Public health and preventive medicine Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Treatment of Child Abuse
Book SynopsisDescribes evidence-based and evidence-supported treatments for traumatized children and adolescents, information on research and theory underlying the interventions, and explanations of treatment protocols. This title focuses particular attention on special populations and cultural differences.Table of ContentsList of ContributorsForewordPrefacePart I: Initial Contact with the Abused ChildChapter 1. Identification, Mandated Reporting Requirements, and Referral for Mental Health Evaluation and TreatmentChapter 2. Psychosocial Assessment in Child MaltreatmentPart II: Evidence- Based TreatmentsChapter 3. Trauma- Focused Cognitive Behavioral TherapyChapter 4. Parent- Child Interaction Therapy in Child Welfare SettingsChapter 5. SafeCare: A Prevention and Intervention Program for Child Neglect and Physical AbuseChapter 6. Evidence- Based Practices for Working with Physically Abusive Families: Alternatives for Families: A Cognitive Behavioral TherapyChapter 7. Empowering Families: Combined Parent- Child Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Families at Risk for Child Physical AbuseChapter 8. Early Intervention for Abused Children in the School SettingChapter 9. Family Foster Care for Abused and Neglected ChildrenChapter 10. Kinship CarePart III: Special Populations and Special TopicsChapter 11. The Sanctuary Model: Rebooting the Organizational Operating System in Group Care SettingsChapter 12. Cultural Considerations for Assessment and Treatment in Child Maltreatment CasesChapter 13. Trauma Systems Therapy: An Approach to Creating Trauma- Informed Child Welfare SystemsChapter 14. The Abused Student Cornered: School Bullying amidst TraumaChapter 15. Cognitive Processing Therapy with AdolescentsChapter 16. Risk Reduction through Family TherapyChapter 17. Children and Adolescents with Sexual Behavior ProblemsPart IV: Short- and Long- Term Medical TreatmentChapter 18. Medical Management of Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic ApproachChapter 19. Treatment of Physical Child AbuseChapter 20. Intervening with Families When Children Are NeglectedChapter 21. Failure to Thrive and MaltreatmentPart V: Education, Training, Dissemination, and Implementation in CommunitiesChapter 22. Innovative Methods for Implementing Evidence- Supported Interventions for Mental Health Treatment of Child and Adolescent Victims of ViolenceChapter 23. Statewide Efforts for Implementation of Evidence- Based ProgramsChapter 24. Creating a Culture of Wellness for Providers in Harm's WayChapter 25. The Importance of Therapist and Family Engagement in Treatment ImplementationChapter 26. The Roles of Web- Based Technology in the Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence- Based Treatments for Child AbuseChapter 27. Education of Emergency Department PhysiciansChapter 28. Education of Physicians in Residency TrainingChapter 29. Education of Community PhysiciansChapter 30. Child Abuse Pediatricians: Treating Child Victims of MaltreatmentChapter 31. Training Child Psychiatry Fellows to Provide Trauma-Informed CarePart VI: New DirectionsChapter 32. PsychopharmacologyChapter 33. Treatment Implications of Gene- Environment Interplay in Childhood TraumaChapter 34. Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Abused and Neglected ChildrenPart VII: Legal IssuesChapter 35. Legal Issues Related to Child Maltreatment and Its TherapyIndex
£68.42
Johns Hopkins University Press Health Disparities in the United States
Book SynopsisThis book is a vital teaching tool and a comprehensive reference for social science and medical professionals.Trade ReviewThis book will be of interest to everyone with an interest in diversity issues and the effects of inequality on child development, and all those who value and treasure the NHS. -- Margaret Arthur Nursing Standard This very fundamental book about health disparities in the United States gives an up to date and comprehensive summary of the current knowledge about this important health topic. It offers potential policy--and physician--based solutions for reducing social inequalities in health in the long run. -- Uwe Helmert SocialnetTable of Contents1. Introduction to the Social Roots of Health Disparities2. What Is "Health"? How Should We Define It? How Should We Measure It?3. The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health, or, "They Call It 'Poor Health' for a Reason"4. Understanding How Low Social Status Leads to Poor Health5. Race, Ethnicity, and Health6. Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Which Is More Important in Affecting Health Status?7. Children's Health Disparities8. All Things Being Equal, Does Race/Ethnicity Affect How Physicians Treat Patients?9. Why Does Race/Ethnicity Affect the Way Physicians Treat Patients?10. When, if Ever, Is It Appropriate to Use a Patient's Race/Ethnicity to Guide Medical Decisions?11. What Should We Do to Reduce Health Disparities?
£36.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Generic
Book SynopsisGreene's history sheds light on the controversies shadowing the success of generics: problems with the generalizability of medical knowledge, the fragile role of science in public policy, and the increasing role of industry, marketing, and consumer logics in late-twentieth-century and early twenty-first century health care.Trade ReviewGreene's brilliant book is the first full-length monograph to trace the history of how Americans think about generics, and it is going to be the key reference for many years to come. Somatosphere An excellent and recommended history of how the generic drug market came to be. Library Journal Fascinating and thought-provoking. History Wire: Where the Past Comes Alive Dr. Greene's gripping and eye-opening accounts of the scientific, social, and political debates that happened along the way keep the reader hooked and engaged... [He] is both scholar and storyteller, interspersing fascinating historical narratives with complex scientific discussion. P&T Community Greene should be congratulated for bringing this subject to life-with a mix of anecdote, scholarship, and elegant prose. Lancet As Jeremy Greene lays out in his excellent book, the story of the generic drug industry is is far more complicated-and far more interesting than most of us might guess... [Greene] provides readers with a useful framework for understanding how we got to where we are and how we might apply the lessons of the past to the challenges we face today. Health Affairs Greene turns the concept of generic as 'ho-hum' on its head with this jam-packed survey of the effects culture, medicine, and politics have exerted on today's ubiquitous generic drugs for the last 50 years. Publishers Weekly Jeremy Greene's Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine fascinates because the very meaning of the key term 'generic' is so unstable. Every time the reader thinks they have a handle on its dimensions, another four open up. -- Joseph Dumit Somatosphere Greene's book is a dizzying historical-political-social-cultural account of the forms generic drugs have taken over past several decades. Somatosphere Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine comes from a physician and historian who offers a history of not just the development of generic drugs, but how they differ from the original. Within his examination are important insights on how drugs are made, what parts of a pill really matter, issues of therapeutic similarity and difference, and more. It's a wide-ranging history that embraces ethical, scientific, health, and economic issues and it provides insights on the history of generic drugs in America and the problems associated with scientific and medical changes in the public eye. The result is a survey that belongs in any health collection and many a general-interest holding. The Midwest Book Review This fine, stimulating, and entertaining book offers much food for thought. -- Nicolas Rasmussen Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Well written and informative... bring[s] to life a tangled web of competing interests. -- Phillip Broadwith Chemistry World A theoretical and empirical primer that explains the success and failure of generics and what it means to choose between generic and brand name drugs. Extensively researched and documented, Generic is the first book to chronicle the development of generics, and will probably be the key reference on the topic for some time... A book that should be read by anybody with a serious interest in contemporary healthcare. -- Debra Swoboda Sociology of Health and Illness The generic drug industry... has been glorified as the antidote to exorbitant drug prices, and vilified as the purveyor of poisonous (or at least less effective) counterfeit drugs. Yet in Generic, Jeremy Greene has a far more nuanced, and far more interested, tale to tell... Greene's vitally important book... explicitly asks us to consider how much the tensions concerning times and places examined in the book are the same as those we face today... or at least similar enough in ways that we should find relevant. The answer is, very much. -- Scott H. Podolsky Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science Physician/historian Greene provides a thoroughly researched discussion about generic products derived from innovative or brand-name drugs, focusing on their "social, political, and cultural history"... Greene ably argues for generic by providing inside details about the drug approval process. Choice ... Generic is an excellent example of how to intelligently construct a modern material history, grounded in the logics of the everyday. Medical Anthropology Quarterly ... recommended reading for anyone interested in postwar developments in U.S. health care and for scholars and analysts of contemporary pharmaceutical politics. Bulletin of the History of Medicine Greene's book is a pioneering work. His study is particularly relevant for historians of medicine and health but will be of interest for readers from history and sociology of science, as well as other social scientists who specialize in drug regulation. IsisTable of ContentsPreface to the 2016 EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Same but Not the SamePart I. What's in a Name?Chapter 1. Ordering the World of CuresChapter 2. The Generic as Critique of the BrandPart II. No Such Thing as a Generic Drug?Chapter 3. Drugs AnonymousChapter 4. Origins of a Self- Effacing IndustryChapter 5. Generic SpecificityPart III. The Sciences of SimilarityChapter 6. Contests of EquivalenceChapter 7. The Significance of DifferencesPart IV. Laws of SubstitutionChapter 8. Substitution as Vice and VirtueChapter 9. Universal ExchangePart V. Paradoxes of Generic ConsumptionChapter 10. Liberating the Captive ConsumerChapter 11. Generic Consumption in the Clinic, Pharmacy, and SupermarketPart VI. The Generic AlternativeChapter 12. Science and Politics of the "Me- Too" DrugChapter 13. Preferred Drugs, Public and PrivateChapter 14. The Global GenericConclusion. The Crisis of SimilarityList of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Resilience and Aging
Book SynopsisThroughout, the book's revolutionary integrative approach aims to amplify personal happiness by allowing aging adults to remain healthy and active while simultaneously reducing the cost of chronic disease to families and society.Trade ReviewDr. Lavretsky provides an intellectually stimulating journey into the meaning of resilience with aging, the impact of resilience on psychological well-being, cognitive functioning, and resilience-promotiong interventions... Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice is a wonderful book that provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the complexities of resilience in aging and how practitioners can maximize resilience in aging patients. -- Frank W. Brown American Journal of Psychiatry A comprehensive review of resilience and its relationship to the areas of aging-related science, policy, treatment, and intervention, with an overall goal of creating awareness about resilience-building and improving the lives of older adults and their families. The GerontologistTable of ContentsPreface1. What Is Resilience in the Context of Aging?2. Psychological Emotional Resilience and Cognitive Resilience3. Resilience and Longevity4. Biomarkers and the Neurobiology of Resilience5. Gene–Environment Interaction and Resilience6. Common Stressors of Old Age and Their Effect on Resilience7. Spirituality and Aging8. Social Models of Promoting Resilience9. Cultural and Ethnic Factors in Understanding and Building Resilience10. Measuring Resilience in Older Adults11. Resilience-Promoting Interventions12. Building Resilient Communities for Older Adults13. Resilience-Building Interventions and Prevention of Chronic Diseases of Aging14. EpilogueIndex
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Cold War Deadly Fevers
Book SynopsisFollowing the story through the dwindling campaign in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Cueto raises questions relevant to today's international health campaigns against malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis.Trade ReviewWithout doubt, Cold War, Deadly Fevers is an important contribution to the expanding field of international health history. -- Diego Armus Isis This history of malaria eradication in Mexico reveals that there is no magic bullet. Rather, there is a need for 'holistic, persistent, flexible approaches' to fashion popular support for prevention programs and an integrated public health perspective 'that entails overcoming the culture of survival.' This thoroughly researched and clearly written book shines a light in the gloom. Doody's Review Service This is a valuable book for all public health professionals. Highly recommended. Choice A well-crafted and complex study that offers important lessons on the history of international health and foreign aid. One of the greatest strengths of this impressive work, however, is Cueto's insight into the motivations and attitudes of the people who created the program, those who implemented it, and those who were deemed its beneficiaries. -- Jonathan D. Ablard Hispanic American Historical Review Dr. Cueto's superbly well-informed exploration of malaria not only as a disease but as a social economic, and human problem makes his book required reading. -- Filiberto Malagon Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Raises questions highly relevant to today's international health campaigns to eradicate malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis... Well researched, conceptualized and executed. The work is a welcome and significant contribution to the field of the history of public health as well as a critical guide for public health practitioners who seek more beneficial global health paradigms. -- Alexandra Puerto Contra Corriente Should be compulsory reading for public health officials. -- Thomes P. Weber British Journal for the History ofScience This new work is a model of its kind. -- Christopher Abel Journal of Latin American Studies Cueto's book is significant in that it pushes scholars in several disciplines to acknowledge the power that health and disease have in reformulating our understanding of threats during the Cold War, and, notably, in our times. -- Gabriela Soto Laveaga Review of Policy Research As one might expect from a scholar of the standing of Marcos Cueto, this book is a richly documented work, presenting a solid argument and well-constructed ideas. It explores an interesting though neglected and at times misunderstood period in Mexican history, that of the Cold War. -- Natalia Priego Bulletin of Latin American Research Cueto, a distinguished and highly respected historian of medicine and public health, frames his concise, yet detailed, history of malaria eradication programmes in Mexico within a larger argument about the overall goals of, and approaches to, public health in the developing world, both past and present. -- Julia Rodriguez Global Public Health More than just a case study of the successes and failures of malaria eradication in Mexico, Cold War, Deadly Fevers suggests what might be done to improve public health in developing nations. -- Michael R. Hall Journal of Third World Studies Anyone with an interest in international development, especially in Latin America, and a belief that history holds important lessons for building sustainable efforts in international development, should read it. Cueto excels in analyzing historical processes at multiple scales, from the global, to the national, to the local. -- Eric D. Carter Geographical Review A meticulously researched, succinct, and artfully crafted narrative about malaria eradication in Mexico during the Cold War. -- Heather L. McCrea Journal of Historical Geography An excellent case study of the mid-twentieth-century multilateral campaign in Mexico to eradicate malaria. It skillfully places the Mexican effort in the context of international political history and health policy. It is essential reading for public health professionals and anyone interested in Mexican history, the history of medicine, or U.S. foreign policy. -- Ann Zulawski Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsFigures and TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources1. Introduction: The Burden of an InfectionThe Origins and Development of Malaria Control EffortsOrganizing Principles for This VolumePlan of the Book2. Global DesignsForeign Aid and the Cold WarInternational Health CooperationThe Encounter of International Health and PoliticsConcluding Thoughts3. National DecisionsMexican Politics and MedicineMexican Malaria ControlOrganizing Malaria EradicationThe Mexicanization of the Campaign4. Local ResponsesIntercultural ChallengesAnthropological CritiqueA Provincial Doctor RebelsIndigenous ResistanceA Campaign in Decline5. Conclusions: The Return of Malaria and the Culture of SurvivalMexico's Recent Experience with MalariaThe Lessons of Malaria Eradication: Patterns of Vertical Health ProgramsNotesBibliographyIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Living with Lymphoma
Book SynopsisThe book includes suggestions for further reading, including the latest material available online.Trade ReviewHighly recommended for any patient or family member seeking a clear health book with the latest facts. Midwest Book Review Reading [ Living with Lymphoma] is an enlightening experience and all nurses caring for lymphoma patients should ensure it is on their reading list. Nursing Standard I strongly recommend this book for relatives and friends with a diagnosis of cancer. Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsForeword, by W. Jeffrey Baker, MDPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction, by Michael R. Bishop, MDPart I1. What Is Lymphoma?2. Symptoms and DiagnosisPart II3. Chemotherapy4. Radiation Therapy and Surgery5. Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Magic Bullet Therapies6. Stem Cell Transplants7. Unconventional Therapies8. SurvivorshipPart III9. Basic Cell Biology and Cancer10. The Immune System11. Lymphoma Classification and Staging12. Possible Causes of LymphomaAfterwordAcknowledgmentsGlossaryIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Finding Your Emotional Balance
Book SynopsisEach chapter ends with a list of suggested readings and websites.Trade ReviewThis book has the ability to bring joy into this holiday season and beyond for any woman burdened with emotional problems. Dr. Radio WoW! If you read one book and have it by your side to pick up for a lift up, here it is. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One1. Navigating the Transition of Adolescence2. The Spectrum of Premenstrual Disorders3. The Childbearing Years4. The Menopausal Transition and Beyond5. The Senior YearsPart Two6. Overcoming Depression7. Calming Your Nerves When You Are Anxious8. Women and Substance Abuse9. Bipolar Disorder in Women10. Women and GriefConclusionA Woman's ResilienceBibliographyIndex
£27.45
Johns Hopkins University Press Finding Your Emotional Balance
Book SynopsisEach chapter ends with a list of suggested readings and websites.Trade ReviewThis book has the ability to bring joy into this holiday season and beyond for any woman burdened with emotional problems. Dr. Radio WoW! If you read one book and have it by your side to pick up for a lift up, here it is. Nursing TimesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One1. Navigating the Transition of Adolescence2. The Spectrum of Premenstrual Disorders3. The Childbearing Years4. The Menopausal Transition and Beyond5. The Senior YearsPart Two6. Overcoming Depression7. Calming Your Nerves When You Are Anxious8. Women and Substance Abuse9. Bipolar Disorder in Women10. Women and GriefConclusionA Woman's ResilienceBibliographyIndex
£13.30
Johns Hopkins University Press Improving Access to HIV Care
Book SynopsisS.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMethodsExecutive Summaries of Case Study FindingsCase StudiesMultiple Cities in the State of LouisianaChicagoNew York CitySan Francisco / Bay AreaMultiple Regions in the State of North CarolinaConclusionsAppendixesA. Semistructured Case Study Interview GuideB. Network Collaboration Survey QuestionsReferencesIndex
£21.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Seductive Delusions
Book SynopsisMaking emotionally and physically safe decisions about sex is easier when you know how STIs are spread, how to avoid getting one, what their symptoms are, and how they are diagnosed and treated.Trade ReviewEminently readable – applicable to and appropriate for all ages - this text anticipates and answers questions regarding the length and breadth of our current contemporary Sexually Transmitted Infections. When initially published in 2008 this outstanding text was vital, valuable and much needed; then, when published as a Second Edition in 2016 this text is even more vital, valuable and even more needed.—Sexually Transmitted DiseaseTable of ContentsPrefaceHerpes Simplex Virus1. Grace2. JustinHerpes Simplex Virus (HSV) FactsHuman Papilloma Virus3. Chase4. ChloeHuman Papilloma Virus (HPV) FactsCervical Cancer5. RachelCervical Cancer FactsChlamydia6. Tyler7. SofiaChlamydia FactsGonorrhea8. Kiara9. LoganGonorrhea FactsDate Rape10. AshleyDate Rape FactsTrichomoniasis11. Alyssa12. SeanTrichomoniasis FactsPubic Lice13. Zoe14. RyanPubic Lice FactsHIV15. Evan16. TanyaHIV FactsHepatitis C17. Shannon18. LukeHepatitis C (HCV) FactsSyphilis19. Gavin20. LizSyphilis Facts21. Grace's EpilogueBibliographySymptoms Index
£14.72
Johns Hopkins University Press 150 Years of ObamaCare
Book SynopsisOffering unparalleled and complete insight into the efforts by the Obama administration, Congress, and external stakeholders, 150 Years of ObamaCare illuminates one of the most challenging legislative feats in the history of the United States.Trade Review... An informative and enticing book... Dawes combines his on-the-ground perspective with that of a longtime scholar and advocate for the reduction and elimination of health disparities. Health Affairs ... This text is invaluable for its data alone. Dawes provides an informed perspective on U.S. health care, its evolution, and how the ACA ultimately became law; but ObamaCare is also a good information source, a neutral chronicle... I enthusiastically recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the act and U.S. health care policy. Florida Bar 150 Years of ObamaCare will be of greatest interest to readers already familar with theTable of ContentsForeward, by David SatcherPreface1. Making the Case for Health Reform2. Past Meets Present3. Pulling Back the Curtain4. The Fight Is On5. Brushes with Death6. Breaking Down the Law7. Moving Health Equity ForwardAcknowledgmentsAppendixIndex
£22.80
Johns Hopkins University Press Chickenizing Farms and Food
Book SynopsisOver the past century, new farming methods, feed additives, and social and economic structures have radically transformed agriculture around the globe, often at the expense of human health. In Chickenizing Farms and Food, Ellen K. Silbergeld reveals the unsafe world of chickenization-big agriculture's top-down, contract-based factory farming system-and its negative consequences for workers, consumers, and the environment. Drawing on her deep knowledge of and experience in environmental engineering and toxicology, Silbergeld examines the complex history of the modern industrial food animal production industry and describes the widespread effects of Arthur Perdue's remarkable agricultural innovations, which were so important that the US Department of Agriculture uses the term chickenization to cover the transformation of all farm animal production. Silbergeld tells the real story of how antibiotics were first introduced into animal feeds in the 1940s, which has led to the emergence of Trade ReviewAn insightful book that should be of interest to anyone who eats food, animal or not. Kirkus Reviews This engaging treatise lays out a compelling case for reexamining the way we produce the food we eat. Required reading for those who are interested in learning more about where our food comes from. Library Journal Little doubt exists that meat production is fraught with problems. After reading Silbergeld's book, my next visit to the farmer's market will be a more enlightened one. Science A sobering, vivid tour of people and places covers the far-reaching impact of Arthur Perdue's chicken empire, animalfeed antibiotics and MRSA, worker safety at a hog-slaughter megaplant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, and Brazil and China's recent "chickenization". Chronicle of Higher Education Chickenizing Farms & Food is essential reading for anyone concerned about food safety, about worker safety, and the industry that has far too little concern for either. Metapsychology ... much good can be found in these pages, and Ellen K. Sibergeld offers useful input regarding the most complicated question in globalization and food production today: what are we supposed to do about it? San Francisco Book Review She is clear-eyed and practical in the solutions she offers at the end of the book. Refreshingly, Silbergeld does not advocate a return to "the agriculture of the past" (which she believes is romanticized and effective only for affluent producers and consumers), but rather a systematic overhaul of agriculture as an industry. Choice Silbergeld writes in an easy, conversational style that demonstrates a sweeping knowledge of human history ranging from the Egyptians to Immanuel Wallerstein's works on the modern world system. She also marshals an impressive array of facts to defend her case. Chickenizing Farms & Food is a must-read for anyone who cares about the production of the things we eat. Washington Independent Review of Books The strengths of this volume are its clear presentation of concepts and evidence, lucid explanations of the supporting science, and spirited critique of both sides in the Big Ag/Food vs. Small/Local Ag/Food encounter. FoodAnthropology The book is engaging and compelling... She [Silbergeld] glosses over nothing.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Can We Talk about Agriculture?2. Confinement, Concentration, and Integration3. It All Started in Delmarva4. The Chickenization of the World5. The Coming of the Drugs6. When You Look at a Screen, Do You See Lattices or Holes?7. Antimicrobial Resistance8. Collateral Damage9. Have a Cup of Coffee and Pray10. Food Safety11. Can We Feed the World?12. A Path Forward, Not BackwardNotesIndex
£20.25
Johns Hopkins University Press Dying and Living in the Neighborhood
Book SynopsisEvery rising public health leader, frontline clinician, and policymaker in the country should read this book to better understand how they can contribute to a more integrated and supportive healthcare system.Trade Review... Singh's thesis merits discussion for anyone interested in curing a sick health care system. Kirkus Reviews As Singh pulls together the moving pieces-the neighborhood, the health care sector, community organizations, and government-into a vision of how to "integrate the whole," it seems feasible that anchoring our health to our neighborhood will bring the kind of well-being, humanity, and equity that we can afford, and that we deserve. Health AffairsTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Part I Chapter 1: Out of Many, OneChapter 2: Heads in BedsChapter 3: Mending WallChapter 4: Contexts of Consequence Part II Chapter 5: The Value of Being ConnectedChapter 6: Blessed are the OrganizedChapter 7: Coach CultureChapter 8: The Center Cannot Hold Part III Chapter 9: From Organizations to IntegratorsChapter 10: SCALE at the Speed of RelationshipsChapter 11: Total Population HealthChapter 12: Laying the Groundwork AcknowledgementsIndex
£20.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Introduction to US Health Policy
Book SynopsisHealth care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and political contexts in which it developed and the core policy issues that continue to confront us today. Barr's comprehensive analysis explores the various organizations and institutions that make the US health care system work-or fail to work. He describes in detail the paradox of US health care-simultaneously the best in the world and one of the worst among developed countries-while introducing readers to broad cultural issues surrounding health care policy, such as access, affordability, and quality. Barr also discusses specific elements of US health care with depth and nuance, including insurance, Trade ReviewAn important part of the literature examining health care delivery systems. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to be one of the most comprehensive and insightful works focusing on achieving equitable health care for all.—Journal of Health Care for the Poor and UnderservedTable of ContentsPreface 1 The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of Health Care Reform 2 Health, Health Care, and the Market Economy 3 Health Care as a Reflection of Underlying Cultural Values and Institutions 4 The Health Professions and the Organization of Health Care 5 Health Insurance, HMOs, and the Managed Care Revolution 6 Medicare 7 Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program 8 The Uninsured 9 The Increasing Role of For-Profit Health Care 10 Pharmaceutical Policy and the Rising Cost of Prescription Drugs 11 Long-Term Care 12 Factors Other Than Health Insurance That Impede Access to Health Care 13 Key Policy Issues Impacting Direction of Health Care Reform 14 Epilogue/Prologue to Health Care Reform in AmericaAppendix: Summary of the Changes Contained in the Affordable Care Act On-Line Data Sources References Index
£42.75
Johns Hopkins University Press The Obesity Epidemic
Book SynopsisRaising important questions about obesity, Toomath sidesteps the standard sound bites and puts an end to the myth of personal responsibility for body size by focusing on the environment all around us.Trade ReviewThis book reviews the barriers to real, lasting weight loss and what can be done about them, and is recommended for any health collection concerned about weight management.—Donovan's BookshelfThe Obesity Epidemic is a concise, evidence-based examination of obesity in the modern world. . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, professionals, and general readers.—ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 11. Does dieting work?2. Is exercise the answer?3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin?4. Is fatness inherited?Part 25. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating6. How the economics of food puts more of it on our plates
£18.05
Johns Hopkins University Press Public Health Perspectives on Depressive
Book SynopsisThe third and longest part addresses the vulnerability of diverse groups to depressive illness and underscore best practices to mitigate risk while improving both the preventive and therapeutic armamentaria.Trade ReviewCollecting work from an array of experts, Cohen (New York State Office of Mental Health) offers an excellent addition to the literature on mental health that examines depressive disorders from a public health and policy perspective. This book is well organized and fairly comprehensive.—ChoiceTable of ContentsList of ContributorsAcknowledgments1. The Path to the Public Health Recognition of Depressive Disorders, by Neal L. CohenPart I2. Depressive Disorders, by Daniel C. Kopala-Sibley and Daniel Klein3. The Burden of Depressive Illness, by David A. Kessler, Evelyn J. Bromet, Peter De Jonge, Victoria Shahly, and Marsha Ann Wilcox4. The Burden of Comorbidity, by Sergio Anguilar-Gaxiola, Daniel Vicente Vigo, and Kate M. Scott5. Substance Use and Depressive Disorders, by Jacquelyn L. Meyers and Deborah HasinPart II6. The Social Epidemiology of Socioeconomic Inequalitiesin Depression, by Helen Cerigo and Amelie Quesnel-Vallee7. Maternal Depression and the Intergenerational Transmission of Depression, by Constance Hammen8. The Influence of Stigma for Depression Care, by J. Konadu Fokuo and Patrick W. CorriganPart III9. Youth Depression, by Jennifer L. Hughes and Joan Asarnow10. Understanding Adolescent Suicide, by Regina Miranda, Ana Ortin, Lillian Polanco-Roman, and Jorge Valderrama11. Interrelationship of Suicidality with Depressive Disorders and Its Implications for Suicide Prevention Strategies at the Population and Individual Levels, by Beth Han, Wilson M. Compton, and Richard McKeon12. Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Promoting Mental Health in Urban Youth, by Tamar Mendelson and April Joy Damian13. Mindfulness-Based Approaches for Promoting Mental Health in Urban Youth, by Amelia R. Gavin and Rebecca Rebbe14. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Depressive Illness and Clinical Care, by Alfiee M. Breland-Noble and Jeanne Miranda15 . Public Health Perspectives on Depression in Primary Care, by Trina Chang and Albert Yeung16. A Twenty-First-Century Public Health Challenge and Opportunity, by Neal L. Cohen17 . The Digital Revolution and Its Potential Impact on Detection and Treatment of Depressive Disorders, by Charles Platkin, Alissa Link, and Amy Kwan18. Preventing the Onset of Depressive Disorders, by Pim CuijpersIndex
£86.28
Johns Hopkins University Press A Fractured Profession
Book SynopsisFocusing on how the profit motive is reshaping higher education and redefining what faculty are supposed to do, this book will appeal to scientists and academics, higher education scholars, university administrators and policy makers, and students considering a career in science.Trade ReviewJohnson thoughtfully considers the norms, tensions, and rules governing commercialization of research in academic settings, as well as the effects of commercialization on scientists' reputations and identity within the institution and profession. Academic scientists would be advised to take Johnson's interview protocol (included in the appendixes) to determine their own identity.—ChoiceProfessor Johnson's very readable volume addresses debates about university-industry linkages from the under-explored perspective of the moral orders and identity work of academic scientists . . . While debates about the commercialization of university research tend to assume the traditionalist ethos is fragile in the face of commercial interests, this book provides an important antidote by showing the strengths of the traditionalist ethos even in the presence of commercialist peers . . . The book also provides several policy discussions about how to structure funding, university careers and resource allocations, graduate training, and university-industry relations. One hopes that this conversation will be taken up, especially as we are observing a cohort shift from those trained in the traditionalist mileau toward an increasingly commercialist-embedded cohort, making this a critical time for revisiting the roles of each of these camps in the university and the research system more generally.—John P. Walsh, Georgia Institute of Technology, Social ForcesDavid R. Johnson advances the literature on academic capitalism by examining how scientists understand commercialization and how it shapes their scientific work and careers. His approach foregrounds culture and professional ideologies more than other research in this area, which tends to favor structuralist theories and emphasize macrolevel changes in the organization of science and higher education systems. A Fractured Profession is full of rich qualitative data that connect these large institutional changes to the practices and reasoning of scientists themselves . . . A Fractured Profession makes important contributions to research on academic capitalism. Professors, students, administrators, and policy makers would all benefit from reading it carefully.—John McLevey, University of Waterloo, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables and FigureAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Normative Tension in Commercial Contexts2. The Reconstruction of Meaning and Status in Science3. Embracing and Avoiding Commercial Trajectories4. Identity Work in the Commercialized AcademyConclusion AppendixNotes References Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Cesarean Section
Book SynopsisWhy have cesarean sections become so commonplace in the United States?Between 1965 and 1987, the cesarean section rate in the United States rose precipitouslyfrom 4.5 percent to 25 percent of births. By 2009, one in three births was by cesarean, a far higher number than the 510% rate that the World Health Organization suggests is optimal. While physicians largely avoided cesareans through the mid-twentieth century, by the early twenty-first century, cesarean section was the most commonly performed surgery in the country. Although the procedure can be lifesaving, howand whydid it become so ubiquitous?Cesarean Section is the first book to chronicle this history. In exploring the creation of the complex social, cultural, economic, and medical factors leading to the surgery's increase, Jacqueline H. Wolf describes obstetricians' reliance on assorted medical technologies that weakened the skills they had traditionally employed to foster vaginal birth. She also reflects on an unsettling malpTrade ReviewAn outstanding and fascinating contribution to the history of medicine, women's history, and modern social history. Ambitious in its chronological scope, accessibly written, and convincingly argued, Cesarean Section offers new and original insight into the history of childbirth, as well as important broader matters, such as medical power, the technologization of hospitals, and the ethics of modern medical care.—Canadian Bulletin of Medical HistoryWolf draws from an impressive array of medical archives, medical literature, popular women's magazines, secondary source material, and her own oral history interviews. The outcome is a monograph that contemplates the complex factors behind the evolution of risk, technology, and birthing. Wolf deftly crafts a narrative that uses the stories of women's recollections of their birthing experience as well as those of physicians as a way to reinforce her historical analysis of medical sources and data . . . Cesarean Section will appeal to those interested in women's history and medical history as well as the relationship between culture, risk, and technology.—Bulletin of the History of MedicineCesarean Section is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of childbirth or surgery, but also those who want to read a focused case study on the evolution of medical technologies and practices in modern America. Wolf certainly makes a major contribution to the literature on reproductive health and childbirth, but her ambitious scope and methodologies—particularly the idea of risk and her use of oral histories—offer a lot to a more general audience. It would make a welcome addition to syllabi for medical and women's history classes, particularly at the graduate level.—Kelly S. O'Donnell, Thomas Jefferson University, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied SciencesWolf's Cesarean Section is a compelling study of the procedure in the history of medicine. Her skillfully balanced monograph makes extensive use of a number of primary sources . . . This book could easily be used in a history of science and medicine course due to its accessibility.—John A. Carranza, SynapsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Epitome of Risk2. Still Too Risky?3. Risk or Remedy?4. Assessing Risk5. Inflating Risk6. Operating in a Culture of Risk7. Giving Birth in a Culture of RiskNotesGlossaryWorks CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Under the Big Tree
Book SynopsisPowerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of those fighting to eliminate them. Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affect over one billion of the world's poorest people. More than 170,000 people die from NTDs each year, and many more suffer from blindness, disability, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, and stunted growth. Yet NTDs are treatable and preventable, and the annual cost of treatment is incredibly low. In Under the Big Tree, public health leader Ellen Agler and award-winning writer Mojie Crigler tell the moving stories of those struggling with these diseases and the life-saving work that can beand has beendone to combat NTDs. They introduce readers to people from all walks of lifefrom car washers in Lake Victoria and surgeons on motorbikes to under-resourced local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and Big Pharma scientistsas they chronicle what has been called the largestTable of ContentsForeword, by Bill Gates Preface, by William C. Campbell List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Crisis and Collaboration Chapter 2. Modern Approaches to Ancient Diseases Chapter 3. Big Consequences from Small Things Chapter 4. Empowerment and Humility Chapter 5. Worms, Maps, and Money Chapter 6. A New Normal Chapter 7. Stone Soup Chapter 8. Unfrozen Moment Chapter 9. Strengthening Health Systems Chapter 10. The Last Twenty Centimeters Chapter 11. Homegrown Philanthropy Acknowledgments Note on Sources Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Containing Contagion
Book SynopsisDo states have a duty to prevent infectious disease outbreaks from spreading beyond their borders?The fields of global health and international relations are increasingly concerned with the responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a way that safeguards their neighbors as well as the broader international community. In Containing Contagion, Sara E. Davies focuses on one of the world's most pivotal (and riskiest) regions in the field of global healthSoutheast Asia, which in recent years has responded to a wave of emerging and endemic infectious disease outbreaks ranging from Nipah, SARS, and avian flu to dengue and Japanese encephalitis. Between 2005 and 2010, Davies explains, Southeast Asian states, despite having vastly different health system capacities and political systems, repeatedly committed to pursue a collective approach to the communication of outbreaks. Davies draws on newly gathered data and extensive field interviews to explore how these states impleTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. A Study of Southeast Asia's Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Chapter One. The Revised International Health Regulations in Practice Chapter Two. The Political Context in Southeast Asia Chapter Three. Sovereignty, Regional Cooperation, and Health Security Chapter Four. Forging Political Support Chapter Five. Surveillance and Reporting in Practice Chapter Six. Understanding the Differences in Reporting Responsibilities Conclusion. The Sustainability of Health Security in Southeast Asia Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Fat in the Fifties
Book SynopsisA riveting history of the rise and fall of the obesity epidemic during 1950s and 1960s America. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company identified obesity as the leading cause of premature death in the United States in the 1930s, but it wasn't until 1951 that the public health and medical communities finally recognized it as America's Number One Health Problem. The reason for MetLife's interest? They wanted their policyholders to live longer and continue paying their premiums. Early postwar America responded to the obesity emergency, but by the end of the 1960s, the crisis waned and official rates of true obesity were reduced despite the fact that Americans were growing no thinner. What mid-century factors and forces established obesity as a politically meaningful and culturally resonant problem in the first place? And why did obesity fade from publicand medicalconsciousness only a decade later? Based on archival records of health leaders as well as medical and popular literature, Fat inTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Fat and the Public's Health before the Second World War Chapter 2. Obesity Becomes a Mental Disorder Chapter 3. The Postwar Heart Alarm Chapter 4. Fighting Heart Disease One Calorie at a Time in Cold War Suburbia Chapter 5. The New Epidemiology and Its Impact Chapter 6. The Disappearance of Obesity as a Public Health ProblemNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Governing Health
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book could prove useful for those interested in the process and contributing factors of health policy formation such as scholars and professionals in the fields of governance, medicine, and public health.—Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Policy Process Chapter 2. CongressChapter 3. The PresidencyChapter 4. Interest GroupsChapter 5. The BureaucracyChapter 6. States and Health Care ReformConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Road to Universal Health Coverage
Book SynopsisHow can countries chart their own course toward universal health coverage?Like many ambitious global goals, universal health coverage (UHC) remains an aspiration for many countries. The World Health Organization estimates that half the world's population lacks access to basic health services. Moreover, this already staggering number masks inequities that exist between and within countries: gaps between rich and poor, men and women, young and old, and among people of different ethnic backgrounds. UHC promises to give all people greater access to higher quality health services without the fear of financial hardship. But the task of turning this vision into reality poses a significant challenge for countries at all stages of economic development. In The Road to Universal Health Coverage, Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Ilona Kickbusch, Louis Galambos, and their contributors explore the ways in which the private sector is already helping countries achieve universal health coverage. Stressing the maTable of ContentsForeword by Tedros Adhanom GhebreyesusPrefaceIntroduction. The Road to Universal Health Coverage: Progress, Prospects, and the Private SectorChapter 1. Conceptualizing the Health EconomyChapter 2. The Relationship between Health Employment and Economic GrowthChapter 3. Engagement of the Private Sector in Advancing Universal Health Coverage: Understanding and Navigating Major Factors for SuccessChapter 4. Innovative Initiatives from the Private Sector: What Have the Experiences Been? What Opportunities Lie Ahead, and How Can They Be Chapter 5. Healthy Women, Healthy Economies: Essential Facets of Universal Health Coverage Chapter 6. Reframing the Pharmaceutical Sector Contribution to Access to Medicines and Universal Health Coverage: A Business Ethics PerspectiveChapter 7. Private Sector Joins the Trek on India's Meandering Path to Universal Health CoverageChapter 8. A Reality Check: Sierra Leone, the Private Sector, Sustainable Development Goal 3, and Universal Health CoverageChapter 9. How Can the Private Sector Help Countries to Achieve Quality, Sustainable Universal Health Coverage? Pfizer's Fight against Chronic DiseasesChapter 10. Novartis Social Business: A Novel Approach to Expanding Health Care in Developing CountriesConclusion. The Outlook for Universal Health Coverage and the New Health Economy List of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Preventing Child Trafficking
Book SynopsisHow can a public health approach advance efforts to prevent, identify, and respond to child trafficking?Child trafficking is widely recognized as one of the critical issues of our day, prompting calls to action at the global, national, and local levels. Yet it is unclear whether the strategies and tools used to counter this exploitationmost of which involve law enforcement and social serviceshave actually reduced the prevalence of trafficking. In Preventing Child Trafficking, Jonathan Todres and Angela Diaz explore how the public health field can play a comprehensive, integrated role in preventing, identifying, and responding to child trafficking. Describing the depth and breadth of trafficking's impact on children while exploring the limitations in current responses, Todres and Diaz argue that public health frameworks offer important insights into the problem, with detailed chapters on how professionals and organizations can identify and respond effectively to at-risk and trafficked cTrade ReviewA call to action—to provide a public health toolkit for all people who work, or care for children, from policy makers, to educators, health-care and social workers, and community leaders . . . [Preventing Child Trafficking is a] thorough, well researched, evidence-based book, with an impassioned argument for action.—Jules Morgan, The Lancet Child And AdolescentPreventing Child Trafficking by Todres and Diaz examine what human trafficking entails and responses that need to be taken on the issue. The authors address ways that evidence-based research would be beneficial in preventing human trafficking and the methods that should be implemented. Issues raised in this book are intended for the general public, medical professionals, legislatures, and researchers. The information presented is intended to bring awareness to aid combatting human trafficking.—Morgan Fetters, Journal of Youth and AdolescenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Case Studies and TerminologyIntroduction: Child Trafficking in Our CommunitiesPart I. Child Trafficking and Current Responses1. Understanding Child Trafficking: The Nature and Scope of the Problem2. The Consequences of Child Trafficking3. Current Responses to Child TraffickingPart II: The Public Health Approach4. Public Health Methods and Perspectives5. Understanding Risk Factors6. Improving Identification: A Case Study of Health Care Settings7. Assisting Vulnerable and Exploited Youth: Health Care ResponsesConclusion: Building an Effective Response to Child TraffickingAppendix: ResourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Golden Rice
Book SynopsisThe first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in developing countriesif only they were allowed to grow it. Ordinary white rice is nutrient poor; it consists of carbohydrates and little else. About one million people who subsist on rice become blind or die each year from vitamin A deficiency. Golden Rice, which was developed in the hopes of combatting that problem by a team of European scientists in the late '90s, was genetically modified to provide an essential nutrient that white rice lacks: beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the body. But twenty years later, this potentially sight- and life-saving miracle food still has not reached the populations most in needand tens of millions of people in India, China, Bangladesh, and throughout South and Southeast Asia have gone blind or have died waiting. Supporters claim that the twenty-year delay in Golden Rice's introduction is anTrade ReviewGolden Rice is a thoughtful and carefully documented tale of how difficult it can be to take something that works in the laboratory and get it to the people who stand to benefit from it.—Andrew J. Wight, ScienceIn just over 200 pages, Regis gives a crash course on genetic engineering and explains the messy history of Golden Rice, disabusing the reader of many popular myths along the way.—The Genetic Literacy ProjectTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Child Killer Chapter 2. Proof of ConceptChapter 3. GR 0.5 and BeyondChapter 4. The ProtocolChapter 5. What Is a GMO?Chapter 6. Safe to Eat?Chapter 7. Golden Rice 2Chapter 8. Better Than SpinachChapter 9. The MistakeChapter 10. The "Crime against Humanity"Chapter 11. The ApprovalsEpilogue. The Proactionary PrincipleAcknowledgmentsAppendix. L'affaire SchubertBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Separated
Book SynopsisWilliam D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration raids place on Latino communitiesand the families and friends who must recover from their aftermath. 2020 International Latino Book Awards Winner First Place, Mariposa Award for Best First Book - Nonfiction Honorable Mention, Best Political / Current Affairs BookOn a Thursday in November 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to returnarrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children . . . The kids terrified, the kids screaming.In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damagTrade ReviewLopez's book is one of the most powerful examples to date of an academic using deep study and radical empathy to indict a profoundly evil system.—New RepublicLopez's style is revolutionary. He demonstrates that an alleged criminal can be a complex human with complex human connections. His book short-circuits narratives at the root of racist policies—about good vs. bad immigrants, legal vs. illegal people—by honoring the complex web around the sinners. When brown sinners are outlawed, their loved ones become prey, too.Separated is the result of hours of interviews with those affected, offering gumshoe FOIA-heavy journalism and a deep, empathetic understanding of community.—RemezclaNo social issues collection, particularly those strong in community makeup and immigration challenges, should be without this hard-hitting survey.—Donovan's Literary ServicesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Guadalupe, Fernanda & HildaThe Raid: Before2. Un día común y corrienteThe Raid3. The last night he ever nursed4. Se rompe la comunidadThe Raid: The hours and days after5. I hate to see them die unnecessarily6. ConclusionThe Raid: The months and years afterWorks Cited
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Medicalization of Birth and Death
Book SynopsisImproving how individuals give birth and die in the United States requires reforming the regulatory, reimbursement, and legal structures that centralize care in hospitals and prevent the growth of community-based alternatives. In 1900, most Americans gave birth and died at home, with minimal medical intervention. By contrast, most Americans today begin and end their lives in hospitals. The medicalization we now see is due in large part to federal and state policies that draw patients away from community-based providers, such as birth centers and hospice care, and toward the most intensive and costliest kinds of care. But the evidence suggests that birthing and dying people receive too mucheven harmfulmedical intervention. In The Medicalization of Birth and Death, political scientist Lauren K. Hall describes how and why birth and death became medicalized events. While hospitalization provides certain benefits, she acknowledges, it also creates harms, limiting patient autonomy, driviTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Watershed of Healthcare Decision Making Chapter One. Medicalized Birth and the Current of Centralized Care Chapter Two. Medicalized Death and the Current of Centralized Care Chapter Three. Safe Harbors for Demedicalized Birth and Death Chapter Four. Navigating the Regulation Tributary Chapter Five. Swept Away on the Reimbursement Headwater Chapter Six. Caught in the Riptide of Risk Chapter Seven. Black Birth and Death in the Medicalized Rapids Conclusion. Reshaping the WatershedAppendix. Interview InformationGlossaryNotes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Narrative Matters
Book SynopsisDrawn from the popular Narrative Matters column in the journal Health Affairs, these essays embody a vision for a health care system that centers the humanity of patients and doctors alike. Health care decision making affects patients and families first and foremost, yet their perspectives are not always factored into health policy deliberations and discussions. In this anthology, Jessica Bylander brings together the personal stories of the patients, physicians, caregivers, policy makers, and others whose writings add much-needed human context to health care decision making. Drawn from the popular Narrative Matters column in the leading health policy journal Health Affairs, this collection features essays by some of the leading minds in health care today, including Pulitzer Prizewinner Siddhartha Mukherjee, MacArthur fellow Diane Meier, former Planned Parenthood president Leana S. Wen, and former secretary of health and human services Louis W. Sullivan. The collection also presentsTable of ContentsForeword, by Abraham Verghese, MD List of Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. The Practice of Medicine The Importance of BeingAbraham VergheseRethinking the Traditional Doctor's Visit Maureen A. MavrinacIn the Safety Net: A Tale of Ticking Clocks and Tricky Diagnoses Maria MaldonadoThe Personal Toll of Practicing Medicine Elaine SchattnerChapter 2. Medical Innovation and Research Cancer, Our Genes, and the Anxiety of Risk-Based Medicine Siddhartha MukherjeeBeating a Cancer Death Sentence Jonathan FriedlaenderA Black Alzheimer's Patient Wants to Be Part of the Cure Katti GrayChapter 3. Patient-Centered Care "Nothing Is Broken": For an Injured Doctor, Quality-Focused Care Misses the Mark Charlotte YehThe Battle of the Bundle: Lessons from My Mother's Partial Hip Replacement Timothy HoffEven in an Emergency, Doctors Must Make Informed Consent an Informed Choice Cindy BrachChapter 4. The Doctor-Patient Relationship How to Win the Doctor Lottery Donna Jackson NakazawaAt the VA, Healing the Doctor-Patient Relationship Raya Elfadel KheirbekWhen Patients Mentor Doctors: The Story of One Vital Bond Aroonsiri SangarlangkarnChapter 5. Disparities and Discrimination "Go Back to California": When Providers Fail Transgender Patients Laura ArrowsmithA Simple Case of Chest Pain: Sensitizing Doctors to Patients with Disabilities Leana S. WenGrasping at the Moon: Enhancing Access to Careers in the Health Professions Louis W. Sullivan Bridging the Divide between Dental and Medical Care Gayathri SubramanianIn Rural Towns, Immigrant Doctors Fill a Critical Need Yasmin Sokkar HarkerAn Uninsured Immigrant Delays Needed Care Cheryl BettigoleChapter 6. Aging and End-of-Life Care "I Don't Want Jenny to Think I'm Abandoning Her": Views on Overtreatment Diane E. MeierThe Fall: Aligning the Best Care with Standards of Care at the End of Life Patricia GabowGetting It Right at the End of Life Dina Keller MossThe Evolving Moral Landscape of Palliative Care Myrick C. ShinallNecessary Steps: How Health Care Fails Older Patients, and How It Can Be Done Better Louise AronsonA Family Disease: Witnessing Firsthand the Toll that Dementia Takes on Caregivers Gary Epstein-LubowChapter 7. Maternity and Childbirth Watching the Clock: A Mother's Hope for a Natural Birth in a Cesarean Culture Carla KeirnsIn the "Gray Zone," a Doctor Faces Tough Decisions on Infant Resuscitation Gautham K. SureshReversing the Rise in Maternal Mortality Katy B. KozhimannilChapter 8. Opioids and Substance Abuse Down the Rabbit Hole: A Chronic Pain Sufferer Navigates the Maze of Opioid Use Janice Lynch SchusterIn Opioid Withdrawal, with No Help in Sight Travis N. RiederThe Fine Line between Doctoring and Dealing Pooja LagisettyIntoxicated, Homeless, and in Need of a Place to LandOtis WarrenIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Opioid Fix
Book SynopsisWhy medication-assisted treatment, the most effective tool for battling opioid addiction, is significantly underused in the United States. Bronze Winner of the 2021 IPPY Book Award in Health/Medicine/Nutrition, Gold Winner of the 2020 Foreword INDIES Award in HealthAmerica's addiction crisis is growing worse. More than 115 Americans die daily from opioid overdoses, with half a million deaths expected in the next decade. Time and again, scientific studies show that medications like Suboxone and methadone are the most reliable and effective treatment, yet more than 60 percent of US addiction treatment centers fail to provide access to them. In The Opioid Fix, Barbara Andraka-Christou highlights both the promise and the underuse of medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Addiction, Andraka-Christou writes, is a chronic medical condition. Why treat it, then, outside of mainstream medicine? Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews with people in recovery, their family members, treatment Trade ReviewThis book should be required reading for every American having any role in developing or implementing drug policy—perhaps that should include every registered voter.—Caroline Jean Acker, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of History at Carnegie Mellon University, author of Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic ControlTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. What's Nixon Got to Do with It? A History of Medication-Assisted Treatment Chapter 2. A Strained Relationship: Alcoholics Anonymous and Medication-Assisted TreatmentChapter 3. The Perils and Promises of Treatment CentersChapter 4. Methadone Clinics: Maintaining Stigma for DecadesChapter 5. The Elusive Addiction-Treating PhysicianChapter 6. When Criminal Justice Administrators Make Medical DecisionsChapter 7. Learning from Other CountriesConclusionAcknowledgments ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Achieving Health for All
Book SynopsisHow did seven low- and middle-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma-Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on primary health care?The Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978 marked a potential turning point in global health, signaling a commitment to primary health care that could have improved the safety of air, food, water, roads, homes, and workplaces in all 180 countries that signed it. Unfortunately, progress in many countries stalled in the 1980s. The declaration was, however, embraced by a number of countries, where its implementation led to substantial improvement in citizen health. Achieving Health for All reveals how, inspired by Alma-Ata, the governments of seven countries executed comprehensive primary health care systems, deploying new cadres of community-based health workers to bring relevant services to ordinary households. Drawing on a set of narrative case studies from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam,the boTable of ContentsForeword, by Soumya SwaminathanForeword, by Abdul GhaffarIntroduction. Why Does Primary Health Care Matter in the Twenty-First Century?Part I. Primary Health Care FoundationsChapter 1. Primary Health Care: History, Trends, Controversies, and ChallengesChapter 2. Identifying Countries with Exceptionally Rapid Gains in Life Expectancy: A Quantitative ApproachChapter 3. Strategies to Improve Comprehensive Primary Health Care Performance in a DistrictChapter 4. Why Well-Supported Health Systems Are Necessary for Vertical Programs to Succeed: Lessons from Polio EradicationChapter 5. Continuity between Comprehensive Primary Health Care and Sustainable Development GoalsChapter 6. Four Principles of Community-Based Primary Health Care: Support, Appreciate, Learn/Listen, Transfer (SALT)Part II. Country Case Studies of Primary Health Care at Scale and the Way ForwardChapter 7. Bangladesh's Health Improvement Strategy as an Example of the Alma-Ata Declaration in ActionChapter 8. Ethiopia: Expansion of Primary Health Care through the Health Extension ProgramChapter 9. Health Improvement through the Primary Health Care Approach: Case of NepalChapter 10. Four Decades of Community-Based Primary Health Care Development in GhanaChapter 11. Sri Lanka's Health Improvements as an Example of the Implementation of the Alma-Ata DeclarationChapter 12. How Vietnam's Doi Moi Reforms Achieved Rapid Gains in Health with Comprehensive Primary Health CareChapter 13. Cuba's Progress on Primary Health Care since the Alma-Ata ConferenceChapter 14. Health for All in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons for the Next Forty Years of Implementing Primary Health CareList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Mosquitoes of the World
Book SynopsisThe definitive reference on the biology, evolution, ecology, and diversity of all known species of the world's mosquitoes. Critical for entomologists, public health professionals, and epidemiologists across the world. Biting multiple times on two, three, or more different hosts, it is no surprise that some species of mosquitoes have co-evolved with pathogens. For humans and other animals, the result has been some of the most challenging diseases known. It has been said that Anopheles gambiae, as the primary transmitter of malaria parasites to humans, is the most dangerous animal in the world. Certainly malaria has killed more people than all the wars that ever took place. Even now, despite drugs and mosquito control, malaria claims the lives of 405,000 per year. The vast majority of mosquito species are not involved in pathogen transmission to humans, but those that are make a huge impact on global health. In this two-volume set, three of the world's leading experts on mosquito disTrade ReviewThis monumental pair of volumes, boldly entitled Mosquitoes of the World, cover almost everything known about mosquitoes plus what they mean to science and humanity. The narrative text is lucid, replete with precious inferences supported by >6000 references.—Royal Entomological SocietyIt is the magnum opus on all things mosquito.—Nature - Cool Green ScienceTable of ContentsVolume 1 PrefacePART ONE. Biology of Mosquitoes1. Evolution2. Nomenclature, Classification, and Identification3. Distribution4. Development5. Dormancy6. Mosquito Movement7. Feeding and Nutrition8. Excretion9. Copulation and Insemination10. Egg Development and OvipositionPART TWO. Mosquito Diversity, Systematics, and Medical Importance11. Genera and Medically Important Species Pages12. Glossary of Diagnostic Morphological TermsVolume 2PART THREE. Taxonomic Catalog of CulicidaeIntroductionAbbreviations Used for Type DepositoriesGeneral Publications, Family CulicidaeTaxonomic Catalog Fossil Culicidae Nomina DubiaNomina Nuda and Rejected NamesFamilyGroup and Other SupragenericNamesInformal Species GroupsLiterature CitedIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press My Quest for Health Equity
Book SynopsisReading this book is like sitting down with Dr. David Satcher to hear stories of leadership and lessons learned from his lifetime commitment to health equity. Dr. David Satcher is one of the most widely known and well-regarded physicians of our time. A former four-star admiral in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, he served as the assistant secretary for health, the surgeon general of the United States, and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before founding the eponymous Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine. At the core of his impact on public health, he is also a lifelong leader for civil rights and health equity. Born black and poor in the deep South, Dr. Satcher was a victim of an unjust health care system: he almost died of whooping cough at the age of two because Jim Crow laws meant that his black doctor could not admit him to a hospital. That experience was the first of many that shaped him as a leader andTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. Lessons Learned from Fifty Years of Leadership Chapter 2. From Health Disparities to Global Health Equity Chapter 3. When Leadership Confronts FailureChapter 4. The Need for Clear CommunicationChapter 5. The Need for Continual Learning Chapter 6. A Three-Dimensional Perspective on Leadership Chapter 7. Discipline in the Quest for Health Equity Chapter 8. Leading from Science to Policy to PracticeChapter 9. Confronting the Epidemic of Overweight and ObesityChapter 10. The Advancement of Reproductive HealthChapter 11. Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health ProblemsChapter 12. Leadership beyond ExpertiseChapter 13. The Team Approach to LeadershipChapter 14. Leading for Institutional Sustainability Frequently Used AcronymsReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry
Book SynopsisWhy does US health care have such high costs and poor outcomes? Dr. David S. Guzick offers this critique of the American health care industry and argues that it could work more effectively by rebalancing care, cost, and access. For decades, the United States has been faced with a puzzling problem: Despite spending much more money per capita on health care than any other developed nation, its population suffers from notoriously poorer health. In comparison with 10 other high-income nations, in fact, the US has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest rates of infant and neonatal mortality, and the most inequitable access to physicians when adjusted for need. In An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry, Dr. David S. Guzick takes an in-depth look at this troubling issue. Bringing to bear his unique background as a physician, economist, former University of Rochester medical school dean, and former president of the University of Florida Health System, Dr. Guzick shows that Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Health and Health Care over the Past CenturyPart I. Economic UnderpinningsChapter 2. Perfect Competition and Its Applicability to Health Care Services Chapter 3. Imperfections in the Market for Health Care Services Chapter 4. Implications of an Imperfect Market I: Greater Utilization Due to Price Subsidies Chapter 5. Implications of an Imperfect Market II: The Role of Induced Demand Chapter 6. The Role of Price in Health Care Spending Growth Chapter 7. Inequality of Wealth, Health, and Access to Care Part II. Historical EvolutionChapter 8. Origins and Structural Underpinnings of the US Health Care Industry Chapter 9. The US Health Care Industry Takes Shape: The 1940s through 1965 Chapter 10. Medicare Chapter 11. Medicaid Chapter 12. The Affordable Care Act Part III. Contemporary EnvironmentChapter 13. Evidence-Based Practice Chapter 14. Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis Chapter 15. Health Care Law Chapter 16. The Safety and Quality of Patient Care Chapter 17. The Cost Conundrum I: Utilization Chapter 18. The Cost Conundrum II: Price: Administration, Insurers, Physicians, and Hospitals Chapter 19. The Cost Conundrum III: Price: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Chapter 20. Inequality of Access Part IV. Improving the Balance of Care, Cost, and AccessChapter 21. Improving the Balance I: Macro Considerations Chapter 22. Improving the Balance II: Enhancing Care, Reducing Cost, and Improving Access References Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press My House Is Killing Me
Book SynopsisWhether you have allergies or asthma, or you just want to avoid exposures to indoor contaminants and allergens, this book will teach you how to have a healthier home. In this thoroughly revised edition of My House Is Killing Me! Jeffrey C. and Connie L. May draw on the dramatic personal stories of their clients to help readers understand the links between indoor environmental conditions and human health. Explaining how air conditioning, finished basements, and other home features affect indoor air quality, the authors offer a step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling, and even eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens. This new edition includes more than 60 color photographs expanded coverage on the dangers posed by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by such common items as paint, carpet, and household cleaning products up-to-date information on the potential risks of installing spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation completely new case studies of pTrade ReviewThe May's continue to be masterful storytellers, using their work with clients to help solve problems and increase education of their indoor spaces.—Healthy IndoorsTable of ContentsForeword, by Jonathan M. Samet, MD, and Elizabeth Matsui, MD, MHSAppreciationIntroduction Part I. The Stage of Our LivesChapter 1. Seeing the InvisibleChapter 2. Cast of Small Characters—Read This Chapter If You Dare!Chapter 3. "Trojan Horse" AllergensChapter 4. Creepy Crawlers (Apologies for the Title!)Chapter 5. The Three Ps—Pets, Pests, and PeopleChapter 6. The SetPart II. Daily LifeChapter 7. Living Rooms, Family Rooms, and Dining AreasChapter 8. Rooms with Water—The BathroomChapter 9. Rooms with Water—The KitchenChapter 10. Rooms with Water—The LaundryChapter 11. BedroomsChapter 12. Attached Garages, Bulkheads, Porches, and DecksChapter 13. The ExteriorChapter 14. Indoor Air Quality in Multi-Unit BuildingsPart III. Below and AboveChapter 15. Unfinished Basements and Crawl SpacesChapter 16. Finished BasementsChapter 17. AtticsPart IV. Heating and CoolingChapter 18. Heating and Cooling with DuctsChapter 19. Heating and Cooling without DuctsChapter 20. More on Heating, Cooling, and FuelPart V. Clean It Up—Inside and OutChapter 21. Renovation and New ConstructionChapter 22. More Environmental HazardsChapter 23. Testing and RemediationChapter 24. CleaningClosing Remarks: Take ChargeNotesGlossaryResource GuideIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press My House Is Killing Me
Book SynopsisWhether you have allergies or asthma, or you just want to avoid exposures to indoor contaminants and allergens, this book will teach you how to have a healthier home. In this thoroughly revised edition of My House Is Killing Me! Jeffrey C. and Connie L. May draw on the dramatic personal stories of their clients to help readers understand the links between indoor environmental conditions and human health. Explaining how air conditioning, finished basements, and other home features affect indoor air quality, the authors offer a step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling, and even eliminating the sources of indoor pollutants and allergens. This new edition includes more than 60 color photographs expanded coverage on the dangers posed by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by such common items as paint, carpet, and household cleaning products up-to-date information on the potential risks of installing spray polyurethane foam (SPF) insulation completely new case studies of pTrade ReviewThe May's continue to be masterful storytellers, using their work with clients to help solve problems and increase education of their indoor spaces.—Healthy IndoorsTable of ContentsForeword, by Jonathan M. Samet, MD, and Elizabeth Matsui, MD, MHSAppreciationIntroduction Part I. The Stage of Our LivesChapter 1. Seeing the InvisibleChapter 2. Cast of Small Characters—Read This Chapter If You Dare!Chapter 3. "Trojan Horse" AllergensChapter 4. Creepy Crawlers (Apologies for the Title!)Chapter 5. The Three Ps—Pets, Pests, and PeopleChapter 6. The SetPart II. Daily LifeChapter 7. Living Rooms, Family Rooms, and Dining AreasChapter 8. Rooms with Water—The BathroomChapter 9. Rooms with Water—The KitchenChapter 10. Rooms with Water—The LaundryChapter 11. BedroomsChapter 12. Attached Garages, Bulkheads, Porches, and DecksChapter 13. The ExteriorChapter 14. Indoor Air Quality in Multi-Unit BuildingsPart III. Below and AboveChapter 15. Unfinished Basements and Crawl SpacesChapter 16. Finished BasementsChapter 17. AtticsPart IV. Heating and CoolingChapter 18. Heating and Cooling with DuctsChapter 19. Heating and Cooling without DuctsChapter 20. More on Heating, Cooling, and FuelPart V. Clean It Up—Inside and OutChapter 21. Renovation and New ConstructionChapter 22. More Environmental HazardsChapter 23. Testing and RemediationChapter 24. CleaningClosing Remarks: Take ChargeNotesGlossaryResource GuideIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Feeding the World Well
Book SynopsisLeading experts reveal ways that the future of food production for the world's burgeoning population can (and must) be both sustainable and ethical. In the United States, food is abundant and cheap but loaded with hidden costs to the environment, human health, animal welfare, and the people who work in our food systems. The country's current food production systems lack diversity in crops and animals and are intensified but not sustainable, inhumane in the treatment of animals, and inconsiderate of labor. In order to feed the world's rapidly growing population with high-quality, ethically produced food, new food production systems are urgently needed. These new systems must be genetically diverse and environmentally sustainable, and they need to follow internationally recognized animal welfare and labor practices. Feeding the World Well examines these costs of cheap food while presenting a unique framework for ethical food systems: the Core Ethical Commitments, which are designed tTable of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Alan M. GoldbergPart I. The Big Picture1. Feeding the World (Well): The Moral ImperativeJessica Fanzo2. Malnutrition, Food Systems, and Climate ActionMartin W. BloemPart II. Food Systems in Context3. The Agriculture We DeserveEllen K. Silbergeld4. The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Lessons LearnedRobert Martin5. Agriculture in TransitionFrederick L. Kirschenmann6. Agricultural Exceptionalism and the US Regulatory Landscape Susan A. Schneider and Meredith Kaufman7. US Oversight of GM CropsJennifer Kuzma8. Conflicts of Interest in Food and Nutrition ResearchMarion Nestle9. Global Food Demand Projections: A ReviewMichiel van Dijk, Yashar Saghai, Marie Luise Rau, and Tom MorleyPart III. Contemporary Challenges and Complexities in Food Ethics Part III.A. Environment10. Food, Environment, and EthicsTara Garnett11. Water Utilization and FoodKees van Leeuwen12. The Impact and Opportunity of Wasted FoodJonathan Bloom13. Climate Change and Food Production: Big Worries, Uncertain ImpactsEvan FraserPart III.B. Producers and Laborers14. Primary Agricultural Production: Crops and FarmersPaul B. Thompson15. Ethics over Exploitation: Urgent Moral Issues Associated with Labor and Communities in the Food SystemNicole M. Civita16. Equitable Food InitiativePeter O'DriscollPart III.C. Public Health17. How Food Systems Support and Undermine Public Health, Nutrition, and Community Well-Being: Some Ethical Concerns and ControversiesAnne Barnhill18. Food SafetyHerman B. W. M. Koëter19. Antibiotic ResistanceLance B. Price20. Farm Animal Welfare and Human HealthAlan M. GoldbergPart III.D. Animal Welfare21. Animal WelfareBernard Rollin22. Biotechnology and Animal Well-BeingKevin Esvelt23. Certified HumaneAdele DouglassPart IV. Case Studies 24. Niman RanchPaul Willis25. Menus of ChangeAnne E. McBride26. Bon Appétit Management CompanyMaisie Ganzler27. WegmansGillian Kelleher28. US FoodsSylvia Wulf29. Water Recirculating Aquaculture Systems and the Future for Land-Based, Closed-Containment Salmon ProductionChristopher GoodPart V. The Core Ethical Commitments: A Framework for Ethical Food Systems30. The Ethical Basis for Choose FoodAnne Barnhill, Nicole M. Civita, and Ruth Faden31. The Core Ethical CommitmentsAnne Barnhill, Nicole M. Civita, Claire Davis, Shauna Downs, Ruth Faden, Sara Glass, Alan M. Goldberg, Herman B. W. M. Koëter, Bernard Rollin, Paul B. Thompson, Kees van Leeuwen, and Suzanne McMillanndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Corporatizing American Health Care
Book SynopsisTracking the evolution of medical care from an individualized small cottage profession to a giant impersonal corporate industry costing Americans over $3 trillion each year. Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff. Health care costs the United States over $3 trillion each year and consumes over 18% of the country's gross domestic product. That's more than $11,000 for each person in the country each yearmore than double what it costs in most Western European countries to deliver equal or even better care. In Corporatizing American Health Care, Robert W. Derlet, MD, traces the progression of health care policy in the United States. How, he asks, has US health care transformed fTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Outrageous Cost of American Health CareChapter 1. Prescription Drugs: Monopolies and ProfitsChapter 2. Hospitals: Profit FirstChapter 3. PhysiciansChapter 4. Health Plans: The Money MiddlemenChapter 5. European Systems of Health Care DeliveryChapter 6. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Other Federal Health Care LawsChapter 7. Emergency DepartmentsChapter 8. The Medical Implant Device IndustryChapter 9. Tests and Studies: Radiology, Laboratory, and Technical ProceduresChapter 10. Nursing Homes and Special FacilitiesConclusionReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Riverblindness in Africa
Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of how a large public-private partnership worked to control and defeat riverblindnessa scourge which had devastated rural communities and impeded socioeconomic development throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa for generations. Riverblindness (onchocerciasis)a pervasive neglected disease, transmitted by the blackfly, that causes horrific itching, disfigurement, and loss of visionis also known as lion's stare in reference to the fixed, lifeless glare of the eyes blinded by the disease. The disease has destroyed countless lives for generations, particularly in Africa. Its effects are so devastating that the areas where it is most common (large expanses of land around rivers where the fly breeds) end up abandoned as villages move farther and farther away to more arid environments in order to escape the fly-biting, and hence the disease. The disease devastates communities from multiple angles: a large portion of each stricken community's population is disabled, often Table of ContentsForeword, by James D. WolfensohnPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The ChallengeChapter 2. Launching and Scaling Up the Onchocerciasis Control Program Chapter 3. Expansion and RescueChapter 4. The Game Changer—IvermectinChapter 5. Getting Mectizan to Africa, Concluding the OCPChapter 6. A Closer Look at Socioeconomic DevelopmentChapter 7. Widening the Effort to All of AfricaChapter 8. Deepening and Widening the ObjectiveChapter 9. Learning from the Past, Looking to the FuturePeople InterviewedAcronyms and AbbreviationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachels Autism
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRecommended for popular science readers looking to refute the anti-vaccination debate as well as readers interested in children's public health.—Library JournalHotez's book stands tall not just because he has explained in great detail the humbling efforts of scientists like himself in developing vaccines and immunisation schedules and their intellectual mythbusting efforts after the Wakefield controversy. The reason why Hotez's book is special is that he has gone the extra mile to scientifically understand and tell the world in direct and simple words repeatedly that his daughter's autism has nothing to do with vaccines.—The LancetIn the era of 'fake news,' we need to encourage Hotez's kind of scientific engagement. Scientists are not part of our national discourse on many issues, even on issues directly relating to their expertise. That needs to change. Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism is Hotez's shot across the bow, directly aimed at the non-scientific public. Hopefully, it's a shot that will be heard around the world.—Spectator USAHotez isn't pulling any punches.—Foreword ReviewsPeter Hotez has two words for his fellow scientists: Speak up. [Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism] seeks to clear some people's muddied perspectives on autism and vaccines while also sharing his journey with his daughter Rachel.—Global Health NOWA tour de force in the field. I have read many books on vaccines and vaccine policies and this one stands out among all of them. Perhaps it is the way Dr. Hotez seamlessly weaves in his and his family's experiences with Rachel's autism. He covers the diagnosis, the daily trials and tribulations, the frustrations, and the successes. I can't recommend this book enough and hope it has a wide audience of physicians, parents, students, and policy makers.—Tracking ZebraDr. Hotez's third published book combines the deeply personal story of his experiences as the father of a child with autism and his equally intimate and detailed knowledge of both vaccine science and what's now known about what does (and does not) cause autism. As a scientist whose research focuses on developing vaccines against an array of devastating tropical diseases that overwhelmingly affect the world's poor, and as one both capable and willing to inform others in terms understandable to the general public, his viewpoint is by equal degrees credible and vitally important. This is a well-reasoned and reasonable book; a well-structured and convincing defense of true science in the age of fake news and rampant pseudoscience.—JIMLEEAUTHOR BlogWithout a shadow of doubt, [this book is] one of Dr. Hotez's most important contributions to humanity. Through its pages, Dr. Hotez wages the largest of battles: the battle against ignorance and indolence, choosing to take a step forward against the powerful and well-installed anti-vaccine movement. Dr. Hotez wrote this book as a vaccine against public skepticism by using veracity and facts. He renewed faith in the medical practice of immunization.—Bulletin of the National Academy of Medicine - VenezuelaDr. Hotez has opened his heart and mind on the pages of this important book, which reads like a psychological autopsy of a family living and struggling with debilitating illness. It is highly recommended.—The ASCO PostThe book blends the history of vaccination and the anti-vaccine movement with Hotez's personal history as an autism dad and vaccine scientist. Together, the narratives make a compelling argument for why vaccines are one of the most important tools humans have in our battle against disease—and why the turn against these life-saving shots by some requires our urgent attention.—VoxTable of ContentsForeword, by Arthur L. Caplan Preface 1. Family Interrupted 2. Saving Lives with Vaccines 3. A Mostly Noncompliant Little Girl 4. Derailment 5. Like Rome during the Roman Empire 6. The British Invasion 7. Montrose 8. Vaccines Don't Cause Autism: The Scientific Evidence 9. What Does Cause Autism? The Scientific Evidence 10. Struck by Lightning 11. Our Family's Future 12. "Science Tikkun" Epilogue: Talking Points References Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Killing Season
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWriting Killing Season required more than creativity and conscience; it took guts . . . Canning won't convince all of his colleagues that substance abusers are people first, but I think most of us who read this book will get better at our jobs and be happier doing them.—EMS WorldTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue Chapter 1. Hartford, Connecticut, 1995Chapter 2. Park Street, 2016Chapter 3. AntipathyChapter 4. EmpathyChapter 5. AddictionChapter 6. StigmaChapter 7. Withdrawal and RelapseChapter 8. HeartacheChapter 9. Pain ControlChapter 10. Kelly and VeronicaChapter 11. Opioid ConferenceChapter 12. Harm ReductionChapter 13. FentanylChapter 14. Responder SafetyChapter 15. FamilyChapter 16. PartnersChapter 17. Mental HealthChapter 18. AgeChapter 19. The War on DrugsChapter 20. TemptationChapter 21. ChildrenChapter 22. Community NaloxoneChapter 23. Safe-Injection SiteChapter 24. CutChapter 25. Danger AheadChapter 26. The BakeryChapter 27. Call of DutyChapter 28. PlateauChapter 29. State CapitolEpilogueHeroin Bags of HartfordAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Skid Road
Book SynopsisA compelling look at the historical roots of poverty and homelessness, the worthy and unworthy poor, and the role of charity health care and public policy in the United States. Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in the United States. In 2018, an estimated 8,600 homeless people lived in the city, a figure that does not include the significant number of hidden homeless people doubled up with friends or living in and out of cheap hotels. In Skid Road, Josephine Ensign digs through layers of Seattle historypast its leaders and prominent citizens, respectable or notto reveal the stories of overlooked and long-silenced people who live on the margins of society. The sometimes fragmentary tales of these people, their lives and deaths, are not included in official histories of a place. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health needsTrade ReviewEnsign's Skid Road exposes the entrenched roots of our contemporary crisis. She reveals how physical, visible sites of destitution — and the misery they contain — have long been features of Seattle's landscape: shantytowns, the sprawling Hooverville, tent encampments, tiny villages, shelters, doorways, abandoned homes, vehicles, rundown RVs. She then humanizes this topography by adding flesh and bone and heart to some of the homeless people who have experienced it.—CrosscutEnsign's novel unearths the layers of Seattle history underlying our current housing crisis. Centering long-silenced perspectives of those in the margins of society, the provocative read is informed by Ensign's own lived experience of homelessness and over three decades of her work providing primary health care to unhoused populations.—Seattle MetTable of ContentsPrologue. One Woman's SeattleChapter 1. Brother's KeeperChapter 2. Skid RoadChapter 3. The SistersChapter 4. Ark of RefugeChapter 5. ShacktownChapter 6. ThresholdChapter 7. State of EmergencyEpilogue. Hearing VoicesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ending Sexual Violence in College
Book SynopsisHow do we create a culture of zero tolerance for sexual violence on college campuses?In a world where one in five women on campus experience some form of sexual assault, what would it take to create a campus culture that was free of violence against women? From a public health perspective, sexual assault is an epidemic on campuses, but why? What is it about a campus community culture that permits or encourages this, at a time when a majority of students are now female? In this practical guide for colleges and universities, Joanne H. Gavin, James Campbell Quick, and David J. Gavin lay out a community-based model that is designed to eliminate sexual misconduct, spot it before it happens, punish its perpetrators, support its victims/survivors, and end this epidemic. Ending Sexual Violence in College is a prescriptive guide for creating a campus culture that is intolerant of sexual misconduct regardless of who is involved or the context in which it happens. A culture of intolerance, the auTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Evolution of Title IXChapter 3. Challenges to Protecting Women from Sexual Assault and Its AftermathChapter 4. Building a Strong, Secure Campus CultureChapter 5. Student Education and Training Programs Chapter 6. Faculty Education and TrainingChapter 7. Education and Training for Everyone on Campus Chapter 8. Responding to IncidentsChapter 9. Healing and Seeking JusticeChapter 10. Three Institutional Cases ReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press American Dementia
Book SynopsisHave the social safety nets, environmental protections, and policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia todayand how do we improve brain health in the future?Winner of the American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest, Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book AwardsFor decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future?In American Dementia, Daniel R. George, PhD, MSc, and Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD, argue that the current decline of dementia may be strongly linked to midtwentieth century policies that reduced inequality, provided widespread access to education and healthTrade ReviewGeorge and Whitehouse had me turning each page with wonder over topics I know well, to which their insight brought newperspective . . . [American Dementia] will enlighten a lay public, and experts in Alzheimer's disease, new and old.—George Perry, PhD, Journal of Alzheimer's DiseaseTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Occupy Alzheimer's! Setting the Scene for ResistanceChapter 2. Alzheimer's and the Neoliberal Turn: "Politics of Anguish," Visions of a CureChapter 3. Alzheimer's Today: Inconvenient Truths in the Marketplace of MemoryChapter 4. Treating Populations: Collectively Strengthening the Brain Health of the Many, Not the FewChapter 5. Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water: What the Lead-Poisoning Tragedy in Michigan Means for Alzheimer'sChapter 6. #PoorLivesMatter: Fighting Poverty to Resist Alzheimer'sChapter 7. Turning Up the Heat on Global Warming: The Neurologic Costs of Climate ChangeChapter 8. Occupy the Nursing Home! Breaking Down Walls and Breaking Out "Socialceuticals"Chapter 9. A Bridge beyond Loneliness: The Gathering Momentum of Age- and Dementia-Friendly CommunitiesChapter 10. The Intergenerational Schools: Desegregating and Revaluing the Cognitively FrailAcknowledgmentsAppendix: An Intergenerational Interview with the AuthorsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response
Book SynopsisAs nations race to hone contact-tracing efforts, the world's experts consider strategies for maximum transparency and impact. As public health professionals around the world work tirelessly to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear that traditional methods of contact tracing need to be augmented in order to help address a public health crisis of unprecedented scope. Innovators worldwide are racing to develop and implement novel public-facing technology solutions, including digital contact tracing technology. These technological products may aid public health surveillance and containment strategies for this pandemic and become part of the larger toolbox for future infectious outbreak prevention and control. As technology evolves in an effort to meet our current moment, Johns Hopkins Project on Ethics and Governance of Digital Contact Tracing Technologiesa rapid research and expert consensus group effort led by Dr. Jeffrey P. Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of BioethiTable of ContentsLead Authors and ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsSummaryIntroductionChapter 1. Public Health PerspectiveChapter 2. Digital Technology and Contact TracingChapter 3. Ethics of Designing and Using DCTTChapter 4. Legal ConsiderationsChapter 5. RecommendationsResourcesWorks Cited
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Johns Hopkins University Press Unequal Cities
Book SynopsisAcross the United States, Black people have shorter life expectancies than white peoplereflecting structural racism and deep-rooted drivers of population health. But are some cities more equal than others?The elimination of racial and ethnic inequitiesdifferences that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unfairhas been one of the overarching health-related goals of the United States for decades. Yet dramatic differences in health outcomes between Black people and white people persist, rooted in structural and social determinants of health. Nationally, a Black baby can expect to live four years less than a white baby. But mortality outcomes and inequities vary widely across cities. In Washington, DC, for example, the average life expectancy for Blacks is twelve years less than that of whites. But in other cities, mortality differences between races are less striking or nonexistent. If health equity can be achieved in some cities, why not all? This is arguably the most important health equityTable of ContentsForeword by Julie Morita, Former Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public HealthAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Path to Health Equity for CitiesPart I. Entrenched Racial Health Inequities in the United StatesChapter 1. Context for Entrenched Racial Health InequitiesChapter 2. Theorizing the Causes of Health InequitiesPart II. Racial Inequities in US Cities: An Analysis of Mortality DataChapter 3. Inequities in All-Cause Mortality, Life Expectancy, and Premature MortalityChapter 4. Inequities in the 10 Leading Causes of DeathChapter 5. Inequities in Selected Causes of Death: HIV, Homicide, and OpioidPart III. Epidemiological Patterns and Sociological ExplanationsChapter 6. Understanding Mortality Patterns and Inequities across US CitiesPart IV. Translating Data into Action: Practical Approaches to Health EquityChapter 7. Using a Social Justice Framework to Help Achieve Health EquityChapter 8. Data Are Not Enough: Moving toward Solutions-Focused CommunicationChapter 9. Mobilizing to Action: Overcoming Chicago's 16-Year Life Expectancy GapConclusion. Next Steps on the Path to Health EquityAppendixAbout the AuthorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Why Are Health Disparities Everyones Problem
Book SynopsisHow can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices that plague our health care system and society?Health is determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors. Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical environments, institutional policies, health care system features, social relationships, risk behaviors, and genetic predispositions all contribute to physical and mental well-being. In America and around the world, many of these factors are derived from a lingering history of unequal opportunities and unjust treatment for people of color and other vulnerable communities. But they aren't the only ones who suffer because of these disparitieseveryone is impacted by the factors that degrade health for the least advantaged among us. In Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem? Dr. Lisa Cooper shows how we can work together to eliminate the injustices that plague our health care system and society. The book follows Cooper's journey from her ch
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Johns Hopkins University Press Separated
Book SynopsisWilliam D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration raids place on Latino communitiesand the families and friends who must recover from their aftermath. 2020 International Latino Book Awards Winner First Place, Mariposa Award for Best First Book - Nonfiction Honorable Mention, Best Political / Current Affairs BookOn a Thursday in November 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to returnarrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children . . . The kids terrified, the kids screaming.In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damagTrade ReviewLopez's book is one of the most powerful examples to date of an academic using deep study and radical empathy to indict a profoundly evil system.—New RepublicLopez's style is revolutionary. He demonstrates that an alleged criminal can be a complex human with complex human connections. His book short-circuits narratives at the root of racist policies—about good vs. bad immigrants, legal vs. illegal people—by honoring the complex web around the sinners. When brown sinners are outlawed, their loved ones become prey, too.Separated is the result of hours of interviews with those affected, offering gumshoe FOIA-heavy journalism and a deep, empathetic understanding of community.—RemezclaNo social issues collection, particularly those strong in community makeup and immigration challenges, should be without this hard-hitting survey.—Donovan's Literary ServicesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Guadalupe, Fernanda & HildaThe Raid: Before2. Un día común y corrienteThe Raid3. The last night he ever nursed4. Se rompe la comunidadThe Raid: The hours and days after5. I hate to see them die unnecessarily6. ConclusionThe Raid: The months and years afterWorks Cited
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Johns Hopkins University Press Can the Obesity Crisis Be Reversed
Book SynopsisHow can we work together to understand the rise of obesity and reverse its related diseases and societal impacts?Obesity is a complex condition that increases a person's risk for developing diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other life-threatening conditions. Contrary to prevailing notions that it results solely from a person's diet and exercise failings, a predisposition to obesity is actually determined by genetics as well as by environmental and socioeconomic factors that lie beyond individual control. In Can the Obesity Crisis Be Reversed?, Dr. Rexford Ahima draws on his extensive laboratory and clinical experiences at top institutions to examine the complicated causes of obesity, as well as the most cutting-edge approaches for prevention and treatment. Ahima looks at how the rising trends of obesity and associated diseases are driving up health care costs. He also offers insight into the widespread suffering that obesity imposes and its disproportionate impacts in minoTable of ContentsPreface Introduction1. How Do People Gain Excess Weight?2. Why Are People Getting Heavier?3. What Are the Consequences of Obesity?4. What Are the Best Ways to Lose Weight?5. How to Reverse the Obesity CrisisAcknowledgmentsNotesIndexAppendix: Obesity Organizations and Resources
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