Public health and preventive medicine Books
CABI Publishing Health and Natural Landscapes: Concepts and
Book SynopsisNatural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and well-being. While contemporary lifestyles have caused people to feel disconnected from the natural environment, this relationship is now recognized as vitally important, with landscapes increasingly valued for their stress-reduction, aesthetic, and restorative benefits. Providing an overview of the history, theoretical concepts, and individual and societal implications of human connection to natural landscapes, this book considers natural landscapes' role as an antidote to our modern, predominantly urban society. It also delivers: - A robust, research-backed overview of the intersections between natural landscapes and human health; - A compendium of applications such as nature-based therapies, urban greenspaces, and adventure-based programming that promote health within specific populations of society and individuals; - Due consideration of crucial factors that can adversely affect health and landscape, such as climate change. Of critical importance as we continue to define the role that natural landscapes will play for future generations, this book should be required reading for policy makers, urban planners and industry practitioners. It provides a thorough grounding in understanding the intersections between health and natural landscapes, and will be a valuable resource for academicians and students from a broad range of disciplines including public health, leisure and tourism, environmental sciences, and geography.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Natural Landscapes and Human Health: An Introduction and Overview Chapter 2: Human Perceptions of Nature Chapter 3: Natural Landscapes and the Health Crisis Chapter 4: Theories and Concepts: Linking Landscapes and Health Chapter 5: Outcomes, Benefits, and Opportunities: Western Research Trends Chapter 6: Applications: Facilitating Healthy Connections with Nature Chapter 7: Connecting with Landscapes: Intentional Access to Green Space Chapter 8: Conclusions and Desired Future: Take a Park, Not a Pill
£28.02
CABI Publishing Exploring the Leisure - Health Nexus: Pushing
Book SynopsisBy exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a 'tool'. Aided by the diverse chapters, readers will be challenged to explore future intersections between leisure and health using an overarching eco (ecological/environmental), bio(biological), psycho (psychological), social (sociological) lens. Many of the chapters include case-studies which consider further developing leisure and health themes, particularly in relation to a number of emerging environmental, health and societal challenges that confront the world. In addition, the book:Is cross disciplinary and demonstrates non-individualized framing of health (as per the WHO definition) giving readers a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of sociological frameworks, including ecobiopyschosocial, salutogenic, multi-species and criticalist.Moves readers from an individual level understanding of interconnections between leisure and health through to a consideration of global issues (including a section on the impact and consequences of Covid-19).Examines the nexus between leisure and health through a focus on a number of population groups including First Nations peoples, women, incarcerated people, migrants, people with disabilities, older people, and the human-animal interface. The book will be of significant interest to researchers/academics/practitioners in the leisure, health, sport, tourism, recreation, events, social science, and arts disciplines.
£88.92
ISTE Ltd eHealth Security Management
Book SynopsisDigital evolution, whether through Internet advances or the development of connected objects, has triggered a veritable societal revolution. Thanks to technological advances, e-health services enable healthcare professionals to monitor patients in real time. However, new challenges have also arisen in the field of e-health, concerning the security of medical data, as well as the protection of patient privacy. After presenting e-health architectures and explaining the proliferation of cyber attacks, e-Health Security Management focuses on proposing solutions designed to meet these security imperatives and respect patient privacy, such as the use of blockchain, biometrics, new encryption methods or artificial intelligence. Implementing these solutions is crucial to guarantee the acceptance and effectiveness of e-health services.
£118.80
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Tourism, Public Health and Wellbeing
Book SynopsisIn a time of rapid change for travel-related health interventions, this timely Handbook offers critical insights into the interrelationship between tourism, public health, and the wellbeing of local communities and tourists. Written with a global audience in mind, it features cutting-edge interdisciplinary research conducted by leading academics in tourism, public health, wellbeing, and social welfare. Investigating the nexus between tourism and public health in an era of globalisation, tourism growth and COVID-19, this incisive Handbook rethinks the role of tourism in contemporary society. Chapters explore issues from medical tourism, spiritual health, and sustainability to wellness, social development, and disease outbreaks, providing key insights that will assist diverse stakeholders to better navigate this uniquely challenging time in travel and health promotion. The Handbook addresses the growing risks of international travel and considers how the tourism industry might evolve in the wake of COVID-19 and other crises afflicting modern society. Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Handbook makes a crucial contribution to the literature on the consequences of tourism for public health. Its novel analyses of topics related to tourism, public health, wellbeing, and social welfare will be of significant benefit to tourism stakeholders, healthcare practitioners and policymakers.Trade Review‘The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked crises in public health and international travel. As the pandemic continues, it is refreshing to see cross-disciplinary work from experts in tourism and public health. This book assumes a tourism-oriented perspective to ponder the travel industry’s role in general wellbeing. The chapters rectify several knowledge gaps between tourism and medical science to encourage stakeholders to explore how travel engagement can shape health promotion and disease prevention.’ -- Haifeng Hou, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China‘This book addresses the nexus between tourism and public health/wellbeing to reframe tourism’s role in modern society. The 17 chapters constitute a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners. This volume exemplifies the promise of integrating tourism and public health to enhance individuals’ wellbeing. This book should prove especially useful for readers seeking to better understand and engage with these industries. The chapters especially underline the need for additional interdisciplinary studies in consumer behaviour, tourism marketing, health care marketing. I highly recommend this book!’ -- Haizhong Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, China‘This thought-provoking book provides an up-to-date synthesis of key thinking on the field of tourism, health and wellbeing. Applying multidisciplinary perspectives, the authors systematically discuss the challenges and opportunities that tourism may bring to health and wellbeing after the pandemic. This is a must-read book for researchers, students and practitioners interested in tourism, destination management, public health, and wellbeing.’ -- Danni Zheng, Fudan University, China‘This book is a timely contribution to tourism recovery and advances the body of knowledge by cleverly highlighting the inter-relationships between tourism, health and wellbeing. In a pandemic era where COVID-19 does not discriminate its spread, tourism and hospitality will see tourists moving towards a trajectory of pursuing more health-related services in their hedonistic consumption. This thought-provoking book is the first to examine the role of health and wellbeing in tourism in a pandemic-induced environment and lays a pioneering foundation for future research promoting tourism wellbeing and health for future generations of researchers and tourists.’ -- Edmund Goh, Edith Cowan University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv 1 Rethinking the role of tourism in modern society through the lenses of the public and general wellbeing 1 Jun Wen, Robin Nunkoo and Metin Kozak 2 The relationship between public health and medical tourism 15 Anna Białk-Wolf 3 Mobility tourism as a guarantee for health, wellbeing and sustainability 36 António Juan Briones-Peñalver, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação and Tamara Saura Acosta 4 An assessment of health as a soft infrastructure for tourism: a case study of Mauritius 56 Boopen Seetanah, Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany and Reena Bhattu Babajee 5 Engineering resilience, circularity and healthfulness in the tourism industry 66 Mahendra Gooroochurn 6 Social thermalism and relaunch projects in the name of wellness tourism 82 Carmen Bizzarri and Donatella Strangio 7 Tourism and spirituality: building the tourism of the future 96 Fabio Carbone, Barbara Antonucci, Maria João Silveira, Mahdieh Shahrabi and Mafalda Patuleia 8 Recovering from public health crises: lessons from Hong Kong’s tourism and hospitality industry 106 Hiu Yan Lee and Kevin Yin Kiu Leung 9 Positive health impacts of tourism 123 Maksim Godovykh, Alan Fyall and Abraham Pizam 10 Respoguide: integrating sustainability and wellbeing in tourism through an innovative platform 138 Paris Tsartas, Triantafyllos Falaras, Konstantinos Giannopoulos, Charalampos Papoutsakis, Georgia Paraskevopoulou and Christina Sofia Rachanioti 11 Tourism and social development: the case of Africa 149 Sheereen Fauzel, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Jeevita Matadeen 12 Public health and wellbeing in tourism policy: myths and reality 170 Wieslaw Alejziak 13 Tourism as a promoter of social welfare 204 Zehra Saltık and Orhan Akova 14 Tourist behaviour during disease outbreaks 221 Bushra Choudhary and Abdul Qadir 15 Tourist behavior during disease outbreaks and wellbeing 234 Gülseren Yurcu and Zeki Akıncı 16 Past health crises and resilience in tourism: looking to a post-COVID-19 future 252 Andreia Pereira, Cláudia Seabra and Ana Caldeira 17 COVID-19 and tourism development: an Indian Ocean island perspective 267 Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Marie-Annick Lamy-Giner and Sheereen Fauzel Index
£151.00
CABI Publishing Earth Observation, Public Health and One Health:
Book SynopsisThis book reviews the contributions of Earth Observation (EO) to public health practices. It examines how EO is being used to understand, track, predict, and manage infectious and chronic diseases, and it provides discussion on the current challenges and the significant development potential of EO to a One Health approach. Its objective is to address a set of questions: How does EO currently assist public health activities? What are the challenges for operational use of EO in public health? What are the opportunities for EO to benefit public health in the near future? This review concentrates on the following priority themes to which EO and geomatics can make important contributions: mosquito-borne and tick-borne diseases; water-borne diseases; air quality and extreme heat effects; and geospatial indicators of vulnerable human populations. EO has also demonstrated potential during the COVID-19 pandemic as an efficient provider of data on rapid environmental and socio-economic changes and impacts. Remotely sensed data are particularly useful for risk modelling and mapping projects to help generate information on occurrence and spatio-temporal trends of disease risk. Similarly, EO can be used to identify risk factors for disease risk or emergence detected in surveillance, and support development of early warning systems. Risk maps enable public health professionals to anticipate and prepare for health threats, and they can support responses to infectious disease epidemics or existing endemic conditions. This book emerged from the collaboration of the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency with contributions of international experts. Their findings will be of great value to public health and EO professionals interested in developing and applying geospatial applications in the risk assessment and management of public health issues.Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction to Public Health and Earth Observation Chapter 1: Public Health and Earth Observation Chapter 2: Work Programme Organization and Management Approaches Section 2: Earth Observation and Public Health Priority Application and Research Areas by Theme Chapter 3: Mosquito-Borne Diseases Chapter 4: Tick-Borne Diseases Chapter 5: Air Quality and Heat-Related Health Issues Chapter 6: Water-Borne Diseases- Earth Observation System for the Coastal Monitoring of Non-Cholera Vibrios Chapter 7: Vulnerable Populations Chapter 8: Earth Observation and Geospatial Data Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Appraisal Chapter 9: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities – A Review by Experts Chapter 10: Conclusions and Opportunities
£88.92
CABI Publishing Exercise: A Scientific and Clinical Overview
Book SynopsisThis book is about exercise - what it is, how it affects the individual, how it is measured and most of all what benefits it brings. Beginning with an introduction to the history and biology of exercise, the authors review the interactions between exercise and specific diseases, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancer and many more, before considering exercise in a wider health context.The book covers:- Current societal norms, as well as the social and economic costs of inactivity.- Exercise for life - from starting young, to pregnancy, longevity and frailty.- Complications of exercise.- The intersections of behavioural psychology and exercise, such as encouragement and excuse making.With comprehensive and clear explanations based on sound science, yet written in an approachable and accessible style, this book is a valuable resource for students of medicine, public health, physiotherapy, sports science, coaching and training.
£37.99
CABI Publishing Primary Health Care in Tanzania Through a Health
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Liverpool University Press Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History. This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care. An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union’s twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.Trade ReviewReviews'Strangling Angel is well written, interesting and thoroughly researched, drawing on a variety of new primary sources. It is not a history of immunisation in the British Isles, but differences in approach between progressive Ireland and Britain are highlighted. It will be useful to medical, political and social historians with an interest in infections and their prevention.'William Dibb, British Society for the History of Medicine'The documentary research in this book cannot be faulted. It includes painstaking examinations of wide-ranging archival materials as well as making extensive use of contemporary governmental, popular and scientific publications. ... Altogether, this is a promising first book from a talented scholar.' Oisín Wall, Social History of Medicine‘Michael Dwyer charts the history of diphtheria in Ireland with a strong focus on the controversies that arose when immunization was introduced in the early twentieth century […] Strangling Angel is among the most significant medical history monographs that has emerged from Ireland in recent years.' Ian Miller, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences ‘Dwyer’s work comfortably takes its place among the timely and burgeoning international literature on the history of vaccination and immunization, along with that devoted to the broader development of public health policy and programs.' J.T.H. Connor, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 'Dwyer’s account of the history of diphtheria in Ireland not only provides us with a documented history of the disease for the island of Ireland but also highlights the issues that still surrounded the disease and its prevention.'Anne Hardy, Bulletin of the History of Medicine'Strangling Angel makes an important contribution to the history of health and medicine in Ireland. It will also be of interest to social historians concerned with the treatment of children in historical state-run institutions... Starting from a place in which diphtheria remained largely concealed in the historical record, Strangling Angel brings the disease to centre stage.'Alice Mauger, Irish Social and Economic History'Strangling Angel won the NUI prize in history... Although it was formally an academic work, Dwyer writes in a clear prose, so a casual reader who is willing to put in the effort will be rewarded.' Joe Culley, History IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Aetiology of Diphtheria in Pre-independence Ireland 13 The ‘Strangling Angel’ in Ireland 16 Know Thine Enemy 27 2 Diphtheria ‘Arrives’ 32 Diphtheria in Cork City 36 Public Health Reform in the Irish Free State 41 The Development of Antitoxin as an Anti-diphtheria Prophylactic 45 3 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in the Irish Free State 51 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in Dublin 63 J. C. Saunders Anti-diphtheria Intervention in Cork City 70 4 Developing Burroughs Wellcome Alum-Toxoid 77 Vaccine Trials in Cork City 82 Further Vaccine Trials 90 5 The Ring College Immunization Disaster 101 Inquest at Ring 110 Preparing for Battle 120 6 O’Cionnfaola v. the Wellcome Foundation and Daniel McCarthy 126 After Ring 134 7 Towards a National Immunization Programme 144 Dublin 153 End of an Epidemic 163 Conclusion 170 Bibliography 178 Index 195
£31.81
Edward Elgar Publishing The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable
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CABI Publishing Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public
Book SynopsisMycotoxins are produced worldwide by several fungi on a wide range of agricultural commodities and are closely related to human and animal food chains. Examining mycotoxins and their impact from a public health viewpoint, this book provides an overview and introduction to the subject and examines the health, trade and legislation issues involved. Management of mycotoxins is discussed in detail as well as the global problems caused by mycotoxins.Table of Contents1: Health & Trade Issues 2: Mycotoxin Contamination and Toxigenic Fungi in Africa and the Mediterranean Basin 3: Mycotoxin Detection Methods 4: Mycotoxin Management 5: Institutional Issues in Mycotoxin Management 6: International Programs on Mycotoxins
£125.68
CABI Publishing Protective Effects of Tea on Human Health
Book SynopsisBringing together the latest research from leading experts, this book provides an indispensable reference on the health benefits of drinking tea. It examines the general health giving properties of tea before moving on to a detailed review of the evidence for the beneficial effects of tea on specific ailments including cancer, the common cold, renal disease, cardiovascular disease, antiviral influenza, arthritis, lung and pulmonary ailments, aging, oral health, and dementia. The book concludes by challenging misconceptions of the effects of tea.Table of ContentsPreface Part I: General Protective Effects of Tea 1: Tea is a Health Promoting Beverage in Lowering the Risk of Premature Killing Chronic Diseases, J Weisburger 2: Tea as a Rasayana, B N Dhawan, Lucknow, India 3: Health Properties of Tea Catechins, Y Hara, Mitsui Norin Co., Ltd, Japan 4: Bioavailabilities of Tea Polyphenols in Humans and Rodents, J D Lambert, J Hong, H Lu, X Meng, M Lee and C S Yang, The State University of New Jersey, USA 5: Immunomodulatory Activity of Tea, J Singh and G N Qazi, CSIR, India 6: Antigenotoxic Activity of Tea, Y Shukla and A Arora, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India 7: Methodological Issues in Population Studies of Tea and Disease Prevention, I A Hakim, University of Arizona, USAPart II: Protective Effects of Tea against Specific Ailments 8: Protective Effects of Tea against Cardiovascular Diseases, S Wiseman, I Zijp, R Weggemans, and A Rietveld, Unilever Food and Health Research Institute, The Netherlands 9: Potential Targets of Tea Polyphenols in Cancer Prevention: Significance in Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Apoptosis as well as in Protection of Host Defence System, T Das, G Sa, Bose Institute, India, and M Siddiqi 10: The Beverage Tea in Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer, M Saleem, I A Siddiqui and H Mukhtar, University of Wisconsin, USA 11: Anti-Diabetic Effects of Tea and its Constituents, Y K Gupta, C Tripathi and Y Shukla, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India 12: Green Tea Catechins against Oxidative Stress of Renal Disease, T P Rao, L R Juneja, Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd, Japan, and T Yokozawa, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan 13: Hepatoprotective Properties of Tea, Y Shukla, N Kalra and Y K Gupta, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India 14: Preventive Effects of Tea against Obesity, K Sayama, Shizuoka University, Japan, T Hase, and I Tokimitsu, Kao Corporation, Japan, and I Oguni, Hamamatsu University, Japan 15: Protective Effects of Tea against Lung/Pulmonary Ailments, H Yamada, University of Shizuoka 16: Antibacterial and Antiviral Influenza including SARS, P C Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong 17: Green Tea and the Prevention of Arthritis, S Ahmed, B B Hafeez and T M Haqqi, Case Western Reserve University, USA 18: Chemoprevention Effect of Tea against Neuronal Death-Dementia, T Kakuda, Itoen Ltd, Japan 19: Chemoprevention Action of Tea against Senescence/Ageing, K Unno, University of Shizuoka, Japan 20: Tea and Oral Health, C D Wu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
£98.68
CABI Publishing Maternal and Perinatal Health in Developing
Book SynopsisThe promotion of maternal health and mortality reduction is of worldwide importance, and constitutes a vital part of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The highest maternal mortality rates are in developing countries, where global and regional initiatives are needed to improve the systems and practices involved in maternal care and medical access. Taking a practical policy approach, this book covers the background and concepts underlying efforts to improve maternal and perinatal mortality, the current global situation and problems that prevent progress. It includes case studies and examples of successful strategies, recommends good practices, and provides a critical analysis of knowledge gaps to inform areas for future research.Table of ContentsPART I: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT 1: An introduction to maternal and perinatal health 2: The millennium development goals 3: The politics of progress: the story of maternal mortality 4: The epidemiology of maternal mortality 5: The epidemiology of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths PART II: PROGRAME IMPLEMENTATION 6: Health systems 7: Financing maternity care 8: Implementing clinical interventions within maternal health programmes 9: Medical conditions in pregnancy: preventing and managing indirect obstetric morbidity 10: Improving the availability of services 11: Geographical access, transport and referral systems 12: Demand for maternity care: beliefs, behaviour and social access 13: Empowering the community: BRAC’s approach in Bangladesh 14: Quality of care 15: Monitoring and evaluation 16: Addressing maternal health in emergency settings
£98.68
CABI Publishing Dogs, Zoonoses and Public Health
Book SynopsisZoonotic diseases constitute a public health problem throughout the world. Addressing a little-studied area of veterinary and medical science, this book covers viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth parasites transmitted between humans and dogs, discussing population management, control disease agents and human-dog relationships. Fully updated throughout, this new edition also includes chapters on benefits of the human-dog relationship and non-infectious disease issues with dogs. It is a valuable resource for researchers and students of veterinary and human medicine, microbiology, parasitology and public health.Table of Contents1: The Human-Dog Relationship: A Tale of Two Species 2: Benefits of the Human-Dog Relationship 3: Dog associated Problems affecting Public Health and Community Well-being 4: Dogs and Rabies 5: Dogs and Bacterial Zoonoses 6: Dogs and Protozoan Zoonoses 7: Dogs and Trematode Zoonoses 8: Dogs and Cestode Zoonoses 9: Dogs and Nematode Zoonoses 10: Dogs and Ectoparasitic Zoonoses 11: Dog Population Management 12: Zoonoses Prevention, Control and Elimination in Dogs 13: Fertility Control in Dogs
£108.90
CABI Publishing Disaster Management: Medical Preparedness,
Book SynopsisDisaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, including planning and preparedness of hospitals, emergency medical services, communication and IT tools for medical disaster response and psychosocial issues. It also covers the use of state-of the-art training tools, with a full section on post-disaster relief, rehabilitation and recovery.Table of ContentsSection 1: Disaster Management and Homeland Security: A Prologue 1: A Holistic View to Managing the Inevitable in High-tech and 3 Resource-poor Settings Section 2: Training, Mitigation and Medical Preparedness 2: The Role of the Primary Care Physician in Disasters 3: Manikin Simulation for Mass Casualty Incident Training Section 3: Crucial Role of Communication in Disaster Management and Homeland Security 4: The Role of Social Networking in Disaster Management 5: Regional Disaster Planning for Neonatal Intensive Care 6: Application of Mobile Grids for Disaster Management Section 4: Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents: Incident Site Command and Control, Point-of-Care Testing 7: Disaster Point-of-Care Testing: Fundamental Concepts and New Technologies 8: Incident Command Systems 9: Incident Site Command and Control 10: Disasters in Medical Care Contexts: Planning for Resilience in Incident Command Personnel and Systems in Hospitals 11: Information Management during the Disaster Medical Support Planning and Execution Phases Section 5: Medical Management of Complex Disasters and MCI Victims in Hospitals 12: Potential Application of Established Pre-hospital and Hospital Synergy in Disaster Management 13: Process Management of Multiple Casualty Events Section 6: Securing the Homeland: The Medical Way 14: Suicide Bombing Response 15: Hospital Triage and Bottlenecks to the Flow of Casualties: A Review 16: Role of Military Hospitals in Handling Chemical and Biological Disasters 17: Initial Management of Mass Casualty Incidents 18: Emergency Decontamination in Low-resource Settings 19: Radiological Contaminants: Triage, Treatment and Medical Management of Exposed Persons Section 7: Defeating Emerging Health Threats: Managing by Prophylactic and Therapeutic Approaches 20: Superhumanized Antibodies for Biodefence: The Example of Anthrax 21: Medical Support in the Case of Chemical and Biological Incidents 22: Gearing up Paraphernalia for the Management of CBRN Emergencies: A Multi-stakeholder Approach is the Need of the Hour 23: Prophylactic Possibilities in Case of High Risk of Exposure to Nerve Agents Section 8: Handling Psychosocial Issues: A Difference in Perspective (Developed and Developing Nations) 24: Collective Resilience versus Collective Vulnerability after Disasters: A Social Psychological Perspective 25: Community-based Psychosocial Support: an Overview 26: Disaster Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift from Curative to Preventive Psychiatry 27: Efficient Human Resource Management Contributes to Augmented Societal Resilience in the Aftermath of Disasters:Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Section 9: Bridging the Great Divide: The Challenge of Managing Disasters and MCIs in Resource-poor Settings 28: Managing Disasters from a Health Security Perspective 29: Management of the 2011 Japan Multiple Disasters (Earthquake, Tsunami and Ensuing Disasters): A View through an International Lens 30: Viewing Mass Casualties from a Hospital Window: Relevant Issues for the Developing World Section 10: Post-disaster Relief, Rehabilitation and Recovery 31: The Immediate Post-disaster Reconstruction Phase:Alternate Care Site Settings and Vulnerable Populations 32: Management of Dead following Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents: Critical Operational Issues Revolve around Human Resources and Logistics 33: Disaster Management: The Socioeconomic Dimension 34: Fostering Disaster-resilient Communities through Educating Children and Women for Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery in Developing Countries 35: Index
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CABI Publishing Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Book SynopsisContinued geographic expansion of dengue viruses and their mosquito vectors has seen the magnitude and frequency of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) increase dramatically. Recent exciting research on dengue has resulted in major advances in our understanding of all aspects of the biology of these viruses, and this updated second edition brings together leading research and clinical scientists to review dengue virus biology, epidemiology, entomology, therapeutics, vaccinology and clinical management.Table of ContentsI: History & Epidemiology 1: Dengue Viruses: their evolution, history and emergence as a global public health problem 2: Mapping the Epidemiology of Dengue 3: Economic and Disease Burden of Dengue 4: Surveillance for Dengue 5: Dengue Infections in Travelers 6: A review of transmission models of dengue: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of model features II: The Disease 7: Clinical Features of Dengue 8: Neurological Manifestations of Dengue Virus Infection 9: The Southeast Asia Regional Office (WHO) Guidelines for Clinical management of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 10: Laboratory Diagnosis of Dengue 11: Dengue Pathogenesis - Host Factors 12: Dengue Pathogenesis – Viral Factors 13: The acquired immune response in dengue virus infection 14: Innate Immune Responses to Dengue Infection 15: Pathology of Dengue Virus Infection 16: Dengue Drug Development III: The virus 17: Taxonomy and Evolutionary Relationships of Flaviviruses 18: Molecular Virology of Dengue Virus 19: The structural biology of dengue virus 20: The Non-Structural Proteins of Dengue Virus IV: Virus-host interaction 21: The Interface between Dengue Virus and the Human Host 22: Dengue Virus-Mosquito Interactions and Molecular Methods of Vector Control 23: Animal Models of Dengue Infection and Disease V: Dengue prevention 24: Dengue vector bionomics: Why Aedes aegypti is such a good vector 25: Surveillance and control of urban dengue vectors 26: Dengue Vector Control - New Approaches 27: Biological control of dengue and Wolbachia-based strategies 28: Dengue Vaccines 29: Dengue Virus Neutralization and Surrogates of Protection
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Policy Press Public health ethics and practice
Book SynopsisEthical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the same technology and knowledge is increasing professional and public awareness of new potential public health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza). At the level of public policy, concerns over the rising costs of health care have led to a more explicit focus on 'health promotion', and the surveillance of both 'patients' and the so-called 'worried well'. Health professionals and policy makers also have to consider the implications of managing these risks, for example restricting individual liberty through enforced quarantine (in the wake of SARS and more recently swine flu) and the more general distribution of harms and benefits. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of individuals and wider populations is becoming more complex and problematic. This book will play a key role in opening out a discussion of public health ethics. It examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of some of the complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. It will therefore be essential reading for current practitioners, those involved in public health research and a valuable aid for anyone interested in examining the tensions within and the development of public health.Trade Review"The papers in this collection illustrate the diversity of ethical issues associated with public health initiatives. The book should stimulate thinking about the development and application of ethical considerations in public health policy and practice." Vikki Entwistle, Professor of Values in Health Care, University of Dundee'This is a book that should be widely read and which should both provoke and shape debate in any future context concerned with the future of UK public health, and public health training.' Sociology of Health and Illness"Exploring tensions at the very heart of public health - between community needs and individual freedom and from philosophical concepts to everyday dilemmas - this book sheds welcome light on a much neglected aspect of the field." Prof Alan Maryon-Davis, President, UK Faculty of Public Health"Through bridging the foundational ethical underpinnings with the practice-oriented nature of public health, this important book introduces and articulates the interdisciplinary space that is public health ethics." Ryan Melnychuk, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health EthicsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why public health ethics? ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann; Part one: Public health ethics: contexts: Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health? ~ Alan Cribb; Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it ~ Stephen Holland; Part two: Ethics and public health practice: What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB ~ Ross Upshur; The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique ~ Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Jo Abbott; Relevance of primary care bioethics committees In public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile ~ Marla Solari and Tatiana Escobar-Koch; Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma? ~ Jessica Datta and Anthony Kessell; Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health ~ Erica Sutton and Ross Upshur; Part three: Public health ethics: developing a basis for practice: Theory and practice in public health ethics: a complex relationship ~ Angus Dawson; Conclusion: taking forward the debate ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann.
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Policy Press Public health ethics and practice
Book SynopsisEthical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the same technology and knowledge is increasing professional and public awareness of new potential public health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza). At the level of public policy, concerns over the rising costs of health care have led to a more explicit focus on 'health promotion', and the surveillance of both 'patients' and the so-called 'worried well'. Health professionals and policy makers also have to consider the implications of managing these risks, for example restricting individual liberty through enforced quarantine (in the wake of SARS and more recently swine flu) and the more general distribution of harms and benefits. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of individuals and wider populations is becoming more complex and problematic. This book will play a key role in opening out a discussion of public health ethics. It examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of some of the complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. It will therefore be essential reading for current practitioners, those involved in public health research and a valuable aid for anyone interested in examining the tensions within and the development of public health.Trade Review"The papers in this collection illustrate the diversity of ethical issues associated with public health initiatives. The book should stimulate thinking about the development and application of ethical considerations in public health policy and practice." Vikki Entwistle, Professor of Values in Health Care, University of Dundee'This is a book that should be widely read and which should both provoke and shape debate in any future context concerned with the future of UK public health, and public health training.' Sociology of Health and Illness"Exploring tensions at the very heart of public health - between community needs and individual freedom and from philosophical concepts to everyday dilemmas - this book sheds welcome light on a much neglected aspect of the field." Prof Alan Maryon-Davis, President, UK Faculty of Public Health"Through bridging the foundational ethical underpinnings with the practice-oriented nature of public health, this important book introduces and articulates the interdisciplinary space that is public health ethics." Ryan Melnychuk, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health EthicsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why public health ethics? ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann; Part one: Public health ethics: contexts: Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health? ~ Alan Cribb; Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it ~ Stephen Holland; Part two: Ethics and public health practice: What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB ~ Ross Upshur; The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique ~ Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Jo Abbott; Relevance of primary care bioethics committees In public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile ~ Marla Solari and Tatiana Escobar-Koch; Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma? ~ Jessica Datta and Anthony Kessell; Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health ~ Erica Sutton and Ross Upshur; Part three: Public health ethics: developing a basis for practice: Theory and practice in public health ethics: a complex relationship ~ Angus Dawson; Conclusion: taking forward the debate ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann.
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Policy Press Social work and global health inequalities:
Book SynopsisTackling inequalities in health is an essential social work task. Every day, social workers grapple with the impact on people's lives of the social inequalities that shape their health chances and experience. This book examines the relationship between social work and health inequalities in the context of globalisation. Based on the practice expertise and research of social workers from developing and developed countries worldwide and using specific examples, this book: · demonstrates the relevance of health inequalities to social work practice and policy across the lifecourse; · analyses barriers to good health that result from global social, economic, environmental and political trends; · develops core ideas on how social workers can act to combat negative effects of globalisation by adopting a health inequalities lens. "Social work and global health inequalities" is a unique snapshot of a new global social work that is responsive to local conditions and circumstances but seeks partners in the international struggle for equity, rights and social justice. This groundbreaking collection is essential reading for social work students, academics and researchers, and for policy makers, managers and social workers.Trade Review"This collection makes a significant contribution to highlighting the importance of health inequalities for social work. It draws our attention to the necessity of locating local health inequalities in a global context and identifies the extraordinary diversity and depth of social work practice within this field internationally. This is a valuable addition to an under-valued field". Liz Walker in British Journal of Social Work"...makes a significant and unique contribution to both social work knowledge and global health studies by bridging them. It is one of the pioneers in the field." Yanqiu Rachel Zhou in International Journal of Social Welfare"This book's strength is its distance from emphasis on policy and community development as a strategy for addressing health inequalities." European Journal of Social Work."I commend this timely collection that provides the intellectual underpinning for IFSW policy and other global policies on social work and health. It fills a huge gap in the social work literature." David N. Jones, President, International Federation of Social WorkersTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction: Social work and global health inequalities ~ Paul Bywaters, Eileen McLeod and Lindsey Napier; Part Two: Global health inequalities: issues for social work; The right to health: illusion or possibility? ~ Vimla Nadkarni and Kriti Vikram; Health, equity and social justice ~ Stephen M. Rose; Health and the environment ~ Margaret Alston; The health impacts of political conflict: new engagements for social work? ~ Shulamit Ramon; Reproduction in the global market place ~ Eric Blyth; Laying the foundations for good health in childhood ~ Norma Baldwin; Violence, abuse and health ~ Lesley Laing; Long-term illness and disability: inequalities compounded ~ Barbara Fawcett; Part Three: Social work intervention: addressing global health inequalities; Framing health inequalities as targets for social work: Poverty and health policy in China ~ Agnes Koon-chui Law; All things equal? Social work and lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) global health inequalities ~ Julie Fish; The role of advocacy assessment and action in resolving health-compromising stress in the lives of older African American homeless women ~ David Moxley and Olivia Washington; Preventive social work intervention and health promotion: Empowerment as a social determinant of Indigenous Australian health: the case of the Family Wellbeing programme ~ Mary Whiteside, Komla Tsey and Yvonne Cadet-James; Social work in rural China: advancing women's health and well-being in the village ~ Tuula Heinonen, Yang Jiao, Lawrence Deane and Maria Cheung; Social capital and health outcomes: implications for social work practice ~ Grace Fung-Mo Ng and Raymond W Pong; Developing new forms of service design and delivery: Addressing mental health inequalities in Scotlnd through community conversation ~ Neil Quinn and Lee Knifton; Improving psychosocial care for cancer patients ~ Carrie Lethborg and Sonia Posenelli; Developing the evidence base for practice and policy: From research to policy: advocacy for families caring for children with life-limiting conditions ~ Suzanne Quin and Jean Clarke; Data-mining 'victim of crime' presentations in hospital emergency departments: a research tool with wider significance ~ Rosalie Pockett; Promoting health equality through evidence-based study: health care access for Pakistani women and their children in Hong Kong ~ Amy Po Ying Ho; Social work education for awareness and practice: HIV/AIDS education and awareness campaign: reaching the unreached through distance learning ~ Gracious Thomas; Social work eucation and indigenous health ~ John Douglass Whyte, Lou Harms and Angela Clarke; The challenges of training social workers for health care in South Africa ~ Charlene Carbonatto; Part Four: Global health inequalities: social work policy and practice development; Addressing health inequalities: the role of service user and people's health movements ~ Ann Davis; Engagement in international practice and policy development ~ Imelda Dodds; Conclusion: emerging themes for practice and policy development ~ Paul Bywaters, Eileen McLeod and Lindsey Napier.
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Policy Press Social inequality and public health
Book SynopsisPublic health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This 'new public health' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups people belong to, the character of relationships to others and the characteristics of the societies in which people live. The rising social inequalities that can be seen in nearly every country in the world today present not just a moral danger, but a mortal danger as well. "Social inequality and public health" brings together the latest research findings from some of the most respected medical and social scientists in the world. It surveys four pathways to understanding the social determinants of health: differences in individual health behaviours; group advantage and disadvantage; psychosocial factors in individual health; and healthy and unhealthy societies, shedding light on the costs and consequences of today's high-inequality social models. This exciting book brings together leaders in the field discussing their latest research and is a must-read for anyone interested in public health and social inequalities internationally.Trade Review"This book will form a very useful addition to the sparse canon of literature exploring the relationship between social inequality and health." Journal of Public Health"... a fascinating collection of issues in modern public health research, policy and practice." Sociology of Health & Illness'....a very accessible round-up of a selection of issues, some relevant to particular parts of the world, others of global significance.' Sociology of Health & Illness"An exciting and wide ranging review of the new public health. This collection provides an efficient and intriguing introduction into what we now think most makes us healthy or ill." Daniel Dorling, Department of Geography, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsContents: Introduction ~ Salvatore Babones; Pathway one: Differences in individual health behaviours: The role of time preference and perspective in socio-economic inequalities in health related behaviors ~ Jean Adams; Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity ~ Tamara Dubowitz; Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities ~ Mary E. Northridge, Elliott D. Sclar, Annie Feighery, Maryann Z. Fiebach and Emily Karpel Kurtz; Pathway two: Group advantage and disadvantage: How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations ~ Martin White, Jean Adams and Peter Heywood; A review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes ~ Debbie Barrington; From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo ~ Javier Pereira Bruno and Ronald Angel; Pathway three: Psychosocial factors in individual health: Health inequalities and the role of work psychosocial factors: the Whitehall II study ~ Eric Brunner; Inequality, psychosocial health, and societal health: A model of inter-group conflict ~ Siddharth Chandra; The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe ~ Arjumand Siddiqui, Martin Bobak and Clyde Hertzman; Pathway four: Health and unhealthy societies: The impact of inequality: empirical evidence ~ Richard Wilkinson; 'Public goods', metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy & theory ~ J James R. Dunn and Nancy A. Ross; From societal equity to individual health ~ Salvatore Babones; Public understanding of the new public health: Health, inequalities and mobilization: human rights and the millennium development goals ~ Paul Nelson; Promoting public understanding of population health ~ Stephen Bezruchka; Conclusion ~ Salvatore Babones.
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Policy Press Social inequality and public health
Book SynopsisPublic health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This 'new public health' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups people belong to, the character of relationships to others and the characteristics of the societies in which people live. The rising social inequalities that can be seen in nearly every country in the world today present not just a moral danger, but a mortal danger as well. "Social inequality and public health" brings together the latest research findings from some of the most respected medical and social scientists in the world. It surveys four pathways to understanding the social determinants of health: differences in individual health behaviours; group advantage and disadvantage; psychosocial factors in individual health; and healthy and unhealthy societies, shedding light on the costs and consequences of today's high-inequality social models. This exciting book brings together leaders in the field discussing their latest research and is a must-read for anyone interested in public health and social inequalities internationally.Trade Review"This book will form a very useful addition to the sparse canon of literature exploring the relationship between social inequality and health." Journal of Public Health"... a fascinating collection of issues in modern public health research, policy and practice." Sociology of Health & Illness'....a very accessible round-up of a selection of issues, some relevant to particular parts of the world, others of global significance.' Sociology of Health & Illness"An exciting and wide ranging review of the new public health. This collection provides an efficient and intriguing introduction into what we now think most makes us healthy or ill." Daniel Dorling, Department of Geography, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsContents: Introduction ~ Salvatore Babones; Pathway one: Differences in individual health behaviours: The role of time preference and perspective in socio-economic inequalities in health related behaviors ~ Jean Adams; Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity ~ Tamara Dubowitz; Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities ~ Mary E. Northridge, Elliott D. Sclar, Annie Feighery, Maryann Z. Fiebach and Emily Karpel Kurtz; Pathway two: Group advantage and disadvantage: How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations ~ Martin White, Jean Adams and Peter Heywood; A review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes ~ Debbie Barrington; From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo ~ Javier Pereira Bruno and Ronald Angel; Pathway three: Psychosocial factors in individual health: Health inequalities and the role of work psychosocial factors: the Whitehall II study ~ Eric Brunner; Inequality, psychosocial health, and societal health: A model of inter-group conflict ~ Siddharth Chandra; The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe ~ Arjumand Siddiqui, Martin Bobak and Clyde Hertzman; Pathway four: Health and unhealthy societies: The impact of inequality: empirical evidence ~ Richard Wilkinson; 'Public goods', metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy & theory ~ J James R. Dunn and Nancy A. Ross; From societal equity to individual health ~ Salvatore Babones; Public understanding of the new public health: Health, inequalities and mobilization: human rights and the millennium development goals ~ Paul Nelson; Promoting public understanding of population health ~ Stephen Bezruchka; Conclusion ~ Salvatore Babones.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Nanotechnology for a Sustainable World: Global
Book SynopsisDoes humanity have a moral obligation to emphasize nanotechnology's role in addressing the critical public health and environmental problems of our age? This well crafted book explores this idea by analyzing the prospects for a macroscience nanotechnology-for-environmental sustainability project in areas such as food, water and energy supply, medicine, healthcare, peace and security. Developing and applying an innovative science-based view of natural law underpinning a global social contract, it considers some of the key scientific and governance challenges such a global project may face. The book concludes that the moral culmination of nanotechnology is a Global Artificial Photosynthesis project. It argues that the symmetric patterns of energy creating photosynthesis, life and us are shaping not only the nanotechnological advances of artificial photosynthesis, but also the ethical and legal norms likely to best govern such scientific achievements to form a sustainable existence on this planet. Nanotechnology for a Sustainable World will appeal to many generations of scientists and policy makers working to improve our world in public health, environmental sustainability and renewable energy and nanotechnology. It will also be a valuable resource for similarly motivated students of chemistry, physics, biology, nanotechnology and photosynthesis, as well as environmental and energy ethics, law and policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Nanoscience for a Sustainable World: A Goal or Set of Principles? 3. Obstacles to Nanotechnology for Environmental Sustainability 4. Core Normative Components of a Global NES Project 5. Nanotechnology for Sustainable Food, Water and Housing 6. Equitable Access to Nanomedicines 7. Nanotechnology for Global Peace and Security 8. Nanotechnology, Climate Change and Renewable Energy 9. Nanotechnology’s Moral Culmination: A Global Artificial Photosynthesis Project Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Intellectual Property, Pharmaceuticals and Public
Book SynopsisThis up-to-date book examines pharmaceutical development, access to medicines, and the protection of public health in the context of two fundamental changes that the global political economy has undergone since the 1970s, the globalization of trade and production and the increased harmonization of national regulations on intellectual property rights. With authors from eleven different countries presenting case studies of national experiences in Africa, Asia and the Americas, the book analyzes national strategies to promote pharmaceutical innovation, while at the same time assuring widespread access to medicines through generic pharmaceutical production and generic pharmaceutical importation. The expert chapters focus on patents as well as an array of regulatory instruments, including pricing and drug registration policies. Presenting in-depth analysis and original empirical research, this book will strongly appeal to academics and students of intellectual property, international health, international political economy, international development and law. Contributors: T. Andia, M. Bourassa Forcier, M. Flynn, P. Gehl Sampath, S. Guennif, A. Guzman, H. Klug, G. Krikorian, N. Lalitha, J.-F. Morin, K.C. Shadlen, L. Shi, M. WatanabeTrade Review‘. . . this book will appeal strongly to a wide range of professionals, academics and students with interest in and involvement in public health issues worldwide, specifically the pharmaceutical industry. . . the book is timely, topical, and packed with carefully researched information which puts a number of major issues relating to pharmaceuticals in perspective. Of great value to researchers are the copious footnotes and extensive bibliographies which follow most of the articles. . . this book certainly provides you with an impressive mine of information if you find yourself having to argue your corner on any number of legal, economic and ethical issues in this complex field of study.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘Since the 1970s the pharmaceutical industry has undergone significant changes in its research and development paradigm, trade and production. Regulatory frameworks have also changed substantially, particularly in the area of intellectual property rights. This book provides much needed empirical evidence on the impact of these and other changes on the pharmaceutical sector and on access to medicines in developing countries. The studies, conducted with a common methodology, on nine developing countries (including major producers of pharmaceuticals such as China and India) and on Canada, make an outstanding contribution to the literature in the field. The data and analysis in the book are of immediate interest to policy makers and to scholars in various fields, including innovation economics, industrial policy, health systems and intellectual property.’ -- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina‘This impressive collection offers fascinating new perspectives on the impact of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines in developing countries. The volume’s editors have put together an important book that sets out clearly the challenges to public health in a wide range of national contexts. The book will be a valuable text for all scholars and decision-makers interested in the global politics of intellectual property rights and public health.’ -- Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals: Meeting the Challenges to Addressing Health Gaps in the New International Environment Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán and N. Lalitha 2. Pharmaceutical Production and Access to Essential Medicines in South Africa Heinz Klug 3. Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines: Paradoxes in Moroccan Policy Gaëlle Krikorian 4. The Invisible Threat: Trade, Intellectual Property, and Pharmaceutical Regulations in Colombia Tatiana Andia 5. The Challenges of Constructing Pharmaceutical Capabilities and Promoting Access to Medicines in Mexico under TRIPS Alenka Guzmán 6. Corporate Power and State Resistance: Brazil’s Use of TRIPS Flexibilities for its National AIDS Program Matthew Flynn 7. The Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies Kenneth C. Shadlen 8. Pharmaceutical Patent Policy in Developing Countries: Learning from the Canadian Experience Jean-Frédéric Morin and Mélanie Bourassa Forcier 9. Access to Indian Generic Drugs: Emerging Issues N. Lalitha 10. Sufficient but Expensive Drugs: A Double-Track System that Facilitated Supply Capability in China Mariko Watanabe and Luwen Shi 11. Access to Essential Drugs in Thailand: Intellectual Property Rights and Other Institutional Matters Affecting Public Health in a Developing Country Samira Guennif 12. The TRIPS Agreement and Health Innovation in Bangladesh Padmashree Gehl Sampath Index
£121.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd THE SOCIOLOGY OF MEDICINE
Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Medicine is a collection of essays and research findings representing the work of medical sociologists in several different countries which focus on current ideas, concepts and issues in medical sociology. The selections provide a contemporary overview of the field in the following areas: sociological theory and health, social factors and disease, social demography, social stress, health and illness behaviour, alternative forms of medicine, health professions and occupations, hospitals, and health care delivery and social change.Although many of the papers are written by medical sociologists in Great Britain and North America, the work of their counterparts in Germany, France, Singapore and Japan is also included. The articles provide both an overview and international focus on the relationship between health and society.Trade Review'Cockerham has been very successful . . . as he has brought together a range of articles which demonstrate the richness and diversity of research and theory currently within medical sociology. Overall, this book will be a valuable resource to those working in the area . . . it does offer an accessible and interesting overview of many key issues and debates within medical sociology. It furthermore familiarises the reader with the range of theories and methods used in this sub-discipline and illustrates the importance of comparative work. The real strength of the book appears to be its ability to interest readers from varied perspectives and thus provide them with an opportunity to consider how they might contribute themselves to the development of the field.' -- Kathy Kendall, Reviewing SociologyTable of ContentsPart 1 Sociological theory and health: the sociological relevance of chronic illness, Uta Gerhardt; Max Weber, formal rationality and health lifestyles, William C. Cockerham et al; a critical theory of medical discourse - ideology, social control and the processing of social context in medical encounters, Howard Waitzkin; ageing, status politics and sociological theory, Bryan S. Turner. Part 2 Social factors and disease: socioeconomic status and health - how education, income and occupation contribute to risk facts for cardiovascular disease, Marilyn A. Winkleby et al; acculturation and symptoms - a comparative study of reported health symptoms in three Samoan communities, Joel M. Hanna and Maureen H. Fitzgerald; depression among the homeless, Mark La Gory et al; uncertainty and the lives of persons with AIDS, Rose Weitz; migrant labour and sexually transmitted disease, AIDS in Africa, Charles W. Hunt; HIV transmission through social and geographical networks in Uganda, Christine Obbo. Part 3 Social demography: the patterning of health by social position in contemporary Britain - directions for sociological research, Sally Macintyre; chronic illness over the life course - class inequalities among men and women in Britain, Sara Arber; the effects of women's employment - personal control and sex differences in mental health, Sarah Rosenfield. Part 4 Social stress: the sociological study of stress, Leonard I. Pearlin; low status control, high effort at work and ischaemic heart disease - prospective evidence from blue-collar men, Johannes Siegrist et al. Part 5 Health behaviour: the image of health - variations in perception by social class in a French population, A. d'Houtaud and Mark G. Field; social stratification and health lifestyles in two systems of health care delivery - a comparison of the United States and West Germany, Cockerham, William C. et al; fitness and the postmodern self, Barry Glassner. Part 6 Illness behaviour: reshaping of self - a pendular reconstruction of self and identity among adults with traumatic spinal cord injury, Karen K. Yoshida; life mirrors work mirrors text mirrors life..., Marianne A. Paget; self-care - Japan and the US compared, Marie R. Haug et al. Part 7 Alternative medicine. Part 8 Health professions and occupations. Part 9 Hospitals. Part 10 Health care delivery and social change. (Part contents)
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd health policy
Book SynopsisHealth Policy presents the key classic and contemporary articles and will be an important source of reference for health care professionals, academics and policymakers. It sheds light on the values and socio-political factors which underpin health policy, and will be invaluable in helping to assess and compare policymaking processes in different countries. The volume is divided into six sections and within each section the articles are presented chronologically. Thus the selection is suitable for both the beginner and the more advanced student; the beginner will benefit from the earlier readings by observing their cumulative impact on later writings, while the more advanced student may find the more up-to-date articles of particular interest. Section I introduces several basic values which underlie all health policies; section II reviews the socio-economic and political factors in health policy; section III deals with the experience and practice of American health care while section IV offers comparisons with other countries in Europe and also with Japan. Section V examines the opportunities and constraints for countries' learning from each other and finally section VI raises methodological issues and indicates the challenges which must be addressed in the future.Trade Review'This useful library resource meets the editors' objective "to help analysts of all ages to comprehend the context of foundational values and socio-political factors undergirding health policy as well as to access actual policy making processes in comparative settings". It contains . . . delightful articles. . .' -- G. Ross Langley, Annals of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction James W. Björkman and Christa Altenstetter PART I HEALTH POLICY FOUNDATIONS: BASIC VALUES AND ORIENTATIONS 1. A. Donabedian (1971), ‘Social Responsibility for Personal Health Services: An Examination of Basic Values’ 2.H.H. Hiatt (1975), ‘Protecting the Medical Commons: who is Responsible?’ 3. F.F.H. Rutten (1983), ‘Health Care Policy Today: Making Way for the Libertarians’ 4. B.L. Kirkman-Liff (1991), ‘Health Insurance Values and Implementation in the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany: An Alternative Path to Univesral Coverage’ PART II CONTEXT OF HEALTH POLICY: SOCIO-ECONOMIC & POLITICAL FACTORS 5.H. Kaufman (1966), ‘The Political Ingredient of Public Health Services: A Neglected Area of Research’ 6.S. Kelman (1975), ‘The Social Nature of the Definition Problem in Health’ 7.A. Wildavsky (1977), ‘Doing Better and Feeling Worse: The Political Pathology of Health Policy’ 8. R.G. Evans and G.L. Stoddart (1990), ‘Producing Health, Consuming Health Care’ PART III THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: PILLARS AND PLAYERS 9.R.R. Alford (1972), ‘The Political Economy of Health Care: Dynamics without Change’ 10.R. Stevens (1979), ‘The American Hospital in Historical Perspective’ 11. P. Starr (1982), ‘The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty’ 12. J.W. Björkman (1989), ‘Politicizing Medicine and Medicalizing Politics: Physician Power in the United States’ 13. S. Steinmo and J. Watts (1995), ‘It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America’ PART IV COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY: CROSS-NATIONAL VARIATIONS 14. C. Altenstetter and J.W. Björkman (1981), ‘Planning and Implementation: A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy’ 15. A.J. Heidenheimer, H. Heclo and C.T. Adams(1990), ‘Health Policy’ 16. M. Döhler (1991), ‘Policy Networks, Opportunity Structures and Neo-Conservative Reform Strategies in Health Policy’ 17. E.M. Immergut (1992), ‘Institutions of Representation and National Health Insurance Politics’ 18. David Wilsford (1995), ‘States Facing Interests: Struggles over Health Care Policy in Advanced, Industrial Democracies’ PART V POLICY LEARNING: ASPIRATIONS AND LIMITATIONS 19. M. Lerner, PhD (1977), ‘The Non-Health Services’ Determinants of Health Levels: Conceptualization and Public Policy Recommendations’ 20. L.D. Brown (1986), ‘Introduction to a Decade of Transition’ 21. W.C. Hsiao (1992), ‘Comparing Health Care Systems: What Nations can Learn from One Another’ 22. W.A Glaser (1993), ‘Universal Health Insurance That Really Works: Foreign Lessons for the United States’ 23. R. Klein (1995), ‘Learning from Others: Shall the Last be the First Markets’ PART VI: HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 24. N. Milio (1981), ‘Measuring Prevention and its Worth: The Benefits of Health-Making Policy’ 25. J. Mendeloff (1983), ‘Measuring Elusive Benefits: On the Value of Health’ 26. A.Y. Ellencweig (1992), ‘Health Systems – A Critical Analysis of Existing and Suggested Models’ 27. J.W. Kingdon (1995), ‘The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams’ 28. M. Moran (1995), ‘Three Faces of the Health Care State’ Name Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Infection Control: Science, Management and
Book SynopsisThis book examines the science, management and practice of the control of infection. The early part of the book is concerned with the science of infection control, providing the underpinning knowledge base as well as information regarding the laboratory services which will be of practical help to the reader. The book then discusses the role of the Infection Control Team, outbreak control and policy issues that are required in order to maintain a safe environment. The second half of the book concentrates on the practical application of the previously described principles to the reduction of infection risks and management of known infections in a range of clinical and social situations. The book reflects the current dynamics in health care provision and will equip the reader with the knowledge base to develop their skills in the control of infection in a variety of healthcare settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the immune system. Introduction to microbiology and virology. Role of the infection control team. Managing outbreaks of infection. Design of new and refurbished buildings. Waste management. Laundry issues. Food hygiene. Decontamination. Standard setting and audi. Immuno-suppressed patients. Mother and child infections. Sexually transmitted infections. Gastro-intestinal infections. Blood-borne infections. Catheterisation and urinary tract infection. Cannula associated infection. Wound infection. Respiratory infection. Management of known infection.
£60.75
John Wiley & Sons Inc Oncology Nursing Practice
Book SynopsisThe complexities of cancer care management are clearly explained and illustrated by the use of case histories at the end of each site-specific chapter. The book also addresses the controversies and problems surrounding health education programmes and screening. The book is divided into five main sections. Section one provides the reader with a definition of cancer and looks at the epidemiology and predisposing factors linked to specific cancers. The second section discusses the main treament options. This is followed by a section looking at the more common site-specific cancers. Each chapter in this section addresses the issues of cancer prevention, early detection, investigations and management. The fourth section discusses problems which could be encountered by certain groups of patients, e.g. management of fungating wounds, nutritional support, altered body image and sexuality problems. The book concludes with a section looking at how complementary therapies are being integrated into the main framework of cancer care, the importance of the spiritual/cultural aspects of cancer for an individual and the complex subject of breaking bad news.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part One. What is Cancer? Health promotion. Early detection and staging. Part Two. Understanding Radiotherapy and its Applications. Understanding Cytoxic Chemotherapy. Part Three. Breast Cancer. Colorectoral Cancer. Lung Cancer. Gynaecological Cancers. Skin Cancers. Haematological Malignancies. Urological Cancers. Head and Neck Cancers. Childhood Cancers. Part Four. Fungating Tumours. Nutritional Support. Infection Control Issues. Body Image and Sexuality. Part Five. Complementary Therapies. Pain Control. Breaking Bad News.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Hospital-Acquired Infection: Causes and Control
Book SynopsisHospital acquired infections (HAI) are complications of health care which affect on average 10 percent of patients admitted to hospital world wide. They have serious public health implications by changing the quality of life of patients and sometimes causing disability or even death. The purpose of this comprehensive text is to provide nurses and junior doctors with an understanding of the basics of infection control by explaining the methods employed and their purpose. The book is based on lectures presented by the author at training courses for nurses and doctors and gives simple, understandable and essential information that is vital knowledge for medical staff in hospitals.Table of Contents1. Causes and determinants of hospital acquired infections. 2. Infection and its characteristics. 3. The chain of infection and the transmission of an infective agent. 4. Definitions and general c haracteristics of infections in hospitals. 5. Preventative strategies for hospital-acquired infections. 6. Common hospital-acquired infections in developed countries. 7. Infection control and surveillance.
£53.15
Pennsylvania Historical Association The Health of the Commonwealth: A Brief History
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Center for Global Development Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in
Book SynopsisAuthored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health, shows what works—and what doesn’t—in global health. In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health.The cases are grouped into four main categories, reflecting the diversity of strategies to improve population health in low-and middle-income countries: rolling out medicines and technologies; expanding access to health services; targeting cash transfers to improve health; and promoting population-wide behavior change to decrease risk. The programs covered also come from various regions around the world: seven from sub-Saharan Africa, six from Latin America and the Caribbean, five from East and Southeast Asia, and four from South Asia.Trade Review“This is one of the most uplifting volumes on global health that I have come across. Solid evidence of cost-effective health interventions at scale gives us hope that millions more lives of the poorest and most vulnerable among us can be saved.”—Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Finance Minister, Nigeria “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”—Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “This book serves as both an inspiration and as a practical tool—it reminds us that our work is constantly evolving and that our investments yield tangible change. These stories are proof that we are making a difference.”—Jimmy Kolker, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, United States Department of Health and Human Services“Positive deviance is usually thought of as finding the successful examples in a community, learning what they do best, and then scaling up those behaviors. This book is about global positive deviance. The authors have found examples of exceptional success in global health that serve as lessons for all of us working in the field.”—Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health“As we look forward, and begin the work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the chronicles of global health presented in this and previous editions of Millions Saved provide us with documented evidence on what works and does not work in global public health. The studies from Latin America showcase that targeted interventions addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginal populations can yield enormous dividends in health, social and economic development.”—Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization “I applaud the book’s range of major categories of interventions for improving health, its learnings from programs that disappointed at scale, and its incorporation of costs in the discussion about program effectiveness and impact. Importantly, the book draws conclusions about common features and key lessons, rather than only offering a compilation of interesting case studies, which is essential for the volume to be effective.”—Jere Behrman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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Momentum Press Nutrition, Health, and Disease: A Public Health Link
Book SynopsisCurrently, with so many commercial food companies selling ready-to-eat foods for the busy professional, nutrition science may be pushed to the wayside. For most of us, guidance is essential. This book is about the more logical and better substantiated nutritional practices and juried literature around the world, and its impact on health and disease. The monograph is appropriate for use in a nutritional or an epidemiology course as well as for anyone who wants to better their own nutritional choices, their health, or lower their risk for certain diseases.
£38.66
University of Cincinnati Press Community–Academic Partnerships for Early
Book SynopsisCommunity-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health is the first volume in the Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research for Health series. In this first volume, series editors Farrah Jacquez and Lina Svedin have invited academics around the country who participated in the first cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJ) prestigious, innovative Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program to share results from their efforts. These three-person teams composed of two researchers and one community partner used applied research to create measurable change in healthcare and health outcomes for young children. Spanning disciplines from public health, psychology, policy, economics, medicine, nutrition and geography, academics teamed up with community partners, including medical practitioners, nonprofit leaders, and policymakers to create action and community benefit through research, intervention, and policy development. From research on the nonmedical needs of women in the Mississippi Delta, WIC programs in Puerto Rico, and children’s advocacy in Cincinnati, Ohio, the contributors describe seven cases depicting valuable stepping stones for academic and community partners to collaborate and create a culture of health in the United States. Trade Review"Authentic and effective partnerships between researchers and community members shape research from idea to action, and promise more appreciable and enduring impacts. These Interdisciplinary Research Leaders [and their cases] offer first-hand experiences of the challenges and promise of such partnerships. This book is a guide for a better world through better research." -- J. Michael Oakes, VP of Research, University of Minnesota and Director, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders
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Rutgers University Press Fistula Politics: Birthing Injuries and the Quest
Book SynopsisObstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly non-existent in the Global North. In contrast Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanitarian and media narratives, fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing, resulting in divorce, abandonment by kin, exile from communities, depression and suicide. In Fistula Politics, Alison Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and shows how they serve the interests not of the women so affected, but of humanitarian organizations, the media, and local clinics. Trade Review"Alison Heller has transformed the discourse on fistula with her brilliantly detailed ethnography of the lives of affected women in Niger. Fistula Politics is an inspiring account of the real lives of determined women facing the hardships of birthing injuries: pregnancy losses and social suffering, persistent wetness and months-long waiting for treatment in the context of 'regional poverty' and mismanaged care. Transformed my understanding! Truly brilliant!" -- Ellen Gruenbaum * author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective *“Most of us know the 'fistula narrative,' a story of innocent girls who suffer the dreadful consequences of early childbearing and can be saved through a simple biomedical intervention. Ali Heller’s evocative and meticulously empirical book reveals the complexities that this sensational narrative fails to capture. The alternative accounts told here raise vital questions about fistula’s true causes, consequences, cures, and costs—and about the marketing of humanitarian biomedicine.” -- Claire L. Wendland * author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School *"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *" A recommended read for scholars and practitioners in global public health, international development and medical anthropology." * Anthrodendum *"Fistula Politics is a highly readable, teachable, and beautifully illustrated monograph that is grounded in careful empirical observation. The book is elegantly organized and could be taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology or sociology, global health, human reproduction, gender studies, human rights, or research methods." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Fistula Politics is a richly-documented ethnography of Nigerian women's reproductive lives...Compellingly illustrates the value of anthropology as it provides us with an ethnographically-based, yet comprehensive and holistic, insight into people's lived experiences." * Anthropos *"Fistula Politics is written in clear, accessible language. I expect it will be widely read not only by medical anthropologists and gender and sexuality studies specialists but also by the very actors who intervene in preventing and repairing fistula." * Africa *"Heller’s ethnography, Fistula Politics, is a welcome addition to ethnographic studies of fistula, biomedicine, and the body." -- Chau J. Kelly * H-Net *Table of ContentsContents Note on Terminology List of Abbreviations Foreword 1 Chapter 1: Incontinence and Inequalities 44 Part I Living Incontinence 45 Laraba’s Story 53 Chapter 2: Fistula Stigma 96 Chapter 3: Liminal Wives 143 Part II Clinical Encounters 144 Six Beds, Sixty Minutes 153 Chapter 4: The “Worst Place to be a Mother” 193 Chapter 5: The Indeterminable Wait 234 Part III The Marketplace of Victimhood 235 Arantut’s Story 241 Chapter 6: Superlative Sufferers 271 Chapter 7: Costs and Consequences 299 Chapter 8: The Threshold of Continence Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy
Book SynopsisFrom a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society. Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good? Trade Review“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.” -- Mark K. Watson * author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics *“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place.” -- César Abadía-Barrero * author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil *Table of ContentsPreface Positioning Acknowledgements Introduction To Begin, What is Communalism? Politics of Indigeneity - What is Indigenous? or Terms, Frames, and Representations Why is Communalism Missing The Dangers of Communalism Communalism and Health Community with the Name ‘Gila River’ Committing to Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples Outline of the Book Chapter 1 - Belonging Introductions Relationships and Being Present Building Consensus An Introduction to Communalism The Dangers of Communalism The Touchstones of Belonging Conclusion - More than Membership Chapter 2 - Generation Individuals in a Communal Context Western Individualism Pima Individualism(s) Generating Community Out of Individuals Chapter 3 - Representation Authority and Representation Representing Communal Knowledge Representation & Race - Communal Genetics Representing Indigenous Diversity Chapter 4 - Hybridity Hybridity and Human Community Extremes of Communalism Individual/Communal Conflict at Gila River Theories of Hybridity and Divisibility The Communal Individual Protecting the Communal Individual Chapter 5 - Asserting Communalism Case 1 - Communalism in Research Case 2 - Communalism and the Body Case 3 - Communalism in Healing Fostering Communalism Chapter 6 - Indigenous Communalism - Global Implications Is There a Global Indigenous Communalism? Place Global Indigenous Communalism Foundations in Place Communalism and Rights Conclusion - Representing Communalism Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£27.20
Rutgers University Press Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy
Book SynopsisFrom a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society. Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good? Trade Review“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.” -- Mark K. Watson * author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics *“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place.” -- César Abadía-Barrero * author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil *Table of ContentsPreface Positioning Acknowledgements Introduction To Begin, What is Communalism? Politics of Indigeneity - What is Indigenous? or Terms, Frames, and Representations Why is Communalism Missing The Dangers of Communalism Communalism and Health Community with the Name ‘Gila River’ Committing to Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples Outline of the Book Chapter 1 - Belonging Introductions Relationships and Being Present Building Consensus An Introduction to Communalism The Dangers of Communalism The Touchstones of Belonging Conclusion - More than Membership Chapter 2 - Generation Individuals in a Communal Context Western Individualism Pima Individualism(s) Generating Community Out of Individuals Chapter 3 - Representation Authority and Representation Representing Communal Knowledge Representation & Race - Communal Genetics Representing Indigenous Diversity Chapter 4 - Hybridity Hybridity and Human Community Extremes of Communalism Individual/Communal Conflict at Gila River Theories of Hybridity and Divisibility The Communal Individual Protecting the Communal Individual Chapter 5 - Asserting Communalism Case 1 - Communalism in Research Case 2 - Communalism and the Body Case 3 - Communalism in Healing Fostering Communalism Chapter 6 - Indigenous Communalism - Global Implications Is There a Global Indigenous Communalism? Place Global Indigenous Communalism Foundations in Place Communalism and Rights Conclusion - Representing Communalism Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Medical Entanglements: Rethinking Feminist
Book SynopsisMedical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies – sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions – the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish. Trade ReviewMedical Entanglements is required reading for anyone interested in the feminist stakes of biomedical interventions. Provocatively insisting that “medicine isn’t special,” Gupta reimagines the terrain of sexual pharmaceuticals, gender affirmation procedures, and weight loss technologies, providing fresh insights about how all three can be sites of survival, well-being, and even flourishing. Gupta’s writing is clear, her arguments comprehensive, and her suggestions for how we get from A to B are a sensible companion in these urgent times. -- Chrstine Labuski * author of It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain *"Modern biomedicine presents us with a growing number of socially and ethically troubling situations, where there is always a temptation to seek a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ solution. In this important book, and with theoretical sophistication and supported by detailed case studies, Gupta shows the most ethical way forward may be acceptance that difficulties are only imperfectly resolvable, entangled as they are in broader systems of injustice. She argues with skill and imagination for a different approach, framed by a different language, to feminist thinking about healthcare." -- Jackie Leach Scully * co-editor of Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins *Table of Contents1. Introduction: No Safe Ground 2. Feminist Critiques of Medicine (and Some Responses) 3. Theorizing from Transition-Related Care: Analytical Tools for Complexity 4. Sexuopharmaceuticals: Queering Medicalization 5. Constructing Fat, Constructing Fat Stigma: Rethinking Weight-Reduction Interventions 6. Conclusion: Medicine Without Eugenics? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press At Ansha's: Life in the Spirit Mosque of a Healer
Book SynopsisAt Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque. We come to know Ansha’s experiences as revolutionary and migrant, her religious trajectories, family, the healers who cured her, the spirits who possessed her, and her declining health. We follow Ansha’s shifts in her life and work in the mosque as these intersect with the visible and invisible borders of Mozambique and of its fraught history. Confronting events in her life and in the mosque between 2009 and 2016, Ansha invites us to make meaning with her, as we sit in her mosque, and engage with her family, spirits, friends, patients, and world.Trade Review"This vivid, richly woven ethnographic account of healing practice in Mozambique offers valuable insights into the fluidity and flexibility of cultural and religious boundaries. The book captures the dynamics of agency and power in its focus on a healer’s spiritual border-crossing, revealing alternative visions of experiences of culture and religion as continually re-constructed and emergent."— Susan Rasmussen, author of Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective "Through this ethnographic account of one healer in northern Mozambique, Daria Trentini evokes the contours of an entire social world. As Ansha works the borders between health and illness, tradition and modernity, good and evil—even life and death—Trentini shows how lives are defined by tensions and contradictions as well as attempts to ease them. By providing such an accessible and compelling narrative, Trentini herself works ontological borders between her readers and those she meets in Ansha’s compound."— Harry G. West, author of Ethnographic Sorcery "This ethnography is well written and offers much comparative material for medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and the social science of medicine. I recommend it highly for both undergraduate and graduate students. Daria Trentini has made a very important contribution to the understanding of the personal and professional life and development of a spiritual healer." — Patricia Barker Lerch, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations Ansha’s Family Note on Languages Prologue Introduction Part I: Ansha and the Spirits 1 Rural and Urban 2 Health and Healing 3 Wives and Husbands 4 Demons and Spirits 5 Insiders and Outsiders 6 Mountains 7 Coast 8 Rivers and Bridges Part II: Outside the Mosque 9 Makhuwa and Maka 10 Books and Roots 11 Muslims of the Spirits and Muslims of the Mosque 12 Healers and the Governo 13 Healers and Nurses 14 Knowing and Not-Knowing Part III: Patients 15 Good and Evil 16 Closed and Opened 17 The Dead and the Living 18 Juniors and Seniors 19 Tradition and Modernity 20 Spirits and Women Part IV: Returns 21 Life and Death Epilogue Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use,
Book SynopsisIn Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.Trade Review"This is an outstanding ethnography that makes important contributions to medical anthropology specifically in relation to infectious diseases, substance use, and anthropological studies of global health practices and interventions. The nuanced anthropological focus on the intersections of substance use and tuberculosis among marginalized and impoverished persons that Versfeld analyzes in relation to historical legacies of colonialism and Apartheid is both in-depth and accessible. Critical reading for medical anthropologists, global public health scholars, and those interested in health inequalities in Africa and the Global South." -- Erin Koch * author of Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Postsocialist Georgia *"South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis rates in the world, related to indoor residential crowding, occupational hazards like mining, and high background HIV prevalence. Drug resistance and active TB resurgence magnify the original problem, increasing costs of care and reducing survival. I recommend this important contribution for anyone seeking deeper insights into the healthcare and community challenges facing the syndemic of substance use and TB, often complicated by HIV co-infection. Only a multifaceted response is likely to succeed for a disease too often addressed with limited “vertical” programs." -- Sten Vermund * the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson 1 Returners 2 The Stickiness of Moral Opinion 3 Co-constitutions: Makers and Maskers 4 Salience and Silence: Data, Evidence, and the Making of Figure Facts 5 The Challenge of “Unruly” Patients 6 Care to Cure 7 Catching Breath: The Hospital as Restricted Respite 8 Anthropology in Action Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Toward a Healthier Garden State: Beyond Cancer
Book SynopsisWhile New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey. Trade Review“Toward a Healthier Garden State is a wonderful resource for decision makers and educators, and an entertaining read for everyone who loves the Garden State. This book should be required reading for all elected and appointed officials throughout the state–a truly unique read.” -- Thomas A. Burke * Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents Preface 1 Defining, Measuring, and Improving Health 2 The Winding Path to Better Health in New Jersey 3 Transportation Drives Population Shifts 4 Fixing Environmental Inequities: Cancer Alley 5 Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Pandemic 6 Housing and Education Interventions 7 Acute Natural and Man-Made Hazard Events 8 Reshuffling Health Care Epilogue: Confronting Challenges to a Healthier New Jersey—The Next 25 Years Acknowledgments Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and
Book SynopsisIn both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.Trade Review"Wow! A gripping ethnography of the everyday ecstatic emergency and boredom of methamphetamine, fentanyl and failed relationships that cuts short the lives of Canadian youth—often indigenous—desperately seeking community, meaning and survival. Documents the dysfunctional meshes of care/jail/gentrification/predatory narcotics markets and human betrayals that betrays their persistent universally recognizable dreams/hopes against all odds for a better futures that never arrives." -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend *"The Best Place offers an analysis of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia, a locale where young people's illicit drug use has received international attention. Fast has worked in this area for many, many years, developing long-term relationships with young drug users and health professionals. This is a collaboration that offers a model of multi-level analyses and showcases the hope of Fast's interlocutors for the future. Fast draws on their visions of possible futures, and on their critiques of current approaches, articulated with those of healthcare professionals. This is a book many have been waiting for." -- Dara Culhane * cofounder and cocurator for the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography *Table of Contents Foreword by Lenore Manderson Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Places Introduction PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009 Jeff, Paradise, 2009 Big-City Dreams Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012 Senses of Place Lee, World City, 2009 Where I’m Going, Lee, 2011 Jordan, Normal Places, 2012 Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010 Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009 Jordan, Normal People, 2008 Frictions Danya, around Downtown, 2008 Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008 Trajectories Carly and Connor, Family, 2009 Geographies Patty and Joe, Home, 2012 Part II: SOMETHING Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009 Vital Experimentation Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009 Momentum Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Moral Worlds Terry, Jail, 2011 Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013 Stagnation Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010 Endless Business Terry, Field Office, 2012 Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012 Reentering Never Never Land Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74 Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009 Disappearances Lee, Gone, 2015 PART III: LOST Patty, City of Glass, 2011 Community Care Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010 Losing Everything Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012 Boredom Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013 (No)Exit, Shae, 2013 Flashbacks and Futures Patty, Terminal City, 2013 The Dance of Death Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Waiting Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014 Flights Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014 PART IV: NOWHERE Patty, Saltwater City, 2017 The Will to Intervene Shane, Passages, 2017 Living on the Edge of Change Jessica, Horizons, 2018 Filling the Hours Shane, Downtown, 2017 Stalls and Dead Ends Lula, Wenonah House, 2016 Everything We Need, Carly and Connor, 2013 A Churn of Intervention Raymond, Downtown, 2017 The Colonial Present Aaron, Field Office, 2017 Living with Death Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017 The Broken Promise Land Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017 Exits, Janet, 2015 PART V: EVERYWHERE Jordan, Rain City, 2016 Laura, Field Office, 2017 Shae/Trix, Apartment, 2017 Janet, Recovery House, 2018 Exits, Janet, 2018 Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018 The Way Home, Terry, 2011 Laurie, Downtown, 2018 Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019 Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019 Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020 Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018 Joe, Field Office, 2018 Patty, Everywhere, 2018 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Afterword Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday
Book Synopsis Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those demanding open access to mainstream pharmaceutical agents. Largely forgotten today, this activist tradition was comprised of individuals who embraced unorthodox approaches for conceptualizing and treating their condition. Rejecting biomedical expertise, they shared alternative clinical paradigms, created underground networks for distributing unorthodox nostrums, and endorsed etiological models that challenged the association between HIV and AIDS. The theatre of their protests was not the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village but rather their bodies. And their language was not the riotous chants of public demonstration but the often-invisible embrace of contrarian systems for defining and treating their disease. The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the twentieth century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the twenty-first century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.Trade Review“The Sounds of Furious Living fits within the history of 'unorthodox' medicine, but in a more nuanced and theoretical way, providing new insight into this tradition that never really went away—there is nothing like this out there now. Matthew Kelly has done an impressive job.” -- Susan Reverby * author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms Introduction: Acknowledging the Everyday Part I: The Soils of Unorthodoxy: Irregular and Alternative Medicine in U.S. History 1 Situating Unorthodox AIDS Activism within the History of Medicine in the United States 2 A Broken Model: Twentieth-Century Transformations in the Social Constructions of Health and Disease 3 A Broken Trust: The Changing Character of Health Care Part II: The Seeds of Unorthodoxy: The Emergence of Unorthodox AIDS Activism 4 Everyday Unorthodoxies and the People with AIDS Coalition (PWAC) 5 Patient, Heal Thyself: The History of Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL) Conclusion: Listening to and Learning from the Sounds of Furious Living Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Exercise Physiology for the Pediatric and Congenital Cardiologist
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of exercise physiology in patients with congenital heart disease and other pediatric cardiopulmonary disorders. It begins with an in-depth but pragmatic discussion of exercise physiology and the cardiopulmonary adaptations to physical activity, followed by a review of the conduct and interpretation of cardiopulmonary exercise tests. Subsequent chapters discuss exercise physiology and testing in patients with a variety of congenital heart diseases, including tetralogy of Fallot, Fontan physiology, transposition of the great arteries, aortic valve disease, and coarctation of the aorta. Additional chapters analyze other conditions commonly encountered by pediatric and congenital cardiologists such as pulmonary vascular disease, cardiomyopathies, heart transplants, and metabolic disorders. The book also examines the role of exercise testing in patients with electrophysiologic issues such as Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, long QT syndrome, atrioventricular node dysfunction, and pacemakers. The presentations are enhanced by data from Boston Children’s Hospital’s vast experience with clinical exercise testing. The textbook concludes with a series of interesting and illustrative cases that build on the earlier chapters, present some fascinating physiology, and provide real-world examples of how exercise testing can inform clinical decision making. Exercise Physiology for the Pediatric and Congenital Cardiologist is a detailed, practical reference for clinicians and other health care providers engaged in exercise testing for children and adults with congenital heart disease and other conditions that may be encountered by the pediatric and congenital cardiologist. It is an essential resource for physicians, medical students, and exercise physiologists as well as researchers in cardiology, pediatrics, and cardiopulmonary fitness..Table of Contents SECTION I: The Normal Cardiopulmonary Response to Exercise.- 1. Biochemistry of Exercise.- 2. Oxygen Delivery.- 3. Central Hemodynamics and Coronary Blood Flow During Exercise.- 4. CO2 Elimination (V̇CO2).- SECTION II: Conduct of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test.- 5. Laboratory Setup, Equipment, and Protocols.- 6. Exercise Stress Echocardiography.- 7. Other Modalities.- 8. Supervision and Safety Precautions for Exercise Testing.- 9. Special Considerations for Children.- 10. Special Considerations for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.- SECTION III: Interpretation of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test.- 11. Peak Exercise Parameters.- 12. Parameters from Submaximal Exercise.- 13. Putting It All Together.- SECTION IV: Prototypical Lesions.- 14. Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot.- 15. Patients with a Fontan Circulation.- 16. Aortic Valve Disease.- 17. Coarctation of the Aorta.- 18. Systemic Right Ventricles with a Biventricular Circulation (L-Transposition and D-Transposition s/p Atrial Switch) .- 19. D-Transposition s/p Arterial Switch Operation.- 20. Ebstein’s Anomaly.- 21. Pulmonary Vascular Disease.- 22. Exercise Testing in Pediatric Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- 23. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- 24. Coronary Anomalies.- 25. Metabolic Disorders.- 26. Exercise Testing After Pediatric Heart Transplantation.- 27. Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training.- 28. Summary of Lesions.- SECTION V: Electrophysiologic Issues.- 29. Syncope, Orthostatic Intolerance, and Exertional Symptoms.- 30. Exercise Stress Testing: Diagnostic Utility in the Evaluation of Long QT Syndrome.- 31. Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.- 32. Exercise Testing in the Management of Arrhythmias.- Section VI: Interesting/Instructive Cases.- 33. Patients with Physiologically Normal Hearts and Lungs.- 34. Patients with Unusual Congenital Heart Defects and/or Intracardiac Shunts.- 35. Patients with Significant Lung Disease.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age:
Book SynopsisThis book shows how participatory research can provide tools to overcome the current epistemic and ethical challenges faced by traditional scientific approaches. Ever since Funtowicz and Ravetz proposed the notion of post-normal science, there has been a growing awareness of the limits of a form of knowledge production based only on the traditional scientific peer communities that excludes other social groups affected by its results and applications. The growing uncertainty and complexity posed by socio-ecological issues in the interactions between science, society and decision making has revealed the importance of a social quality control over crucial decisions that rely on scientific research and the necessary democratization of knowledge to tackle sustainability and health concerns.Departing from a reinterpretation of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this volume shows how participatory research can contribute to reconnect science and society by extending peer communities through the incorporation of different forms of knowledge and different social actors into research projects. To do so, the author presents a critical review of different participatory research approaches, identifying the elements that distinguish a true participatory research from a traditional one, and proposing a taxonomy of the various participatory methodologies. The volume also analyzes a diversity of social practices and understandings that deal with an ecology of knowledge and its systemic characteristics. Moreover, it demonstrates that uncertainties can be integrated in dialogical processes that open possibilities for a myriad of outcomes. Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age - Unsustainability and Uncertainties to Rethink Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed will be of interest to researchers working with participatory approaches in different fields like health, environmental sciences, and education, as well as to practitioners of action research concerned with scientific dilemmas and counter-hegemonic strategies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The relevance of participatory approaches towards contemporary dilemmas.- 2. Insights from the contemporary contradictions in science-society relationship.- 3. Participation and sustainability.- 4. Adaptive methods.- 5. The need for a taxonomy.- 6. Concluding on the role of participatory approaches for the post-normal age.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health, medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning, economics to political science, geography to engineering. Scholars and practitioners in the health sciences are seeking knowledge from a wider array of fields while, simultaneously, students across majors have a growing interest in humanitarian issues and are pursuing knowledge and skills for impacting well-being across geographic and disciplinary borders. Using a highly practical approach and illustrative case studies, each chapter of this edited volume frames a particular problem and illustrates how interdisciplinary problem-solving can address the greatest challenges in global health today. In doing so, each chapter spurs critical and creative thinking about emergent and future problems. Topics explored among the chapters include: Transforming health and well-being for refugees and their communities Governing to deliver safe and affordable water The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance Low-tech, high-impact interventions to prevent neonatal mortality Communicating taboo health subjects Alternative housing delivery for slum upgrades Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies is a vital and timely compendium for any reader invested in improving global health equity. It will find an audience with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and program implementers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the fields of global health, public health, and the health sciences.Trade ReviewTable of ContentsFront MatterForeword (guest contributor)Introduction: Grand Challenges in Global Health and the Need for Interdisciplinary ApproachesSection 1: Improving Food, Water, Air, and ShelterCh. 1 Full of Hunger: Addressing the Double-burden of Obesity and Malnutrition (Perspectives from Public Health and Regional Planning)Ch. 2 When the Well Runs Dry: Delivering Safe and Affordable Water (Perspectives from Geology and Urban Planning)Ch. 3 Hazy Futures: Improving Air Quality for Maternal and Child Health (Perspectives from Engineering and Environmental Health)Ch. 4 Loss of Home, Loss of Self: Sheltering Refugees Amidst Crisis (Perspectives from Architecture, Medicine, and Social Work)Section 2: Engaging Cultural DiversityCh. 5 Do as You Say, Not as You Do: Changing Risky Behaviors (Perspectives from Health Behavior and Philosophy)Ch. 6 Blood Cultures: Integrating Traditional and Modern Medical Practices to Improve Health (Perspectives from History, Medicine, and Linguistics)Ch. 7 Kangaroo Care: Saving the Lives of Premature Babies (Perspectives from Epidemiology and Child Health)Ch. 8 Rites vs. Rights: Conquering Gender-based Violence (Perspectives from Gender Studies and Social Work)Section 3: Leveraging New Technologies and TechniquesCh. 9 Dragon’s Blood: Combatting the Mysteries of Antimicrobial Resistance (Perspectives from Microbiology, Chemistry, and Geography)Ch. 10 Extraction: Innovating Diagnostic Methods in Low-resource Settings (Perspectives from Dentistry and Computer Science)Ch. 11 Front-line Deployment: Utilizing Nanotechnology to Battle Disease at the Source (Perspectives from Nanotechnology and Public Health)Ch. 12 While Supplies Last: Overcoming Stock-outs of Essential Medicines(Perspectives from Pharmacy and Industrial Engineering)Section 4: Planning for the FutureCh. 13 World War X: Designing Health Systems Resilient Amidst Chaos (Perspectives from Economics and Political Science)Ch. 14 Gone, but Not Forgotten: Drawing Lessons from the Eradication of Polio and Guinea Worm (Perspectives from Biology and International Development)Ch. 15 Worst-case Scenarios: Building Policies, Plans, and Strategies to Curb Extreme Events (Perspectives from Environmental Planning and Law)Ch. 16 Rash Decisions: Dispatching the Next Pandemic (Perspectives from Nursing and Management)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Ecology of Purposeful Living Across the
Book SynopsisThis book explores what it means to live a purposeful life and outlines the benefits associated with purpose across different life domains. It also demonstrates that purpose in life is not reducible to constructs such as happiness, well-being, or identity development.The importance of having a sense of purpose in life is attracting renewed attention in both scientific and social arenas. Mounting evidence from intricately designed experiments and large-scale studies reveals how pursuing a purpose can make a person happier, healthier, and even lengthen their lifespan. However, existing texts on purpose have said little on why having has these effects, how it may influence our ability to navigate diverse environments, or how best to consider the construct from a multidisciplinary approach that moves beyond psychology.Recognizing this gap in the literature, this book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the topic of purpose, and examines what we can do as researchers, interventionists, and society as a whole to imbue purposefulness in the lives of people across the lifespan. It includes contributions from key figures on topics such as identity, health, youth programs and youth purpose, diversity, aging and work.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction(Anthony Burrow).- Part 1: Purpose as a Catalyst for Healthy Development.- Chapter 2. Is Purpose Good for Your Health?: A Look at Emerging Evidence (Carol Ryff).- Chapter 3. Taking a Purposeful Direction toward Healthy Aging (Patrick Hill).- Chapter 4. TBA (Rachel Sumner).- Part 2: Educating for a Purpose.- Chapter 5. Adolescents’ Self-Transcendent Purposes for Learning in School: Theory and Intervention (David Yeager).- Chapter 6. Discovering Identity and Purpose in the Classroom: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (Lisa Kiang).- Chapter 7. A Multinational Cultural Perspective on Developing and Educating for Youth Purpose (Seana Moran).- Part 3: The Role of Purpose in a Diverse Society.- Chapter 8. Youth Purpose: A Translational Research Agenda (Kendall Cotton Bronk).- Chapter 9. Paths of Identity: Navigating Stereotypes and Finding Purpose (Leoandra Rogers).- Chapter 10. Purpose as a Motivator for Equity Work (Adia Harvey Wingfield).- Part 4: Purpose in Context.- Chapter 11. Coming of Age on the Edge of Town: Perspectives on Growing Up in the Context of Rural Poverty(Katherine MacTavish).- Chapter 12. Determinants of Purpose in Life: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Analyses (Ying Chen).- Chapter 13. Supporting Youth Purpose in Adolescence: Youth-Adult Relationships as Ecological Assets (Nancy Deutsch).- Chapter 14. Discovering the Possible: How Youth Programs Provide Apprenticeships in Purpose (Reed Larson).- Chapter 15. Concluding Remarks (Anthony Burrow).
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Principles and Practice of College Health
Book SynopsisThis unique and comprehensive title offers state-of-the-art guidance on all of the clinical principles and practices needed in providing optimal health and well-being services for college students. Designed for college health professionals and administrators, this highly practical title is comprised of 24 chapters organized in three sections: Common Clinical Problems in College Health, Organizational and Administrative Considerations for College Health, and Population and Public Health Management on a College Campus. Section I topics include travel health services, tuberculosis, eating disorders in college health, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among college students, along with several other chapters. Subsequent chapters in Section II then delve into topics such as supporting the health and well-being of a diverse student population, student veterans, health science students, student safety in the clinical setting, and campus management of infectious disease outbreaks, among other topics. The book concludes with organizational considerations such as unique issues in the practice of medicine in the institutional context, situating healthcare within the broader context of wellness on campus, organizational structures of student health, funding student health services, and delivery of innovative healthcare services in college health. Developed by a renowned, multidisciplinary authorship of leaders in college health theory and practice, and coinciding with the founding of the American College Health Association 100 years ago, Principles and Practice of College Health will be of great interest to college health and well-being professionals as well as college administrators.Table of ContentsSection I. Common Clinical Problems in College Health Chapter 1 Campus Travel Health Services Julie Richards and Gail Rosselot Chapter 2 Tuberculosis Kent W. Bullis Chapter 3 Eating Disorders in College Health Melanie Trost Chapter 4 Depression and Anxiety in College Students Ayesha K. Chaudhary Chapter 5 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and College Students Cara M. Lusby and Scott H. Kollins Chapter 6 Athletic Medicine Jessica Higgs Chapter 7 Concussion Peter Duquette and P. Hunter Spotts Chapter 8 Contraception for College Reproductive Health Camille Moreno Chapter 9 Sexual Health Mary Johnson Section II. Population and Public Health Management on a College Campus Chapter 10 Supporting the Health and Well-Being of a Diverse Student Population Raphael D. Coleman, Katie Wilkinson, Padma Entsuah, Jaclyn M. Hawkins, and Gina Orlando Chapter 11 Student Veterans Amina Moghul Chapter 12 Health Science Students Giang T. Nguyen Chapter 13 Student Safety in the Clinical Setting David McBride Chapter 14 Campus Management of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Melanie J. Bernitz, Michael P. McNeil, and Julie A. Casani Chapter 15 Immunization Compliance Management Heather Spencer Chapter 16 Nutrition Services Franca Alphin and Toni Apadula Chapter 17 Sleep on College and University Campuses Michael P. McNeil and Eric S. Davidson Chapter 18 Substance Use and Abuse: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Alicia K. Czachowski and M. Scott Tims Section III. Organization and Administrative Considerations for College Health Chapter 19 Unique Issues in the Practice of Medicine in the Institutional Context Sarah Van Orman and Alyson Covington Chapter 20 Situating Healthcare Within the Broader Context of Wellness on Campus Julie Edwards Chapter 21 Organizational Structures of Student Health Richard P. Keeling Chapter 22 Funding Student Health Services James R. Jacobs and Leigh S. Stacy Chapter 23 Delivery of Innovative Healthcare Services Brian Halstater Chapter 24 Disability Access in Higher Education: Documenting as University Health Service Providers Grace C. Clifford
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Innovations in Global Mental Health
Book SynopsisOver the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life. Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented. Programs for training and education have expanded as a result. Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements. Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks. With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders—25 percent of the world’s non-communicable disease burden—rising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes. This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances. Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.Table of ContentsSection I: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Mental Health 1. Grand Challenges and Innovations (Vice President for Programs Grand Challenges Canada). 2. The Role of World Bank the World Health Organization 3. The Role of Private Foundations and NGO’s e.g. Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates Foundation, Carter Foundation Section II: 4. Reducing Stigma in Mental Health 5. Enhancing Human Capacity in low resource income countries the case of Liberia 6. Lessons from Research Innovations on HIV Section III: Advocacy, Policy, and Legislation 7. Mental Health Policy (UK) 8. Mental Health System reform in Kosovo 9. Mental Health System reform in Brazil Section IV: The Role of Technology 10. Data Mining & Use to drive decision making and policy 11. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health 12. The use of mobile phones for frontline health care workers to manage depression 13. Telepsychiatry in Pudukkottai (Step) 14. Telehealth Mental Health Section V: Innovations in Treatment and Care 15. Total health screening for integrated care 16. Sustaining African Traditional Health, The role of Faith Healers, and Community Health workers: help detect mental illness 17. Integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services into Primary Care in the Middle East 18. Blended Care in Haiti 19. Spiritual Leaders and ---Adopted Therapy Section VI: Innovations in Immigration and Refugee Services 20. The use of MPSS in immigration and refugee and immigrants 21. Addressing depression in the violence wracked mountains of Pakistan 22. Artificial and Technology, Tools for Mental Health, wellbeing, and resilience in refugees Section VII: Developing Nations 23. Attempts to achieve parity and coverage in Chile 24. Developing Health Reform in China 25. A framework for action on Universal Health Coverage in Africa Section VII: Youths in Developing Nations 26. Kenya integrated intervention model for dialogue and screening to promote children’s mental wellbeing (KID) 27. Pride (Premium for Adolescents) 28. Strong Minds 29. Oxygen Youth Health Section IX: Community Mental Health Programs 30. Basic Needs, Mental Health, and Development Model 31. The friendship Bench 32. The Bariyan 33. The Nero Strategy 34. Community Based Mentoring & Enhanced Supervision (MESIT) to Address Severe Mental Disorders Section X: Innovations in Gender & Equality 35. Feasibility and effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for women affected by urban violence. (Kenya) 36. A community based mental health intervention for mental health in Rwanda 37. Learning Clubs for woman’s health and infant development Section XI: Innovations in research and generating evidence based approaches 38. Emerald (The emerging mental health systems in LMIC) 39. Prime (Programs focus on Intervention Research for Mental Health 40. Affirm (Africa focus on Interventions Research for Mental Health) Section XII: Human Resources and Capacity Building 41. Dealing with the challenges of Human Resources and Capacity Building in India 42. Carter Foundation programs in Liberia 43. National Capacity Building Programs in Ethiopia 44. Capacity building in Post Conflict Rwanda 45. Capacity building in Mexico Section XIII: Innovations in Substance Abuse 46. Improving prevention and treatment systems based on primary prevention for alcohol use problems in 2 Caribbean countries—Guyana and Belgium. 47. A community oriented non specialist treatment for Alcohol Dependence 48. Supporting Addiction affected families effectively (SAFE) Section XIV: 49. War and displacement from conflict areas 50. Trauma Centers Section XV: Research and Monitoring the Progress of Countries 51. Prime programs for South Africa, India, Ethiopia, and Uganda 52. Africa (Africa Focus on Intervention research for mental health) 53. Collaborative shared care to improving psychosis outcome 54. Feasibility study in preparation for rationalized controlled trial: Enhanced primary mental health care Section XVI: Services for special populations—Consensus service uses the Elderly and Disabled 55. Self Help Groups for Mental Health 56. II) Consumer Advocacy Movement 57. Dementia Home Care project 58. Rehabilitation Intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia Section XVII: Miscellaneous 59. Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Religious and Spiritualties 60. 3 Dimensions of Care for Diabetes (3DFD) 61. Improving access to care for people with epilepsy through domestic health visitors Targeting family violence through domestic health visits
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Social Emergency Medicine: Principles and
Book SynopsisSocial Emergency Medicine incorporates consideration of patients’ social needs and larger structural context into the practice of emergency care and related research. In doing so, the field explores the interplay of social forces and the emergency care system as they influence the well-being of individual patients and the broader community. Social Emergency Medicine recognizes that in many cases typical fixes such as prescriptions and follow-up visits are not enough; the need for housing, a safe neighborhood in which to exercise or socialize, or access to healthy food must be identified and addressed before patients’ health can be restored. While interest in the subject is growing rapidly, the field of Social Emergency Medicine to date has lacked a foundational text – a gap this book seeks to fill. This book includes foundational chapters on the salience of racism, gender and gender identity, immigration, language and literacy, and neighborhood to emergency care. It provides readers with knowledge and resources to assess and assist emergency department patients with social needs including but not limited to housing, food, economic opportunity, and transportation. Core emergency medicine content areas including violence and substance use are covered uniquely through the lens of Social Emergency Medicine. Each chapter provides background and research, implications and recommendations for practice from the bedside to the hospital/healthcare system and beyond, and case studies for teaching. Social Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice is an essential resource for physicians and physician assistants, residents, medical students, nurses and nurse practitioners, social workers, hospital administrators, and other professionals who recognize that high-quality emergency care extends beyond the ambulance bay.Table of ContentsHistory of Social Emergency MedicinePublic Health, Population Health, and Health DisparitiesRace and RacismGender and Sexual IdentityImmigrationLanguage and LiteracyAccess to CareFrequent Emergency Department Use: A Social Emergency Medicine PerspectiveSubstance Use: A Social Emergency Medicine PerspectiveEducation and EmploymentFinancial InsecurityFood InsecurityHomelessnessHousing Instability and QualityTransportationLegal NeedsNeighborhoods and the Built EnvironmentViolenceFirearm InjuryIncarcerationHuman Trafficking.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment:
Book SynopsisThe landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” is a topic of great debate in mainstream, academic, and scientific media that generated strong opinions across the political spectrum and our nation. Soon after the enactment of the ACA and the fierce debate that ensued, The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment was published by Springer in 2014. Now five years later, just finishing an election year in which the ACA was a hotly debated issue, the second edition of this title examines the history, lessons, and impact of this ground-breaking legislation. Now a decade since implementation nationally, the ACA is the largest healthcare policy innovation in the United States in at least 50 years and one of our nation’s largest healthcare experiments ever. The history of public health and medicine shows us that to develop better solutions for important health problems, we must innovate. And when we try a new strategy, we are reminded that to innovate is to experiment. This is the basis of all medical research, public health interventions, and health policy innovations. Moreover, in recent years, there is an increasing emphasis on “translational science,” research that always has an ultimate focus on having real impact on medical care and the public’s health – whether in translating from bench research to the bedside, or from limited clinical use into widespread practice, public health interventions or policy.As with the previous edition, the book opens with a chapter that gives a basic overview of The Affordable Care Act. The second chapter, which previously discussed the objectives of the ACA, now takes a look at the successes, unfinished work and impact of the ACA in the past ten years. The third chapter now ponders the question of whether the ACA has protected patients since its implementation while its previous counterpart gave predictions for the future. The chapters that follow highlight things such as Medicaid expansion and insurance reform under the ACA, the Supreme Court Review of the ACA, social determinants of health, stories of the uninsured and stabilization of the ACA, among others. The book rounds out with a summary of what’s next and the push for universal healthcare followed by an epilogue. Due to the timely nature of the subject matter, some chapters from the previous edition have been dropped and seven new chapters have been added in their place. The remaining seven chapters from the previous edition have also been fully revised and updated. Written by nationally known healthcare policy leaders who were involved directly in the creation and implementation of the ACA, the second edition of The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment again will examine the history and impact of this ground-breaking legislation as well as recommend priorities, objectives, and next steps for translational research. It is an essential resource for all healthcare providers as well as policy makers and academics. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of the ACA as a National Experiment Chapter 2: A Decade of ACA: The Successes, Unfinished Work, and Impact of the Affordable Care Act Chapter 3: Patient Protections in the Affordable Care Act Chapter 4: Beyond Coverage and Controversy: The ACA’s Distinctly American Approach to Healthcare Coverage and Reform Chapter 5: Medicaid Expansion and Insurance Reform Under the Affordable Care Act: The New New Federalism of Health Policy or the Same Old Same Old? Chapter 6: Policies Designed to Achieve a Data-Driven Learning Healthcare System: A Decade of Progress and Future Directions Chapter 7: The Healthcare Message Wars Chapter 8: The Role of the Supreme Court in Shaping the Affordable Care Act Chapter 9: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation – A Decade of Experimentation and Continued Evolution Chapter 10: Social Determinants: Working Upstream to Solve Health Problems Before They Start Chapter 11: Stories of the Uninsured Chapter 12: Can Fifty-One Laboratories Cure What Ails the Individual Health Insurance Markets? Chapter 13: What’s Next: The Push For Universal Healthcare Epilogue
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