV/AIDS 5. Care: Postwar Hospitals, Community Action, Vet Centers 6. Drugs: Methadone, Diazepam, Fentanyl Conclusion 2018: Obama, Trump, and the Future of Health Citizenship Coda 2020 Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd HIV and AIDS in Africa Beyond Epidemiology
Book SynopsisPresenting on-the-ground evidence and ethnographic cases, this book emphasizes that HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa is a complex and regionally specific phenomenon rooted in local economies, deepening poverty, migration, gender, war, global economies, and cultural politics.Trade Review"This groundbreaking volume draws on a broad array of methodologies and disciplines to bring into relief the social and economic forces that have made AIDS the leading infectious cause of young adult death globally. Rejecting fashionable explanations of AIDS in Africa, this book reveals such explanations to be rooted in racism, victim-blaming, disciplinary blindness, and shoddy research. Meticulously documented, HIV and AIDS in Africa is a treasure trove of information – just what many policymakers, epidemiologists, and clinicians need to hear, whether we want to or not. But the book deserves a far wider audience. For ‘any interventions that fail to address the broader issues of African social and economic life,’ as one of this fine volume’s contributors predicts, ‘are bound to fail." Paul Farmer, Harvard Medical School "This is a thoroughly excellent book, as good as any on offer on the current HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, and a lot better than most ... This is a book that needs to be read by all those involved in development planning in Africa - and elsewhere - in NGOs as in governments, in the field as well as in the 'corridors of power'." International Development Planning Review “The new book by Ezekiel Kalipeni et al. is a landmark among all existing literature addressing the epidemic in Africa. The volume holds near 25 in-depth chapters providing brilliant analysis of the epidemic.” Markku Löytönen, University of Helsinki "The book is able to cover a vast array of topics that have been previously neglected in academic discourse ... the editors have successfully demonstrated thta HIV/AIDS must be approached in a multidisciplinary fashion in order to understand and eventually stem the spread of this epidemic ... what is refreshing in regard to this work is that the editors have taken an academic and personal approach in their attempts to grasp the influence of this epidemic ... this book can be called both humanistic and sincere." Cambridge University Press "This book is essential reading, as it tackles the critical arguments...it represents a call to all researchers working with HIV/AIDS to take account...first book that tackles the misperceptions...the collection represents a major contribution." Sahara JournalTable of ContentsAbout the Authors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Beyond Epidemiology: Locating AIDS In Africa. (Susan Craddock). Part I: History. Section Introduction. Susan Craddock. 1. AIDS, History & Struggles Over Meaning. (Brooke Grundfest). 2. Politics, Culture And Medicine: An Unholy Trinity? Historical Continuities And Rupture In The HIV/AIDS Story In Malawi. (John Lloyd Lwanda). Part II: AIDS In Africa: Regional Perspectives. Section Introduction. Susan Craddock. 3. Perceptions And Misperceptions Of AIDS In Africa. (Joseph R. Oppong And Ezekiel Kalipeni). 4. Mapping The AIDS Pandemic In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Critical Overview. (Ezekiel Kalipeni, Susan Craddock, And Jayati Ghosh). 5. HIV/AIDS In West Africa: The Case Of Senegal, Ghana And Nigeria. (Joseph R. Oppong And Samuel Agyei-Mensah). Part III: Beyond Epidemiology: Understanding The Issues In Social Terms. Section Introduction. (Susan Craddock). A. Gendered Vulnerabilities. 6. Condoms, Consent And ‘Cultural Entrapments’: A Further Look At Gendered & Occupational Factors Pertinent To The Transmission Of HIV In Africa. (Anne V. Akeroyd). 7. Strategies For Prevention Of Sexual Transmission Of HIV/AIDS Among Adolescents: The Case Of High School Students In Kenya. (Njeri Mbugua). 8. AIDS In Africa: Structure, Agency & Risk. (Brooke Grundfest). B. Sexualities. 9. Culture, Sexuality, And Women's Agency In The Prevention Of HIV/AIDS In Southern Africa American Journal Of Public Health. (Ida Susser And Zena). 10. Migrancy, Masculine Identities And AIDS: The Psychosocial Context Of HIV Transmission On The South African Gold Mines. (Catherine Campbell). 11. The Invisible Presence Of Homosexuality: Implications For HIV/AIDS And Rights In Southern Africa. (Oliver Phillips). C. Poverty, Migration, War. 12. Urbanization, Poverty, And Sex: Roots Of Risky Behaviors In Slum Settlements In Nairobi, Kenya. (Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, Alex Chika and F. Nii-Amoo). 13. Mobile Populations And HIV/AIDS In East Africa. (Maryinez Lyons). 14. Understanding The African HIV Pandemic: An Appraisal Of The Contexts And Lay Explanation Of The HIV/AIDS Pandemic With Examples From Tanzania And Kenya. (Gabriel Rugalema). 15. Socioeconomic Obstacles To HIV Prevention And Treatment In Developing Countries: The Roles Of The International Monetary Fund And The World Bank. (Peter Lurie, Percy C. Hintzen, And Robert A. Lowe). Part IV: Research Methods, Agendas, And Ethics. Section Introduction. (Susan Craddock). 16. Participatory Diagramming And The Ethical & Practical Challenges Of Helping Africans Themselves To ‘Map The Issues’ Around HIV. (Mike Kesby). 17. Community-Based Research On AIDS In The Context Of Global Inequalities – Making A Virtue Of Necessity? (Carolyn Baylies). 18. AIDS And Ethics: Clinical Trials, Pharmaceuticals, And Global Scientific Practice. (Susan Craddock). Part V: Understanding The Repercussions / Impacts. Section Introduction. (Susan Craddock). 19. Excerpt From We Miss You All. (Noerine Kaleeba). 20. Understanding AIDS In Public Lives. (David Eaton). 21. Economic Growth In Sub Saharan Africa: The Potential Impact Of HIV/AIDS. (Lynn R. Brown). 22. Rising Tide Of AIDS Orphans In Southern Africa. (Jayati Ghosh And Ezekiel Kalipeni). 23. A Mother To Her Brothers: A Child-Headed Household’s Story, Johannesburg, South Africa. (Emma Guest). Concluding Remarks: Beyond Epidemiology. (Joseph R. Oppong And Jayati Ghosh). Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immunization Childhood and Travel Health
Book SynopsisKassianos gives a description of the disease followed by the data on notification and immunisation coverage. Each vaccine is presented separately, with information on contraindications, local and general side effects, and dosage schedules.Trade Review'This is a thoroughly comprehensive book which contains almost everything the busy GP or practice nurse could wish to know about immunisation.' Doctor 'George Kassianos has produced a book that is both readable and understandable . As this is the only book of its kind on this subject, covering such a wide and comprehensive range of material, it should be regarded as one of the undisputed classics of general practice reading.' Infections 'Any health professional involved in immunization or travel health will find this book invaluable.' Practice Nurse 'Dr Kassianos in this small reference book brings together all the information likely to be required for general practitioners to provide a comprehensive immunisation service and to answer all those questions normally posed by awkward patients!' Maternal and Child HealthTable of ContentsForeword vii Preface viii List of abbreviations xi Part 1 Introduction to Immunization and Vaccines 1 History of immunization 3 2 Timescale of vaccine introduction in the UK 8 3 Immunology immunization and vaccine development 9 4 The cold chain and vaccine storage 21 5 Transmission of infection 23 6 Infectivity and exclusion periods of infections 24 7 Immunization in practice 25 8 Expanded programme on immunization 30 9 Vaccine damage payment scheme 37 10 Information sheet for parents 38 11 Viral and bacterial vaccines 41 12 Special precautions for all vaccines 42 13 Special precautions for live vaccines 44 14 Treating anaphylaxis 46 Part 2 The UK National Immunization Programme Vaccines 15 Complications of infectious diseases and vaccines: an aide-memoire 51 16 Diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis (DTP) combined and diphtheria/tetanus (DT,Td) combined 54 17 Diphtheria 57 18 Tetanus 61 19 Pertussis 65 20 Haemophilus influenzae 76 21 Poliomyelitis 81 22 Measles/mumps/rubella combined vaccine 88 23 Measles 100 24 Mumps 104 25 Rubella 107 26 Meningococcal infection 112 27 Tuberculosis 122 Part 3 The Other Vaccines 28 Anthrax 135 29 Cholera 137 30 Hepatitis A 141 31 Hepatitis A and typhoid combined vaccine 151 32 Hepatitis B 153 33 Hepatitis A and B combined vaccine 177 34 Influenza 180 35 Japanese B encephalitis 193 36 Plague 197 37 Pneumococcal infection 199 38 Rabies 206 39 Tick-borne encephalitis 215 40 Typhoid 220 41 Varicella 226 42 Yellow fever 231 Part 4 The Practice and Immunization 43 Immunization fees and the UKGP 239 44 Immunization and audit 248 45 Electronic recall systems for completion of immunization 252 46 The practice nurse and immunization 261 47 Practice nurse: pre-vaccination checklist 267 Part 5 Travel Health 48 Introduction to travel health 271 49 Travel clinics 276 50 Advice to travellers 280 51 Legal aspects of advice for travellers 291 52 Air travel 293 53 Tunnel travel 305 54 Motion sickness 306 55 Sea cruises 308 56 High altitude sickness 309 57 Travellers at risk 311 58 The returned traveller 330 59 Malaria 364 Part 6 Immunization and Travel Information Resources 60 International Society of Travel Medicine 391 61 Specimen immunization exemption certificate 392 62 Notifiable diseases 393 63 Reciprocal healthcare agreements between the UK and other non-EEA countries 395 64 Sources of travel information: useful addresses/telephone numbers/websites 399 65 Embassies and High Commissions in London 412 66 World travel advice checklist 415 67 Travel vaccines administration summary 422 Index 425
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Harvard School of Public Health Health Professionals for a New Century
Book SynopsisThe report of the Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, an independent initiative of 20 leaders from around the world, addresses the evolving demands of health systems in an interdependent world. It articulates a fresh vision and recommends renewed actions, with a focus on institutional and instructional reforms.
£8.95
Harvard University Press Obstetrics and Gynecology in LowResource Settings
Book SynopsisObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.Trade ReviewUnder Nawal Nour’s guidance and gentle tutelage, this book lays out current knowledge about the ranking threats—from obstetric fistula and genital cutting to obstructed labor and stillbirths, cervical cancer, HIV, and malaria in pregnancy—to the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of women. Nor are gender-based violence and access to contraception scanted, as so often in medical texts. Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide will prove indispensable to students, trainees, and clinicians seeking to span such divides in order to improve and save lives. It’s a go-to reference for all those who care about the role of gender equity in the broader struggle for global health equity. And that should mean all of us. -- Paul E. Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and cofounder of Partners In HealthDr. Nour has gathered the foremost experts in obstetrics and gynecology to address the most devastating health issues faced by women in low-resource settings. Practical and easy to read, this book is essential for health providers working in low-resource regions of the world, and indispensable for individuals committed to improving the health and well-being of women everywhere. Not only meant to improve women’s lives, this publication will no doubt save women’s lives. -- Christy Turlington Burns, global maternal health advocate and founder of Every Mother CountsObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide is the first book of its kind to describe a broad range of applications to women’s health worldwide. As a resource for not only physicians, but also non-physician women’s health providers, this volume will have a broad appeal. Of importance is the inclusion of information regarding the need to learn cultural sensitivity and an appreciation of the need to highlight social determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity, including gender-based violence. -- Douglas W. Laube, past president, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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Harvard University Press Global Health Security
Book SynopsisIn an age of pandemics, no country can achieve public health on its own. Health security expert Lawrence O. Gostin examines the key cross-border threats to our well-being, from infectious diseases to bioterrorism, and proposes pragmatic solutions: targeted research, robust international institutions, and tools for effective global action.Trade ReviewGostin draws on the lessons of AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and the COVID-19 pandemic to lay out a roadmap for global health security, making a powerful and persuasive case for how the principles of solidarity, equity, and justice must guide the international community in preparing for and responding to the health crises of the future. -- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health OrganizationGlobal Health Security is invaluable, drawing critical lessons from the world’s epic struggle with COVID-19, and looking far beyond. Gostin incisively analyses future threats, from superbugs and antimicrobial resistance to bioterrorism, and charts a better course through global solidarity and enlightened self-interest. If you read only one book on global health this year, make it this one. -- Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of WellcomeThe world has learned valuable lessons from infectious disease outbreaks. Yet the power of lessons is in their use. In this book, Gostin provides a sweeping view of what is needed to avert disaster in the future. The crucial question is: will people read and act on his suggestions? -- William Herbert Foege, 10th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWe are entering an age of pandemics, one marked with more frequent disease outbreaks and increasingly greater threats to our social order. There is no one better than Gostin to connect the dots across outbreaks, laying out how climate change, economic development, and globalization have created new risks. But more than sounding the alarm, he brilliantly charts a path forward for how nations and indeed the world can be better prepared to meet these threats head on. -- Ashish K. Jha, Dean of the Brown University School of Public HealthAs a leading public health legal scholar and global health activist, Gostin has influenced the course of every major public health crisis of our time, from HIV/AIDS, to SARS, Ebola, and now COVID-19. Global Health Security draws on those important experiences but looks forward, charting a clear and compelling framework to assess future biological threats and effectively address them. Masterfully insightful. -- Peggy Hamburg, former Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of MedicineDiscouraged but inspired by COVID‑19, [Gostin’s] wide-ranging study analyzes the science and politics of past and present global disease, with hypothetical exercises about a new influenza, bioterrorism, and cholera. He recommends steps to reduce pandemic risk, such as increasing surveillance of animal pathogens and their movement. Above all, he calls for a ‘new politics,’ free from nationalistic populism. -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *[A] comprehensive and detailed blueprint for responding to global health crises. Gostin casts a wide net, addressing the overuse of antibiotics, climate change, and the lack of universal health coverage…Gostin goes further to explain how lessons from Covid-19 can remake society to be better prepared for future health threats. * Publishers Weekly *A comprehensive blueprint for global reforms. * Georgetown Law *
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Princeton University Press When People Come First
Book SynopsisWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role ofTrade Review"When People Come First is a welcome examination of 'the actual impacts of [global health] initiatives on care, health systems, and governance.'... The authors' empirical accounts of the complexities of the global health landscape expose a litany of assumptions that drive global health and demonstrate why we must be suspicious of these."--Nicole S. Berry, Science "When People Come First would be a valuable accessory in any global health practitioner's toolkit, and essential reading for global health students."--Jocalyn Clark, PLoS Speaking of Medicine blog "When People Come First, edited by medical anthropologists Biehl and Petryna, is an informed, critical examination of current, compelling global health issues; it successfully dispels the notion that a single community or country is alone in its health efforts."--Choice "When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures."--World Book Industry "When People Come First presents an important contribution to debates surrounding the concept of 'evidence' in global health policy and practice... This anthology, and the debates which it will surely ignite, provides a solid foundation for exploring an approach to global health where people come first."--Sarah Jeavons, New Genetics and Society "When People Come First is a strong and ethnographically grounded collection featuring many of the most talented theorists and writers currently studying global health."--Svea Closser, American Ethnologist "Like with any good ethnography, the stories are real, often troubling, and evocative of real lives in real places. They stimulate anger and outrage. It is a hard book to put down."--Craig R. Janes, Medical Anthropology Quarterly "[An] impressive book ... rich in nuance and complexity."--Salmaan Keshavjee, Lancet "This text has significant potential as a teaching resource both for clinical family medicine and for those exploring global health--the problems it addresses are real, the need for ethnographic rather than program-focused understandings of local reality is well articulated, and the challenge presented by the book to look at things differently is valuable to those learning to practice in any setting."--William Cayley Jr, MD, MDiv, Family MedicineTable of ContentsCritical Global Health, Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna 1 I EVIDENCE Overview 23 1A Return to the Magic Bullet? Malaria and Global Health in the Twenty-First Century, Marcos Cueto 30 2Evidence-Based Global Public Health - Subjects, Profits, Erasures, Vincanne Adams 54 3The "Right to Know" or "Know Your Rights"? Human Rights and a People-Centered Approach to Health Policy, Joseph J. Amon 91 4Children as Victims - The Moral Economy of Childhood in the Times of AIDS, Didier Fassin 109 II INTERVENTIONS Overview 133 5Therapeutic Clientship - Belonging in Uganda's Projectified Landscape of AIDS Care, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Jenipher Twebaze 140 6The Struggle for a Public Sector - PEPFAR in Mozambique, James Pfeiffer 166 7The Next Epidemic - Pain and the Politics of Relief in Botswana's Cancer Ward, Julie Livingston 182 8A Salvage Ethnography of the Guinea Worm - Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic in a Disease Eradication Program, Amy Moran-Thomas 207 III MARKETS Overview 243 9Public-Private Mixes - The Market for Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in India, Stefan Ecks and Ian Harper 252 10Labor Instability and Community Mental Health - The Work of Pharmaceuticals in Santiago, Chile, Clara Han 276 11The Ascetic Subject of Compliance - The Turn to Chronic Diseases in Global Health, Ian Whitmarsh 302 12Legal Remedies - Therapeutic Markets and the Judicialization of the Right to Health, Joao Biehl and Adriana Petryna 325 Afterword - The Peopling of Technologies, Michael M. J. Fischer 347 Contributors 375 Acknowledgments 381 References 385 Index 425
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Princeton University Press Unhealthy Politics The Battle over EvidenceBased
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2018 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration""Persuasive."---Carey Goldberg, WBUR's CommonHealth blog"The United States stands out among rich countries in resisting evidence-based medicine--not in theory, perhaps, but in practice. In this informative book, the authors, all political scientists, document this phenomenon and then consider why ordinary people, physicians, and politicians all resist public spending on research that would produce obvious benefits for everyone."---Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs"Unhealthy Politics connects the dots in the complex relationships among physicians, medical societies, the public, and politicians. . . . Unhealthy Politics, in the end, is most convincing in describing the limited extent to which evidence can guide the activities of key actors. The irony is this: For those who wish to see evidence-based medicine implemented, more and better medical evidence might not be the answer. Rather, we need better evidence about how to implement what we already know."---Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Health Affairs"A remarkable example of the contribution that political science has to make to discussions of policy problems that have chiefly concerned other fields . . . . Patashnik, Gerber, and Dowling bring to bear not only a wealth of original survey evidence . . . but also a wealth of theoretical insights from the policy process and legislative politics literatures." * Journal of Politics *
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Human Kinetics Publishers Reversing the Obesogenic Environment
Book SynopsisReversing the Obesogenic Environment describes the factors that contribute to an environment that leads to obesity, including public policy, the built environment, food supply and distribution, family and cultural influences, technology, and the media. It also offers tools that help professionals start to reverse the obesity epidemic. Table of ContentsPart I: Public Health and ObesityChapter 1: Emergence of the Obesogenic Environment Historical Emergence of Obesity as a Public Health Concern The Case for an Obesogenic Environment Ecologic Models of Health and the Importance of Supportive Environments Summary Chapter 2: Scope of Obesity Obesity Defined Causes of Obesity Vulnerable Populations Health Risks Associated With Overweight and Obesity Social and Psychological Costs of Obesity Summary Chapter 3: Body Composition Measurements Field Methods Laboratory Methods Summary Part II: Physical Activity and ObesityChapter 4: The Built Environment Components of the Built Environment Measuring the Built Environment Limitations of Research on the Built Environment Neighborhood Walkability and Physical Activity Emerging Research and Recommendations Summary Chapter 5: Physical Activity Resources Parks and Open Spaces Walking Trails and Bikeways Home Environment Factors Influencing the Use of Physical Activity Resources Measuring Physical Activity Resources Emerging Research and Implications for the Future Summary Chapter 6: Active Transportation Personal Automobile and Obesity Walkability Public Transportation Active Transport to School Stair Use Summary Part III: Food AccessibilityChapter 7: Food Supply and Security Nutrition Transition Food Production Imports and Exports Food Storage Nutritional Disparities, Obesity, and Undernutrition Food Security Government intervention Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Summary Chapter 8: Food Technology Genetic Engineering Trans-Fatty Acids Factory Farming Summary Part IV: Public Policy, Sociocultural Influences, and ObesityChapter 9: Policy and Individual Health Choices Levels of Preventions Guidelines Educating Individuals Regulations at the Point of Purchase Incentives for Good Behavior Other Approaches Summary Chapter 10: Policy and the Obesogenic Environment Agriculture International Trade Food Industry and Food Environments Built Environment Transportation Schools Worksites Summary Chapter 11: Cultural and Familial Influences Family Culture Within the Ecologic Model of Obesity Cultural Influences Familial Influences Summary Chapter 12: Social Justice, Health Disparities, and Obesity Socioeconomic Status SES, Social Injustices, Health Behaviors, and Obesity Weight Discrimination Resiliency to Social Injustices Solutions Summary Part V: Media and MarketingChapter 13: Point of Purchase Marketing, Advertising, Branding The Four Ps Summary Chapter 14: Influence of Media and Technology Biological Responses to Food Images Television Advertising and Children Internet Advertising Billboard Advertising Sports Sponsorships Media Interventions Strategies Summary
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Communicating Health
Book SynopsisThe culture-centred approach offered in this book argues that communication theorizing ought to locate culture at the centre of the communication process such that the theories are contextually embedded and co-constructed through dialogue with the cultural participants.Trade Review"If you are looking for a fresh approach to teaching health communication, Communicating Health provides a unique perspective that will leave readers with a feeling of sensitivity, a call to justice, and a knowledge bank of practical strategies from culture-centered healthcare." Communication Research Trends “I quickly became engrossed in this thoughtful book. I recommend it to all who are prepared to be challenged.” Five star review from Nursing Standard "Communicating Health is a most timely and critically important contribution to our global understanding of the location of culture in health communication. Drawing on multidisciplinary fields of scholarly traditions, Mohan Dutta offers sensitive yet compelling insights and critical thoughts that locate culture at the core of health communication. This is a book that should be read by everyone concerned about the role of health communication in achieving social justice, equity, and optimum health globally." Collins O. Airhihenbuwa, Pennsylvania State University "The book abounds with provocative and revealing examples that support conclusions and recommendations. It is equally valuable for health communication scholars and health promotion practitioners." Gary L. Kreps, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsList of TablesList of TablesList of BoxesAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Culture in Health Communication2 Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication3 Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Culture4 Culture, Identity and Health5 Pathways of Curing and Healing: Biomedical Model6 Culture and Marginalization7 Health Experiences in Marginalized Sectors8 Culture, Social Capital and Health9 Culture and Resistance10 Health, Culture and Globalization11 Culture and PraxisBibliography
£29.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Global Politics of Health
Book SynopsisInternational responses to the outbreak of SARS, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the promotion of health as a human right all demonstrate how global politics have a profound effect on the way we think about and respond to major health challenges. Despite a growing interest in the relationship between health and international relations there has yet to be a systematic study of the links between them. Global Health Issues aims to fill this gap ultimately showing how world politics can be good, or bad, for your health. This book calls for a more nuanced understanding of the nature of the current global health crisis and the political dilemmas faced by those responsible for the development and implementation of responses to it. By charting these debates and showing how they shape the way actors think about key issues relating to health, such as people movement; infectious disease; the business of health; and the consequences of war; this volume provides an innovative and comprehensTrade Review"A significant theoretical and empirical contribution, which deserves consideration by scholars, advanced students and international health practitioners. I thoroughly recommend it."International Affairs "[Davies] draws skilfully on a variety of literatures ... to map the political dimensions of global public health, and pinpoints precisely the disquieting conclusions that result from such an exercise."Network "Davies' text is particularly useful in providing a critique of recent efforts to incorporate health within the traditional logics of the field."Cambridge Review of International Affairs "A well researched, well written and enjoyable book on global health that covers a vast array of topics without ever being too technical."Dr M. Edelstein, Royal Society of Medicine "Health is now a political issue on a global scale. Sara Davies' excellent book allows us to understand the tensions created by this development and is essential reading for students and scholars of International Relations."Colin Innes, Director of Centre for Health and International Relations, Aberystwyth University "Davies' book is an informative, comprehensive and deep examination of the relationship between politics and health."Jillian Clare-Kohler, University of Toronto "The discussion of global health as an issue of 'high politics' has never been more salient. Sara Davies' excellent book makes an important and insightful contribution to the intensifying debates over 'health security' and global health governance. Essential reading for scholars, policymakers and students alike."Andrew Price-Smith, The Colorado College and author of Contagion and Chaos and The Health of NationsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Contribution of International Relations to the evolving international health agenda Chapter Two: Global Health Actors Chapter Three: Health as a Human Right Chapter Four: Cross Border Migration Chapter Five: Armed Conflict and Health Chapter Six: Infectious Disease Chapter Seven: Health as a Business Conclusion References
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Being Interprofessional
Book SynopsisThis book has a potentially huge market right across the allied health, social care and education professions. Working interprofessionally is the new concept in vogue for effective health and social care provision and right at the top of the agenda in teaching in the related professions.Trade Review"Offers some excellent practical guidance to assist those training to become public sector professionals to meet the need for successful collaborative practice." Community Care "The authors do a very good job of presenting a complex and dynamic aspect of contemporary professional work in very practical terms and in an easy to read format." Work, Employment and Society "Marilyn Hammick and her colleagues take this book beyond the usual well-meaning exhortations and uncover what it means to learn and practise in a collaborative context. The engaging style conveys complex messages in a direct way that will be helpful for undergraduate students and practitioners." Fiona Ross, Kingston University and St George's, University of London "Throughout the UK, universities are weaving interprofessional education into undergraduate professional programmes to enable students to respond positively, purposefully and intelligently to demands for closer collaboration. Much has been written to help faculty re-orientate their teaching, less to help students to re-orientate their learning, none as rigorously as does this book to help them to become interprofessional and to understand their obligations to each other, to the public and to society." Hugh Barr, President of the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education and Joint Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Interprofessional Care "Being Interprofessional has been written by the leading experts in interprofessional education and will be essential reading not only for students engaged in interprofessional learning but also to their tutors and those involved in programme development." Michael Pittilo, Robert Gordon UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the authors. Introducing this book. PART ONE Setting the Scene. Chapter 1 Being Interprofessional: Models and Meaning. Chapter 2 Being Interprofessional: Imperatives and Key Principles. Chapter 3 Learning and Working in Teams. Chapter 4 Being Interprofessional in Complex Situations. PART TWO About, from and with…. Chapter 5 Learning about, from and with other practitioners. Chapter 6 Learning about, from and with service users. Chapter 7 Learning about, from and with carers. Chapter 8 The statutory, community, voluntary and private sectors: learning about, from and with each other. PART THREE Drawing together the threads. Chapter 9 Sharing Information: the Continuing Challenge. Chapter 10 Being Interprofessional: A Twenty-First-Century Career. Glossary and Useful Organizations. Bibliography
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Being Interprofessional
Book SynopsisThis book has a potentially huge market right across the allied health, social care and education professions. Working interprofessionally is the new concept in vogue for effective health and social care provision and right at the top of the agenda in teaching in the related professions.Trade Review"Offers some excellent practical guidance to assist those training to become public sector professionals to meet the need for successful collaborative practice." Community Care "The authors do a very good job of presenting a complex and dynamic aspect of contemporary professional work in very practical terms and in an easy to read format." Work, Employment and Society "Marilyn Hammick and her colleagues take this book beyond the usual well-meaning exhortations and uncover what it means to learn and practise in a collaborative context. The engaging style conveys complex messages in a direct way that will be helpful for undergraduate students and practitioners." Fiona Ross, Kingston University and St George's, University of London "Throughout the UK, universities are weaving interprofessional education into undergraduate professional programmes to enable students to respond positively, purposefully and intelligently to demands for closer collaboration. Much has been written to help faculty re-orientate their teaching, less to help students to re-orientate their learning, none as rigorously as does this book to help them to become interprofessional and to understand their obligations to each other, to the public and to society." Hugh Barr, President of the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education and Joint Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Interprofessional Care "Being Interprofessional has been written by the leading experts in interprofessional education and will be essential reading not only for students engaged in interprofessional learning but also to their tutors and those involved in programme development." Michael Pittilo, Robert Gordon UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the authors. Introducing this book. PART ONE Setting the Scene. Chapter 1 Being Interprofessional: Models and Meaning. Chapter 2 Being Interprofessional: Imperatives and Key Principles. Chapter 3 Learning and Working in Teams. Chapter 4 Being Interprofessional in Complex Situations. PART TWO About, from and with…. Chapter 5 Learning about, from and with other practitioners. Chapter 6 Learning about, from and with service users. Chapter 7 Learning about, from and with carers. Chapter 8 The statutory, community, voluntary and private sectors: learning about, from and with each other. PART THREE Drawing together the threads. Chapter 9 Sharing Information: the Continuing Challenge. Chapter 10 Being Interprofessional: A Twenty-First-Century Career. Glossary and Useful Organizations. Bibliography
£18.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Look It Up
Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes guide that reveals how online information affects both patients and clinicians.Trade Review“Look It Up! should be required reading for patients who want to be better informed about how to navigate the health system in any country.” Mark H. Ebell, MD, University of Georgia and author of Evidence-Based Diagnosis: A Handbook of Clinical Prediction Rules“A fresh, easy-to-read, engaging work that will be of interest to patients and clinicians alike.” Denise Campbell-Scherer, MD, University of Alberta
£26.59
University of British Columbia Press Building Health Promotion Capacity
Book SynopsisExplores the professional practice of health promotion and, in particular, how individuals and organizations can become more effective in undertaking and supporting such practice.Table of ContentsTables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPart 1: Setting the Stage1 Introduction: Action, Learning, and Capacity Building2 Making the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project HappenPart 2: Action for Learning3 Understanding Health Promotion Capacity4 Building Health Promotion CapacityPart 3: Learning from Action5 Building Health Promotion Capacity among Practitioners6 Building Health Promotion Capacity in Organizations7 The Environment and Health Promotion CapacityPart 4: Conclusions8 Reflections on Building Health Promotion CapacityReferences
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Building Health Promotion Capacity
Book SynopsisExplores the professional practice of health promotion and, in particular, how individuals and organizations can become more effective in undertaking and supporting such practice.Table of ContentsTables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPart 1: Setting the Stage1 Introduction: Action, Learning, and Capacity Building2 Making the Building Health Promotion Capacity Project HappenPart 2: Action for Learning3 Understanding Health Promotion Capacity4 Building Health Promotion CapacityPart 3: Learning from Action5 Building Health Promotion Capacity among Practitioners6 Building Health Promotion Capacity in Organizations7 The Environment and Health Promotion CapacityPart 4: Conclusions8 Reflections on Building Health Promotion CapacityReferences
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John Wiley & Sons Inc CommunityBased Health Interventions
Book SynopsisCommunity-Based Health Interventions covers the skills necessary to change health in a community setting through the reduction of disease, disease conditions, and risks to health, as well as create a supportive environment for the maintenance of the behavior changes. The first section provides background information about why interventions in communities are important, the history of several major community interventions, ethical issues in the design and implementation of interventions and the different types of interventions. The second section covers planning and activities needed to complete an intervention, along with the theoretical basis of interventions. The third section shows how to assess the needs and strengths of a particular community, gain community support, define the goals of an intervention and get started. This section also contains information on obtaining material and financial support and on strategies for continuing the intervention beyond its initial phase. The fTable of ContentsTables, Figure, and Exhibit ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii The Authors xv PART ONE introducing community-based interventions 1 1 IMPROVING HEALTH IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS 3 Defining Community 4 Ecological Theory and Levels of Prevention 5 2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS 11Diana Silver Community-Based Health Interventions: An Instrument for Change 12 Early Community-Based Health Interventions 15 Assessing the Evidence from Early Community-Based Health Interventions 18 The Evolution of Community-Based Health Interventions 19 3 ETHICAL ISSUES IN COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS 25 The Integration of Ethics into Public Health Practice 26 Institutional Review Boards 28 Vulnerable Populations 29 Permission and Consent 30 Protection for Research Participants 33 Ensuring Research Quality 34 Maintaining the Integrity of Research 35 4 LEVELS AND TYPES OF COMMUNITY-Based INTERVENTIONS 39 An Ecological Focus on Types of Prevention 40 Selecting a Goal for the Intervention 42 Examples of Interventions at Different Levels of Prevention 45 PART TWO developing the intervention 51 5 A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING COMMUNITY-Based INTERVENTIONs 53 Theoretical Guidance for Health Interventions 54 Examples of Theories Used at the Four Ecological Levels 56 6 COLLECTING AND MANAGING DATA 65 Data: A Crucial Component of Research 66 Collecting Quantitative Data 67 Collecting Qualitative Data 73 After Data Collection 75 PART THREE working through the intervention 81 7 ASSESSING COMMUNITY NEEDS 83 Basic Components of a Community Assessment 84 Strengthening Your Findings 87 8 PLANNING A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION 95 Intervention Content and Format 96 A Logic Model as an Organizing Strategy 101 A Fictional Community Assessment: Adolescent Tobacco Use 104 9 IMPLEMENTING A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION 115 Implementation at the Four Ecological Levels 116 Interventions at the Community or Policy Level 123 10 EVALUATING A COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION 127 Reasons for Evaluation 128 Preparing for an Evaluation 130 Designing the Evaluation 130 Flexibility: An Essential Skill in Evaluation 135 PART FOUR learning from the past and adapting to the future 137 11 FUNDING AND SUSTAINABILITY 139 Financing Community-Based Health Interventions 140 Components of the Proposal for Funding 143 Components of the Budget 150 Continuing and Sustaining an Intervention 155 12 IMPLEMENTATION PITFALLS 157 Things Happen 158 13 THE FUTURE OF COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS 165 Adapting Methods of Intervention to Twenty-First–Century Communities 166 A Challenge and an Opportunity for Public Health Practitioners 169 A Limitation of the New Technologies 173 14 COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE 177 Arthritis 178 Asthma 179 Adult Vaccinations 181 Alcohol Use 182 Cardiovascular Disease 183 Childhood Vaccinations 184 Injuries from Motor Vehicle Accidents 185 Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence 186 Smoking 187 Glossary 191 References 203 Index 211
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Cornell University Press Black Lung
Book SynopsisIn the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades, the combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of black lung disease—and even to acknowledge its existence—resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to the history of the coal industry and its economic and social impact.... Derickson focuses on the health consequences of mining coal, tracing the scientific, medical, labor, and political histories of black-lung disease, the respiratory illness caused by breathing coal dust. Perhaps most disturbing is Derickson's assertion that the effects of exposure to coal dust were known at the turn of the century and that preventative measures could have been implemented; instead, millions either died or suffered the debilitating effects of the disease. * Booklist *Derickson provides a detailed chronicle of the consequences of the social, political, medical, and economic forces that supported and delayed recognition of black lung as a preventable disease.... His book offers a concise and comprehensive account of a national tragedy with heavy financial and human cost. * Choice *Derickson's dissection of this public health disaster leaves the reader cringing.... It is a solid professional history. Derickson's story is well documented with an impressive range of published sources, archival documents, and oral interviews.... This book is an impressive contribution to occupational health history, to labor history, and to United States history in general. * American Historical Review *Historians from many fields will want to read this book.... Labor historians will want to weigh Derickson's sophisticated take on the unions' on-again, off-again advocacy of health issues. Medical historians will find a quite literal example of the 'social constructedness' of disease. And most readers will find renewed appreciation for the men who spent half their lives gasping for breath, that a nation might light its cities and heat its homes. * Pennsylvania History *In a richly researched and brilliantly argued work, Derickson shows how health professionals' obsession with silicosis prevented the recognition of coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP) as a distinct disease entity, and how it took substantial effort by the workers themselves to force it onto the public agenda.... This is an impressive book and one that should be read by a wide audience. * Labor History *This volume is a significant contribution to American labor history and to the history of occupational health, but it is also an important cautionary tale whose implications for today's 'science wars' should not go unnoticed.... Derickson has written an important book, worthy of the attention of all medical historians. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
£22.79
Johns Hopkins University Press Emerging Illnesses and Society Negotiating the
Book SynopsisTelford III, Harvard School of Public Health; Christian Warren, New York Academy of Medicine.Trade ReviewA valuable book on a topic that I have not see covered elsewhere. The examples are well thought out and cover a broad range of topics. Doody's Book Review Service Most useful for the collections of hospitals and college and university libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate programs in allied health, medicine, nursing and public health, although public librarians may also wish to add this work for its depth of background on and breadth of discussion of an often tangled subject. E-Streams 2005 Scholarly and well-written... should be of great interest to both historians and modern researchers interested in the overlap between social processes and public health, and is deserving of critical attention. Medical History 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Introduction / Emerging Illness as Social ProcessPart I: Making Illnesses VisibleChapter 2. The Combined Efforts of Community and Science / American Culture, Patient Activism, and the Multiple Sclerosis Movement in the United StatesChapter 3. Competing Medical Cultures, Patient Support Groups, and the Construction of Tourette SyndromeChapter 4. Democracy, Expertise, and Activism for AIDS TreatmentChapter 5. Communities of Suffering and the InternetChapter 6. Illness Movements and the Medical Classification of Pain and FatigueChapter 7. The Newtown Florist Club and the Quest for Environmental Justice in Gainesville, GeorgiaChapter 8. Occupational Health from Below / The Women Office Workers' Movement and the Hazardous OfficePart II: Institutional Responses to Emerging IllnessesChapter 9. "Always with Us" / Childhood Lead Poisoning as an Emerging IllnessChapter 10. The Cultural Politics of Institutional Responses to Resurgent Tuberculosis Epidemics / New York City and Lima, PeruChapter 11. Institutional Responses to the Emergence of Lyme Disease and Its Companion Infections in North America / A Public Health PerspectiveChapter 12. The Politics of Institutional Responses / CDC and the Controversy over Maternal and Newborn HIV TestingChapter 13. Emerging Infections and the CDC ResponseChapter 14. Hepatitis C and the News Media / Lessons from AIDSList of ContributorsIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Mortal Secrets Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
Book SynopsisAddressing broad debates about the nature of secrecy, morality, and silence, this book explores public policy questions in the light of the nuanced, private decisions that are shaping the course of an epidemic and have broader indications for all.Trade ReviewAn engaging consideration of the competing and sometime contradictory values that influence disclosure decisions in the lives of HIV-positive adults... [and] a stimulating and deeply satisfying discussion of the tensions inherent in disclosure stories. -- Robert Kertzner, M.D. American Journal of Psychiatry An in-depth look at the motivations, beliefs, and practices of those who must decide to get tested and if positive, whether or not to disclose, and when... Mortal Secrets delivers a powerful message using the voices of those most affected. -- Lisa K. Waldner, Ph.D. Journal of the American Medical Association Nonjudgmental... Readers may find themselves with newly gained compassion and understanding for the dilemma of when and how to disclose HIV status. -- Marla J.Gold, MD Annals of Internal Medicine This is an interesting book that social workers need to read so as to understand their clients concerns. A recommended book for all academic libraries. AIDS Book Review Journal Klitzman and Bayer provide an engaging consideration of the competing and sometimes contradictory values that influence disclosure decisions in the lives of HIV-positive adults. Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling 2004 It is an aim that succeeds to an extraordinary degree... So well thought-out is this study, and so well presented are the accounts of the participants, that I put the book down with a real-and rare-sense that my understanding had grown and my thinking about the ethics of HIV-in particular the responsibilities of those infected-had shifted... The examples given here put such bald statements into a new context, and make the social and cultural factors that shape the pandemic seem vivid and emotionally real. Such vividness serves powerfully to enhance understanding. -- Tamsin Wilton Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2004 This is a very interesting and thought-provoking book, which utilizes, but also moves beyond, the interview data in order to address broader debates around complex issues of sexuality and morality. -- Elaine Denny New Genetics and Society 2004 A useful resource for both clinicians and laypersons, and I recommend it as a highly accessible and expertly written book. International Review of Psychiatry 2005 Mortal Secrets is a book for anyone desiring to move forward in the fight against the illness, not the people. -- Erica Prigg Health Communication 2008Table of ContentsContents:Introduction Secrets, Lies, and Private Life1. Getting Tested Uncovering the Truth 2. Sexual Partners Sex, Love, and Disclosure 3. Secrets and "Secret Secrets" | Disclosure in Families 4. Disclosure in Other Worlds Friends, Co-Workers, and Going Public 5. Dangerous Acts 6. Making Moral JudgmentsConclusion Secrets in Public Life
£24.22
Johns Hopkins University Press American Nursing
Book SynopsisScholars in the history of medicine, nursing, and public policy, those interested in the intersections of identity, work, gender, education, and race, and nurses will find this a provocative book.Trade ReviewA valuable resource and an excellent addition to any library's collection for those interested in the history of nursing and the struggle of a profession to become autonomous. Doody's Review Service 2010 This new book is both a remarkable story about a noble profession and a rich illustration of the important place of the scholarly press. -- Dan Doody MedInfoNow 2010 A rich analysis. Bookwatch 2010 The vignettes in this book provoke images of nurses not as powerless but rather as strong, often independent, women who take life fully into their own hands. -- Peter I. Buerhaus JAMA 2010 Recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Nurses and Physicians in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia2. Competence, Coolness, Courage—and Control3. They Went Nursing—in Early Twentieth-Century America4. Wives, Mothers—and Nurses5. Race, Place, and Professional Identity6. A Tale of Two Associations: White and African AmericanNurses in North Carolina7. Who Is a Nurse?AppendixNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Measuring Health
Book SynopsisPlanning and evaluating any health care program is a formidable task: how do you measure the health of a population? This fundamental question has been approached from various perspectives in medical, administrative, and economic studies. This book provides a guide to health measurement literature and relates it to Ontario's current and prospective policy choices and to the federal context of health indicators and indices to existing statistics in Ontario in a county-by-county survey of the province's health care. He also outlines the kinds of information essential to health assessment but not currently available.The book as a whole emphasizes the importance of health care measurement in the humane and efficient planning of health services. It will be of interest to all concerned with the practice of medicine in the 1980s and the planning of health services at the federal and provincial levels, as well as to those with a special interest in health from the economic, political
£13.29
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University of Toronto Press Hunting the 1918 Flu
Book SynopsisIn 1918 the Spanish flu epidemic swept the world and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number that died during the four years of the First World War. To this day medical science has been at a loss to explain the Spanish flu''s origin. Most virologists are convinced that sooner or later a similarly deadly flu virus will return with a vengeance; thus anything we can learn from the 1918 flu may save lives in a new epidemic.Responding to sustained interest in this medical mystery, Hunting the 1918 Flu presents a detailed account of Kirsty Duncan''s experiences as she organized an international, multi-discipline scientific expedition to exhume the bodies of a group of Norwegian miners buried in Svalbard, all victims of the flu virus. Constant throughout is her determination to honour the Norwegian laws and the Svalbard customs that treat the dead and the living with respect - especially when a live virus, if unearthed, could kill
£24.29
MP-FAD F.A. Davis PublicCommunity Health and Nursing Practice
Book SynopsisProblem-based learning approach features exercises, such as critical-thinking and end-of-chapter questions, to enhance your skills and apply what you're learning. Three case studies for every chapter provide you with a step-by-step process that enables you to apply public health principles in the real world.Table of Contents Unit I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills 1 Public Health and Nursing Practice 2 Optimizing Population Health 3 Epidemiology and Nursing Practice 4 Introduction to Community Assessment 5 Health Program Planning 6 Environmental Health Unit II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues 7 Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations 8 Communicable Diseases 9 Noncommunicable Diseases 10 Mental Health 11 Substance Use and the Health of Communities 12 Injury and Violence Unit III. Public Health Planning 13 Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments 14 Health Planning for Acute Care Settings 15 Health Planning for Primary Care Settings 16 Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities 17 Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings 18 Health Planning for School Settings 19 Health Planning for Older Adults 20 Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health 21 Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance 22 Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management Index
£92.70
Louisiana State University Press Yellow Fever Race and Ecology in
Book SynopsisThrough the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans. Linking local epidemics to the city's place in the Atlantic world, Willoughby analyses how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar, slavery, and urban development.
£35.06
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Pharmacopolitics Drug Regulation in the United
Book SynopsisAdvocates of rapid access to medicines and critics fearful of inadequate testing both argue that globalization will result in the easy transfer of pharmaceuticals around the world. In Pharmacopolitics, Arthur Daemmrich challenges their assumptions by comparing drug laws, clinical trials and monitoring systems in the US and Germany.Trade ReviewThis clear and persuasive book is the first to provide a detailed cross-national comparison of the politics of pharmaceutical drug regulation. Anyone concerned with understanding how governments, social movements, professional groups, and corporations determine which drugs end up on our pharmacy shelves should read this book carefully.(Steven Epstein, University of California, San Diego, author of Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge)|Daemmrich uses a comparative study of pharmaceutical regulation in the U.S. and Germany to show that in order for medical globalization to be successful, it must accommodate persisting social and political variation even when technical standardization has been achieved. He looks at the relationships among governments, doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, and patients in case studies of an antibiotic, a sedative, a heart medication, a cancer therapy, and an AIDS drug.
£28.76
Rutgers University Press The White Plague Tuberculosis Man and Society
Book SynopsisDuBos et. al. examine the social aspects of the TB epidemic, along with some of the biological factors. They show how TB was romaticized, how it was portrayed as a demon coming to rob the healthy of life, and how it sparked scientific invention - in particular the stethescope. The introduction is wonderful as it lays out the basic parts of the book.Table of ContentsForeword by David Mechanic Introductory Essay: Dubos and Tuberculosis, Master Teachers by Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz To Our Sources Introduction to the First Edition Part One: The White Plague in the Nineteenth Century I The Captain of All the Men of Death II Death Warrant for Keats III Flight from the North Winds IV Contagion and Heredity V Consumption and the Romantic Age Part Two: The Causes of Tuberculosis VI Phthisis, Consumption and Tubercles VII Percussion, Auscultation and the Unitarian Theory VIII The Germ Theory of Tuberculosis IX Infection and Disease Part Three: Cure and Prevention of Tuberculosis X The Evaluation of Therapeutic Procedures XI Treatment and Natural Resistance XII Drugs, Vaccines and Public Health Measures XIII Healthy Living and Sanatoria Part Four: Tuberculosis and Society XIV The Evolution of Epidemics XV Tuberculosis and Industrial Civilization XVI Tuberculosis and Social Technology Appendices Bibliography and Notes Index
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Just Dont Get Sick Access to Health Care in the
Book SynopsisThe ability to obtain health care is fundamental to the security, stability, and well-being of poor families. Government-sponsored programs provide temporary support, but as families leave welfare for work, they find themselves without access to coverage or care. The low-wage jobs that individuals in transition are typically able to secure provide few benefits yet often disqualify employees from receiving federal aid.Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave the program for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions.Representative of poor communities nationwide, the viTrade ReviewAny consideration of health reform should start with this cautionary tale. -- Jeffery Levi, Ph.D. * Executive Director, Trust for America's Health *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Appendix Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Public Health The Development of a Discipline
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions, policies, and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization through the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. This book provides annotated readings and biographical details.Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Warren Winkelstein Jr.PREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHRONOLOGYPART 1 Early Roots1 HIPPOCRATES On Airs, Waters, and Places2 JOHN GRAUNT Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills or Mortality (1662, Abriged)3 JAMES LIND A Treatise on the Scurvy (1753, Abriged)4 GEORGE BAKER An Essay Concernong the Cause of the Endemial Colic of Devonshire (1767)5 PERCIVAL POTT Cancer Scroti (c. 1775)6 EDWARD JENNER An Inquiry Into The Causes And Effects Of The Variolae Vaccinae: A Disease Discovered In Some Of The Western Counties Of England, Partucularly Gloucestershire, And Known By The Name Of the Cow-Pox (1798)7 PETER LUDWIG PANUM Observations Made During the Epidemic of Measles on the Faroe Islands in the Year 1846 (1847, Abriged)PART 2 The Sanitary Reform Movement8 WILLIAM FARR Lecture Introduction to a Course on Hygeine, or the Preservation of The Public Health On the "Table of Mortality" for the Metropolis (1840) A Short Method of Constructing Life Tables (1845)9 EDWIN CHADWICK Report on the Sanitarty Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain and On the Means of Its Improvement (1842, Abriged) A Supplementary Report on the Results of a Special Inquiry into the Practice of Interment in Towns 10 JOHN SIMON Excerpts from City of London Medical Reports (1849, 1850, 1852, Abriged)11 LEMUEL sHATTUCK Report on the Sanitary Commission of Massachucetts 1850 (1850, Abriged)12 JOHN SNOW On The Mode Of Communication Of Cholera (1854, Abriged)13 EDWARD JARVIS Insanity and Idiocy in Massachucetts—Report on the Commission on Lunacy, 185514 WILLIAM BUDD Typhoid Fever—Its Nature, Mode of Spreading, and Prevention (1873)15 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Sanitart Condition of Hospitals and Hospital Construction (1859)16 IGNÁC SEMMELWEIS The Etiology, COncept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever (1860, Abriged)17 ROBERT KOCH The Aetiology of Tuberculosis On Bacteriological ResearchPART 3 The Progressive Era18 JACOB A. RIIS How the Other Half Lives (1890, Abriged)19 UPTON SINCLAIR The Jungle (1905, Abriged)20 ABRAHAM FLEXNER Medical Education in the United States & Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1910, Abriged)21 JOSEPH GOLDBERGER The Etiology of Pellagra: The Significance of Certain Epidemiological Observations With Respect Thereto (1914)22 MARGARET SANGER Family Limitation (c. 1915)23 ALICE HAMILTON Women in the Lead Industries (1919)24 ARIEL WOLMAN Chlorine Absorption and the Chlorination of WaterAFTERWORDAPPENDIX I APPENDIX IINOTESINDEXABOUT THE EDITORS
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Rutgers University Press Medical Research for Hire The Political Economy
Book SynopsisFocusing on the professional roles of those involved, as well as key research practices, this title assesses the risks and advantages for physicians and patients alike when pharmaceutical drug studies are used as an alternative to standard medical care.Trade Review"Medical Research for Hire presents a vivid and often disturbing picture of everyday life at the new frontiers of pharmaceutical drug development. In this timely book, Fisher sounds the alarm about the new economics of research, where volunteering to be a human subject may become the way for the poor to earn cash or for the uninsured to access medical care." -- Steven Epstein * author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research *"Jill Fisher shows us the daily workings of neoliberal medicine that produce the 'gold standard' of clinical trials. Anyone concerned with the future of medicine—and with the testing of the pharmaceuticals we ingest—should read this well-crafted, provocative, and disturbing book." -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller and The Renewal of Generosity *"In Medical Research for Hire, Jill Fisher goes behind the curtain of the drug trial industry to tell an interesting and complicated story of what has gone wrong in pharmaceutical research. This well-crafted study offers those who seek justice in health care the rich detail and brilliant analysis they need to change a broken system." -- Raymond De Vries * co-editor of The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences *"For the last two decades, pharmaceutical drug trials increasingly have been outsourced to nonacademic physicians, many of whom now devote a majority of their practice to conducting clinical trials. Fisher examines this trend and outlines many of the problems and risks entailed for both bioethics and economic policy. A valuable contribution to any course in the economics of health care or to more advanced courses in bioethics. Recommended." * Choice *"Novel, worthwhile reading, and a solid scholarly contribution." * Nursing History Review *"Jill Fisher's book on ethical integrity in the clinical trials enterprise is a welcome and timely contribution." * Health Affairs *"Fisher examines the social milieu and the ethical implications of for-profit research in private-practice settings at the height of the boom. The interviews bring out the effects of participating in the clinical trials industry on the doctor-patient raltionship. Her skillful presentation brings out the complexity and contricitions in her subjects' experience." * Science *"Medical Research for Hire presents a vivid and often disturbing picture of everyday life at the new frontiers of pharmaceutical drug development. In this timely book, Fisher sounds the alarm about the new economics of research, where volunteering to be a human subject may become the way for the poor to earn cash or for the uninsured to access medical care." -- Steven Epstein * author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research *"Jill Fisher shows us the daily workings of neoliberal medicine that produce the 'gold standard' of clinical trials. Anyone concerned with the future of medicine—and with the testing of the pharmaceuticals we ingest—should read this well-crafted, provocative, and disturbing book." -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller and The Renewal of Generosity *"In Medical Research for Hire, Jill Fisher goes behind the curtain of the drug trial industry to tell an interesting and complicated story of what has gone wrong in pharmaceutical research. This well-crafted study offers those who seek justice in health care the rich detail and brilliant analysis they need to change a broken system." -- Raymond De Vries * co-editor of The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences *"For the last two decades, pharmaceutical drug trials increasingly have been outsourced to nonacademic physicians, many of whom now devote a majority of their practice to conducting clinical trials. Fisher examines this trend and outlines many of the problems and risks entailed for both bioethics and economic policy. A valuable contribution to any course in the economics of health care or to more advanced courses in bioethics. Recommended." * Choice *"Novel, worthwhile reading, and a solid scholarly contribution." * Nursing History Review *"Jill Fisher's book on ethical integrity in the clinical trials enterprise is a welcome and timely contribution." * Health Affairs *"Fisher examines the social milieu and the ethical implications of for-profit research in private-practice settings at the height of the boom. The interviews bring out the effects of participating in the clinical trials industry on the doctor-patient raltionship. Her skillful presentation brings out the complexity and contricitions in her subjects' experience." * Science *Table of ContentsClinical trials : coming soon to a physician near you Governing human subjects research Pursuing contract research Coordinating clinical trials Monitoring the clinical trials industry Recruiting human subjects Mobilizing informed consent Cultivating pharmaceutical "compliance" Changing markets in pharmaceutical research
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Rutgers University Press Chronic Conditions Fluid States Chronicity and
Book SynopsisExplores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings.Trade Review"A major collection of essays from leaders in the field of medical anthropology, Chronic Conditions, Fluid States pays much-needed attention to one of the greatest challenges currently faced by both the wealthiest and poorest of nations. For anyone wishing to think critically about chronic illness in cross-cultural perspective, the social forces shaping this issue, and its impact on the lived experiences of people worldwide, there is no better place to start than this pioneering volume." -- Richard Parker * Columbia University, Editor-in-Chief, Global Public Health *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Chronicity and the Experience of Illness Part One. The Idea of Chronicity Part Two. Gender and the Experience of Illness Part Three. The Clinical Interface Afterword: Chronicity-Time, Space, and Culture Bibliography Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Medical Professionalism in the New Information
Book SynopsisWith computerized health information receiving unprecedented government support, a group of health policy scholars analyze the intricate legal, social, and professional implications of the new technology. These essays explore how Health Information Technology (HIT) may alter relationships between physicians and patients, physicians and other providers, and physicians and their home institutions. Patient use of web-based information may undermine the traditional information monopoly that physicians have long enjoyed. New IT systems may increase physicians'' legal liability and heighten expectations about transparency. Case studies on kidney transplants and maternity practices reveal the unanticipated effects, positive and negative, of patient uses of the new technology. An independent HIT profession may emerge, bringing another organized interest into the medical arena. Taken together, these investigations cast new light on the challenges and opportunities presented by HIT.Trade Review"Rothman and Blumenthal's compelling book, Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age, fills a current gap in the literature on the possible implications of information technology for practicing physicians, health care organizations, and the profession more generally, thereby advancing both policy analysis and clinical practice." -- Melissa Goldstein * George Washington University Medical Center *"The value of this collection is that it raises some intriguing issues which will be of interest to social scientists who study health and the internet, law and the professions, patient-doctor relations, communication, health policy and inequalities." * Sociology of Health and Illness *"This book provides an effective review regarding the development of the current issues in quality regulation, use of 'big data,' and report cards for those involved in or pursuing further training in public health." * Family Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction by David J. Rothman and David Blumenthal Chapter 1. Expecting the Unexpected: Health Information Technology and Medical Professionalism by David Blumenthal Chapter 2. Quality Regulation in the Information Age: Challenges for Medical Professionalism by Kristin Madison and Mark Hall Chapter 3. The "Information Rx" by Nancy Tomes Chapter 4. When New is Old: Professional Medical Liability in the Information Age by Sara Rosenbaum and Michael W. Painter Chapter 5. Patient Data: Professionalism, Property, and Policy by Marc A. Rodwin Chapter 6. Impact of Information Technology on Organ Donation: Private Values in a Public World by Sheila M. Rothman, Natassia M. Rozario, and David J. Rothman Chapter 7. Changing the Rules: The Impact of Information Technology on Contemporary Maternity Practice by Eugene Declercq Chapter 8. A Profession of IT's Own: The Rise of Health Information Professionals in American Health Care by Mark C. Suchman and Matthew Dimick Notes About the Contributors Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Health Care Safety Net in a PostReform World Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Book SynopsisThe Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World examines how national health care reform will impact safety net programs that serve low-income and uninsured patients. With contributions from leading health care scholars, it is the first comprehensive assessment of the safety net following enactment of national health care reform.Trade Review"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *"This is a really important, well-organized, and timely book by some of the best thinkers on the subject. It would be hard to gather a more knowledgeable group on this topic." -- Julie Fairman * Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing *"A comprehensive must-read for those who truly want to understand the US health care system. Hall and Rosenbaum dissect the hodge-podge of US safety net providers and complex financing in the only high-income country in the world that does not provide universal coverage to its citizens." -- Lynn A. Blewett * University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management *"Given the current debate on health care policies in the US, this volume is both timely and informative. It is also very accessible to readers without a background in the health care industry. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Reform World provides food for thought for policy makers and providers striving to understand and strengthen the safety net's post-reform role." * Health Affairs *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of Tables1. The Health Care Safety Net in the Context of National Health Insurance ReformPart I2. Dr. StrangeRove; or, How Conservatives Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Community Health Centers3. Reinventing a Classic: Community Health Centers and the Newly Insured4. Applying Lessons from Social Psychology to Repair the Health Care Safety Net for Undocumented Immigrants5. Community Health Center and Academic Medical Partnerships to Expand and Improve Primary Care6. Examining the Structure and Sustainability of Health Care Safety-Net ServicesPart II7. Safety-Net Hospitals at the Crossroads: Whither Medicaid DSH?8. The Safety-Net Role of Public Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers: Past, Present, and Future9. The Declining Public Hospital SectorPart III10. Achieving Universal Access through Safety-Net Coverage11. Public Coverage Expansions and Private Health Insurance Crowd-Out: Implications for Safety NetsAbout the ContributorsIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Structural Intimacies Sexual Stories in the Black
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This compelling book addresses the social, political, and economic dimensions of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the Black population in America, making an extremely important contribution to the scholarly literature on the intersections among HIV/AIDS, race and racism, and gender and sexuality. Mackenzie’s notion of structural intimacies is a very novel and innovative contribution. This book will have a major impact.” -- Richard G. Parker * Columbia University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Storying Sexuality in the Black AIDS Epidemic2. A Liquor Store on Every Corner: Intimate States of Alcohol and HIV / AIDS3. Never a Black Brokeback Mountain: Sexual Silence and the "Down Low" in the Age of AIDS4. Crazy Talk: The Conspiracy Counter-Narrative in the Black AIDS Epidemic5. The President, the Preacher, and Race and Racism in the Obama EraAppendix: Methodological MattersNotesReferencesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Comrades in Health US Health Internationalists Abroad and at Home Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Hardcover
Book SynopsisBrings together a group of professionals and activists whose lives have been dedicated to health internationalism. By presenting a combination of historical accounts and first-hand reflections, this collection of essays draws attention to the longstanding international activities of the American health left and the lessons they brought home.Trade Review"Everybody who cares about health and social justice, internationally and in the U.S., should read this book!" -- Amy Goodman * host of Democracy Now! and 2008 winner Right Livelihood Award *"This wonderful book offers a deeply reflective look at the motivations, ideology, and outcomes of this critical work, telling the stories of true heroes and heroines of American medicine and public health. It is must reading for anyone contemplating international health activism today." -- Dr. David Himmelstein and Dr. Steffie Woolhandler * cofounders, Physicians for a National Health Program *"Comrades in Health is a pioneering effort, a major addition to the study of global public health, and a new perspective on U.S. domestic health policy." -- Gerald M. Oppenheimer * coauthor of Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic *"Birn and Brown describe the history of international efforts to improve the health of vulnerable populations as an inherently sociopolitical, leftist, and often communist, endeavor. [The editors] create a coherent picture of the development of international health efforts...and will be an interesting read for more advanced students of public health and political science. Recommended." * Choice *"The most haunting lesson in this fine book stems from its call for an ethic of social consciousness in health care work. In this view, the struggle of justice for all is integral to the improvement of individual health outcomes, and it is as fraught with uncertainty and unintended consequences as is the treatment of individual illness. Birn, Brown and their colleagues update an old social medicine lesson that makes this struggle, with its risks, penuries and triumphs, a core professional duty instead of merely a morally praiseworthy individual pursuit." * Global Public Health *"a captivating journey through the political, economic, and social turmoil that embroiled global health care during the 20th century." * Nursing History Review *"Perhaps the most interesting lesson in Comrades in Health is in showing how the very term socialised medicine came to be such an imagined existential threat to the US body politic." * Lancet *"Comrades in Health is important reading for those interested in the global debate surrounding the post-2015 global developmental agenda and future reform of the UN-centric humanitarian system required to address 21st-century human security and social justice." * Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *Table of ContentsList of FiguresForeword AcknowledgmentsPart I1. Introduction: Health Comrades, Abroad and at Home2. The Making of Health InternationalistsPart II3. The Perils of Unconstrained Enthusiasm4. American Medical Support for Spanish Democracy, 1936–19385. Medical McCarthyism and the Punishment of Internationalist Physicians in the United StatesPart III6. Contesting Racism and Innovating Community Health Centers7. Barefoot in China, the Bronx, and Beyond8. Medical Internationalism and the “Last Epidemic”Part IV9. Social Medicine, at Home and Abroad10. Find the Best People and Support Them11. Cooperantes, Solidarity, and the Fight for Health in Mozambique12. From Harlem to HararePart V13. Brigadistas and Revolutionaries14. Health and Human Rights in Latin America, and Beyond15. History, Theory, and Praxis in Pacific Islands Health16. Doctors for Global Health17. Doctors Across BlockadesPart VI18. Across the GenerationsNotes on ContributorsIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Nursing with a Message Public Health Demonstration Projects in New York City Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
Book SynopsisPublic health demonstration projects have been touted as an innovative solution to the US's health care crisis. Yet, such projects actually have a long but little-known history, dating back to the 1920s. This new book reveals the key role that these local health programs had in influencing how Americans perceived their personal health choices and the well-being of their communities.Trade Review"With clarity and historical sophistication, D'Antonio has identified a crucial hiatus in our historical knowledge. This is definitely a timely and important book." -- Susan M. Reverby * author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy *"Nursing with a Message is a tour de force—a sophisticated and nuanced book that subtly and powerfully shifts the received arguments and historiography on nursing." -- Jennifer Gunn * Program in the History of Medicine, University of Minnesota *"Skillfully crafted, historically accurate, and well referenced, the book is a must read for anyone interested in the complexity of coordinating inter-professional healthcare – past or present." * History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"This is a necessary work that calls attention to the essential role the nursing profession played in negotiating and constructing what counts as public health policy in the United States." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Medicine and a Message 2 The Houses That Health Built 3 Practicing Nursing Knowledge 4 Shuttering the Service 5 Not Enough to Be a Messenger Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press American Catholic Hospitals A Century of Changing Markets and Missions Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
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MW - Rutgers University Press Lady Lushes Gender Alcoholism and Medicine in
Book SynopsisMedical historian Michelle L. McClellan traces the story of the female alcoholic from the late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. She draws on a range of sources to demonstrate the persistence of the belief that alcohol use is antithetical to an idealized feminine role, particularly one that glorifies motherhood.Trade Review?"?Lady Lushes is an impressive and major contribution to women's studies and the history of medicine in the United States." -- David M. Fahey * author of Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia *"From 'fallen angels' to 'lit ladies,' the drinking women who haunt these pages embody the ambivalence of alcohol. McClellan traces the fluctuations in American expectations, taking pharmacology seriously but situating it squarely within gendered social constraints." -- Nancy D. Campbell * author of Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy and Social Justice *"Lady Lushes provides an important supplement to the established historical insight that affluent white women tend to elicit sympathy while other groups of substance users are vilified. As McClellan deftly demonstrates, although the inebriety paradigm for female alcoholism evoked more sympathetic attitudes than the medical paradigm, neither produced a cure that benefited women." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Lady Lushes provides an important supplement to the established historical insight that affluent white women tend to elicit sympathy while other groups of substance users are vilified. As McClellan deftly demonstrates, although the inebriety paradigm for female alcoholism evoked more sympathetic attitudes than the medical paradigm, neither produced a cure that benefited women." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"[McClellan's] book provides a model analysis for students of the history of identity politics; as such, it could also find a place on intermediate or advanced social history courses. Feminism transformed the ‘therapeutic industrial complex’ after the 1970s, diversifying understandings of addictive experience and including behavioral as well as substance addictions, yet women’s health continues to be under-researched and often under-treated; therefore, intermediate courses on American medicine and society would benefit from inclusion of this work." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Lady Lushes is a welcome contribution to the social history of medicine and health, as well as to the growing field of drinking studies....This is a ground-breaking study that draws on a range of sources, including historical periodicals, medical journals, letters, self-help guides and institutional records." * Social History of Medicine *"Lady Lushes is an impressive and major contribution to women's studies and the history of medicine in the United States." -- David M. Fahey * author of Alcohol and Drugs in North America: A Historical Encyclopedia *"From 'fallen angels' to 'lit ladies,' the drinking women who haunt these pages embody the ambivalence of alcohol. McClellan traces the fluctuations in American expectations, taking pharmacology seriously but situating it squarely within gendered social constraints." -- Nancy D. Campbell * author of Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy and Social Justice *"Lady Lushes provides an important supplement to the established historical insight that affluent white women tend to elicit sympathy while other groups of substance users are vilified. As McClellan deftly demonstrates, although the inebriety paradigm for female alcoholism evoked more sympathetic attitudes than the medical paradigm, neither produced a cure that benefited women." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Lady Lushes provides an important supplement to the established historical insight that affluent white women tend to elicit sympathy while other groups of substance users are vilified. As McClellan deftly demonstrates, although the inebriety paradigm for female alcoholism evoked more sympathetic attitudes than the medical paradigm, neither produced a cure that benefited women." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"[McClellan's] book provides a model analysis for students of the history of identity politics; as such, it could also find a place on intermediate or advanced social history courses. Feminism transformed the ‘therapeutic industrial complex’ after the 1970s, diversifying understandings of addictive experience and including behavioral as well as substance addictions, yet women’s health continues to be under-researched and often under-treated; therefore, intermediate courses on American medicine and society would benefit from inclusion of this work." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"Lady Lushes is a welcome contribution to the social history of medicine and health, as well as to the growing field of drinking studies....This is a ground-breaking study that draws on a range of sources, including historical periodicals, medical journals, letters, self-help guides and institutional records." * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Female Inebriate in the Temperance Paradigm 2 “Lit Ladies”: Women’s Drinking during the Progressive Era and Prohibition 3 “More to Overcome Than the Men”: Women in Alcoholics Anonymous 4 Defining a Disease: Gender, Stigma, and the Modern Alcoholism Movement 5 “A Special Masculine Neurosis”: Psychiatrists Look at Alcoholism 6 “The Doctor Didn’t Want to Take an Alcoholic”: The Challenge of Medicalization at Mid-Century Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Lady Lushes Gender Alcoholism and Medicine in Modern America
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Rutgers University Press Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine Selling Hpv and
Book SynopsisMedical anthropologist S.D. Gottlieb explores how the vaccine Gardasil - developed against the most common sexually-transmitted infection, human papillomavirus (HPV) - was marketed primarily as a cervical cancer vaccine. Gardasil quickly became implicated in two pre-existing debates - about adolescent sexuality and paediatric vaccinations more generally.Trade Review"Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine offers an intimate examination of HPV vaccine narratives, traced through public media, clinics, conferences, and public policy debates. In an era of commodified health care, such explorations are necessary to lay bare the motivations of health interventions as a public good only after corporate interests are served. Despite their potential good, inappropriate promotions of new technologies may minimize or even ignore the health inequities they aim to address." -- Nicola L. Bulled * editor of Thinking Through Resistance *“This exciting book analyzes the cultural struggles over the vaccine Gardasil as both a source of corporate profit and an icon in the moral imagination of patients, doctors and health activists. Gottlieb expertly blends anthropology, media studies and feminist critique to illuminate how “disease threats” are defined in our era of corporate medicine and polarized politics.” -- Paul Brodwin * professor of anthropology, UW-Milwaukee; secondary appointment in bioethics, Medical College of WI *ReachMD "Primary Care Today" interview with Samantha Gottlieb * ReachMD "Primary Care Today" *Table of Contents1 Introduction 1 2 Imminent Vulnerability and Commodified Empowerment 20 3 The Pap Smear, Racist Histories, and “Cervix” Cancer 36 4 Educate the Educators 54 5 Merck and the FDA 70 6 Vaccines and Politics 83 7 Complicity with Corporations 99 8 Mothers and Gardasil 116 9 The “Tragically Underused” Vaccine 136 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 149 Bibliography 177 Index 193
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Rutgers University Press Faith and the Pursuit of Health Cardiometabolic
Book SynopsisFaith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Trade Review"Hardin’s gripping ethnography of food and faith offers a beautifully-composed analysis of the lived experience of obesity in a Pacific Island community. By connecting religious and metabolic conversions, Hardin shows us how health in Samoa becomes a 'matter of faith' as faith, in turn, comes to physically matter. The stories of how people grapple with cardio-metabolism in this moving account of living and dying in 21st century Samoa will work their way into your heart and stay there." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * author of The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala *“This superb ethnography of Samoa represents a landmark integration of medical anthropology and the anthropology of Christianity. In the light of Hardin’s original analysis, established topics in both fields having to do with individualism, the body and social relations, and with temporality and cultural change, appear in a strikingly new light. This book is a major contribution that deserves a wide readership.” -- Joel Robbins * author of Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society *"This illuminating ethnography provides compelling evidence of Pentecostal Christianity’s appeal for women. A powerful synthesis of medical anthropology and the anthropology of Christianity, the analysis is written in a style that combines the subtleties of them both. The chapter on research methods is a gift to health practitioners and anthropologists undertaking their own studies." -- Shirley Lindenbaum * co-editor of Knowledge, Power and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life *"Hardin’s ethnography advances anthropology’s significant contribution to our understanding of the spirit, body and soul in health and illness, in a setting characterised by cardiometabolic ambivalence." * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Glossary Note on Pronunciation Map Foreword Chapter 1: Salvation and Metabolism Chapter 2: Ethnography between Clinic and Church Chapter 3: Discerning Ambiguous Risks Chapter 4: Freedom and Health Responsibility Chapter 5: Embodied Analytics Chapter 6: Well-being and Deferred Agency Chapter 7: Support Synergies Chapter 8: Integrating Faith into Healthcare Practice Acknowledgements Endnotes Bibliography Index
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