Public health and preventive medicine Books

Book SynopsisThis expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises the actions taken by governments as they sought to contain the novel coronavirus. He shows that indecision and disregard for scientific evidence has led many political leaders to preside over hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the worst global economic crisis for three centuries. This new edition provides a systematic discussion of the pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s largest ever vaccination programme. Only now are we beginning to understand the full scale of the COVID-19 crisis. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic, and we need to learn them fast, because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.Trade Review�This is the book to read if you want to understand the response to COVID-19. Powerful, beautifully written and reflective. Richard Horton at his best.�Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh�The Editor of The Lancet pulls no punches. The pandemic has shattered our belief in Western exceptionalism and exposed the harsh underbelly of global inequality. A must-read.�Anthony Costello, Professor of Global Health and Sustainable Development, University College London Praise for the first edition:"Devastating… An incredibly powerful read."—Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain"Vital and up to the minute."—Nature "A polemic of the first order."—The Guardian "a well-reasoned roar of rage at the failure of many western governments to follow the emerging scientific evidence about the pandemic potential of the novel coronavirus." —The Financial Times "uncompromisingly scathing." —Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century "Blistering but forensically detailed." —Medical Republic Selected as one of the Best Science Books of 2020 by the Financial TimesTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 From Wuhan to the World 2 Why Were We Not Prepared? 3 Science: The Paradox of Success and Failure 4 First Lines of Defence 5 The Politics of COVID-19 6 The Risk Society Revisited 7 Towards the Next Pandemic Epilogue Notes

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Book SynopsisThis expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises the actions taken by governments as they sought to contain the novel coronavirus. He shows that indecision and disregard for scientific evidence has led many political leaders to preside over hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the worst global economic crisis for three centuries. This new edition provides a systematic discussion of the pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s largest ever vaccination programme. Only now are we beginning to understand the full scale of the COVID-19 crisis. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic, and we need to learn them fast, because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.Trade Review�This is the book to read if you want to understand the response to COVID-19. Powerful, beautifully written and reflective. Richard Horton at his best.�Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh�The Editor of The Lancet pulls no punches. The pandemic has shattered our belief in Western exceptionalism and exposed the harsh underbelly of global inequality. A must-read.�Anthony Costello, Professor of Global Health and Sustainable Development, University College London Praise for the first edition:"Devastating� An incredibly powerful read."�Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain"Vital and up to the minute."�Nature "A polemic of the first order."�The Guardian "a well-reasoned roar of rage at the failure of many western governments to follow the emerging scientific evidence about the pandemic potential of the novel coronavirus." �The Financial Times "uncompromisingly scathing." �Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century "Blistering but forensically detailed." �Medical Republic Selected as one of the Best Science Books of 2020 by the Financial Times

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

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Book SynopsisPeople have been using tobacco in a variety of forms for centuries. Remarkably, it was originally seen as something that could promote vigor and health. Of course, now we all know that tobacco use causes death and disability in epidemic proportions. If smoking is so bad for us, why in heaven’s name would anyone still smoke? Quite a bit has changed since tobacco first made the transition to a widely available agricultural product. Unfortunately, the general clinical approach to addressing this problem has failed to keep pace with tobacco technology and its addictive properties. People around the world who have fallen prey to the subtleties of nicotine addiction, or who care for those who have, would benefit from a deeper understanding of the ways in which nicotine can affect the brain’s function and change behaviors over a lifetime. Why People Smoke breaks down the science of tobacco dependence and presents it in a way that is both easily understandable and clinically useful for anyone interested in helping people break free of nicotine’s influence. Why People Smoke is a first-of-its-kind clinical guide to treating tobacco dependence. The book helps readers make meaningful connections between tobacco’s effects at the cellular level, the predictable behavioral manifestations of the disorder, and the social science and systems requirements required to make a fundamental impact on this disorder. Unlike previous publications like self-help books, step-by-step curricula, or clinical guidelines, Why People Smoke puts practical clinical insights—gained from twenty-five years of practice—into perspective, helping the reader understand how “brain change” translates into “mind change” and the persistent compulsion to smoke . . . despite a person’s desperate desire to stop. Reading Why People Smoke will change the way you see smoking forever.

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Book SynopsisPeople have been using tobacco in a variety of forms for centuries. Remarkably, it was originally seen as something that could promote vigor and health. Of course, now we all know that tobacco use causes death and disability in epidemic proportions. If smoking is so bad for us, why in heaven’s name would anyone still smoke? Quite a bit has changed since tobacco first made the transition to a widely available agricultural product. Unfortunately, the general clinical approach to addressing this problem has failed to keep pace with tobacco technology and its addictive properties. People around the world who have fallen prey to the subtleties of nicotine addiction, or who care for those who have, would benefit from a deeper understanding of the ways in which nicotine can affect the brain’s function and change behaviors over a lifetime. Why People Smoke breaks down the science of tobacco dependence and presents it in a way that is both easily understandable and clinically useful for anyone interested in helping people break free of nicotine’s influence. Why People Smoke is a first-of-its-kind clinical guide to treating tobacco dependence. The book helps readers make meaningful connections between tobacco’s effects at the cellular level, the predictable behavioral manifestations of the disorder, and the social science and systems requirements required to make a fundamental impact on this disorder. Unlike previous publications like self-help books, step-by-step curricula, or clinical guidelines, Why People Smoke puts practical clinical insights—gained from twenty-five years of practice—into perspective, helping the reader understand how “brain change” translates into “mind change” and the persistent compulsion to smoke . . . despite a person’s desperate desire to stop. Reading Why People Smoke will change the way you see smoking forever.

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Book SynopsisHow global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Targeted for the scaling-up of HIV testing, Elsa L. Fan examines how the impact of this initiative has transformed these men from subjects of care into commodities of care: through the use of performance-based financing tied to HIV testing, MSM have become a source of economic and political capital. In ethnographic detail, Fan shows how this particular program, ushered in by global health donors, became the prevailing strategy to control the epidemic in China in the late 2000s. Fan examines the implementation of MSM testing and its effects among these men, arguing that the intervention produced new markets of men, driven by the push to meet testing metrics. Fan shows how men who have sex with men in China came to see themselves as part of a global “MSM” category, adopting new selfhoods and socialities inextricably tied to HIV and to testing. Wider trends in global health programming have shaped national public health responses in China and, this book reveals, have radically altered the ways health, disease, and care are addressed. Trade Review"Commodities of Care is a forceful examination of how global health is working to transform patients from biomedical entities into market commodities. Elsa L. Fan’s ethnography is a tour de force, tracing the regime of HIV testing through the organizations established to serve gay men in China to show how they are co-opted by global audit regimes. This book will serve as an important bridge between global health and anthropology to begin dialogues that must happen for these fields to move forward."—Elanah Uretsky, author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China "[Commodities of Care]continues the conversation among global health scholars on the unintended and sometimes negative consequences of metrics and audit culture. This book would be well suited for both graduate and undergraduate courses on gender and global health."—Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Productivity of HIV Testing2. Making Up (and Making Available) MSM in China3. Markets of and Marketing to MSM4. Remaking Communities of Belonging5. Ethical Practice Among MSM in ChinaConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in communities of men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. Targeted for the scaling-up of HIV testing, Elsa L. Fan examines how the impact of this initiative has transformed these men from subjects of care into commodities of care: through the use of performance-based financing tied to HIV testing, MSM have become a source of economic and political capital. In ethnographic detail, Fan shows how this particular program, ushered in by global health donors, became the prevailing strategy to control the epidemic in China in the late 2000s. Fan examines the implementation of MSM testing and its effects among these men, arguing that the intervention produced new markets of men, driven by the push to meet testing metrics. Fan shows how men who have sex with men in China came to see themselves as part of a global “MSM” category, adopting new selfhoods and socialities inextricably tied to HIV and to testing. Wider trends in global health programming have shaped national public health responses in China and, this book reveals, have radically altered the ways health, disease, and care are addressed. Trade Review"Commodities of Care is a forceful examination of how global health is working to transform patients from biomedical entities into market commodities. Elsa L. Fan’s ethnography is a tour de force, tracing the regime of HIV testing through the organizations established to serve gay men in China to show how they are co-opted by global audit regimes. This book will serve as an important bridge between global health and anthropology to begin dialogues that must happen for these fields to move forward."—Elanah Uretsky, author of Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China "[Commodities of Care]continues the conversation among global health scholars on the unintended and sometimes negative consequences of metrics and audit culture. This book would be well suited for both graduate and undergraduate courses on gender and global health."—Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. The Productivity of HIV Testing2. Making Up (and Making Available) MSM in China3. Markets of and Marketing to MSM4. Remaking Communities of Belonging5. Ethical Practice Among MSM in ChinaConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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

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Book SynopsisThis book unpacks the political economy of China’s COVID-19 vaccine supplies to the Global South. Examining the political and economic forces at play, the book demonstrates how China’s vaccine provisions have been determined by a complex set of commercial interests, domestic politics and geopolitical relationships. The book sheds light on how domestic interests shape China’s role in global governance and its international economic engagement. Its analysis contributes to broader academic debates on the politics and economics of crises, as well as offering new insights on how pre-existing political and market forces shape aid and trade in the context of crisis.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Contextualizing China’s Position in Global Health 3. ‘Vaccine Diplomacy’ 4. Market Forces and Commercial Chinese Vaccine Sales 5. Conclusion: Between Politics and Business

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Book SynopsisHow is UK drugs policy made, and why does it so often seem irrational when considering what works in reducing drug-related harms? This book explains how the concept of drug policy constellations – the loosely concerted policy actors with shared moral commitments that influenced policy outcomes – explains why there is no such thing as 'evidence-based' drug policy. Drawing on his participation in high-level policy discussions, and a novel approach to policy analysis, Stevens presents three recent cases involving key issues in UK illicit drug policy – medical cannabis, drug-related deaths and the government’s 10-year drug strategy.Table of Contents1. An Introduction to Drug Policy Constellations Part I: Contexts, Concepts and Methods for Studying Drug Policy Constellations 2. Facts and Narratives of the UK Drug Policy Context 3. Power and Morality in Policy Making 4. Policy Constellation: A Critical Realist Approach 5. Studying Policy Constellations in the Real World Part II: Morality and Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations 6. Moralities in Action: The Ethico-Political Bases of UK Drug Policy 7. Mapping UK Drug Policy Constellations 8. Power in UK Drug Policy Constellations Part III: Cases in Drug Policy Making in the UK 9. The Legalisation of Medical Cannabis 10. Responses to the Drug Deaths Crisis: Explaining Differences at UK and Scottish Levels 11. The UK’s Ten-Year Drug Strategy 12. A Retroductive Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis is the sixth volume in a series dedicated to publishing current research and conceptual papers in the broad ranging area of the sociology of health.Table of ContentsOrganisational theory in the case and care management of health care, Gary L. Albrecht and Karen E. Peters; com-munities of care - a theoretical perspective on case manage-ment models in mental health, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Eric R. Wright and Patrick Sullivan; case management across organ-isational boundaries, Susan Hughes; case management - it is "cost" management for employee health benefits?, Judith Barr; professionals and laypeople in the management of a chronic illness in children - the care performed by families compared to medical teams, Renee Waissman; community-based case management for active injecting drug users, Judith A. Levy, Teri Strenski and Daniel J. Amick; developing community resources for a stigmatised population, Lawrence J. Ouellet, Matta Kelley, Andrea Coward and W. Wayne Wiebel; case manager and client - process analysis of the relationship in a short-term programme for drug injection users and sex partners, Victor Lidz and Martin Y. Iguchi; the impact of short term case management on cancer patients' needs and quality of life, Vince Mor, Margaret Wool, Edward Gundagnoli and Susan Allen; assessing the implementation of a case management intervention for the homeless, Cheryl I. Hultman, Kendon J. Conrad, Annie R. Pope, William C. Baxter, Joe Lisiecki and Phil Elbaum; database management systems for case management programmes, Colleen Monahan, Mary Szpur, Rosemary Manago, and Kathryn Smith; evaluating the cost effectiveness of case management, Robert J. Rydman.

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Book SynopsisThis study of sixteenth-century Seville offers a new perspective on how early modern cities adapted to living with repeated epidemics of plague. Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville offers a reassessment of the impact of plague in the early modern era, presenting sixteenth-century Seville as a case study of how municipal officials and residents worked together to create a public health response that protected both individual and communal interests. Similar studies of plague during this period either dramatize the tragic consequences of the epidemic or concentrate on the tough "modern" public health interventions, such as quarantine, surveillance and isolation, and the laxness or strictness of their enforcement. Arguing for a redefinition of "public health" in the early modern era, this study chronicles amore restrained, humane, and balanced response to outbreaks in 1582 and 1599-1600 Seville, showing that city officials aimed to protect the population but also maintain trade and commerce in order to prevent economic disruption. Based on extensive primary sources held in the municipal archive of Seville, the work argues that a careful reading of the records shows a critical difference between how plague regulations were written and how they were enforced, a difference that reflects an unacknowledged process of negotiation aimed at preserving balance within the community. The book makes important contributions to the study of early modern city governance and to the historiography of epidemics more broadly. Kristy Wilson Bowers received her PhD from Indiana University and teaches in the History Department at Northern Illinois University.Trade ReviewAn insightful examination [and] an eloquent account of the difficulties of legislating and enforcing public health regulations on epidemic disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Bowers has written a provocative study that offers new ways of thinking about urban pestilential experiences. Her subtle and diligent mining of archival materials makes her interpretation a particularly persuasive one. * ISIS *Bowers has written a great little book. In this well-researched case study of plague and the city of Seville's response to it, Bowers challenges our persistent image of the complete social and economic disruption most often associatedwith plague outbreaks. Her work reminds us that well-researched regional studies can reveal surprising challenges to what we assume we know about the early modern world and its 'premodern' response to public health threats. * BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE *This book provides a fresh alternative view of how public health worked in early modern Europe. Through exploring the archival records of Seville, Bowers examines the varied ways medical practitioners, public health officers, and lay people perceived and reacted against the plague epidemics of 1582 and 1599. --Jon Arrizabalaga,Institución Milà i Fontanals, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona * . *Table of ContentsIntroduction Early Modern Seville: Balancing Growth and Governance Perceptions of Plague: Balancing Disease Concepts Negotiating Public Health: Balancing the Individual and the Community The Wider Politics of Public Health: Balancing Urban and Rural City and Crown: Balancing Authorities Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the history of vaccine development and the rise of antivaccination societies in late-nineteenth-century America. Most people today celebrate vaccination as a great achievement, yet many nineteenth-century Americans opposed it, so much in fact that states had to make vaccination compulsory. In response, antivaccination societies formed all over the United States, lobbying state legislatures and bringing lawsuits to abolish these laws. One such lawsuit ultimately arrived at the United States Supreme Court, which upheld the laws in a landmark decision, Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905). In this study, Karen Walloch examines the history of vaccine development in the United States, the laws put in place enjoining the practice, and the popular reaction against them. Walloch finds that at theend of the nineteenth century Americans had good reason to fear vaccination. Vaccines simply did not live up to claims made for their safety and effectiveness. They induced pain, disability, and grim or even fatal infections. Inthis critical history of the antivaccine movement and of Jacobson v. Massachusetts in particular, Walloch locates the beginnings of a legacy of doubt about vaccination -- one that affected legislation in all fifty states and is still very much alive today. Karen Walloch is a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Trade Review[An] important new book. [It] offers a lucid and stimulating portrait. * HISTORY *Contains a wealth of information. * ISIS JOURNAL *The Antivaccine Heresy stands out among the handful of other books on the history of vaccination in the United States in its comprehensive treatment of the subject, its coverage of the topic prior to 1900 and at the turn of the twentieth century, and in the number and variety of resources it draws upon. It is a major accomplishment and a valuable, highly important contribution to the history of medicine and public health... * H-DISABILITY (H-NET REVIEWS) *The book is a notable contribution to the history of public health in America and the history of science at large. Its most distinctive feature is Walloch's in-depth assessment of the antivaccinationists, who for so long had been noted only in passing by historians of medicine. * PULSE *One of the best history books ever written about American vaccination politics and policies, The Antivaccine Heresy will have a significant audience among medical historians, scholars of public health, and citizens concerned about similar issues today. Walloch's research is stunningly thorough; her interpretations challenging, insightful, and compelling; and her stories are fascinating. This work is truly pioneering and may well change not only the way history books are written but also the way that vaccinologists write about the smallpox vaccine. -- Robert Johnston, editor of The Politics of HealingTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Vaccination in the Nineteenth-Century America Problems with Vaccination in the Nineteenth Century The 1901-2 Smallpox Epidemic in Boston and Cambridge The Hazards of Vaccination in 1901-2 Massachusetts Antivaccinationists Immanuel Pfeiffer versus the Boston Board of Health The 1902 Campaign to Amend the Compulsory Vaccination Laws Criminal Prosecution of the Antivaccinationists Jacobson v. Massuchusetts Conclusion Appendix A: Boston Health Department Vaccinations, 1872-1900 Appendix B: Voting Records for Samuel Durgin's Vaccination Bill before the Massachusetts State Senate Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArgues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property, liability, and community. This book argues that the legacies of nineteenth-century public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property and people. Between 1815 and 1872, the work of public healthactivists led to multiple redefinitions of both, shifting the boundaries between public and private nuisances, public and private services, taxable and nontaxable property, cities and suburbs, the state and the individual, and, finally, between different kinds of individuals. These boundary-making processes were themselves inflected by different material, political, and ideological developments in the areas of disease, demography, democracy, and domesticity. The changes in boundaries manifested themselves in the creation of new nuisance laws and in the minute control by the state of private domestic arrangements. Most important, these changes also promoted a radical shiftin ideas on who should bear financial responsibility for the health of others, stimulating in the process a controversy on the nature of community. Public health thus served as an important, if contradictory, site in the creationof communities, enhancing the right to health for some while simultaneously restricting in the name of health the privacy rights of others. Relying on underused legal sources, this book presents a fresh view of the local originsand legal and political significance of the public health movement of the nineteenth century. James G. Hanley is associate professor of history at the University of Winnipeg.Trade ReviewIn this important new book, James Hanley recovers a key aspect of nineteenth-century sanitary reform . What distinguishes Hanley's account is the level and intensity of his analytical-archival gaze . [A] fresh historical perspective on how public health became a public enterprise. * BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The Laws of Nuisance before 1846: Property, Health, and Democracy in the Age of Reform Private Benefit and Public Service: Paying for Sewers before 1848 The Boundaries of Health, 1848-70 The Benefits of Health: London, 1848-65 Healthy Domesticity, 1848-72 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis A growing number of studies indicate that older people in the church form social ties that have a significant positive impact on their physical and mental health. In Aging in the Church, Neal Krause comprehensively assesses the various relationships that stem from church involvement. Among the many types of relationships Krause explores are close companion friendships, social-support structures (such as assistance provided by fellow church members during difficult times), and interactions that arise from Bible study and prayer groups. Through his thorough investigation of the underlying links between these relationships and the ways they relate to attributes like forgiveness, hope, gratitude, and altruism, the author hopes to explain why older adults who are involved in religious activities tend to enjoy better physical and mental health than those who are not engaged in religious communities. Going beyond merely reviewing the existing research on this subject, Aging in the Church provides a blueprint for taking research on church-based social relationships and health to the next level by identifying conceptual and methodological issues that investigators will confront as they delve more deeply into these connections. Though these are complex issues, readers will find plain language and literature drawn from a wide array of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, public health, medicine, psychiatry, nursing, social work, gerontology, and theology. Literature, poetry, philosophy, and ethical ideas supplement the insights from these diverse fields. As a result, Aging in the Church takes on a genuinely interdisciplinary focus that will appeal to various scholars, researchers, and students. Trade Review What tremendous work. Aging in the Church is Neal Krause's magnum opus, the first and last word on how social relationships mediate religion's impact on physical and mental health. Theoretically, conceptually, methodologically, this book exemplifies the very best of what social science has to offer this field." —Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, author of God, Faith, and Health; adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Duke University Medical Center Quite simply, Aging in the Church is a tour de force. This sophisticated, clearly written volume casts fresh light on an important topic that has been neglected for too long: the role of congregational relationships in the health of older adults. Krause combines astute theoretical reasoning with skillful data analyses, opening new vistas for researchers and practitioners alike. Krause reveals the many aspects of church-based social ties that can benefit elders while showing the potential harm caused by conflict and criticism within religious communities. With laser-like precision, Krause also reveals how the costs and benefits of church-based social ties vary for persons from diverse racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. With this important contribution, Krause takes the field of religion-health research to a new level. —Christopher G. Ellison, professor of sociology, Elsie and Stanley E. Adams, Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin A “must-read” for anyone caring for elderly parents or caregivers of disabled individuals, each of whom is so valued in our world. —Pam Landis, Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health This masterful study provides an agenda for work to be done rather than a recap of data already in hand. It will be of practical interest to religious professionals, sociologists, psychologists, gerontologists, and others working with aging; it is not for casual readers or beginning students. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners. —C. H. Lippy, CHOICE Neal Krause says that the purpose of Aging in the Church “is to examine how social relationships that arise in church affect the physical and mental health of older men and women” (p. 3). He accomplishes his goal in this comprehensive yet comprehensible compilation of a great deal of social-scientific research (both his own and others) on the role that involvement in Christian congregations plays in various health outcomes among elders. The book pulls together a wealth of information in one place for researchers interested in its subject, as well as for those who might want to make a case that “going to church is good for you.” —The Gerontologist(February 2010 Issue) This book effectively and clearly summarizes his findings on social relationships in congregations and how they contribute to elders' health and well-being. —NICA Book Review Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Chapter 1. Social Relationships in the Church and Health: Problems and Prospects / 3 Religion and Health: What We Know and What We Need to Do Next / 4 Setting Boundaries on the Study of Church-Based Social Ties and Health / 9 Why Research on Church-Based Social Ties and Health in Late Life Is Important / 11 Overview of the Chapters That Follow / 28 Conclusions / 31 Chapter 2. Church-Based Social Support: Getting Help during Difficult Times / 33 Conceptualizing and Measuring Informal Church-Based Social Support / 35 Stress-Induced Psychosocial Deficits / 39 Mobilizing Support from Fellow Church Members / 44 Exploring the Benefits of Church-Based Social Support / 46 Sharpening the Theoretical Underpinnings of Church-Based Social Support / 53 Less Familiar Dimensions of Church-Based Social Support / 65 Bringing Different Kinds of Stressors to the Foreground / 70 Conceptual and Methodological Challenges / 75 Conclusions / 78 Chapter 3. Church-Based Companion Friends / 79 Identifying the Basic Nature of Close Companion Friends / 80 Measuring Close Companion Friendships at Church / 85 Linking Close Companion Friendships with Health and Well-Being / 91 Close Companion Friends in Late Life / 102 Close Companion Friends and Health: A Preliminary Empirical Examination / 103 Conceptual and Methodological Challenges / 106 Conclusions / 112 Chapter 4. Social Relationships That Arise from Formal Roles in the Church / 113 Formal Relationships with the Clergy / 113 Bible Study Groups and Prayer Groups / 127 Formal Relationships in Church Volunteer Programs / 134 Formal Assistance for the Homebound / 145 Conclusions / 151 Chapter 5. Negative Interaction in the Church: Exploring the Dark Side of Religion / 155 Measuring Negative Interaction in the Church / 157 Prior Research on Negative Interaction in the Church, Health, and Well-Being / 160 Negative Interaction in the Church and Health: Examining Conceptual Linkages / 162 Negative Interaction with the Clergy / 169 Negative Interaction in the Church during Late Life / 171 Conceptual and Methodological Challenges / 173 Conclusions / 185 Chapter 6. Exploring the Pervasive Influence of Social Structural Factors / 187 A Strategy for Studying Social Structural Variations in Church-Based Social Ties and Health / 189 Variations by Race: Studying Older African Americans / 192 Gender, Church-Based Social Ties, and Health in Late Life / 203 Church-Based Social Ties and Health: Variations by Socioeconomic Status / 216 Conclusions / 229 Chapter 7. Conclusions: Taking a Broader Perspective and Identifying Next Steps / 232 Core Religious Beliefs and Church-Based Social Relationships / 235 General Conceptual and Methodological Challenges / 239 Casting a Broader Net: Delving into the Dark Morass of Subjectivity / 261 Appendix. Technical Details of the Religion, Aging, and Health (RAH) Survey / 267 References / 271 Index / 303

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Book Synopsis2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Bronze Award for Short FictionShort stories about the complex maze of health careConventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience, where mystery, absurdity, and even cruelty are disguised as logic, reason, and compassion. In this new collection of stories by physician and writer Jay Baruch, characters struggle in their quest for meaning and a more hopeful tomorrow in a strange landscape where motivations are complex and convoluted and what is considered good and just operates as a perpetually shifting proposition.Readers are invited to eavesdrop on the conversations and thoughts of those negotiating the healthcare landscape while attempting to maintain their sanity. Each glimpse into the minds of patients, doctors, and family members reveals the stark reality that reason and compassion are not always the lifeblood of a system devoted to healing. From a weary night shift doctor dealing with a chronic patient to a physician figuring out how to tell the next of kin about a relative's death, each of Baruch's characters exposes the multitude of emotions lurking behind the strained and sickly faces in the hospital waiting room.With imagination and an eye for detail, Baruch takes readers on an unsparing ride through the hidden, ignored, or misunderstood challenges facing healers and the ill. It is a world where communities shoulder unrelenting burdens, optimism is held with caution, and people ration their dreams. Baruch's vivid storytelling guides his readers through the incoherent and emotionally fraught reality he has faced during his twenty years as an emergency physician. The stories in What's Left Out ask readers to take risks, to make leaps into unfamiliar territory, and, like the larger healthcare enterprise, to develop comfort and trust in the untraditional and unexpected.Trade Review"The stories in What's Left Out are often heartbreaking and strange, with layers of detail that make each one well worth a second read. Each of Baruch's stories is like a little biopsy of humanity and our shared experiences of suffering, loss and uncertainty."- Gold Foundation;"Filled with subtlety and nuance and the essence of the human condition, this new collection is the work of a master storyteller. These stories should be savored over time, and considered closely."- Alpha Omega Alpha

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Book SynopsisAn often heartbreaking look at the world’s first epidemic caused by climate change.Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into areas where it was once too cold for them to live. Mary Beth Pfeiffer argues it is the first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, infecting millions around the globe. She tells the heart-rending stories of its victims, families whose lives have been destroyed by a single, often unseen, tick bite. Pfeiffer also warns of the emergence of other tick-borne illnesses that make Lyme more difficult to treat and pose their own grave risks. Lyme is an impeccably researched account of an enigmatic disease, making a powerful case for action to fight ticks, heal patients, and recognise humanity’s role in a modern scourge.'Heart-wrenching...After you read Lyme, the standard advice of 'do your due diligence, check for ticks, stay aware' won't seem adequate...Pfeiffer has delivered a powerful wake-up call.' — Sierra

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Book SynopsisBenjamin Rush (1745-1813) casts a long shadow over American medicine as well as over the social and political history of the American republic. The Philadelphia physician involved himself in numerous social, political, and scientific projects while maintaining a busy practice and lecturing to thousands of students over his career. As a result, attempts by historians to make sense of Rush and his world have been complicated and contradictory. Nevertheless, it is within that mixed narrative of the social, medical, and political that Rush's story becomes its most compelling. At the end of the Revolutionary War, new American citizens found themselves in a new country. For Rush and his colleagues, that newness extended beyond a change in political structure. They believed that the physical challenges of growing cities and western expansion and the psychological challenges of new identities came together in ways that could help or hurt American health. From his vantage point at one of the nation's few medical schools, located in its intellectual capital, Rush developed a reputation as America's physician—while mixing social and scientific ideas for the "improvement" of the country as a whole. Putting Rush in this context, Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic goes beyond biography to explore his social and scientific networks and their role in the development of a distinctly American medical profession.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Truth is a Unit" Part I-Making an American System Chapter 1-The Education of Benjamin Rush Chapter 2-An American Physician Chapter 3-Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge Chapter 4-Learning from Bodies Part II-Using an American System Chapter 5-Explaining Variation in American Bodies Chapter 6-Confronting Climatic Ills Chapter 7-Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions Chapter 8-Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines" Epilogue Bibliography Abbreviations Sources Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the "Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex," or DTLM. Quietly dominating America's healthcare industry, the DTLM poses threats comparable in magnitude, if not in character, to those of the Military-Industrial Complex. With a satiric scalpel reminiscent of Jonathan Swift's, Driscoll eviscerates the DTLM's avatar Dr. Anthony Fauci, our age's version of the archetypal Dr. Faustus. He exposes Fauci's pivotal position in the DTLM, at whose core is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, Driscoll asserts, has long played Mephistopheles to Fauci's Faustus, with grave consequences for American healthcare.Dr. Driscoll's book is the first to upbraid the DTLM, FDA, and Fauci for exacerbating the Covid-19 crisis. Seeking to maximize profits from patentable vaccines, they rigorously suppressed off patent prophylaxis and treatment alternatives. This was but one of many DTLM follies that raised Covid's death toll and increased its socio-economic devastation. Other prominent follies were the mask posturing, arbitrary lockdowns, and closing of churches and schools that the DTLM and its political allies used to distract from their sacrifice of public health to their own agendas.We may never know if the Chinese deliberately released the Covid-19 virus, or if they created it. Yet the world now knows the destructive potential of gain of function technology. Similar epidemics or worse will strike us. To survive next time, we will need radical reforms in the FDA and transparency for the DTLM. But the opaque FDA bureaucracy, Driscoll concludes, is only one instance in our greater problem of deficient oversight within all of our increasingly powerful and ever less accountable federal bureaucracies.

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Book SynopsisHow do you solve population-level health problems, develop nursing inventions, and apply them to clinical practice?This problem-solving, case-based approach shows you how to apply public health knowledge across all settings and populations. You’ll encounter different case studies in every chapter as you explore concepts such as community assessments, public health policy, and surveillance. Step by step, you’ll develop the knowledge and skills you need to apply public health principles across a variety of health care settings, special populations, and scenarios, and to evaluate their effectiveness. New! Healthy People 2030 boxes that present its goals and objectives and discuss how to apply them to everyday work settings New & Expanded! Content on communicable diseases and pandemics and how they affect the structure of public health, plus updated coverage of the social determinants of health and vulnerable populations New! “Why It Matters” boxes exploring the clinical nurse’s role in public and community health and illustrating the application of theory to practice Three case studies in each chapter, “Solving the Mystery,” “Applying Public Health Science,” and one at the end of the chapter to provide examples of the step-by-step processes that enable you to apply public health principles in the real world Four simulation scenarios (facilitator and participant versions) that cover hot topics tied to problem-based learning as well as a new simulation scenario covering social determinants of health Coverage of public health nursing competencies and roles that highlights national standards in public health “Evidence-Based Practice” boxes illustrating how research and its resulting evidence support and inform public health nursing practice Callout boxes in each chapter highlighting relevant Healthy People 2030 information, evidence-based practice, and rate calculations Problem-based learning approach featuring exercises such as critical-thinking and end-of-chapter questions to enhance your skills and enable you to apply what you’re learning Table of Contents I. Basis for Public Health Nursing Knowledge and Skills 1.Public Health and Nursing Practice 2.Optimizing Population Health 3.Epidemiology and Nursing Practice 4.Introduction to Community Assessment 5.Health Program Planning 6.Environmental Health II. Community Health Across Populations: Public Health Issues 7.Health Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health 8.Health and Vulnerable Populations 9.Communicable Diseases 10.Noncommunicable Diseases 11.Mental Health 12.Substance Use and the Health of Communities 13.Injury and Violence III. Public Health Planning 14.Health Planning for Local Public Health Departments 15.Health Planning for Acute Care Settings 16.Health Planning for Primary Care Settings 17.Health Planning with Rural and Urban Communities 18.Health Planning for Maternal-Infant and Child Health Settings 19.Health Planning for School Settings 20.Health Planning for Occupational and Environmental Health 21.Health Planning, Public Health Policy, and Finance 22.Health Planning for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management

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Book SynopsisFocussing on proven techniques for most real-world data sets, this book presents an overview of the analysis of health data involving a geographic component, in a way that is accessible to any health scientist or student comfortable with large data sets and basic statistics, but not necessarily with any specialized training in geographic information systems (GIS). Providing clear, straightforward explanations with worldwide examples and solutions, the book describes applications of GIS in disaster response.Table of Contentsa: Introduction 1: Points, Lines and Polygons 2: Geographic Data Acquisition 3: Virtual Globes and Geospatial Health 4: Geocoding and Health 5: Visualization and Cartography 6: Spatial Overlays 7: Spatial Cluster Analysis 8: Methods for Creating Smoothed Maps of Disease Burdens 9: Geographic Access to Health Services 10: Location–allocation Modelling for Health Services Research in Low Resource Settings 11: Multilevel and Hierarchical Models for Disease Mapping

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Book SynopsisLow and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America bear a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases. This book synthesizes evidence across countries that share similar socio-economic, developmental and public health profiles, including rapid urbanization, globalization and poverty. Providing insights on successful and sustainable interventions and policies, it shows how to slow and reverse the rising burden of chronic diseases in resource-poor settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Addressing the chronic non-communicable disease burden in low and middle-income countries 1: Cardiovascular Diseases and diabetes in low and middle income countries 2: A review of cancers in Africa 3: Chronic non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases 4: Ageing and neurodegenerative diseases in low and middle income countries 5: Chronic non-communicable diseases and mental health disorders in Africa 6: Health systems and chronic non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries 7: Population Surveillance and chronic non-communicable diseases 8: Community-based interventions for preventing chronic non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries 9: Self-help and chronic non-communicable disease care: a preliminary review of existing models in low and middle income countries 10: Prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases: lessons from infectious diseases control 11: Prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases: lessons from high income countries 12: The global response for prevention and control of chronic non-communicable diseases: key milestones and outcomes

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Book SynopsisBig data involves the use of sophisticated analytics to make decisions based on large-scale data inputs. It is set to transform agriculture, environmental protection and healthcare in developing countries. This book critically evaluates the developing big data industry and market in these countries and gives an overview of the determinants, performance and impacts. It provides a detailed analysis of technology creation, technology infrastructures and human skills required to utilize big data while discussing novel applications and business models that make use of it to overcome healthcare barriers. The book also offers an analysis of big data's potential to improve environmental monitoring and protection where it is likely to have far-reaching and profound impacts on the agricultural sector. A key question addressed is how gains in agricultural productivity associated with big data will benefit smallholder farmers relative to global multinationals in that sector. The book also probes big data's roles in the creation of markets that can improve the welfare of smallholder farmers. Special consideration is given to big data-led transformation of the financial industry and discusses how the transformation can increase small-holder farmers' access to finance by changing the way lenders assess creditworthiness of potential borrowers. It also takes a look at data privacy and security issues facing smallholder farmers and reviews differences in such issues in industrialized and developing countries. The key ideas, concepts and theories presented are explored, illustrated and contrasted through in-depth case studies of developing world-based big data companies, and deployment and utilization of big data in agriculture, environmental protection and healthcare.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Big Data in Developing Countries: Current Status, Opportunities and Challenges Chapter 2: Big Data Ecosystem in Developing Countries Chapter 3: Big Data in Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Chapter 4: Big Data in Healthcare Delivery and Outcomes Chapter 5: Big Data in Agriculture Chapter 6: Big Data’s Roles in Increasing Smallholder Farmers’ Access to Finance Chapter 7: Data Privacy and Security Issues Facing Smallholder Farmers and Poor Communities in Developing Countries Chapter 8: Lessons Learned, Implications and the Way Forward

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Book SynopsisGovernment interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased significantly in recent years. This has led to new developments in measuring wellbeing and initiatives aimed specifically at enhancing wellbeing, that reflect new thinking on 'what matters' and challenge established notions of societal progress. The Politics and Policy of Wellbeing provides the first theoretically grounded and empirically informed account of the rise and significance of wellbeing in contemporary politics and policy.Drawing on theories of agenda-setting and policy change, Ian Bache and Louise Reardon consider whether wellbeing can be described as 'an idea whose time has come'. The book reflects on developments across the globe and provides a detailed comparative analysis of two political arenas: the UK and the EU. Offering the first reflection grounded in evidence of the potential for wellbeing to be paradigm changing, the authors identify the challenge of bringing wellbeing into policy as a 'wicked problem' that policymakers are only now beginning to grapple with.This pioneering account of wellbeing from a political science perspective is a unique and valuable contribution to the field. The authors' theoretical and empirical conclusions are of great interest to scholars of politics and wellbeing alike.Trade Review'The study of wellbeing is arguably the most vibrant and compelling multi-disciplinary research program in contemporary social science. Beyond the academy, wellbeing research is increasingly coming to inform the making of public policy across the world. This beautifully written and meticulously researched book provides a much needed assessment of the promise and problems of wellbeing as a scholarly and policy phenomenon. Thoughtful, authoritative and engaging, it is necessary reading for anyone wishing to understand the new politics of wellbeing.' --Benjamin Radcliff, University of Notre Dame'Politicians have re-discovered quality of life as the purpose of politics, policymakers look through the lens of wellbeing and national statistical offices are publishing new measures. In this timely, wide-ranging and insightful book, Bache and Reardon help us make sense of all of this using the discipline of political science. This is a must-read for all of the above-mentioned actors, as well as researchers, students, commentators, business leaders and everyone with an interest in wellbeing.' --Paul Allin, Imperial College London and Former Director of the ONS National Wellbeing Programme, UK'I have never seen a book like this. The authors seem to me to be ahead of their time: they are the first to try to explain the gradual rise and rise of ideas about 'wellbeing' in modern society. At the time of writing, nobody knows where this intellectual current will end, but it will probably be several oceans away. The book should be read by economists, psychologists, political scientists, historians and policy-makers. It is a prescient and wickedly interesting read.' --Andrew Oswald, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Wellbeing in Politics and Policy 2. Theorising Agenda-setting and Policy Change 3. Two Waves of Wellbeing 4. A Comparative Analysis of the UK and EU 5. Wellbeing in Policy 6. The ‘Wicked Problem’ of Wellbeing 7. Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook brings together a groundbreaking collection of chapters that uses a gender lens to explore health, health care and health policy in both the Global South and North. Empirical evidence is drawn from a variety of different settings and points to the many ways in which the gendered dimensions of health have become reworked across the globe. This collection includes insightful contributions from 56 leading authorities from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, offering a wealth of knowledge, theoretical reflection, and empirical detail on the essential elements surrounding gender and health. Topics covered include theoretical approaches to understanding gender and health, migration, sexuality, ageing, masculinities, climate change and sexual and reproductive rights. Split into four thematic sections, this book strives to develop a clear road map towards achieving gender justice in health.The Handbook on Gender and Health will be an important resource for researchers, students, and instructors of health policy and family and gender studies.Contributors include: G. Alvarez Minte, E. Ansoleaga Moreno, L. Artazcoz, A.-E. Birn, R.A. Burgess, A. Coates, I. Cortès-Franch, S. Del Pino, K. Devries, X. Díaz Berr, L. Doyal, K. Elzein, V. Escribà-Agüir, B. Eveslage, C. Ewig, J. Gideon, J. Gonçalves Martín, B. Gough, H. Grundlingh, M. Gutmann, R.R. Habib, M.C. Inhorn, D. Johnston, D.M. Kamuya, L. Knight, M. Koivusalo, R. Kumar, M. Leite, J. Lyra, E. MacPherson, A.M. Cardarelli, P. McDonough, B. Medrado, L.M. Morgan, S.F. Murray, J. Namakula, L. Núñez Carrasco, S. Payne, E. Richards, N. Richardson, M. Richter, S. Robertson, M. Robinson, J. Samuel, S. Sexton, J.A. Smith, S. Smith, D.L. Spitzer, S.N. Ssali, S. Theobald, R. Tolhurst, J. Vearey, P. Vero-Sanso, S. Witter, N. Younes, F. ZalwangoTrade Review'Gender, one of the most misunderstood but important determinants of health, is expertly analysed, reviewed and critiqued in this invaluable book. Jasmine Gideon and her co-authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of the meanings of both gender and health, and discuss both contemporary and more recent historical debates about the relationship between the two. With voices from the global north and south, and from both men and women, this book will be invaluable reading for anyone (academics, practitioners, advocates, activists) concerned with ensuring the links between gender and health - whether as determinant, outcome, or system response - are fully acknowledged, understood and addressed in order to improve health outcomes for everyone.' --Sarah Hawkes, University College London, UK'This Handbook is a compilation of reflections that place the subjects of gender and health in historical and political context. As such, it makes for important reading for anyone in the field, including students, who are trying to critically understand the ways in which both global health narratives and the organization of health systems construct power relations that inevitably have gendered dimensions. Particularly useful are the chapters that cover new terrain - public private partnerships and the manifestations of commercialization within health sectors - and which look at specific populations and regions - from indigenous women's health post 2015, to migration and health in China. Jasmine Gideon's excellent introduction draws out important themes throughout the volume.' --Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsContents: PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1. Gender and Health: An Introduction Jasmine Gideon PART II GENDER, HEALTH AND PUBLIC POLICY 2. Agenda-Setting in Women’s Health: Critical Analysis of a Quarter Century of Paradigm Shifts in International and Global Health Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Peggy Mcdonough 3. Gender, Health and Climate Change Sarah Payne 4. Towards a New Political Agenda for Indigenous Women’s Health in Latin America in the Post 2015 Era Anna Coates and Sandra Del Pino 5. Dangerous Discourses? Silencing Women Within ‘Global Mental Health’ Practice Rochelle Ann Burgess 6. Cost-Cutting, Coproduction and Cash Transfers: Neoliberal Policy, Health and Gender Deborah Johnston 7. Applying a Genders Lens to Public Health Discourses on Men’s Health James A. Smith, Noel Richardson and Steve Robertson 8. Men, ‘Masculinity’ and Mental Health: Critical Reflections Brendan Gough, Steve Robertson and Mark Robinson 9. Stigmatised, Marginalised and Overlooked: Health, Later Life and Gender in India and the United Kingdom Penny Vera-Sanso PART III GENDER, WORK AND HEALTH 10. Gender, Work and Health: A Step Forward in Women’s Occupational Health Lucía Artazcoz, Imma Cortès-Franch and Vicenta Escribà-Agüir 11. Intersectionality: The Value for Occupational Health Research Rima R. Habib, Kareem Elzein and Nadia Younes 12. Gendered Work Violence Issues and Mental Health Among Chilean Women Workers Elisa Ansoleaga Moreno, Ximena Díaz Berr and Amalia Mauro Cardarelli PART IV GENDER, MIGRATION AND HEALTH 13. Migration, Gender and Health Lorena Núñez Carrasco 14. Migration and Health in a Chinese Context: Examining the Linkages Through a Gender Lens Jasmine Gideon 15. Engendered Movements: Migration, Gender, and Health in a Globalised World Denise L. Spitzer 16. Migration and Sex Work in South Africa: Key Concerns for Gender and Health Marlise Richter and Jo Vearey PART V GENDER AND HEALTH SYSTEMS 17. Gender Equity and the Politics of Health Sector Reform: Overcoming Policy Legacies, Forming Epistemic Communities Christina Ewig 18. Gender and Commercialization of Health Care Meri Koivusalo and Sarah Sexton 19. Commercialization in Maternity Care: Uncovering Trends in the Contemporary Healthcare Economy Susan F. Murray 20. Building Post Conflict Health Systems: A Gender Analysis from Northern Uganda Sarah N. Ssali, Sally Theobald, Justine Namakula and Sophie Witter 21. Reproductive Health Care and Indigenous Peoples in Venezuela Johanna Gonçalves Martín PART VI HOUSEHOLDS, HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE 22. Cycles of Violence in Gendered Social Contexts: Why Does Child Maltreatment Lead to Increased Risk of Intimate Partner Violence in Adulthood? Karen Devries, Heidi Grundlingh and Louise Knight 23. Capacities to Exercise Strategic Decision-Making Agency: Exploring the Gendered Production of Health Within Intimate Partnerships and Households Rachel Tolhurst, Esther Richards, Eleanor Macpherson, Dorcas M. Kamuya, Flavia Zalwango and Sally Theobald PART VII GENDER, SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND HEALTH 24. Citizen Monitoring: Promoting Health Rights Among Socially Excluded Women in Andean Peru Jeannie Samuel 25. Emergent Masculinities, Men’s Health, and the Movember Movement Sara Smith and Marcia C. Inhorn PART VIII GENDER, HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND RIGHTS 26. Men’s Sexual Health and Destiny Matthew Gutmann 27. Claiming Rosa Parks: Conservative Catholic Bids for “Rights” in Contemporary Latin America Lynn M. Morgan 28. Conservative Backlashes to Women’s Bodily Integrity in Latin America; The Case of Chile Gabriela Alvarez Minte 29. Deconstructing Human Rights-Based Discourses: The Case of Women's Right to Health and Health Sector Reforms in Brazil Marianna Leite 30. Men, Masculinities and Health in Brazil: A Feminist Critique Jorge Lyra and Benedito Medrado 31. Sexual Health or Rights? USAID-Funded HIV/AIDS Interventions for Key Populations in Ghana Benjamin Eveslage 32. Positive Women Managing Reproduction in the HIV Pandemic Lesley Doyal Index

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Book SynopsisSherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg present the cutting-edge of research covering the ever-expanding social capital field. With excellent contributions from leading academics, the Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health offers a developed examination of new research across sociology, epidemiology, economics, psychology and political science. Authors from across North America, Europe and Asia provide wide-ranging and detailed accounts of social capital and health, focusing on social networks, causality and productivity. Sections cover theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence supporting the connection between social capital and health worldwide. Authors discuss ageing, immigration, religion and workplace health, as well as focusing on social capital in developing countries experiencing rapid and extensive economic growth. Essential reading for any aspirational social capital and health policy academic, this Companion offers future paths for research within sociology, health economics, epidemiology, political science and social policy. The breadth of study would also benefit public health officials, policy analysts and healthcare decision-makers.Contributors include: S.R. Ali, N.D. Anderson, S. Child, H. Corman, S. Dinda, S. Folland, C. Frazier, J. Guo, M.K. Islam, T. Iversen, F. Jusot, O. Kaarbøe, M. Lindström, M. Ljunge, J. Mandelbaum, M. Menéndez, S. Moore, E. Nauenberg, K. Noonan, P.J. Pettis, N.E. Reichman, L. Rocco, L. Rochaix, E. Shapiro, C. Sharony, T.W. Someno, L. Song, Y.-H. WuTrade Review'Did you know that the concept of ''social capital'' can be traced to Marx? This Companion contains many more startling insights, not least due to its comprehensive review of worldwide empirical evidence suggesting that indeed social capital may have a causal effect not only on mental but also on physical health. Congratulations to the contributors!' --Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Sherman Folland and Eric Nauenberg PART I Theories on how social capital improves health 2. How does social capital contribute to health? Sherman Folland 3. History of social capital and health M. Kamrul Islam 4. How social capital arises in areas Tor Iversen and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno PART II Special inquiries on social capital and health 5. Social capital and health across the life cycle Eric Nauenberg 6. Religious and social capital and health Ephraim Shapiro and Chen Sharony PART III Empirical evidence: does social capital improve health? 7. Social capital in epidemiology Martin Lindström 8. Social capital and aging brain health Nicole D. Anderson 9. Social capital and types of illnesses: Where is it most effective? M. Kamrul Islam, Sherman Folland and Oddvar Martin Kaarbøe 10. Social capital and risk-taking behavior Sherman Folland PART IV Causality issues 11. Social capital and health interventions: Enhancing social capital to improve health Jean Guo, Setti Raïs Ali and Lise Rochaix 12. Does health affect social capital? Hope Corman, Kelly Noonan and Nancy E. Reichman 13. Trust promotes health: addressing reverse causality by studying children of immigrants Martin Ljunge 14. Workplace social capital and sickness absence M. Kamrul Islam and Lorenzo Rocco PART V Sociology and social capital 15. Network approaches to the study of social capital and health Spencer Moore, Stephanie Child, Yun-Hsuan Wu and Jennifer Mandelbaum 16. Do network members’ resources generate health inequality? Social capital theory and beyond Lijun Song, Cleothia G. Frazier and Philip J. Pettis PART VI Social capital and health in world development 17. Social capital and health inequalities in developing countries: A case study for Indonesia Florence Jusot and Marta Menéndez 18. Social capital and economic growth Soumyananda Dinda Index

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Book SynopsisThere is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject. The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.Trade Review'With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenstrom bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between income inequalities and health.' --Stefan Fors, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Sweden'A terrific analysis of one of the big questions in social science. This engaging book distils the wisdom of hundreds of academic studies, while doing justice to the complexity of the issues.' --Andrew Leigh, Economist and Australian ParliamentarianTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Measuring Health 3. Measuring Inequality 4. How Can Economic Inequality Influence Health? 5. Correlation Or Causality? Interpreting Scatter Plots And Regressions 6. The Ecological Fallacy: What Conclusions Can Be Drawn From Group Averages? 7. Income Inequality And Health: What Does The Literature Tell Us? 8. Searching For The Inequality Effect: What Tools Are Appropriate? 9. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisPublications in this field have, in general, been based predominantly on the experiences of individual national settings. Migration, Health and Survival offers a comparative approach, bringing together leading international scholars to provide original works from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, England and Wales, Norway, Belgium, and Italy. Variations in physical and mental health and mortality among migrants in relation to their host populations are examined and analyzed in detail, with specific discussion of: the immigrant health and mortality advantage; the healthy migrant hypothesis; migrants as vulnerable populations; the long-term effects of acculturation on health; fast epidemiological transition among migrants; and the intergenerational transmission of mortality risk. The contributions in this volume enhance the reader's understanding of immigrant health and mortality conditions across these leading countries of immigration in the western world.This is an important reference for researchers of migrant studies as well as teachers of graduate level courses in population studies and allied disciplines. Practitioners involved in the provision of health care to immigrants and refugees will further benefit from the insightful analyses.Contributors include: O. Anikeeva, P. Bi, N. Biddle, P. Brzoska, G. Caselli, P. Deboosere, M. Guillot, M. Khlat, L. Liu, S. Loi, D. Manuel, K.B. Newbold, E. Ng, B. Oppedal, D. Ponka, O. Razum, C. Sanmartin, G.K. Singh, S. Strozza, F. Trovato, J. Tu, H. Vandenheede, M. Wallace, S.G. Weldeegzie, L. WilkinsonTrade Review'This work provides a rigorous review of factors predicting the health and mortality of immigrants both in the short and long term: healthy migrant selection effects are contrasted with the negative acculturation, blockages in labor markets, pre-immigration exposure to trauma among refugees, and other factors which can pose threats to health. Trovato concludes his book with an integrative model which is vital to understanding and tracking the health of the millions of asylum seekers and refugees in today's world.' --Steven Stack, Wayne State University, US'This edited volume is a timely addition to the burgeoning field of international migration and its health consequences. Frank Trovato has brought together a cadre of renowned researchers from the US, Canada, Australia and four European countries who explicate the multidimensional effects of migration on morbidity and mortality and situate the findings in time, place and culture. Together, these chapters offer an informative look at the fluidity of immigration patterns and their health exigencies in a global context.' --Andrew V. Wister, Simon Fraser University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: migration, health and survival – international perspectives Frank Trovato 2. Understanding the healthy immigrant effect: evidence from Canada K. Bruce Newbold 3. All-cause and circulatory disease-related hospitalization, by immigrant generation status: evidence from a Canadian census based linked cohort with a focus on South Asian, Chinese and UK populations Edward Ng, Claudia Sanmartin, Jack V. Tu and Doug G. Manuel 4. Migrant health in Australia: existing literature and new results Nicholas Biddle and Samuel G. Weldeegzie 5. Mental health among immigrant background youth in Norway Brit Oppedal 6. Mental health of immigrants and refugees in Canada Lori Wilkinson and David Ponka 7. The immigrant mortality advantage in Canada Frank Trovato 8. Mortality trends, patterns, and differentials among immigrants in the United States Gopal K. Singh and Lihua Liu 9. Cancer mortality among immigrants in Australia Olga Anikeeva and Peng Bi 10. Mortality among migrants and their descendants living in England and Wales Matthew Wallace 11. Health and mortality patterns among migrants in France Myriam Khlat and Michel Guillot 12. Mortality and morbidity patterns among immigrants residing in Germany Patrick Brzoska and Oliver Razum 13. Migration, health and mortality in Italy: an unfinished story Graziella Caselli, Silvia Loi and Salvatore Strozza 14. Mortality and health of immigrants and their children in Belgium in the 2000s Patrick Deboosere and Hadewijch Vandenheede 15. Reflections toward an organizing framework for the study of immigrant mortality Frank Trovato Index

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Book SynopsisThe question of trust is crucial in the field of health. First, because health is indicative of particularly strong issues at the societal, regulatory, institutional or individual levels; secondly, because the boundaries between specialized information validated by legitimate instances and uncommitted information have become permeable; finally, because it appears to be central within relations between actors in the field. In this book, we propose to address the trust in terms of the information and communication phenomena that are at work in the health sector, and to look at the process of building the legitimacy of information in the health sector. health.Table of ContentsPreface xiCéline Paganelli Introduction xiiiCéline Paganelli Chapter 1. Information Sources on Childhood Immunization 1Mylène Costes 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Methodology 3 1.3. Vaccination: a proven trust 4 1.3.1. Loss of trust in the vaccination act 4 1.3.2. The vaccination obligation 5 1.4. Health and legitimacy information retrieval: an ambivalent stance 6 1.4.1. Health information research practices 6 1.4.2. Criteria for the legitimacy of online medical information 8 1.5. Parents’ knowledge of vaccination 10 1.5.1. Lack of knowledge and limited use of the available information 10 1.5.2. Few parents seek information on vaccination 12 1.6. The opinion of the health professional: a forced trust? 13 1.6.1. A discourse that can change the perception of the vaccination act 13 1.6.2. Maintained trust for health professionals 14 1.7. Conclusion 15 1.8. References 17 Chapter 2. Web 2.0, Parenting and Informational Habitus 21Maryline Vivion 2.1. Vaccine hesitancy: a manifestation of parental approach 21 2.2. Methodology 24 2.3. Results 26 2.3.1. Diversified information practices 26 2.3.2. The Internet and the importance of choice 28 2.3.3. Mechanisms for determining information credibility 30 2.4. Information reflexivity 33 2.5. Conclusion 35 2.6. References 37 Chapter 3. Trust, Information Sources and the Impact on Decision-Making: The Example of Vaccination 43Ève Dubé and Dominique Gagnon 3.1. Introduction 43 3.2. Vaccination: a complex decision influenced by trust 44 3.3. Vaccine hesitancy and trust toward information 46 3.3.1. Quebec parents’ trust in the information provided about their children’s vaccination 47 3.4. Media, information and vaccine hesitancy 49 3.4.1. Media and media controversies surrounding vaccination 49 3.4.2. Media controversy surrounding human papillomavirus vaccination in Quebec 49 3.4.3. Vaccination information research: impact on vaccine decision-making 51 3.5. Challenges and issues of public health communication to increase vaccine coverage 52 3.6. Conclusion 54 3.7. References 55 Chapter 4. Info-Communication Practices of Autistic Children’s Parents on the Internet: Trust Issues and Legitimacy 67Clément Dussarps and Denis Dussarps 4.1. Introduction 67 4.2. Search for health information on the Internet: questioning the medical authority? 68 4.3. Trust and legitimacy: at the heart of the patient’s “actorization” 70 4.4. The trust crisis concerning autism 71 4.5. Methodological elements 73 4.6. Sample presentation and statistical limits 74 4.7. The trust crisis in autism: empirical evidence 75 4.8. Habits in information retrieval on autism 79 4.9. Parents’ motivations to go on the Internet and compensation research because of a lack of medical info-communication 80 4.10. Conclusion: overview and perspectives 83 4.11. References 84 Chapter 5. Trust and Information Behavior of French Air Force Flight Nurses 87Anna Lezon Rivière and Madjid Ihadjadene 5.1. Introduction 87 5.2. Information behavior and situation awareness 88 5.3. Group of actors and study methodology 92 5.4. Analysis of the empirical study’s results 93 5.4.1. Building trusting relationships 93 5.4.2. Trust and roles/structure as information sources 95 5.4.3. Trust and communication 96 5.4.4. Trust and skills/knowledge/experience 98 5.4.5. Trust and control 100 5.5. Discussion and conclusion 100 5.6. References 103 Chapter 6. Online Info-Communication Practices in the Face of a Crisis of Trust in Breast Cancer Prevention 107Pierre Mignot and Dorsaf Omrane 6.1. Introduction 107 6.2. Breast cancer prevention: a strategic uncertainty? 109 6.2.1. Public health communication: toward a culture of prevention? 110 6.2.2. Breast cancer preventions in question: measures and actors 112 6.3. Online info-communication practices of the population concerned by breast cancer prevention 117 6.3.1. Methodological choices for the analysis of an online exchange area 118 6.3.2. Two trust measures: between judgment and promises 120 6.4. Discussion and conclusion 128 6.5. References 129 Chapter 7. Trust between Constraints and Limitations of Information Behaviors Among Public Health Policy Actors: The Case of Music Therapy 135Nathalie Verdier 7.1. Introduction 135 7.2. Context of emergence of the question of trust: the case of music therapy 136 7.3. Research field 138 7.4. Devices to observe 140 7.5. Methodology 141 7.6. Trust apprehended through the digital document 142 7.7. Trust apprehended via institutional sites 147 7.8. Trust apprehended through digital devices 148 7.9. Conclusion 152 7.10. Annex 153 7.10.1. Parliamentary documents 153 7.10.2. Documents distributed by the HAS 153 7.10.3. Attribution documents created using screenshots from institutional website pages via the following links 154 7.11. References154 Chapter 8. Hospital Trust and Legitimacy: Internal Medicine in the French Health Care System 159Paméla Baillette and Michel Mannarini 8.1. Introduction 159 8.2. The interface-actor as a transversal integrator 160 8.2.1. Presentation of the interface-actor 160 8.2.2. Interface-actor missions 162 8.3. Internal medicine at the interface of hospital services 165 8.3.1. Internal medicine and the role of the internist 165 8.3.2. Readability and notoriety of internal medicine 168 8.3.3. Evolution of internal medicine 171 8.4. Conclusion 172 8.5. References 173 Chapter 9. From Health Actors’ Information-Communication Issues in the Workplace to Obstacles when Establishing a Relationship of Trust 177Aurélia Dumas 9.1. Introduction 177 9.2. Building the company’s legitimacy in occupational health safety 179 9.2.1. The employer’s obligations 179 9.2.2. Biopolitical perspective and company’s legitimacy 180 9.2.3. Health actors: health information and communication producers within the company 182 9.3. Info-communication issues of health actors within the company 183 9.3.1. Between distance and alignment regarding institutional communication 183 9.3.2. The lack of visibility and burden of health actors 185 9.4. The company and its communication policies: obstacles to establishing a relationship of trust 186 9.4.1. Primacy of control logic and employee concealment strategies 186 9.4.2. The difficulty of talking for employees 187 9.5. Conclusion 188 9.6. References 190 Chapter 10. Connected Health: Between Common Aspirations and Specific Interests 195Adrian Staii 10.1. Introduction: connected health, a notion in search of a referent 195 10.2. Multiple paths of a historical disempowerment of health 198 10.3. New economic configurations of connected health 202 10.4. Conclusion: trust, an ever-new challenge 214 10.5. References 218 Chapter 11. Expressions of Trust in the Home-Based Care Relationship and Areas of Legitimacy in the Context of Digital Media 223Géraldine Goulinet-Fité and Didier Paquelin 11.1. Introduction 223 11.2. Care: a relationship between actors 224 11.2.1. Structure of treatment: logics forged concerning epistemological foundations between cure and care 225 11.2.2. Interactional dimensions and functions of the care relationship 228 11.3. Dynamic of building trust in the home-based care relationship 231 11.3.1. Trust in the doctor-patient relationship: a notion rooted in privacy 234 11.3.2. Trust in the caregiver-patient relationship: a pattern shaped by esteem 234 11.3.3. Trust in the helping-patient relationship: a domestic commitment of proximity 235 11.4. Digital mediatization of the relationship based on the care device 238 11.4.1. Singularity of media coverage of the relationship with ICT 239 11.4.2. Singularity of media coverage of care with ICT 240 11.4.3. Trust climate in the context of digital media 241 11.5. Forecast and conclusion 243 11.6. References 245 Chapter 12. The Electronic Medical Record: Standardization Issues and Personalization of Information for Health Professionals 251David Morquin and Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei 12.1. Introduction to EMRs 251 12.2. Literature review 253 12.3. Exploratory empirical study 256 12.3.1. Study context 256 12.3.2. Methodology 258 12.4. Discussion and conclusion 265 12.5. References 267 Postface 273Viviane Couzinet List of Authors 275 Index 277

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Book SynopsisArtificial and Cognitive Computing for Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Smart Cities delves into the transformative potential of artificial and cognitive computing in the realm of healthcare systems, maintaining a specific emphasis on sustainability. By exploring the integration of advanced technologies in smart cities, the authors examine and discuss how AI and cognitive computing can be harnessed to enhance healthcare delivery. The book provides focused navigation through innovative solutions and strategies that contribute to the creation of sustainable healthcare ecosystems within the dynamic environment of smart cities. From optimizing resource utilization to improving patient outcomes, this comprehensive exploration provides insight for readers with an interest in the future of healthcare within the era of intelligent urban development.

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Book SynopsisInvasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from different taxa (animals and plants), and giving an overview of the diverse impacts of invasive species on health in developed and developing countries, the book is a significant contribution that will help in prioritizing approaches to controlling invasive species and mitigating their health effects. It covers invasive plants, marine species, spiders and other arachnids, ticks and dust mites, insects, mosquitos and other diptera, freshwater species (invertebrates and fishes), amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals. Key Features Collects together the major health impacts for the first time Covers animal and plant invasive species Examines issues in developed and developing countries The broad spectrum of the analyzed case studies will ensure the appeal of the book to a wide public, including researchers of biological invasions, doctors, policy-makers and managers, and students of invasive species in ecology, animal and plant biology and public health medicine.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Local Strategy to Global Frameworks: Effects of Invasive Alien Species on Health and Well-being 1: Poisonous and Venomous: Marine Alien Species in the Mediterranean Sea and Human Health 2: Invasive Alien Plant Impacts on Human Health and Well-being 3: Human Health Impact by Alien Spiders and Scorpions 4: Ticks and Dust Mites: Invasive and Health-affecting Borderline Organisms 5: Bugs, Ants, Wasps, Moths and Other Insect Species 6: The Invasive Mosquitoes of Medical Importance 7: Invasive Freshwater Invertebrates and Fishes: Impacts on Human Health 8: Risks for Human Health Related to Invasive Alien Reptiles and Amphibians 9: Do Alien Free-ranging Birds Affect Human Health? A Global Summary of Known Zoonoses 10: Impact of Alien Mammals on Human Health 11: Climate Change and Increase of Impacts on Human Health by Alien Species

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Book SynopsisContinued geographic expansion of dengue viruses and their mosquito vectors has seen the magnitude and frequency of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF) increase dramatically. Recent exciting research on dengue has resulted in major advances in our understanding of all aspects of the biology of these viruses, and this updated second edition brings together leading research and clinical scientists to review dengue virus biology, epidemiology, entomology, therapeutics, vaccinology and clinical management.Table of ContentsI: History & Epidemiology 1: Dengue Viruses: their evolution, history and emergence as a global public health problem 2: Mapping the Epidemiology of Dengue 3: Economic and Disease Burden of Dengue 4: Surveillance for Dengue 5: Dengue Infections in Travelers 6: A review of transmission models of dengue: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of model features II: The Disease 7: Clinical Features of Dengue 8: Neurological Manifestations of Dengue Virus Infection 9: The Southeast Asia Regional Office (WHO) Guidelines for Clinical management of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever 10: Laboratory Diagnosis of Dengue 11: Dengue Pathogenesis - Host Factors 12: Dengue Pathogenesis – Viral Factors 13: The acquired immune response in dengue virus infection 14: Innate Immune Responses to Dengue Infection 15: Pathology of Dengue Virus Infection 16: Dengue Drug Development III: The virus 17: Taxonomy and Evolutionary Relationships of Flaviviruses 18: Molecular Virology of Dengue Virus 19: The structural biology of dengue virus 20: The Non-Structural Proteins of Dengue Virus IV: Virus-host interaction 21: The Interface between Dengue Virus and the Human Host 22: Dengue Virus-Mosquito Interactions and Molecular Methods of Vector Control 23: Animal Models of Dengue Infection and Disease V: Dengue prevention 24: Dengue vector bionomics: Why Aedes aegypti is such a good vector 25: Surveillance and control of urban dengue vectors 26: Dengue Vector Control - New Approaches 27: Biological control of dengue and Wolbachia-based strategies 28: Dengue Vaccines 29: Dengue Virus Neutralization and Surrogates of Protection

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History. This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care. An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union’s twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.Trade ReviewReviews'Strangling Angel is well written, interesting and thoroughly researched, drawing on a variety of new primary sources. It is not a history of immunisation in the British Isles, but differences in approach between progressive Ireland and Britain are highlighted. It will be useful to medical, political and social historians with an interest in infections and their prevention.'William Dibb, British Society for the History of Medicine'The documentary research in this book cannot be faulted. It includes painstaking examinations of wide-ranging archival materials as well as making extensive use of contemporary governmental, popular and scientific publications. ... Altogether, this is a promising first book from a talented scholar.' Oisín Wall, Social History of Medicine‘Michael Dwyer charts the history of diphtheria in Ireland with a strong focus on the controversies that arose when immunization was introduced in the early twentieth century […] Strangling Angel is among the most significant medical history monographs that has emerged from Ireland in recent years.' Ian Miller, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences ‘Dwyer’s work comfortably takes its place among the timely and burgeoning international literature on the history of vaccination and immunization, along with that devoted to the broader development of public health policy and programs.' J.T.H. Connor, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 'Dwyer’s account of the history of diphtheria in Ireland not only provides us with a documented history of the disease for the island of Ireland but also highlights the issues that still surrounded the disease and its prevention.'Anne Hardy, Bulletin of the History of Medicine'Strangling Angel makes an important contribution to the history of health and medicine in Ireland. It will also be of interest to social historians concerned with the treatment of children in historical state-run institutions... Starting from a place in which diphtheria remained largely concealed in the historical record, Strangling Angel brings the disease to centre stage.'Alice Mauger, Irish Social and Economic History'Strangling Angel won the NUI prize in history... Although it was formally an academic work, Dwyer writes in a clear prose, so a casual reader who is willing to put in the effort will be rewarded.' Joe Culley, History IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Aetiology of Diphtheria in Pre-independence Ireland 13 The ‘Strangling Angel’ in Ireland 16 Know Thine Enemy 27 2 Diphtheria ‘Arrives’ 32 Diphtheria in Cork City 36 Public Health Reform in the Irish Free State 41 The Development of Antitoxin as an Anti-diphtheria Prophylactic 45 3 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in the Irish Free State 51 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in Dublin 63 J. C. Saunders Anti-diphtheria Intervention in Cork City 70 4 Developing Burroughs Wellcome Alum-Toxoid 77 Vaccine Trials in Cork City 82 Further Vaccine Trials 90 5 The Ring College Immunization Disaster 101 Inquest at Ring 110 Preparing for Battle 120 6 O’Cionnfaola v. the Wellcome Foundation and Daniel McCarthy 126 After Ring 134 7 Towards a National Immunization Programme 144 Dublin 153 End of an Epidemic 163 Conclusion 170 Bibliography 178 Index 195

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Book SynopsisNatural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and well-being. While contemporary lifestyles have caused people to feel disconnected from the natural environment, this relationship is now recognized as vitally important, with landscapes increasingly valued for their stress-reduction, aesthetic, and restorative benefits. Providing an overview of the history, theoretical concepts, and individual and societal implications of human connection to natural landscapes, this book considers natural landscapes' role as an antidote to our modern, predominantly urban society. It also delivers: - A robust, research-backed overview of the intersections between natural landscapes and human health; - A compendium of applications such as nature-based therapies, urban greenspaces, and adventure-based programming that promote health within specific populations of society and individuals; - Due consideration of crucial factors that can adversely affect health and landscape, such as climate change. Of critical importance as we continue to define the role that natural landscapes will play for future generations, this book should be required reading for policy makers, urban planners and industry practitioners. It provides a thorough grounding in understanding the intersections between health and natural landscapes, and will be a valuable resource for academicians and students from a broad range of disciplines including public health, leisure and tourism, environmental sciences, and geography.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Natural Landscapes and Human Health: An Introduction and Overview Chapter 2: Human Perceptions of Nature Chapter 3: Natural Landscapes and the Health Crisis Chapter 4: Theories and Concepts: Linking Landscapes and Health Chapter 5: Outcomes, Benefits, and Opportunities: Western Research Trends Chapter 6: Applications: Facilitating Healthy Connections with Nature Chapter 7: Connecting with Landscapes: Intentional Access to Green Space Chapter 8: Conclusions and Desired Future: Take a Park, Not a Pill

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Book SynopsisBy exploring past, current, and future intersections between leisure and health, this book considers research and academic thought to reveal and critique the nuanced ways that leisure impacts health as well as considering how health professions use leisure as a 'tool'. Aided by the diverse chapters, readers will be challenged to explore future intersections between leisure and health using an overarching eco (ecological/environmental), bio(biological), psycho (psychological), social (sociological) lens. Many of the chapters include case-studies which consider further developing leisure and health themes, particularly in relation to a number of emerging environmental, health and societal challenges that confront the world. In addition, the book:Is cross disciplinary and demonstrates non-individualized framing of health (as per the WHO definition) giving readers a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of sociological frameworks, including ecobiopyschosocial, salutogenic, multi-species and criticalist.Moves readers from an individual level understanding of interconnections between leisure and health through to a consideration of global issues (including a section on the impact and consequences of Covid-19).Examines the nexus between leisure and health through a focus on a number of population groups including First Nations peoples, women, incarcerated people, migrants, people with disabilities, older people, and the human-animal interface. The book will be of significant interest to researchers/academics/practitioners in the leisure, health, sport, tourism, recreation, events, social science, and arts disciplines.

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Book SynopsisDigital evolution, whether through Internet advances or the development of connected objects, has triggered a veritable societal revolution. Thanks to technological advances, e-health services enable healthcare professionals to monitor patients in real time. However, new challenges have also arisen in the field of e-health, concerning the security of medical data, as well as the protection of patient privacy. After presenting e-health architectures and explaining the proliferation of cyber attacks, e-Health Security Management focuses on proposing solutions designed to meet these security imperatives and respect patient privacy, such as the use of blockchain, biometrics, new encryption methods or artificial intelligence. Implementing these solutions is crucial to guarantee the acceptance and effectiveness of e-health services.

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Book SynopsisIn a time of rapid change for travel-related health interventions, this timely Handbook offers critical insights into the interrelationship between tourism, public health, and the wellbeing of local communities and tourists. Written with a global audience in mind, it features cutting-edge interdisciplinary research conducted by leading academics in tourism, public health, wellbeing, and social welfare. Investigating the nexus between tourism and public health in an era of globalisation, tourism growth and COVID-19, this incisive Handbook rethinks the role of tourism in contemporary society. Chapters explore issues from medical tourism, spiritual health, and sustainability to wellness, social development, and disease outbreaks, providing key insights that will assist diverse stakeholders to better navigate this uniquely challenging time in travel and health promotion. The Handbook addresses the growing risks of international travel and considers how the tourism industry might evolve in the wake of COVID-19 and other crises afflicting modern society. Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Handbook makes a crucial contribution to the literature on the consequences of tourism for public health. Its novel analyses of topics related to tourism, public health, wellbeing, and social welfare will be of significant benefit to tourism stakeholders, healthcare practitioners and policymakers.Trade Review‘The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked crises in public health and international travel. As the pandemic continues, it is refreshing to see cross-disciplinary work from experts in tourism and public health. This book assumes a tourism-oriented perspective to ponder the travel industry’s role in general wellbeing. The chapters rectify several knowledge gaps between tourism and medical science to encourage stakeholders to explore how travel engagement can shape health promotion and disease prevention.’ -- Haifeng Hou, Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China‘This book addresses the nexus between tourism and public health/wellbeing to reframe tourism’s role in modern society. The 17 chapters constitute a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners. This volume exemplifies the promise of integrating tourism and public health to enhance individuals’ wellbeing. This book should prove especially useful for readers seeking to better understand and engage with these industries. The chapters especially underline the need for additional interdisciplinary studies in consumer behaviour, tourism marketing, health care marketing. I highly recommend this book!’ -- Haizhong Wang, Sun Yat-sen University, China‘This thought-provoking book provides an up-to-date synthesis of key thinking on the field of tourism, health and wellbeing. Applying multidisciplinary perspectives, the authors systematically discuss the challenges and opportunities that tourism may bring to health and wellbeing after the pandemic. This is a must-read book for researchers, students and practitioners interested in tourism, destination management, public health, and wellbeing.’ -- Danni Zheng, Fudan University, China‘This book is a timely contribution to tourism recovery and advances the body of knowledge by cleverly highlighting the inter-relationships between tourism, health and wellbeing. In a pandemic era where COVID-19 does not discriminate its spread, tourism and hospitality will see tourists moving towards a trajectory of pursuing more health-related services in their hedonistic consumption. This thought-provoking book is the first to examine the role of health and wellbeing in tourism in a pandemic-induced environment and lays a pioneering foundation for future research promoting tourism wellbeing and health for future generations of researchers and tourists.’ -- Edmund Goh, Edith Cowan University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv 1 Rethinking the role of tourism in modern society through the lenses of the public and general wellbeing 1 Jun Wen, Robin Nunkoo and Metin Kozak 2 The relationship between public health and medical tourism 15 Anna Białk-Wolf 3 Mobility tourism as a guarantee for health, wellbeing and sustainability 36 António Juan Briones-Peñalver, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação and Tamara Saura Acosta 4 An assessment of health as a soft infrastructure for tourism: a case study of Mauritius 56 Boopen Seetanah, Narvada Gopy-Ramdhany and Reena Bhattu Babajee 5 Engineering resilience, circularity and healthfulness in the tourism industry 66 Mahendra Gooroochurn 6 Social thermalism and relaunch projects in the name of wellness tourism 82 Carmen Bizzarri and Donatella Strangio 7 Tourism and spirituality: building the tourism of the future 96 Fabio Carbone, Barbara Antonucci, Maria João Silveira, Mahdieh Shahrabi and Mafalda Patuleia 8 Recovering from public health crises: lessons from Hong Kong’s tourism and hospitality industry 106 Hiu Yan Lee and Kevin Yin Kiu Leung 9 Positive health impacts of tourism 123 Maksim Godovykh, Alan Fyall and Abraham Pizam 10 Respoguide: integrating sustainability and wellbeing in tourism through an innovative platform 138 Paris Tsartas, Triantafyllos Falaras, Konstantinos Giannopoulos, Charalampos Papoutsakis, Georgia Paraskevopoulou and Christina Sofia Rachanioti 11 Tourism and social development: the case of Africa 149 Sheereen Fauzel, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur and Jeevita Matadeen 12 Public health and wellbeing in tourism policy: myths and reality 170 Wieslaw Alejziak 13 Tourism as a promoter of social welfare 204 Zehra Saltık and Orhan Akova 14 Tourist behaviour during disease outbreaks 221 Bushra Choudhary and Abdul Qadir 15 Tourist behavior during disease outbreaks and wellbeing 234 Gülseren Yurcu and Zeki Akıncı 16 Past health crises and resilience in tourism: looking to a post-COVID-19 future 252 Andreia Pereira, Cláudia Seabra and Ana Caldeira 17 COVID-19 and tourism development: an Indian Ocean island perspective 267 Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Marie-Annick Lamy-Giner and Sheereen Fauzel Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the contributions of Earth Observation (EO) to public health practices. It examines how EO is being used to understand, track, predict, and manage infectious and chronic diseases, and it provides discussion on the current challenges and the significant development potential of EO to a One Health approach. Its objective is to address a set of questions: How does EO currently assist public health activities? What are the challenges for operational use of EO in public health? What are the opportunities for EO to benefit public health in the near future? This review concentrates on the following priority themes to which EO and geomatics can make important contributions: mosquito-borne and tick-borne diseases; water-borne diseases; air quality and extreme heat effects; and geospatial indicators of vulnerable human populations. EO has also demonstrated potential during the COVID-19 pandemic as an efficient provider of data on rapid environmental and socio-economic changes and impacts. Remotely sensed data are particularly useful for risk modelling and mapping projects to help generate information on occurrence and spatio-temporal trends of disease risk. Similarly, EO can be used to identify risk factors for disease risk or emergence detected in surveillance, and support development of early warning systems. Risk maps enable public health professionals to anticipate and prepare for health threats, and they can support responses to infectious disease epidemics or existing endemic conditions. This book emerged from the collaboration of the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency with contributions of international experts. Their findings will be of great value to public health and EO professionals interested in developing and applying geospatial applications in the risk assessment and management of public health issues.Table of ContentsSection 1: Introduction to Public Health and Earth Observation Chapter 1: Public Health and Earth Observation Chapter 2: Work Programme Organization and Management Approaches Section 2: Earth Observation and Public Health Priority Application and Research Areas by Theme Chapter 3: Mosquito-Borne Diseases Chapter 4: Tick-Borne Diseases Chapter 5: Air Quality and Heat-Related Health Issues Chapter 6: Water-Borne Diseases- Earth Observation System for the Coastal Monitoring of Non-Cholera Vibrios Chapter 7: Vulnerable Populations Chapter 8: Earth Observation and Geospatial Data Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Preliminary Appraisal Chapter 9: Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities – A Review by Experts Chapter 10: Conclusions and Opportunities

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Book SynopsisThis book is about exercise - what it is, how it affects the individual, how it is measured and most of all what benefits it brings. Beginning with an introduction to the history and biology of exercise, the authors review the interactions between exercise and specific diseases, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, cancer and many more, before considering exercise in a wider health context.The book covers:- Current societal norms, as well as the social and economic costs of inactivity.- Exercise for life - from starting young, to pregnancy, longevity and frailty.- Complications of exercise.- The intersections of behavioural psychology and exercise, such as encouragement and excuse making.With comprehensive and clear explanations based on sound science, yet written in an approachable and accessible style, this book is a valuable resource for students of medicine, public health, physiotherapy, sports science, coaching and training.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 NUI Publication Prize in Irish History. This book is the first comprehensive history of the anti-diphtheria campaign and the factors which facilitated or hindered the rollout of the national childhood immunization programme in Ireland. It is easy to forget the context in which Irish society opted to embrace mass childhood immunization. Dwyer shows us how we got where we are. He restores Diphtheria’s reputation as one of the most prolific child-killers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Ireland and explores the factors which allowed the disease to take a heavy toll on child health and life-expectancy. Public health officials in the fledgling Irish Free State set the eradication of diphtheria among their first national goals, and eschewing the reticence of their British counterparts, adopted anti-diphtheria immunization as their weapon of choice. An unofficial alliance between Irish medical officers and the British pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome placed Ireland on the European frontline of the bacteriological revolution, however, Wellcome sponsored vaccine trials in Ireland side-lined the human rights of Ireland’s most vulnerable citizens: institutional children in state care. An immunization accident in County Waterford, and the death of a young girl, raised serious questions regarding the safety of the immunization process itself, resulting in a landmark High Court case and the Irish Medical Union’s twelve-year long withdrawal of immunization services. As childhood immunization is increasingly considered a lifestyle choice, rather than a lifesaving intervention, this book brings historical context to bear on current debate.Trade ReviewReviews'Strangling Angel is well written, interesting and thoroughly researched, drawing on a variety of new primary sources. It is not a history of immunisation in the British Isles, but differences in approach between progressive Ireland and Britain are highlighted. It will be useful to medical, political and social historians with an interest in infections and their prevention.'William Dibb, British Society for the History of Medicine'The documentary research in this book cannot be faulted. It includes painstaking examinations of wide-ranging archival materials as well as making extensive use of contemporary governmental, popular and scientific publications. ... Altogether, this is a promising first book from a talented scholar.' Oisín Wall, Social History of Medicine‘Michael Dwyer charts the history of diphtheria in Ireland with a strong focus on the controversies that arose when immunization was introduced in the early twentieth century […] Strangling Angel is among the most significant medical history monographs that has emerged from Ireland in recent years.' Ian Miller, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences ‘Dwyer’s work comfortably takes its place among the timely and burgeoning international literature on the history of vaccination and immunization, along with that devoted to the broader development of public health policy and programs.' J.T.H. Connor, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 'Dwyer’s account of the history of diphtheria in Ireland not only provides us with a documented history of the disease for the island of Ireland but also highlights the issues that still surrounded the disease and its prevention.'Anne Hardy, Bulletin of the History of Medicine'Strangling Angel makes an important contribution to the history of health and medicine in Ireland. It will also be of interest to social historians concerned with the treatment of children in historical state-run institutions... Starting from a place in which diphtheria remained largely concealed in the historical record, Strangling Angel brings the disease to centre stage.'Alice Mauger, Irish Social and Economic History'Strangling Angel won the NUI prize in history... Although it was formally an academic work, Dwyer writes in a clear prose, so a casual reader who is willing to put in the effort will be rewarded.' Joe Culley, History IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Aetiology of Diphtheria in Pre-independence Ireland 13 The ‘Strangling Angel’ in Ireland 16 Know Thine Enemy 27 2 Diphtheria ‘Arrives’ 32 Diphtheria in Cork City 36 Public Health Reform in the Irish Free State 41 The Development of Antitoxin as an Anti-diphtheria Prophylactic 45 3 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in the Irish Free State 51 Anti-diphtheria Immunization in Dublin 63 J. C. Saunders Anti-diphtheria Intervention in Cork City 70 4 Developing Burroughs Wellcome Alum-Toxoid 77 Vaccine Trials in Cork City 82 Further Vaccine Trials 90 5 The Ring College Immunization Disaster 101 Inquest at Ring 110 Preparing for Battle 120 6 O’Cionnfaola v. the Wellcome Foundation and Daniel McCarthy 126 After Ring 134 7 Towards a National Immunization Programme 144 Dublin 153 End of an Epidemic 163 Conclusion 170 Bibliography 178 Index 195

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Book SynopsisMycotoxins are produced worldwide by several fungi on a wide range of agricultural commodities and are closely related to human and animal food chains. Examining mycotoxins and their impact from a public health viewpoint, this book provides an overview and introduction to the subject and examines the health, trade and legislation issues involved. Management of mycotoxins is discussed in detail as well as the global problems caused by mycotoxins.Table of Contents1: Health & Trade Issues 2: Mycotoxin Contamination and Toxigenic Fungi in Africa and the Mediterranean Basin 3: Mycotoxin Detection Methods 4: Mycotoxin Management 5: Institutional Issues in Mycotoxin Management 6: International Programs on Mycotoxins

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Book SynopsisBringing together the latest research from leading experts, this book provides an indispensable reference on the health benefits of drinking tea. It examines the general health giving properties of tea before moving on to a detailed review of the evidence for the beneficial effects of tea on specific ailments including cancer, the common cold, renal disease, cardiovascular disease, antiviral influenza, arthritis, lung and pulmonary ailments, aging, oral health, and dementia. The book concludes by challenging misconceptions of the effects of tea.Table of ContentsPreface Part I: General Protective Effects of Tea 1: Tea is a Health Promoting Beverage in Lowering the Risk of Premature Killing Chronic Diseases, J Weisburger 2: Tea as a Rasayana, B N Dhawan, Lucknow, India 3: Health Properties of Tea Catechins, Y Hara, Mitsui Norin Co., Ltd, Japan 4: Bioavailabilities of Tea Polyphenols in Humans and Rodents, J D Lambert, J Hong, H Lu, X Meng, M Lee and C S Yang, The State University of New Jersey, USA 5: Immunomodulatory Activity of Tea, J Singh and G N Qazi, CSIR, India 6: Antigenotoxic Activity of Tea, Y Shukla and A Arora, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India 7: Methodological Issues in Population Studies of Tea and Disease Prevention, I A Hakim, University of Arizona, USAPart II: Protective Effects of Tea against Specific Ailments 8: Protective Effects of Tea against Cardiovascular Diseases, S Wiseman, I Zijp, R Weggemans, and A Rietveld, Unilever Food and Health Research Institute, The Netherlands 9: Potential Targets of Tea Polyphenols in Cancer Prevention: Significance in Angiogenesis, Metastasis and Apoptosis as well as in Protection of Host Defence System, T Das, G Sa, Bose Institute, India, and M Siddiqi 10: The Beverage Tea in Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer, M Saleem, I A Siddiqui and H Mukhtar, University of Wisconsin, USA 11: Anti-Diabetic Effects of Tea and its Constituents, Y K Gupta, C Tripathi and Y Shukla, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India 12: Green Tea Catechins against Oxidative Stress of Renal Disease, T P Rao, L R Juneja, Taiyo Kagaku Co., Ltd, Japan, and T Yokozawa, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan 13: Hepatoprotective Properties of Tea, Y Shukla, N Kalra and Y K Gupta, Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow, India 14: Preventive Effects of Tea against Obesity, K Sayama, Shizuoka University, Japan, T Hase, and I Tokimitsu, Kao Corporation, Japan, and I Oguni, Hamamatsu University, Japan 15: Protective Effects of Tea against Lung/Pulmonary Ailments, H Yamada, University of Shizuoka 16: Antibacterial and Antiviral Influenza including SARS, P C Leung, Chinese University of Hong Kong 17: Green Tea and the Prevention of Arthritis, S Ahmed, B B Hafeez and T M Haqqi, Case Western Reserve University, USA 18: Chemoprevention Effect of Tea against Neuronal Death-Dementia, T Kakuda, Itoen Ltd, Japan 19: Chemoprevention Action of Tea against Senescence/Ageing, K Unno, University of Shizuoka, Japan 20: Tea and Oral Health, C D Wu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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Book SynopsisThe promotion of maternal health and mortality reduction is of worldwide importance, and constitutes a vital part of the UN Millennium Development Goals. The highest maternal mortality rates are in developing countries, where global and regional initiatives are needed to improve the systems and practices involved in maternal care and medical access. Taking a practical policy approach, this book covers the background and concepts underlying efforts to improve maternal and perinatal mortality, the current global situation and problems that prevent progress. It includes case studies and examples of successful strategies, recommends good practices, and provides a critical analysis of knowledge gaps to inform areas for future research.Table of ContentsPART I: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT 1: An introduction to maternal and perinatal health 2: The millennium development goals 3: The politics of progress: the story of maternal mortality 4: The epidemiology of maternal mortality 5: The epidemiology of stillbirths and early neonatal deaths PART II: PROGRAME IMPLEMENTATION 6: Health systems 7: Financing maternity care 8: Implementing clinical interventions within maternal health programmes 9: Medical conditions in pregnancy: preventing and managing indirect obstetric morbidity 10: Improving the availability of services 11: Geographical access, transport and referral systems 12: Demand for maternity care: beliefs, behaviour and social access 13: Empowering the community: BRAC’s approach in Bangladesh 14: Quality of care 15: Monitoring and evaluation 16: Addressing maternal health in emergency settings

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