Public health and preventive medicine Books

Book SynopsisZoonotic diseases constitute a public health problem throughout the world. Addressing a little-studied area of veterinary and medical science, this book covers viral, bacterial, protozoan and helminth parasites transmitted between humans and dogs, discussing population management, control disease agents and human-dog relationships. Fully updated throughout, this new edition also includes chapters on benefits of the human-dog relationship and non-infectious disease issues with dogs. It is a valuable resource for researchers and students of veterinary and human medicine, microbiology, parasitology and public health.Table of Contents1: The Human-Dog Relationship: A Tale of Two Species 2: Benefits of the Human-Dog Relationship 3: Dog associated Problems affecting Public Health and Community Well-being 4: Dogs and Rabies 5: Dogs and Bacterial Zoonoses 6: Dogs and Protozoan Zoonoses 7: Dogs and Trematode Zoonoses 8: Dogs and Cestode Zoonoses 9: Dogs and Nematode Zoonoses 10: Dogs and Ectoparasitic Zoonoses 11: Dog Population Management 12: Zoonoses Prevention, Control and Elimination in Dogs 13: Fertility Control in Dogs

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Book SynopsisDisaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, including planning and preparedness of hospitals, emergency medical services, communication and IT tools for medical disaster response and psychosocial issues. It also covers the use of state-of the-art training tools, with a full section on post-disaster relief, rehabilitation and recovery.Table of ContentsSection 1: Disaster Management and Homeland Security: A Prologue 1: A Holistic View to Managing the Inevitable in High-tech and 3 Resource-poor Settings Section 2: Training, Mitigation and Medical Preparedness 2: The Role of the Primary Care Physician in Disasters 3: Manikin Simulation for Mass Casualty Incident Training Section 3: Crucial Role of Communication in Disaster Management and Homeland Security 4: The Role of Social Networking in Disaster Management 5: Regional Disaster Planning for Neonatal Intensive Care 6: Application of Mobile Grids for Disaster Management Section 4: Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents: Incident Site Command and Control, Point-of-Care Testing 7: Disaster Point-of-Care Testing: Fundamental Concepts and New Technologies 8: Incident Command Systems 9: Incident Site Command and Control 10: Disasters in Medical Care Contexts: Planning for Resilience in Incident Command Personnel and Systems in Hospitals 11: Information Management during the Disaster Medical Support Planning and Execution Phases Section 5: Medical Management of Complex Disasters and MCI Victims in Hospitals 12: Potential Application of Established Pre-hospital and Hospital Synergy in Disaster Management 13: Process Management of Multiple Casualty Events Section 6: Securing the Homeland: The Medical Way 14: Suicide Bombing Response 15: Hospital Triage and Bottlenecks to the Flow of Casualties: A Review 16: Role of Military Hospitals in Handling Chemical and Biological Disasters 17: Initial Management of Mass Casualty Incidents 18: Emergency Decontamination in Low-resource Settings 19: Radiological Contaminants: Triage, Treatment and Medical Management of Exposed Persons Section 7: Defeating Emerging Health Threats: Managing by Prophylactic and Therapeutic Approaches 20: Superhumanized Antibodies for Biodefence: The Example of Anthrax 21: Medical Support in the Case of Chemical and Biological Incidents 22: Gearing up Paraphernalia for the Management of CBRN Emergencies: A Multi-stakeholder Approach is the Need of the Hour 23: Prophylactic Possibilities in Case of High Risk of Exposure to Nerve Agents Section 8: Handling Psychosocial Issues: A Difference in Perspective (Developed and Developing Nations) 24: Collective Resilience versus Collective Vulnerability after Disasters: A Social Psychological Perspective 25: Community-based Psychosocial Support: an Overview 26: Disaster Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift from Curative to Preventive Psychiatry 27: Efficient Human Resource Management Contributes to Augmented Societal Resilience in the Aftermath of Disasters:Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Section 9: Bridging the Great Divide: The Challenge of Managing Disasters and MCIs in Resource-poor Settings 28: Managing Disasters from a Health Security Perspective 29: Management of the 2011 Japan Multiple Disasters (Earthquake, Tsunami and Ensuing Disasters): A View through an International Lens 30: Viewing Mass Casualties from a Hospital Window: Relevant Issues for the Developing World Section 10: Post-disaster Relief, Rehabilitation and Recovery 31: The Immediate Post-disaster Reconstruction Phase:Alternate Care Site Settings and Vulnerable Populations 32: Management of Dead following Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents: Critical Operational Issues Revolve around Human Resources and Logistics 33: Disaster Management: The Socioeconomic Dimension 34: Fostering Disaster-resilient Communities through Educating Children and Women for Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery in Developing Countries 35: Index

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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 SynopsisEthical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the same technology and knowledge is increasing professional and public awareness of new potential public health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza). At the level of public policy, concerns over the rising costs of health care have led to a more explicit focus on 'health promotion', and the surveillance of both 'patients' and the so-called 'worried well'. Health professionals and policy makers also have to consider the implications of managing these risks, for example restricting individual liberty through enforced quarantine (in the wake of SARS and more recently swine flu) and the more general distribution of harms and benefits. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of individuals and wider populations is becoming more complex and problematic. This book will play a key role in opening out a discussion of public health ethics. It examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of some of the complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. It will therefore be essential reading for current practitioners, those involved in public health research and a valuable aid for anyone interested in examining the tensions within and the development of public health.Trade Review"The papers in this collection illustrate the diversity of ethical issues associated with public health initiatives. The book should stimulate thinking about the development and application of ethical considerations in public health policy and practice." Vikki Entwistle, Professor of Values in Health Care, University of Dundee'This is a book that should be widely read and which should both provoke and shape debate in any future context concerned with the future of UK public health, and public health training.' Sociology of Health and Illness"Exploring tensions at the very heart of public health - between community needs and individual freedom and from philosophical concepts to everyday dilemmas - this book sheds welcome light on a much neglected aspect of the field." Prof Alan Maryon-Davis, President, UK Faculty of Public Health"Through bridging the foundational ethical underpinnings with the practice-oriented nature of public health, this important book introduces and articulates the interdisciplinary space that is public health ethics." Ryan Melnychuk, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health EthicsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why public health ethics? ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann; Part one: Public health ethics: contexts: Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health? ~ Alan Cribb; Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it ~ Stephen Holland; Part two: Ethics and public health practice: What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB ~ Ross Upshur; The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique ~ Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Jo Abbott; Relevance of primary care bioethics committees In public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile ~ Marla Solari and Tatiana Escobar-Koch; Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma? ~ Jessica Datta and Anthony Kessell; Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health ~ Erica Sutton and Ross Upshur; Part three: Public health ethics: developing a basis for practice: Theory and practice in public health ethics: a complex relationship ~ Angus Dawson; Conclusion: taking forward the debate ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann.

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Book SynopsisEthical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the same technology and knowledge is increasing professional and public awareness of new potential public health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza). At the level of public policy, concerns over the rising costs of health care have led to a more explicit focus on 'health promotion', and the surveillance of both 'patients' and the so-called 'worried well'. Health professionals and policy makers also have to consider the implications of managing these risks, for example restricting individual liberty through enforced quarantine (in the wake of SARS and more recently swine flu) and the more general distribution of harms and benefits. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of individuals and wider populations is becoming more complex and problematic. This book will play a key role in opening out a discussion of public health ethics. It examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of some of the complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. It will therefore be essential reading for current practitioners, those involved in public health research and a valuable aid for anyone interested in examining the tensions within and the development of public health.Trade Review"The papers in this collection illustrate the diversity of ethical issues associated with public health initiatives. The book should stimulate thinking about the development and application of ethical considerations in public health policy and practice." Vikki Entwistle, Professor of Values in Health Care, University of Dundee'This is a book that should be widely read and which should both provoke and shape debate in any future context concerned with the future of UK public health, and public health training.' Sociology of Health and Illness"Exploring tensions at the very heart of public health - between community needs and individual freedom and from philosophical concepts to everyday dilemmas - this book sheds welcome light on a much neglected aspect of the field." Prof Alan Maryon-Davis, President, UK Faculty of Public Health"Through bridging the foundational ethical underpinnings with the practice-oriented nature of public health, this important book introduces and articulates the interdisciplinary space that is public health ethics." Ryan Melnychuk, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health EthicsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why public health ethics? ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann; Part one: Public health ethics: contexts: Why ethics? What kind of ethics for public health? ~ Alan Cribb; Public health ethics: what it is and how to do it ~ Stephen Holland; Part two: Ethics and public health practice: What does it mean to 'know' a disease? The tragedy of XDR-TB ~ Ross Upshur; The evaluation of public health initiatives on smoking and lung cancer: an ethical critique ~ Peter Allmark, Angela Tod and Jo Abbott; Relevance of primary care bioethics committees In public health ethical practice in the community: an experience in an area of extreme poverty in Santiago, Chile ~ Marla Solari and Tatiana Escobar-Koch; Unlinked anonymous blood testing for public health purposes: an ethical dilemma? ~ Jessica Datta and Anthony Kessell; Constructing the obesity epidemic: loose science, money and public health ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Politics, ethics and evidence: immunisation and public health policy ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; Avoiding mixed messages: HPV vaccines and the 'cure' for cervical cancer ~ Alison Hann and Stephen Peckham; A call for clearer vaccine exemption typology to improve population health ~ Erica Sutton and Ross Upshur; Part three: Public health ethics: developing a basis for practice: Theory and practice in public health ethics: a complex relationship ~ Angus Dawson; Conclusion: taking forward the debate ~ Stephen Peckham and Alison Hann.

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Book SynopsisTackling inequalities in health is an essential social work task. Every day, social workers grapple with the impact on people's lives of the social inequalities that shape their health chances and experience. This book examines the relationship between social work and health inequalities in the context of globalisation. Based on the practice expertise and research of social workers from developing and developed countries worldwide and using specific examples, this book: · demonstrates the relevance of health inequalities to social work practice and policy across the lifecourse; · analyses barriers to good health that result from global social, economic, environmental and political trends; · develops core ideas on how social workers can act to combat negative effects of globalisation by adopting a health inequalities lens. "Social work and global health inequalities" is a unique snapshot of a new global social work that is responsive to local conditions and circumstances but seeks partners in the international struggle for equity, rights and social justice. This groundbreaking collection is essential reading for social work students, academics and researchers, and for policy makers, managers and social workers.Trade Review"This collection makes a significant contribution to highlighting the importance of health inequalities for social work. It draws our attention to the necessity of locating local health inequalities in a global context and identifies the extraordinary diversity and depth of social work practice within this field internationally. This is a valuable addition to an under-valued field". Liz Walker in British Journal of Social Work"...makes a significant and unique contribution to both social work knowledge and global health studies by bridging them. It is one of the pioneers in the field." Yanqiu Rachel Zhou in International Journal of Social Welfare"This book's strength is its distance from emphasis on policy and community development as a strategy for addressing health inequalities." European Journal of Social Work."I commend this timely collection that provides the intellectual underpinning for IFSW policy and other global policies on social work and health. It fills a huge gap in the social work literature." David N. Jones, President, International Federation of Social WorkersTable of ContentsPart One: Introduction: Social work and global health inequalities ~ Paul Bywaters, Eileen McLeod and Lindsey Napier; Part Two: Global health inequalities: issues for social work; The right to health: illusion or possibility? ~ Vimla Nadkarni and Kriti Vikram; Health, equity and social justice ~ Stephen M. Rose; Health and the environment ~ Margaret Alston; The health impacts of political conflict: new engagements for social work? ~ Shulamit Ramon; Reproduction in the global market place ~ Eric Blyth; Laying the foundations for good health in childhood ~ Norma Baldwin; Violence, abuse and health ~ Lesley Laing; Long-term illness and disability: inequalities compounded ~ Barbara Fawcett; Part Three: Social work intervention: addressing global health inequalities; Framing health inequalities as targets for social work: Poverty and health policy in China ~ Agnes Koon-chui Law; All things equal? Social work and lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) global health inequalities ~ Julie Fish; The role of advocacy assessment and action in resolving health-compromising stress in the lives of older African American homeless women ~ David Moxley and Olivia Washington; Preventive social work intervention and health promotion: Empowerment as a social determinant of Indigenous Australian health: the case of the Family Wellbeing programme ~ Mary Whiteside, Komla Tsey and Yvonne Cadet-James; Social work in rural China: advancing women's health and well-being in the village ~ Tuula Heinonen, Yang Jiao, Lawrence Deane and Maria Cheung; Social capital and health outcomes: implications for social work practice ~ Grace Fung-Mo Ng and Raymond W Pong; Developing new forms of service design and delivery: Addressing mental health inequalities in Scotlnd through community conversation ~ Neil Quinn and Lee Knifton; Improving psychosocial care for cancer patients ~ Carrie Lethborg and Sonia Posenelli; Developing the evidence base for practice and policy: From research to policy: advocacy for families caring for children with life-limiting conditions ~ Suzanne Quin and Jean Clarke; Data-mining 'victim of crime' presentations in hospital emergency departments: a research tool with wider significance ~ Rosalie Pockett; Promoting health equality through evidence-based study: health care access for Pakistani women and their children in Hong Kong ~ Amy Po Ying Ho; Social work education for awareness and practice: HIV/AIDS education and awareness campaign: reaching the unreached through distance learning ~ Gracious Thomas; Social work eucation and indigenous health ~ John Douglass Whyte, Lou Harms and Angela Clarke; The challenges of training social workers for health care in South Africa ~ Charlene Carbonatto; Part Four: Global health inequalities: social work policy and practice development; Addressing health inequalities: the role of service user and people's health movements ~ Ann Davis; Engagement in international practice and policy development ~ Imelda Dodds; Conclusion: emerging themes for practice and policy development ~ Paul Bywaters, Eileen McLeod and Lindsey Napier.

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Book SynopsisPublic health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This 'new public health' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups people belong to, the character of relationships to others and the characteristics of the societies in which people live. The rising social inequalities that can be seen in nearly every country in the world today present not just a moral danger, but a mortal danger as well. "Social inequality and public health" brings together the latest research findings from some of the most respected medical and social scientists in the world. It surveys four pathways to understanding the social determinants of health: differences in individual health behaviours; group advantage and disadvantage; psychosocial factors in individual health; and healthy and unhealthy societies, shedding light on the costs and consequences of today's high-inequality social models. This exciting book brings together leaders in the field discussing their latest research and is a must-read for anyone interested in public health and social inequalities internationally.Trade Review"This book will form a very useful addition to the sparse canon of literature exploring the relationship between social inequality and health." Journal of Public Health"... a fascinating collection of issues in modern public health research, policy and practice." Sociology of Health & Illness'....a very accessible round-up of a selection of issues, some relevant to particular parts of the world, others of global significance.' Sociology of Health & Illness"An exciting and wide ranging review of the new public health. This collection provides an efficient and intriguing introduction into what we now think most makes us healthy or ill." Daniel Dorling, Department of Geography, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsContents: Introduction ~ Salvatore Babones; Pathway one: Differences in individual health behaviours: The role of time preference and perspective in socio-economic inequalities in health related behaviors ~ Jean Adams; Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity ~ Tamara Dubowitz; Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities ~ Mary E. Northridge, Elliott D. Sclar, Annie Feighery, Maryann Z. Fiebach and Emily Karpel Kurtz; Pathway two: Group advantage and disadvantage: How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations ~ Martin White, Jean Adams and Peter Heywood; A review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes ~ Debbie Barrington; From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo ~ Javier Pereira Bruno and Ronald Angel; Pathway three: Psychosocial factors in individual health: Health inequalities and the role of work psychosocial factors: the Whitehall II study ~ Eric Brunner; Inequality, psychosocial health, and societal health: A model of inter-group conflict ~ Siddharth Chandra; The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe ~ Arjumand Siddiqui, Martin Bobak and Clyde Hertzman; Pathway four: Health and unhealthy societies: The impact of inequality: empirical evidence ~ Richard Wilkinson; 'Public goods', metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy & theory ~ J James R. Dunn and Nancy A. Ross; From societal equity to individual health ~ Salvatore Babones; Public understanding of the new public health: Health, inequalities and mobilization: human rights and the millennium development goals ~ Paul Nelson; Promoting public understanding of population health ~ Stephen Bezruchka; Conclusion ~ Salvatore Babones.

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Book SynopsisPublic health in the early 21st century increasingly considers how social inequalities impact on individual health, moving away from the focus on how disease relates to the individual person. This 'new public health' identifies how social, economic and political factors affect the level and distribution of individual health, through their effects on individual behaviours, the social groups people belong to, the character of relationships to others and the characteristics of the societies in which people live. The rising social inequalities that can be seen in nearly every country in the world today present not just a moral danger, but a mortal danger as well. "Social inequality and public health" brings together the latest research findings from some of the most respected medical and social scientists in the world. It surveys four pathways to understanding the social determinants of health: differences in individual health behaviours; group advantage and disadvantage; psychosocial factors in individual health; and healthy and unhealthy societies, shedding light on the costs and consequences of today's high-inequality social models. This exciting book brings together leaders in the field discussing their latest research and is a must-read for anyone interested in public health and social inequalities internationally.Trade Review"This book will form a very useful addition to the sparse canon of literature exploring the relationship between social inequality and health." Journal of Public Health"... a fascinating collection of issues in modern public health research, policy and practice." Sociology of Health & Illness'....a very accessible round-up of a selection of issues, some relevant to particular parts of the world, others of global significance.' Sociology of Health & Illness"An exciting and wide ranging review of the new public health. This collection provides an efficient and intriguing introduction into what we now think most makes us healthy or ill." Daniel Dorling, Department of Geography, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsContents: Introduction ~ Salvatore Babones; Pathway one: Differences in individual health behaviours: The role of time preference and perspective in socio-economic inequalities in health related behaviors ~ Jean Adams; Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity ~ Tamara Dubowitz; Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities ~ Mary E. Northridge, Elliott D. Sclar, Annie Feighery, Maryann Z. Fiebach and Emily Karpel Kurtz; Pathway two: Group advantage and disadvantage: How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations ~ Martin White, Jean Adams and Peter Heywood; A review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes ~ Debbie Barrington; From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo ~ Javier Pereira Bruno and Ronald Angel; Pathway three: Psychosocial factors in individual health: Health inequalities and the role of work psychosocial factors: the Whitehall II study ~ Eric Brunner; Inequality, psychosocial health, and societal health: A model of inter-group conflict ~ Siddharth Chandra; The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe ~ Arjumand Siddiqui, Martin Bobak and Clyde Hertzman; Pathway four: Health and unhealthy societies: The impact of inequality: empirical evidence ~ Richard Wilkinson; 'Public goods', metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy & theory ~ J James R. Dunn and Nancy A. Ross; From societal equity to individual health ~ Salvatore Babones; Public understanding of the new public health: Health, inequalities and mobilization: human rights and the millennium development goals ~ Paul Nelson; Promoting public understanding of population health ~ Stephen Bezruchka; Conclusion ~ Salvatore Babones.

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Book SynopsisDoes humanity have a moral obligation to emphasize nanotechnology's role in addressing the critical public health and environmental problems of our age? This well crafted book explores this idea by analyzing the prospects for a macroscience nanotechnology-for-environmental sustainability project in areas such as food, water and energy supply, medicine, healthcare, peace and security. Developing and applying an innovative science-based view of natural law underpinning a global social contract, it considers some of the key scientific and governance challenges such a global project may face. The book concludes that the moral culmination of nanotechnology is a Global Artificial Photosynthesis project. It argues that the symmetric patterns of energy creating photosynthesis, life and us are shaping not only the nanotechnological advances of artificial photosynthesis, but also the ethical and legal norms likely to best govern such scientific achievements to form a sustainable existence on this planet. Nanotechnology for a Sustainable World will appeal to many generations of scientists and policy makers working to improve our world in public health, environmental sustainability and renewable energy and nanotechnology. It will also be a valuable resource for similarly motivated students of chemistry, physics, biology, nanotechnology and photosynthesis, as well as environmental and energy ethics, law and policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Nanoscience for a Sustainable World: A Goal or Set of Principles? 3. Obstacles to Nanotechnology for Environmental Sustainability 4. Core Normative Components of a Global NES Project 5. Nanotechnology for Sustainable Food, Water and Housing 6. Equitable Access to Nanomedicines 7. Nanotechnology for Global Peace and Security 8. Nanotechnology, Climate Change and Renewable Energy 9. Nanotechnology’s Moral Culmination: A Global Artificial Photosynthesis Project Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis up-to-date book examines pharmaceutical development, access to medicines, and the protection of public health in the context of two fundamental changes that the global political economy has undergone since the 1970s, the globalization of trade and production and the increased harmonization of national regulations on intellectual property rights. With authors from eleven different countries presenting case studies of national experiences in Africa, Asia and the Americas, the book analyzes national strategies to promote pharmaceutical innovation, while at the same time assuring widespread access to medicines through generic pharmaceutical production and generic pharmaceutical importation. The expert chapters focus on patents as well as an array of regulatory instruments, including pricing and drug registration policies. Presenting in-depth analysis and original empirical research, this book will strongly appeal to academics and students of intellectual property, international health, international political economy, international development and law. Contributors: T. Andia, M. Bourassa Forcier, M. Flynn, P. Gehl Sampath, S. Guennif, A. Guzman, H. Klug, G. Krikorian, N. Lalitha, J.-F. Morin, K.C. Shadlen, L. Shi, M. WatanabeTrade Review‘. . . this book will appeal strongly to a wide range of professionals, academics and students with interest in and involvement in public health issues worldwide, specifically the pharmaceutical industry. . . the book is timely, topical, and packed with carefully researched information which puts a number of major issues relating to pharmaceuticals in perspective. Of great value to researchers are the copious footnotes and extensive bibliographies which follow most of the articles. . . this book certainly provides you with an impressive mine of information if you find yourself having to argue your corner on any number of legal, economic and ethical issues in this complex field of study.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘Since the 1970s the pharmaceutical industry has undergone significant changes in its research and development paradigm, trade and production. Regulatory frameworks have also changed substantially, particularly in the area of intellectual property rights. This book provides much needed empirical evidence on the impact of these and other changes on the pharmaceutical sector and on access to medicines in developing countries. The studies, conducted with a common methodology, on nine developing countries (including major producers of pharmaceuticals such as China and India) and on Canada, make an outstanding contribution to the literature in the field. The data and analysis in the book are of immediate interest to policy makers and to scholars in various fields, including innovation economics, industrial policy, health systems and intellectual property.’ -- Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina‘This impressive collection offers fascinating new perspectives on the impact of pharmaceutical patents on access to medicines in developing countries. The volume’s editors have put together an important book that sets out clearly the challenges to public health in a wide range of national contexts. The book will be a valuable text for all scholars and decision-makers interested in the global politics of intellectual property rights and public health.’ -- Duncan Matthews, Queen Mary, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Globalization, Intellectual Property Rights, and Pharmaceuticals: Meeting the Challenges to Addressing Health Gaps in the New International Environment Kenneth C. Shadlen, Samira Guennif, Alenka Guzmán and N. Lalitha 2. Pharmaceutical Production and Access to Essential Medicines in South Africa Heinz Klug 3. Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines: Paradoxes in Moroccan Policy Gaëlle Krikorian 4. The Invisible Threat: Trade, Intellectual Property, and Pharmaceutical Regulations in Colombia Tatiana Andia 5. The Challenges of Constructing Pharmaceutical Capabilities and Promoting Access to Medicines in Mexico under TRIPS Alenka Guzmán 6. Corporate Power and State Resistance: Brazil’s Use of TRIPS Flexibilities for its National AIDS Program Matthew Flynn 7. The Politics of Patents and Drugs in Brazil and Mexico: The Industrial Bases of Health Policies Kenneth C. Shadlen 8. Pharmaceutical Patent Policy in Developing Countries: Learning from the Canadian Experience Jean-Frédéric Morin and Mélanie Bourassa Forcier 9. Access to Indian Generic Drugs: Emerging Issues N. Lalitha 10. Sufficient but Expensive Drugs: A Double-Track System that Facilitated Supply Capability in China Mariko Watanabe and Luwen Shi 11. Access to Essential Drugs in Thailand: Intellectual Property Rights and Other Institutional Matters Affecting Public Health in a Developing Country Samira Guennif 12. The TRIPS Agreement and Health Innovation in Bangladesh Padmashree Gehl Sampath Index

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Medicine is a collection of essays and research findings representing the work of medical sociologists in several different countries which focus on current ideas, concepts and issues in medical sociology. The selections provide a contemporary overview of the field in the following areas: sociological theory and health, social factors and disease, social demography, social stress, health and illness behaviour, alternative forms of medicine, health professions and occupations, hospitals, and health care delivery and social change.Although many of the papers are written by medical sociologists in Great Britain and North America, the work of their counterparts in Germany, France, Singapore and Japan is also included. The articles provide both an overview and international focus on the relationship between health and society.Trade Review'Cockerham has been very successful . . . as he has brought together a range of articles which demonstrate the richness and diversity of research and theory currently within medical sociology. Overall, this book will be a valuable resource to those working in the area . . . it does offer an accessible and interesting overview of many key issues and debates within medical sociology. It furthermore familiarises the reader with the range of theories and methods used in this sub-discipline and illustrates the importance of comparative work. The real strength of the book appears to be its ability to interest readers from varied perspectives and thus provide them with an opportunity to consider how they might contribute themselves to the development of the field.' -- Kathy Kendall, Reviewing SociologyTable of ContentsPart 1 Sociological theory and health: the sociological relevance of chronic illness, Uta Gerhardt; Max Weber, formal rationality and health lifestyles, William C. Cockerham et al; a critical theory of medical discourse - ideology, social control and the processing of social context in medical encounters, Howard Waitzkin; ageing, status politics and sociological theory, Bryan S. Turner. Part 2 Social factors and disease: socioeconomic status and health - how education, income and occupation contribute to risk facts for cardiovascular disease, Marilyn A. Winkleby et al; acculturation and symptoms - a comparative study of reported health symptoms in three Samoan communities, Joel M. Hanna and Maureen H. Fitzgerald; depression among the homeless, Mark La Gory et al; uncertainty and the lives of persons with AIDS, Rose Weitz; migrant labour and sexually transmitted disease, AIDS in Africa, Charles W. Hunt; HIV transmission through social and geographical networks in Uganda, Christine Obbo. Part 3 Social demography: the patterning of health by social position in contemporary Britain - directions for sociological research, Sally Macintyre; chronic illness over the life course - class inequalities among men and women in Britain, Sara Arber; the effects of women's employment - personal control and sex differences in mental health, Sarah Rosenfield. Part 4 Social stress: the sociological study of stress, Leonard I. Pearlin; low status control, high effort at work and ischaemic heart disease - prospective evidence from blue-collar men, Johannes Siegrist et al. Part 5 Health behaviour: the image of health - variations in perception by social class in a French population, A. d'Houtaud and Mark G. Field; social stratification and health lifestyles in two systems of health care delivery - a comparison of the United States and West Germany, Cockerham, William C. et al; fitness and the postmodern self, Barry Glassner. Part 6 Illness behaviour: reshaping of self - a pendular reconstruction of self and identity among adults with traumatic spinal cord injury, Karen K. Yoshida; life mirrors work mirrors text mirrors life..., Marianne A. Paget; self-care - Japan and the US compared, Marie R. Haug et al. Part 7 Alternative medicine. Part 8 Health professions and occupations. Part 9 Hospitals. Part 10 Health care delivery and social change. (Part contents)

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Book SynopsisHealth Policy presents the key classic and contemporary articles and will be an important source of reference for health care professionals, academics and policymakers. It sheds light on the values and socio-political factors which underpin health policy, and will be invaluable in helping to assess and compare policymaking processes in different countries. The volume is divided into six sections and within each section the articles are presented chronologically. Thus the selection is suitable for both the beginner and the more advanced student; the beginner will benefit from the earlier readings by observing their cumulative impact on later writings, while the more advanced student may find the more up-to-date articles of particular interest. Section I introduces several basic values which underlie all health policies; section II reviews the socio-economic and political factors in health policy; section III deals with the experience and practice of American health care while section IV offers comparisons with other countries in Europe and also with Japan. Section V examines the opportunities and constraints for countries' learning from each other and finally section VI raises methodological issues and indicates the challenges which must be addressed in the future.Trade Review'This useful library resource meets the editors' objective "to help analysts of all ages to comprehend the context of foundational values and socio-political factors undergirding health policy as well as to access actual policy making processes in comparative settings". It contains . . . delightful articles. . .' -- G. Ross Langley, Annals of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction James W. Björkman and Christa Altenstetter PART I HEALTH POLICY FOUNDATIONS: BASIC VALUES AND ORIENTATIONS 1. A. Donabedian (1971), ‘Social Responsibility for Personal Health Services: An Examination of Basic Values’ 2.H.H. Hiatt (1975), ‘Protecting the Medical Commons: who is Responsible?’ 3. F.F.H. Rutten (1983), ‘Health Care Policy Today: Making Way for the Libertarians’ 4. B.L. Kirkman-Liff (1991), ‘Health Insurance Values and Implementation in the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany: An Alternative Path to Univesral Coverage’ PART II CONTEXT OF HEALTH POLICY: SOCIO-ECONOMIC & POLITICAL FACTORS 5.H. Kaufman (1966), ‘The Political Ingredient of Public Health Services: A Neglected Area of Research’ 6.S. Kelman (1975), ‘The Social Nature of the Definition Problem in Health’ 7.A. Wildavsky (1977), ‘Doing Better and Feeling Worse: The Political Pathology of Health Policy’ 8. R.G. Evans and G.L. Stoddart (1990), ‘Producing Health, Consuming Health Care’ PART III THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: PILLARS AND PLAYERS 9.R.R. Alford (1972), ‘The Political Economy of Health Care: Dynamics without Change’ 10.R. Stevens (1979), ‘The American Hospital in Historical Perspective’ 11. P. Starr (1982), ‘The Social Origins of Professional Sovereignty’ 12. J.W. Björkman (1989), ‘Politicizing Medicine and Medicalizing Politics: Physician Power in the United States’ 13. S. Steinmo and J. Watts (1995), ‘It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America’ PART IV COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY: CROSS-NATIONAL VARIATIONS 14. C. Altenstetter and J.W. Björkman (1981), ‘Planning and Implementation: A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy’ 15. A.J. Heidenheimer, H. Heclo and C.T. Adams(1990), ‘Health Policy’ 16. M. Döhler (1991), ‘Policy Networks, Opportunity Structures and Neo-Conservative Reform Strategies in Health Policy’ 17. E.M. Immergut (1992), ‘Institutions of Representation and National Health Insurance Politics’ 18. David Wilsford (1995), ‘States Facing Interests: Struggles over Health Care Policy in Advanced, Industrial Democracies’ PART V POLICY LEARNING: ASPIRATIONS AND LIMITATIONS 19. M. Lerner, PhD (1977), ‘The Non-Health Services’ Determinants of Health Levels: Conceptualization and Public Policy Recommendations’ 20. L.D. Brown (1986), ‘Introduction to a Decade of Transition’ 21. W.C. Hsiao (1992), ‘Comparing Health Care Systems: What Nations can Learn from One Another’ 22. W.A Glaser (1993), ‘Universal Health Insurance That Really Works: Foreign Lessons for the United States’ 23. R. Klein (1995), ‘Learning from Others: Shall the Last be the First Markets’ PART VI: HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 24. N. Milio (1981), ‘Measuring Prevention and its Worth: The Benefits of Health-Making Policy’ 25. J. Mendeloff (1983), ‘Measuring Elusive Benefits: On the Value of Health’ 26. A.Y. Ellencweig (1992), ‘Health Systems – A Critical Analysis of Existing and Suggested Models’ 27. J.W. Kingdon (1995), ‘The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams’ 28. M. Moran (1995), ‘Three Faces of the Health Care State’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the science, management and practice of the control of infection. The early part of the book is concerned with the science of infection control, providing the underpinning knowledge base as well as information regarding the laboratory services which will be of practical help to the reader. The book then discusses the role of the Infection Control Team, outbreak control and policy issues that are required in order to maintain a safe environment. The second half of the book concentrates on the practical application of the previously described principles to the reduction of infection risks and management of known infections in a range of clinical and social situations. The book reflects the current dynamics in health care provision and will equip the reader with the knowledge base to develop their skills in the control of infection in a variety of healthcare settings.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the immune system. Introduction to microbiology and virology. Role of the infection control team. Managing outbreaks of infection. Design of new and refurbished buildings. Waste management. Laundry issues. Food hygiene. Decontamination. Standard setting and audi. Immuno-suppressed patients. Mother and child infections. Sexually transmitted infections. Gastro-intestinal infections. Blood-borne infections. Catheterisation and urinary tract infection. Cannula associated infection. Wound infection. Respiratory infection. Management of known infection.

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Book SynopsisThe complexities of cancer care management are clearly explained and illustrated by the use of case histories at the end of each site-specific chapter. The book also addresses the controversies and problems surrounding health education programmes and screening. The book is divided into five main sections. Section one provides the reader with a definition of cancer and looks at the epidemiology and predisposing factors linked to specific cancers. The second section discusses the main treament options. This is followed by a section looking at the more common site-specific cancers. Each chapter in this section addresses the issues of cancer prevention, early detection, investigations and management. The fourth section discusses problems which could be encountered by certain groups of patients, e.g. management of fungating wounds, nutritional support, altered body image and sexuality problems. The book concludes with a section looking at how complementary therapies are being integrated into the main framework of cancer care, the importance of the spiritual/cultural aspects of cancer for an individual and the complex subject of breaking bad news.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part One. What is Cancer? Health promotion. Early detection and staging. Part Two. Understanding Radiotherapy and its Applications. Understanding Cytoxic Chemotherapy. Part Three. Breast Cancer. Colorectoral Cancer. Lung Cancer. Gynaecological Cancers. Skin Cancers. Haematological Malignancies. Urological Cancers. Head and Neck Cancers. Childhood Cancers. Part Four. Fungating Tumours. Nutritional Support. Infection Control Issues. Body Image and Sexuality. Part Five. Complementary Therapies. Pain Control. Breaking Bad News.

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Book SynopsisHospital acquired infections (HAI) are complications of health care which affect on average 10 percent of patients admitted to hospital world wide. They have serious public health implications by changing the quality of life of patients and sometimes causing disability or even death. The purpose of this comprehensive text is to provide nurses and junior doctors with an understanding of the basics of infection control by explaining the methods employed and their purpose. The book is based on lectures presented by the author at training courses for nurses and doctors and gives simple, understandable and essential information that is vital knowledge for medical staff in hospitals.Table of Contents1. Causes and determinants of hospital acquired infections. 2. Infection and its characteristics. 3. The chain of infection and the transmission of an infective agent. 4. Definitions and general c haracteristics of infections in hospitals. 5. Preventative strategies for hospital-acquired infections. 6. Common hospital-acquired infections in developed countries. 7. Infection control and surveillance.

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Book SynopsisAuthored by Amanda Glassman and Miriam Temin with the Millions Saved Team and Advisory Group, Millions Saved: News Cases of Proven Success in Global Health, shows what works—and what doesn’t—in global health. In a foreword to the book, Bill Gates says, “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”Over the past fifteen years, people in low- and middle-income countries have experienced a health revolution—one that has created new opportunities and brought new challenges. It is a revolution that keeps mothers and babies alive, helps children grow, and enables adults to thrive.Millions Saved: New Cases of Proven Success in Global Health chronicles the global health revolution from the ground up, showcasing twenty-two local, national, and regional health programs that have been part of this global change. The book profiles eighteen remarkable cases in which large-scale efforts to improve health in low- and middle-income countries succeeded, and four examples of promising interventions that fell short of their health targets when scaled-up in real world conditions. Each case demonstrates how much effort—and sometimes luck—is required to fight illness and sustain good health.The cases are grouped into four main categories, reflecting the diversity of strategies to improve population health in low-and middle-income countries: rolling out medicines and technologies; expanding access to health services; targeting cash transfers to improve health; and promoting population-wide behavior change to decrease risk. The programs covered also come from various regions around the world: seven from sub-Saharan Africa, six from Latin America and the Caribbean, five from East and Southeast Asia, and four from South Asia.Trade Review“This is one of the most uplifting volumes on global health that I have come across. Solid evidence of cost-effective health interventions at scale gives us hope that millions more lives of the poorest and most vulnerable among us can be saved.”—Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Former Finance Minister, Nigeria “I encourage global health experts, policymakers, funders, and anyone else interested in helping create a better world to read Millions Saved. I am confident you will come away with a clearer sense of what the world has learned about fighting some of our biggest health challenges—and how we can use that knowledge to save even more lives.”—Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “This book serves as both an inspiration and as a practical tool—it reminds us that our work is constantly evolving and that our investments yield tangible change. These stories are proof that we are making a difference.”—Jimmy Kolker, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, United States Department of Health and Human Services“Positive deviance is usually thought of as finding the successful examples in a community, learning what they do best, and then scaling up those behaviors. This book is about global positive deviance. The authors have found examples of exceptional success in global health that serve as lessons for all of us working in the field.”—Stefano Bertozzi, Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health“As we look forward, and begin the work towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, the chronicles of global health presented in this and previous editions of Millions Saved provide us with documented evidence on what works and does not work in global public health. The studies from Latin America showcase that targeted interventions addressing the needs of vulnerable and marginal populations can yield enormous dividends in health, social and economic development.”—Carissa Etienne, Director, Pan American Health Organization “I applaud the book’s range of major categories of interventions for improving health, its learnings from programs that disappointed at scale, and its incorporation of costs in the discussion about program effectiveness and impact. Importantly, the book draws conclusions about common features and key lessons, rather than only offering a compilation of interesting case studies, which is essential for the volume to be effective.”—Jere Behrman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisCurrently, with so many commercial food companies selling ready-to-eat foods for the busy professional, nutrition science may be pushed to the wayside. For most of us, guidance is essential. This book is about the more logical and better substantiated nutritional practices and juried literature around the world, and its impact on health and disease. The monograph is appropriate for use in a nutritional or an epidemiology course as well as for anyone who wants to better their own nutritional choices, their health, or lower their risk for certain diseases.

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Book SynopsisCommunity-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health is the first volume in the Interdisciplinary Community-Engaged Research for Health series. In this first volume, series editors Farrah Jacquez and Lina Svedin have invited academics around the country who participated in the first cohort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJ) prestigious, innovative Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program to share results from their efforts. These three-person teams composed of two researchers and one community partner used applied research to create measurable change in healthcare and health outcomes for young children. Spanning disciplines from public health, psychology, policy, economics, medicine, nutrition and geography, academics teamed up with community partners, including medical practitioners, nonprofit leaders, and policymakers to create action and community benefit through research, intervention, and policy development. From research on the nonmedical needs of women in the Mississippi Delta, WIC programs in Puerto Rico, and children’s advocacy in Cincinnati, Ohio, the contributors describe seven cases depicting valuable stepping stones for academic and community partners to collaborate and create a culture of health in the United States. Trade Review"Authentic and effective partnerships between researchers and community members shape research from idea to action, and promise more appreciable and enduring impacts. These Interdisciplinary Research Leaders [and their cases] offer first-hand experiences of the challenges and promise of such partnerships. This book is a guide for a better world through better research." -- J. Michael Oakes, VP of Research, University of Minnesota and Director, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders

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Book SynopsisObstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly non-existent in the Global North. In contrast Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanitarian and media narratives, fistula is presented as deeply stigmatizing, resulting in divorce, abandonment by kin, exile from communities, depression and suicide. In Fistula Politics, Alison Heller illustrates the inaccuracy of these popular narratives and shows how they serve the interests not of the women so affected, but of humanitarian organizations, the media, and local clinics. Trade Review"Alison Heller has transformed the discourse on fistula with her brilliantly detailed ethnography of the lives of affected women in Niger. Fistula Politics is an inspiring account of the real lives of determined women facing the hardships of birthing injuries: pregnancy losses and social suffering, persistent wetness and months-long waiting for treatment in the context of 'regional poverty' and mismanaged care. Transformed my understanding! Truly brilliant!" -- Ellen Gruenbaum * author of The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective *“Most of us know the 'fistula narrative,' a story of innocent girls who suffer the dreadful consequences of early childbearing and can be saved through a simple biomedical intervention. Ali Heller’s evocative and meticulously empirical book reveals the complexities that this sensational narrative fails to capture. The alternative accounts told here raise vital questions about fistula’s true causes, consequences, cures, and costs—and about the marketing of humanitarian biomedicine.” -- Claire L. Wendland * author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School *"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *" A recommended read for scholars and practitioners in global public health, international development and medical anthropology." * Anthrodendum *"Fistula Politics is a highly readable, teachable, and beautifully illustrated monograph that is grounded in careful empirical observation. The book is elegantly organized and could be taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in medical anthropology or sociology, global health, human reproduction, gender studies, human rights, or research methods." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Fistula Politics is a richly-documented ethnography of Nigerian women's reproductive lives...Compellingly illustrates the value of anthropology as it provides us with an ethnographically-based, yet comprehensive and holistic, insight into people's lived experiences." * Anthropos *"Fistula Politics is written in clear, accessible language. I expect it will be widely read not only by medical anthropologists and gender and sexuality studies specialists but also by the very actors who intervene in preventing and repairing fistula." * Africa *"Heller’s ethnography, Fistula Politics, is a welcome addition to ethnographic studies of fistula, biomedicine, and the body." -- Chau J. Kelly * H-Net *Table of ContentsContents Note on Terminology List of Abbreviations Foreword 1 Chapter 1: Incontinence and Inequalities 44 Part I Living Incontinence 45 Laraba’s Story 53 Chapter 2: Fistula Stigma 96 Chapter 3: Liminal Wives 143 Part II Clinical Encounters 144 Six Beds, Sixty Minutes 153 Chapter 4: The “Worst Place to be a Mother” 193 Chapter 5: The Indeterminable Wait 234 Part III The Marketplace of Victimhood 235 Arantut’s Story 241 Chapter 6: Superlative Sufferers 271 Chapter 7: Costs and Consequences 299 Chapter 8: The Threshold of Continence Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society. Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good? Trade Review“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.” -- Mark K. Watson * author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics *“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place.” -- César Abadía-Barrero * author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil *Table of ContentsPreface Positioning Acknowledgements Introduction To Begin, What is Communalism? Politics of Indigeneity - What is Indigenous? or Terms, Frames, and Representations Why is Communalism Missing The Dangers of Communalism Communalism and Health Community with the Name ‘Gila River’ Committing to Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples Outline of the Book Chapter 1 - Belonging Introductions Relationships and Being Present Building Consensus An Introduction to Communalism The Dangers of Communalism The Touchstones of Belonging Conclusion - More than Membership Chapter 2 - Generation Individuals in a Communal Context Western Individualism Pima Individualism(s) Generating Community Out of Individuals Chapter 3 - Representation Authority and Representation Representing Communal Knowledge Representation & Race - Communal Genetics Representing Indigenous Diversity Chapter 4 - Hybridity Hybridity and Human Community Extremes of Communalism Individual/Communal Conflict at Gila River Theories of Hybridity and Divisibility The Communal Individual Protecting the Communal Individual Chapter 5 - Asserting Communalism Case 1 - Communalism in Research Case 2 - Communalism and the Body Case 3 - Communalism in Healing Fostering Communalism Chapter 6 - Indigenous Communalism - Global Implications Is There a Global Indigenous Communalism? Place Global Indigenous Communalism Foundations in Place Communalism and Rights Conclusion - Representing Communalism Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society. Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good? Trade Review“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.” -- Mark K. Watson * author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics *“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place.” -- César Abadía-Barrero * author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil *Table of ContentsPreface Positioning Acknowledgements Introduction To Begin, What is Communalism? Politics of Indigeneity - What is Indigenous? or Terms, Frames, and Representations Why is Communalism Missing The Dangers of Communalism Communalism and Health Community with the Name ‘Gila River’ Committing to Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples Outline of the Book Chapter 1 - Belonging Introductions Relationships and Being Present Building Consensus An Introduction to Communalism The Dangers of Communalism The Touchstones of Belonging Conclusion - More than Membership Chapter 2 - Generation Individuals in a Communal Context Western Individualism Pima Individualism(s) Generating Community Out of Individuals Chapter 3 - Representation Authority and Representation Representing Communal Knowledge Representation & Race - Communal Genetics Representing Indigenous Diversity Chapter 4 - Hybridity Hybridity and Human Community Extremes of Communalism Individual/Communal Conflict at Gila River Theories of Hybridity and Divisibility The Communal Individual Protecting the Communal Individual Chapter 5 - Asserting Communalism Case 1 - Communalism in Research Case 2 - Communalism and the Body Case 3 - Communalism in Healing Fostering Communalism Chapter 6 - Indigenous Communalism - Global Implications Is There a Global Indigenous Communalism? Place Global Indigenous Communalism Foundations in Place Communalism and Rights Conclusion - Representing Communalism Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medical intervention. Using a series of case studies – sex-confirmation surgery, pharmaceutical treatments for sexual dissatisfaction, and weight loss interventions – the book argues that, because of systemic inequality, most mainstream medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce social inequality and alleviate some individual suffering. The book demonstrates that there is no way to think ourselves out of this conundrum as the contradictions are a product of unjust systems. Thus, Gupta argues that feminist activists and theorists should allow individuals to choose whether to use a particular intervention, while directing their social justice efforts at dismantling systems of oppression and at ensuring that all people, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, class, or ability, have access to the basic resources required to flourish. Trade ReviewMedical Entanglements is required reading for anyone interested in the feminist stakes of biomedical interventions. Provocatively insisting that “medicine isn’t special,” Gupta reimagines the terrain of sexual pharmaceuticals, gender affirmation procedures, and weight loss technologies, providing fresh insights about how all three can be sites of survival, well-being, and even flourishing. Gupta’s writing is clear, her arguments comprehensive, and her suggestions for how we get from A to B are a sensible companion in these urgent times. -- Chrstine Labuski * author of It Hurts Down There: The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain *"Modern biomedicine presents us with a growing number of socially and ethically troubling situations, where there is always a temptation to seek a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ solution. In this important book, and with theoretical sophistication and supported by detailed case studies, Gupta shows the most ethical way forward may be acceptance that difficulties are only imperfectly resolvable, entangled as they are in broader systems of injustice. She argues with skill and imagination for a different approach, framed by a different language, to feminist thinking about healthcare." -- Jackie Leach Scully * co-editor of Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins *Table of Contents1. Introduction: No Safe Ground 2. Feminist Critiques of Medicine (and Some Responses) 3. Theorizing from Transition-Related Care: Analytical Tools for Complexity 4. Sexuopharmaceuticals: Queering Medicalization 5. Constructing Fat, Constructing Fat Stigma: Rethinking Weight-Reduction Interventions 6. Conclusion: Medicine Without Eugenics? Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit healer, heals the resisting ailments of her patients, discloses pieces of her story of affliction and healing, and engages the world outside her mosque. We come to know Ansha’s experiences as revolutionary and migrant, her religious trajectories, family, the healers who cured her, the spirits who possessed her, and her declining health. We follow Ansha’s shifts in her life and work in the mosque as these intersect with the visible and invisible borders of Mozambique and of its fraught history. Confronting events in her life and in the mosque between 2009 and 2016, Ansha invites us to make meaning with her, as we sit in her mosque, and engage with her family, spirits, friends, patients, and world.Trade Review"This vivid, richly woven ethnographic account of healing practice in Mozambique offers valuable insights into the fluidity and flexibility of cultural and religious boundaries. The book captures the dynamics of agency and power in its focus on a healer’s spiritual border-crossing, revealing alternative visions of experiences of culture and religion as continually re-constructed and emergent."— Susan Rasmussen, author of Those Who Touch: Tuareg Medicine Women in Anthropological Perspective "Through this ethnographic account of one healer in northern Mozambique, Daria Trentini evokes the contours of an entire social world. As Ansha works the borders between health and illness, tradition and modernity, good and evil—even life and death—Trentini shows how lives are defined by tensions and contradictions as well as attempts to ease them. By providing such an accessible and compelling narrative, Trentini herself works ontological borders between her readers and those she meets in Ansha’s compound."— Harry G. West, author of Ethnographic Sorcery "This ethnography is well written and offers much comparative material for medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and the social science of medicine. I recommend it highly for both undergraduate and graduate students. Daria Trentini has made a very important contribution to the understanding of the personal and professional life and development of a spiritual healer." — Patricia Barker Lerch, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson List of Abbreviations Ansha’s Family Note on Languages Prologue Introduction Part I: Ansha and the Spirits 1 Rural and Urban 2 Health and Healing 3 Wives and Husbands 4 Demons and Spirits 5 Insiders and Outsiders 6 Mountains 7 Coast 8 Rivers and Bridges Part II: Outside the Mosque 9 Makhuwa and Maka 10 Books and Roots 11 Muslims of the Spirits and Muslims of the Mosque 12 Healers and the Governo 13 Healers and Nurses 14 Knowing and Not-Knowing Part III: Patients 15 Good and Evil 16 Closed and Opened 17 The Dead and the Living 18 Juniors and Seniors 19 Tradition and Modernity 20 Spirits and Women Part IV: Returns 21 Life and Death Epilogue Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.Trade Review"This is an outstanding ethnography that makes important contributions to medical anthropology specifically in relation to infectious diseases, substance use, and anthropological studies of global health practices and interventions. The nuanced anthropological focus on the intersections of substance use and tuberculosis among marginalized and impoverished persons that Versfeld analyzes in relation to historical legacies of colonialism and Apartheid is both in-depth and accessible. Critical reading for medical anthropologists, global public health scholars, and those interested in health inequalities in Africa and the Global South." -- Erin Koch * author of Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Postsocialist Georgia *"South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis rates in the world, related to indoor residential crowding, occupational hazards like mining, and high background HIV prevalence. Drug resistance and active TB resurgence magnify the original problem, increasing costs of care and reducing survival. I recommend this important contribution for anyone seeking deeper insights into the healthcare and community challenges facing the syndemic of substance use and TB, often complicated by HIV co-infection. Only a multifaceted response is likely to succeed for a disease too often addressed with limited “vertical” programs." -- Sten Vermund * the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson 1 Returners 2 The Stickiness of Moral Opinion 3 Co-constitutions: Makers and Maskers 4 Salience and Silence: Data, Evidence, and the Making of Figure Facts 5 The Challenge of “Unruly” Patients 6 Care to Cure 7 Catching Breath: The Hospital as Restricted Respite 8 Anthropology in Action Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWhile New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey. Trade Review“Toward a Healthier Garden State is a wonderful resource for decision makers and educators, and an entertaining read for everyone who loves the Garden State. This book should be required reading for all elected and appointed officials throughout the state–a truly unique read.” -- Thomas A. Burke * Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University *Table of Contents Preface 1 Defining, Measuring, and Improving Health 2 The Winding Path to Better Health in New Jersey 3 Transportation Drives Population Shifts 4 Fixing Environmental Inequities: Cancer Alley 5 Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Pandemic 6 Housing and Education Interventions 7 Acute Natural and Man-Made Hazard Events 8 Reshuffling Health Care Epilogue: Confronting Challenges to a Healthier New Jersey—The Next 25 Years Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisIn both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.Trade Review"Wow! A gripping ethnography of the everyday ecstatic emergency and boredom of methamphetamine, fentanyl and failed relationships that cuts short the lives of Canadian youth—often indigenous—desperately seeking community, meaning and survival. Documents the dysfunctional meshes of care/jail/gentrification/predatory narcotics markets and human betrayals that betrays their persistent universally recognizable dreams/hopes against all odds for a better futures that never arrives." -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend *"The Best Place offers an analysis of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia, a locale where young people's illicit drug use has received international attention. Fast has worked in this area for many, many years, developing long-term relationships with young drug users and health professionals. This is a collaboration that offers a model of multi-level analyses and showcases the hope of Fast's interlocutors for the future. Fast draws on their visions of possible futures, and on their critiques of current approaches, articulated with those of healthcare professionals. This is a book many have been waiting for." -- Dara Culhane * cofounder and cocurator for the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography *Table of Contents Foreword by Lenore Manderson Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Places Introduction PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009 Jeff, Paradise, 2009 Big-City Dreams Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012 Senses of Place Lee, World City, 2009 Where I’m Going, Lee, 2011 Jordan, Normal Places, 2012 Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010 Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009 Jordan, Normal People, 2008 Frictions Danya, around Downtown, 2008 Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008 Trajectories Carly and Connor, Family, 2009 Geographies Patty and Joe, Home, 2012 Part II: SOMETHING Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009 Vital Experimentation Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009 Momentum Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Moral Worlds Terry, Jail, 2011 Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013 Stagnation Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010 Endless Business Terry, Field Office, 2012 Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012 Reentering Never Never Land Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74 Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009 Disappearances Lee, Gone, 2015 PART III: LOST Patty, City of Glass, 2011 Community Care Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010 Losing Everything Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012 Boredom Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013 (No)Exit, Shae, 2013 Flashbacks and Futures Patty, Terminal City, 2013 The Dance of Death Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Waiting Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014 Flights Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014 PART IV: NOWHERE Patty, Saltwater City, 2017 The Will to Intervene Shane, Passages, 2017 Living on the Edge of Change Jessica, Horizons, 2018 Filling the Hours Shane, Downtown, 2017 Stalls and Dead Ends Lula, Wenonah House, 2016 Everything We Need, Carly and Connor, 2013 A Churn of Intervention Raymond, Downtown, 2017 The Colonial Present Aaron, Field Office, 2017 Living with Death Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017 The Broken Promise Land Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017 Exits, Janet, 2015 PART V: EVERYWHERE Jordan, Rain City, 2016 Laura, Field Office, 2017 Shae/Trix, Apartment, 2017 Janet, Recovery House, 2018 Exits, Janet, 2018 Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018 The Way Home, Terry, 2011 Laurie, Downtown, 2018 Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019 Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019 Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020 Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018 Joe, Field Office, 2018 Patty, Everywhere, 2018 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Afterword Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those demanding open access to mainstream pharmaceutical agents. Largely forgotten today, this activist tradition was comprised of individuals who embraced unorthodox approaches for conceptualizing and treating their condition. Rejecting biomedical expertise, they shared alternative clinical paradigms, created underground networks for distributing unorthodox nostrums, and endorsed etiological models that challenged the association between HIV and AIDS. The theatre of their protests was not the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village but rather their bodies. And their language was not the riotous chants of public demonstration but the often-invisible embrace of contrarian systems for defining and treating their disease. The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the twentieth century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the twenty-first century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.Trade Review“The Sounds of Furious Living fits within the history of 'unorthodox' medicine, but in a more nuanced and theoretical way, providing new insight into this tradition that never really went away—there is nothing like this out there now. Matthew Kelly has done an impressive job.” -- Susan Reverby * author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms Introduction: Acknowledging the Everyday Part I: The Soils of Unorthodoxy: Irregular and Alternative Medicine in U.S. History 1 Situating Unorthodox AIDS Activism within the History of Medicine in the United States 2 A Broken Model: Twentieth-Century Transformations in the Social Constructions of Health and Disease 3 A Broken Trust: The Changing Character of Health Care Part II: The Seeds of Unorthodoxy: The Emergence of Unorthodox AIDS Activism 4 Everyday Unorthodoxies and the People with AIDS Coalition (PWAC) 5 Patient, Heal Thyself: The History of Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL) Conclusion: Listening to and Learning from the Sounds of Furious Living Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive overview of exercise physiology in patients with congenital heart disease and other pediatric cardiopulmonary disorders. It begins with an in-depth but pragmatic discussion of exercise physiology and the cardiopulmonary adaptations to physical activity, followed by a review of the conduct and interpretation of cardiopulmonary exercise tests. Subsequent chapters discuss exercise physiology and testing in patients with a variety of congenital heart diseases, including tetralogy of Fallot, Fontan physiology, transposition of the great arteries, aortic valve disease, and coarctation of the aorta. Additional chapters analyze other conditions commonly encountered by pediatric and congenital cardiologists such as pulmonary vascular disease, cardiomyopathies, heart transplants, and metabolic disorders. The book also examines the role of exercise testing in patients with electrophysiologic issues such as Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, long QT syndrome, atrioventricular node dysfunction, and pacemakers. The presentations are enhanced by data from Boston Children’s Hospital’s vast experience with clinical exercise testing. The textbook concludes with a series of interesting and illustrative cases that build on the earlier chapters, present some fascinating physiology, and provide real-world examples of how exercise testing can inform clinical decision making. Exercise Physiology for the Pediatric and Congenital Cardiologist is a detailed, practical reference for clinicians and other health care providers engaged in exercise testing for children and adults with congenital heart disease and other conditions that may be encountered by the pediatric and congenital cardiologist. It is an essential resource for physicians, medical students, and exercise physiologists as well as researchers in cardiology, pediatrics, and cardiopulmonary fitness..Table of Contents SECTION I: The Normal Cardiopulmonary Response to Exercise.- 1. Biochemistry of Exercise.- 2. Oxygen Delivery.- 3. Central Hemodynamics and Coronary Blood Flow During Exercise.- 4. CO2 Elimination (V̇CO2).- SECTION II: Conduct of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test.- 5. Laboratory Setup, Equipment, and Protocols.- 6. Exercise Stress Echocardiography.- 7. Other Modalities.- 8. Supervision and Safety Precautions for Exercise Testing.- 9. Special Considerations for Children.- 10. Special Considerations for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.- SECTION III: Interpretation of the Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test.- 11. Peak Exercise Parameters.- 12. Parameters from Submaximal Exercise.- 13. Putting It All Together.- SECTION IV: Prototypical Lesions.- 14. Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot.- 15. Patients with a Fontan Circulation.- 16. Aortic Valve Disease.- 17. Coarctation of the Aorta.- 18. Systemic Right Ventricles with a Biventricular Circulation (L-Transposition and D-Transposition s/p Atrial Switch) .- 19. D-Transposition s/p Arterial Switch Operation.- 20. Ebstein’s Anomaly.- 21. Pulmonary Vascular Disease.- 22. Exercise Testing in Pediatric Dilated Cardiomyopathy.- 23. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- 24. Coronary Anomalies.- 25. Metabolic Disorders.- 26. Exercise Testing After Pediatric Heart Transplantation.- 27. Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Training.- 28. Summary of Lesions.- SECTION V: Electrophysiologic Issues.- 29. Syncope, Orthostatic Intolerance, and Exertional Symptoms.- 30. Exercise Stress Testing: Diagnostic Utility in the Evaluation of Long QT Syndrome.- 31. Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome.- 32. Exercise Testing in the Management of Arrhythmias.- Section VI: Interesting/Instructive Cases.- 33. Patients with Physiologically Normal Hearts and Lungs.- 34. Patients with Unusual Congenital Heart Defects and/or Intracardiac Shunts.- 35. Patients with Significant Lung Disease.

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how participatory research can provide tools to overcome the current epistemic and ethical challenges faced by traditional scientific approaches. Ever since Funtowicz and Ravetz proposed the notion of post-normal science, there has been a growing awareness of the limits of a form of knowledge production based only on the traditional scientific peer communities that excludes other social groups affected by its results and applications. The growing uncertainty and complexity posed by socio-ecological issues in the interactions between science, society and decision making has revealed the importance of a social quality control over crucial decisions that rely on scientific research and the necessary democratization of knowledge to tackle sustainability and health concerns.Departing from a reinterpretation of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, this volume shows how participatory research can contribute to reconnect science and society by extending peer communities through the incorporation of different forms of knowledge and different social actors into research projects. To do so, the author presents a critical review of different participatory research approaches, identifying the elements that distinguish a true participatory research from a traditional one, and proposing a taxonomy of the various participatory methodologies. The volume also analyzes a diversity of social practices and understandings that deal with an ecology of knowledge and its systemic characteristics. Moreover, it demonstrates that uncertainties can be integrated in dialogical processes that open possibilities for a myriad of outcomes. Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age - Unsustainability and Uncertainties to Rethink Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed will be of interest to researchers working with participatory approaches in different fields like health, environmental sciences, and education, as well as to practitioners of action research concerned with scientific dilemmas and counter-hegemonic strategies.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The relevance of participatory approaches towards contemporary dilemmas.- 2. Insights from the contemporary contradictions in science-society relationship.- 3. Participation and sustainability.- 4. Adaptive methods.- 5. The need for a taxonomy.- 6. Concluding on the role of participatory approaches for the post-normal age.

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Book SynopsisThis contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them. Once the purview of public health, medicine, and nursing, global health is now an interdisciplinary endeavor that relies on expertise from anthropology to urban planning, economics to political science, geography to engineering. Scholars and practitioners in the health sciences are seeking knowledge from a wider array of fields while, simultaneously, students across majors have a growing interest in humanitarian issues and are pursuing knowledge and skills for impacting well-being across geographic and disciplinary borders. Using a highly practical approach and illustrative case studies, each chapter of this edited volume frames a particular problem and illustrates how interdisciplinary problem-solving can address the greatest challenges in global health today. In doing so, each chapter spurs critical and creative thinking about emergent and future problems. Topics explored among the chapters include: Transforming health and well-being for refugees and their communities Governing to deliver safe and affordable water The global crisis of antimicrobial resistance Low-tech, high-impact interventions to prevent neonatal mortality Communicating taboo health subjects Alternative housing delivery for slum upgrades Transforming Global Health: Interdisciplinary Challenges, Perspectives, and Strategies is a vital and timely compendium for any reader invested in improving global health equity. It will find an audience with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and program implementers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in the fields of global health, public health, and the health sciences.Trade ReviewTable of Contents​Front MatterForeword (guest contributor)Introduction: Grand Challenges in Global Health and the Need for Interdisciplinary ApproachesSection 1: Improving Food, Water, Air, and ShelterCh. 1 Full of Hunger: Addressing the Double-burden of Obesity and Malnutrition (Perspectives from Public Health and Regional Planning)Ch. 2 When the Well Runs Dry: Delivering Safe and Affordable Water (Perspectives from Geology and Urban Planning)Ch. 3 Hazy Futures: Improving Air Quality for Maternal and Child Health (Perspectives from Engineering and Environmental Health)Ch. 4 Loss of Home, Loss of Self: Sheltering Refugees Amidst Crisis (Perspectives from Architecture, Medicine, and Social Work)Section 2: Engaging Cultural DiversityCh. 5 Do as You Say, Not as You Do: Changing Risky Behaviors (Perspectives from Health Behavior and Philosophy)Ch. 6 Blood Cultures: Integrating Traditional and Modern Medical Practices to Improve Health (Perspectives from History, Medicine, and Linguistics)Ch. 7 Kangaroo Care: Saving the Lives of Premature Babies (Perspectives from Epidemiology and Child Health)Ch. 8 Rites vs. Rights: Conquering Gender-based Violence (Perspectives from Gender Studies and Social Work)Section 3: Leveraging New Technologies and TechniquesCh. 9 Dragon’s Blood: Combatting the Mysteries of Antimicrobial Resistance (Perspectives from Microbiology, Chemistry, and Geography)Ch. 10 Extraction: Innovating Diagnostic Methods in Low-resource Settings (Perspectives from Dentistry and Computer Science)Ch. 11 Front-line Deployment: Utilizing Nanotechnology to Battle Disease at the Source (Perspectives from Nanotechnology and Public Health)Ch. 12 While Supplies Last: Overcoming Stock-outs of Essential Medicines(Perspectives from Pharmacy and Industrial Engineering)Section 4: Planning for the FutureCh. 13 World War X: Designing Health Systems Resilient Amidst Chaos (Perspectives from Economics and Political Science)Ch. 14 Gone, but Not Forgotten: Drawing Lessons from the Eradication of Polio and Guinea Worm (Perspectives from Biology and International Development)Ch. 15 Worst-case Scenarios: Building Policies, Plans, and Strategies to Curb Extreme Events (Perspectives from Environmental Planning and Law)Ch. 16 Rash Decisions: Dispatching the Next Pandemic (Perspectives from Nursing and Management)

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Book SynopsisThis book explores what it means to live a purposeful life and outlines the benefits associated with purpose across different life domains. It also demonstrates that purpose in life is not reducible to constructs such as happiness, well-being, or identity development.The importance of having a sense of purpose in life is attracting renewed attention in both scientific and social arenas. Mounting evidence from intricately designed experiments and large-scale studies reveals how pursuing a purpose can make a person happier, healthier, and even lengthen their lifespan. However, existing texts on purpose have said little on why having has these effects, how it may influence our ability to navigate diverse environments, or how best to consider the construct from a multidisciplinary approach that moves beyond psychology.Recognizing this gap in the literature, this book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the topic of purpose, and examines what we can do as researchers, interventionists, and society as a whole to imbue purposefulness in the lives of people across the lifespan. It includes contributions from key figures on topics such as identity, health, youth programs and youth purpose, diversity, aging and work.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction(Anthony Burrow).- Part 1: Purpose as a Catalyst for Healthy Development.- Chapter 2. Is Purpose Good for Your Health?: A Look at Emerging Evidence (Carol Ryff).- Chapter 3. Taking a Purposeful Direction toward Healthy Aging (Patrick Hill).- Chapter 4. TBA (Rachel Sumner).- Part 2: Educating for a Purpose.- Chapter 5. Adolescents’ Self-Transcendent Purposes for Learning in School: Theory and Intervention (David Yeager).- Chapter 6. Discovering Identity and Purpose in the Classroom: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives (Lisa Kiang).- Chapter 7. A Multinational Cultural Perspective on Developing and Educating for Youth Purpose (Seana Moran).- Part 3: The Role of Purpose in a Diverse Society.- Chapter 8. Youth Purpose: A Translational Research Agenda (Kendall Cotton Bronk).- Chapter 9. Paths of Identity: Navigating Stereotypes and Finding Purpose (Leoandra Rogers).- Chapter 10. Purpose as a Motivator for Equity Work (Adia Harvey Wingfield).- Part 4: Purpose in Context.- Chapter 11. Coming of Age on the Edge of Town: Perspectives on Growing Up in the Context of Rural Poverty(Katherine MacTavish).- Chapter 12. Determinants of Purpose in Life: Evidence from Two Longitudinal Analyses (Ying Chen).- Chapter 13. Supporting Youth Purpose in Adolescence: Youth-Adult Relationships as Ecological Assets (Nancy Deutsch).- Chapter 14. Discovering the Possible: How Youth Programs Provide Apprenticeships in Purpose (Reed Larson).- Chapter 15. Concluding Remarks (Anthony Burrow).

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Book SynopsisThis unique and comprehensive title offers state-of-the-art guidance on all of the clinical principles and practices needed in providing optimal health and well-being services for college students. Designed for college health professionals and administrators, this highly practical title is comprised of 24 chapters organized in three sections: Common Clinical Problems in College Health, Organizational and Administrative Considerations for College Health, and Population and Public Health Management on a College Campus. Section I topics include travel health services, tuberculosis, eating disorders in college health, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among college students, along with several other chapters. Subsequent chapters in Section II then delve into topics such as supporting the health and well-being of a diverse student population, student veterans, health science students, student safety in the clinical setting, and campus management of infectious disease outbreaks, among other topics. The book concludes with organizational considerations such as unique issues in the practice of medicine in the institutional context, situating healthcare within the broader context of wellness on campus, organizational structures of student health, funding student health services, and delivery of innovative healthcare services in college health. Developed by a renowned, multidisciplinary authorship of leaders in college health theory and practice, and coinciding with the founding of the American College Health Association 100 years ago, Principles and Practice of College Health will be of great interest to college health and well-being professionals as well as college administrators.Table of ContentsSection I. Common Clinical Problems in College Health Chapter 1 Campus Travel Health Services Julie Richards and Gail Rosselot Chapter 2 Tuberculosis Kent W. Bullis Chapter 3 Eating Disorders in College Health Melanie Trost Chapter 4 Depression and Anxiety in College Students Ayesha K. Chaudhary Chapter 5 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and College Students Cara M. Lusby and Scott H. Kollins Chapter 6 Athletic Medicine Jessica Higgs Chapter 7 Concussion Peter Duquette and P. Hunter Spotts Chapter 8 Contraception for College Reproductive Health Camille Moreno Chapter 9 Sexual Health Mary Johnson Section II. Population and Public Health Management on a College Campus Chapter 10 Supporting the Health and Well-Being of a Diverse Student Population Raphael D. Coleman, Katie Wilkinson, Padma Entsuah, Jaclyn M. Hawkins, and Gina Orlando Chapter 11 Student Veterans Amina Moghul Chapter 12 Health Science Students Giang T. Nguyen Chapter 13 Student Safety in the Clinical Setting David McBride Chapter 14 Campus Management of Infectious Disease Outbreaks Melanie J. Bernitz, Michael P. McNeil, and Julie A. Casani Chapter 15 Immunization Compliance Management Heather Spencer Chapter 16 Nutrition Services Franca Alphin and Toni Apadula Chapter 17 Sleep on College and University Campuses Michael P. McNeil and Eric S. Davidson Chapter 18 Substance Use and Abuse: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Alicia K. Czachowski and M. Scott Tims Section III. Organization and Administrative Considerations for College Health Chapter 19 Unique Issues in the Practice of Medicine in the Institutional Context Sarah Van Orman and Alyson Covington Chapter 20 Situating Healthcare Within the Broader Context of Wellness on Campus Julie Edwards Chapter 21 Organizational Structures of Student Health Richard P. Keeling Chapter 22 Funding Student Health Services James R. Jacobs and Leigh S. Stacy Chapter 23 Delivery of Innovative Healthcare Services Brian Halstater Chapter 24 Disability Access in Higher Education: Documenting as University Health Service Providers Grace C. Clifford

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life. Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented. Programs for training and education have expanded as a result. Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements. Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks. With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders—25 percent of the world’s non-communicable disease burden—rising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes. This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances. Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.Table of ContentsSection I: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Mental Health 1. Grand Challenges and Innovations (Vice President for Programs Grand Challenges Canada). 2. The Role of World Bank the World Health Organization 3. The Role of Private Foundations and NGO’s e.g. Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates Foundation, Carter Foundation Section II: 4. Reducing Stigma in Mental Health 5. Enhancing Human Capacity in low resource income countries the case of Liberia 6. Lessons from Research Innovations on HIV Section III: Advocacy, Policy, and Legislation 7. Mental Health Policy (UK) 8. Mental Health System reform in Kosovo 9. Mental Health System reform in Brazil Section IV: The Role of Technology 10. Data Mining & Use to drive decision making and policy 11. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health 12. The use of mobile phones for frontline health care workers to manage depression 13. Telepsychiatry in Pudukkottai (Step) 14. Telehealth Mental Health Section V: Innovations in Treatment and Care 15. Total health screening for integrated care 16. Sustaining African Traditional Health, The role of Faith Healers, and Community Health workers: help detect mental illness 17. Integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services into Primary Care in the Middle East 18. Blended Care in Haiti 19. Spiritual Leaders and ---Adopted Therapy Section VI: Innovations in Immigration and Refugee Services 20. The use of MPSS in immigration and refugee and immigrants 21. Addressing depression in the violence wracked mountains of Pakistan 22. Artificial and Technology, Tools for Mental Health, wellbeing, and resilience in refugees Section VII: Developing Nations 23. Attempts to achieve parity and coverage in Chile 24. Developing Health Reform in China 25. A framework for action on Universal Health Coverage in Africa Section VII: Youths in Developing Nations 26. Kenya integrated intervention model for dialogue and screening to promote children’s mental wellbeing (KID) 27. Pride (Premium for Adolescents) 28. Strong Minds 29. Oxygen Youth Health Section IX: Community Mental Health Programs 30. Basic Needs, Mental Health, and Development Model 31. The friendship Bench 32. The Bariyan 33. The Nero Strategy 34. Community Based Mentoring & Enhanced Supervision (MESIT) to Address Severe Mental Disorders Section X: Innovations in Gender & Equality 35. Feasibility and effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for women affected by urban violence. (Kenya) 36. A community based mental health intervention for mental health in Rwanda 37. Learning Clubs for woman’s health and infant development Section XI: Innovations in research and generating evidence based approaches 38. Emerald (The emerging mental health systems in LMIC) 39. Prime (Programs focus on Intervention Research for Mental Health 40. Affirm (Africa focus on Interventions Research for Mental Health) Section XII: Human Resources and Capacity Building 41. Dealing with the challenges of Human Resources and Capacity Building in India 42. Carter Foundation programs in Liberia 43. National Capacity Building Programs in Ethiopia 44. Capacity building in Post Conflict Rwanda 45. Capacity building in Mexico Section XIII: Innovations in Substance Abuse 46. Improving prevention and treatment systems based on primary prevention for alcohol use problems in 2 Caribbean countries—Guyana and Belgium. 47. A community oriented non specialist treatment for Alcohol Dependence 48. Supporting Addiction affected families effectively (SAFE) Section XIV: 49. War and displacement from conflict areas 50. Trauma Centers Section XV: Research and Monitoring the Progress of Countries 51. Prime programs for South Africa, India, Ethiopia, and Uganda 52. Africa (Africa Focus on Intervention research for mental health) 53. Collaborative shared care to improving psychosis outcome 54. Feasibility study in preparation for rationalized controlled trial: Enhanced primary mental health care Section XVI: Services for special populations—Consensus service uses the Elderly and Disabled 55. Self Help Groups for Mental Health 56. II) Consumer Advocacy Movement 57. Dementia Home Care project 58. Rehabilitation Intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia Section XVII: Miscellaneous 59. Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Religious and Spiritualties 60. 3 Dimensions of Care for Diabetes (3DFD) 61. Improving access to care for people with epilepsy through domestic health visitors Targeting family violence through domestic health visits

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Book SynopsisSocial Emergency Medicine incorporates consideration of patients’ social needs and larger structural context into the practice of emergency care and related research. In doing so, the field explores the interplay of social forces and the emergency care system as they influence the well-being of individual patients and the broader community. Social Emergency Medicine recognizes that in many cases typical fixes such as prescriptions and follow-up visits are not enough; the need for housing, a safe neighborhood in which to exercise or socialize, or access to healthy food must be identified and addressed before patients’ health can be restored. While interest in the subject is growing rapidly, the field of Social Emergency Medicine to date has lacked a foundational text – a gap this book seeks to fill. This book includes foundational chapters on the salience of racism, gender and gender identity, immigration, language and literacy, and neighborhood to emergency care. It provides readers with knowledge and resources to assess and assist emergency department patients with social needs including but not limited to housing, food, economic opportunity, and transportation. Core emergency medicine content areas including violence and substance use are covered uniquely through the lens of Social Emergency Medicine. Each chapter provides background and research, implications and recommendations for practice from the bedside to the hospital/healthcare system and beyond, and case studies for teaching. Social Emergency Medicine: Principles and Practice is an essential resource for physicians and physician assistants, residents, medical students, nurses and nurse practitioners, social workers, hospital administrators, and other professionals who recognize that high-quality emergency care extends beyond the ambulance bay.Table of ContentsHistory of Social Emergency MedicinePublic Health, Population Health, and Health DisparitiesRace and RacismGender and Sexual IdentityImmigrationLanguage and LiteracyAccess to CareFrequent Emergency Department Use: A Social Emergency Medicine PerspectiveSubstance Use: A Social Emergency Medicine PerspectiveEducation and EmploymentFinancial InsecurityFood InsecurityHomelessnessHousing Instability and QualityTransportationLegal NeedsNeighborhoods and the Built EnvironmentViolenceFirearm InjuryIncarcerationHuman Trafficking.

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Book SynopsisThe landmark 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” is a topic of great debate in mainstream, academic, and scientific media that generated strong opinions across the political spectrum and our nation. Soon after the enactment of the ACA and the fierce debate that ensued, The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment was published by Springer in 2014. Now five years later, just finishing an election year in which the ACA was a hotly debated issue, the second edition of this title examines the history, lessons, and impact of this ground-breaking legislation. Now a decade since implementation nationally, the ACA is the largest healthcare policy innovation in the United States in at least 50 years and one of our nation’s largest healthcare experiments ever. The history of public health and medicine shows us that to develop better solutions for important health problems, we must innovate. And when we try a new strategy, we are reminded that to innovate is to experiment. This is the basis of all medical research, public health interventions, and health policy innovations. Moreover, in recent years, there is an increasing emphasis on “translational science,” research that always has an ultimate focus on having real impact on medical care and the public’s health – whether in translating from bench research to the bedside, or from limited clinical use into widespread practice, public health interventions or policy.As with the previous edition, the book opens with a chapter that gives a basic overview of The Affordable Care Act. The second chapter, which previously discussed the objectives of the ACA, now takes a look at the successes, unfinished work and impact of the ACA in the past ten years. The third chapter now ponders the question of whether the ACA has protected patients since its implementation while its previous counterpart gave predictions for the future. The chapters that follow highlight things such as Medicaid expansion and insurance reform under the ACA, the Supreme Court Review of the ACA, social determinants of health, stories of the uninsured and stabilization of the ACA, among others. The book rounds out with a summary of what’s next and the push for universal healthcare followed by an epilogue. Due to the timely nature of the subject matter, some chapters from the previous edition have been dropped and seven new chapters have been added in their place. The remaining seven chapters from the previous edition have also been fully revised and updated. Written by nationally known healthcare policy leaders who were involved directly in the creation and implementation of the ACA, the second edition of The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment again will examine the history and impact of this ground-breaking legislation as well as recommend priorities, objectives, and next steps for translational research. It is an essential resource for all healthcare providers as well as policy makers and academics. Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of the ACA as a National Experiment Chapter 2: A Decade of ACA: The Successes, Unfinished Work, and Impact of the Affordable Care Act Chapter 3: Patient Protections in the Affordable Care Act Chapter 4: Beyond Coverage and Controversy: The ACA’s Distinctly American Approach to Healthcare Coverage and Reform Chapter 5: Medicaid Expansion and Insurance Reform Under the Affordable Care Act: The New New Federalism of Health Policy or the Same Old Same Old? Chapter 6: Policies Designed to Achieve a Data-Driven Learning Healthcare System: A Decade of Progress and Future Directions Chapter 7: The Healthcare Message Wars Chapter 8: The Role of the Supreme Court in Shaping the Affordable Care Act Chapter 9: The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation – A Decade of Experimentation and Continued Evolution Chapter 10: Social Determinants: Working Upstream to Solve Health Problems Before They Start Chapter 11: Stories of the Uninsured Chapter 12: Can Fifty-One Laboratories Cure What Ails the Individual Health Insurance Markets? Chapter 13: What’s Next: The Push For Universal Healthcare Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis unique and engaging open access title provides a compelling and ground-breaking account of the patient safety movement in the United States, told from the perspective of one of its most prominent leaders, and arguably the movement’s founder, Lucian L. Leape, MD. Covering the growth of the field from the late 1980s to 2015, Dr. Leape details the developments, actors, organizations, research, and policy-making activities that marked the evolution and major advances of patient safety in this time span. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, this book not only comprehensively details how and why human and systems errors too often occur in the process of providing health care, it also promotes an in-depth understanding of the principles and practices of patient safety, including how they were influenced by today’s modern safety sciences and systems theory and design. Indeed, the book emphasizes how the growing awareness of systems-design thinking and the self-education and commitment to improving patient safety, by not only Dr. Leape but a wide range of other clinicians and health executives from both the private and public sectors, all converged to drive forward the patient safety movement in the US. Making Healthcare Safe is divided into four parts: I. In the Beginning describes the research and theory that defined patient safety and the early initiatives to enhance it. II. Institutional Responses tells the stories of the efforts of the major organizations that began to apply the new concepts and make patient safety a reality. Most of these stories have not been previously told, so this account becomes their histories as well. III. Getting to Work provides in-depth analyses of four key issues that cut across disciplinary lines impacting patient safety which required special attention. IV. Creating a Culture of Safety looks to the future, marshalling the best thinking about what it will take to achieve the safe care we all deserve. Captivatingly written with an “insider’s” tone and a major contribution to the clinical literature, this title will be of immense value to health care professionals, to students in a range of academic disciplines, to medical trainees, to health administrators, to policymakers and even to lay readers with an interest in patient safety and in the critical quest to create safe care.Table of ContentsPart I. IN THE BEGINNING 1. The Hidden Epidemic The Harvard Medical Practice Study 2. It’s Not Bad People Error in Medicine 3. Changing the System The Adverse Drug Events Study 4. Coming Together The Annenberg Conference 5. A Home of Our Own The National Patient Safety Foundation Part II. INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES 6. We Can Do This The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Adverse Drug Events Collaborative 7. Who Will Lead? The Executive Session 8. A Community of Concern The Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors 9. When the IOM Speaks IOM Quality of Care Committee and Report 10. The Government Responds The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 11. Setting Standards The National Quality Forum 12. Enforcing Standards The Joint Commission 13. Partners in Progress Patient Safety in the United Kingdom 14. Going Global The World Health Organization 15. Just Do It The Surgical Checklist 16. Spreading the Word The Salzburg Seminar 17. Publish or Perish British Medical Journal Theme issue, New England Journal of Medicine Series Part III. GETTING TO WORK Key issues and how they were dealt with 18. Sleepy Doctors Work hours and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 19. A Conspiracy of Silence Disclosure, Apology, and Restitution 20. Who Can I Trust? Ensuring physician competence 21. Everyone Counts Building a culture of respect Part IV. CREATING A CULTURE OF SAFETY 22. Make No Little Plans The Lucian Leape Institute 23. Now the Hard Part Creating a culture of safety

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to focus on sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in public health, addressing the dearth of thinking, practice, and publication on SGBA and public health. The Canadian government is a global leader in seeking gender equity and mandating SGBA in federal initiatives, programs, and policies, continuing to advocate for the uptake of SGBA. However, there is differential uptake of SGBA in many fields, and public health is lagging behind. This book analyses the movement toward SGBA in Canada and internationally, highlighting some key examples of public health concern such as HIV/AIDS and tobacco use.An international group of experts in the fields of SGBA, public health, program evaluation, policy development, and research comprise the authorship of the book. Collectively, the team of authors and editors have deep expertise in SGBA and public health nationally and internationally and have published widely in the SGBA literature.Topics explored among the chapters – organized under three thematic content areas: the SGBA terrain in public health, illustrative examples from the field, and the implications of SGBA in public health – include: Sex- and Gender-Based Analyses and Advancing Population Health Beyond “Women’s Cancers”: Sex and Gender in Cancer Health and Care Women, Alcohol and the Public Health Response – Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to Gender-Based Design Understanding Pandemics Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) Lens Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis and the Social Determinants of Health: Public Health, Human Rights and Incarcerated Youth Gender-Transformative Public Health Approaches Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health is an important text for graduate-level students and trainees as well as public health practitioners in a variety of disciplines such as health promotion, nursing, health administration, public administration, sociology, political science, gender and women’s studies. The book also is an essential resource for specialists in public health policy, programming, research, and evaluation.Table of ContentsForeword: Veronica MagarChapter 1: Introduction: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis (SGBA) and Public HealthPart I: The SGBA TerrainChapter 2: Missing in Action: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health Chapter 3: Sex- and Gender-Based Analyses and Advancing Population HealthPart II: SGBA MattersChapter 4: HIV Prevention and the Need for Gender-Transformative ApproachesChapter 5: Tobacco Blinders: How Tobacco Control Remained Generic for Far Too LongChapter 6: Beyond “Women’s Cancers”: Sex and Gender in Cancer Health and CareChapter 7: Tuberculosis and the Relevance of Sex- and Gender-Based AnalysisChapter 8: Women, Alcohol and the Public Health Response – Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to Gender-Based DesignChapter 9: Sexual Health PromotionChapter 10: Understanding Pandemics Through a Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (SGBA+) Lens Part III: The Responsibilities of Public HealthChapter 11: Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis and the Social Determinants of Health: Public Health, Human Rights and Incarcerated Youth Chapter 12: Gender-Transformative Public Health ApproachesChapter 13: Translation, Implementation, and Engagement

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Book SynopsisThis book synthesizes research about the effects of food insecurity on children, families, and households, emphasizing multiple pathways and variations across developmental contexts. It focuses on emerging new methods that allow for a more refined approach to practice and policy. The volume provides a brief overview of the topic, and additional empirical chapters pose and address unanswered research questions. It concludes with a short commentary, providing recommendations for future research and policy and yielding a significant and timely contribution to advance developmental scientific knowledge and promote its use to improve the lives of children and families. Featured areas of coverage include: The effects of early food insecurity on children’s academic and socio-emotional outcomes. The effects of household food insecurity on children with disabilities. Early childhood access to Women, Infants, and. Children (WIC) and school readiness. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and adolescent mental health. Food Insecurity in Families with Children is an essential resource for policy makers and related professionals as well as graduate students and researchers in developmental, clinical, and school psychology, child, youth and family policy, public health, and social work.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Food Insecurity During Childhood.- Chapter 2. Mediators That Explain the Associations Between Food Insecurity and Kindergarten Outcomes.- Chapter 3. The Consequences of Food Insecurity for Vulnerable School-Aged Youth.- Chapter 4. Early Childhood WIC Use, School Readiness, and Outcomes in Early Childhood.- Chapter 5. Food Insecurity, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Adolescent Mental Health.- Chapter 6. Food Insecurity in Families with Children: Future Directions in Research and Practice.

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Book SynopsisThis book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China. In recent decades, few studies have explored the significance of geographical factors and the role they have played either in affecting the prevalence of smoking or in tobacco control responses to the smoking epidemic in China. In light of this, the book investigates the importance of national, regional and local environmental factors affecting smoking in China. It shows how geographical, social and institutional contexts have influenced the implementation and success of tobacco control initiatives, and situates smoking trends in China in a broader global context. The authors synthesize Chinese and western research on the smoking epidemic and uniquely focus on the importance of environmental factors and Chinese cultural perspectives in understanding smoking behaviour and the ineffectiveness of many tobacco control initiatives, especially how these conflict with Chinese economic policy. The book is aimed at academic and policy audiences both internationally and inside China, and will be of interest to a wide audience, not only geographers, but also epidemiologists, sociologists and others working in public health.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Epidemiological Transition of Smoking in China.- Chapter 3. The Rise of China Tobacco: From Local to Global Player.- Chapter 4. The Tobacco Industry: Marketing Strategies and Consumption.- Chapter 5. Geographical Context and Cultural Practices Affecting Smoking.- Chapter 6. Income Inequality, Urban Development and Smoking.- Chapter 7. Policy Environments for Tobacco Control.- Chapter 8. Evaluating China’s Record of Tobacco Control.- Chapter 9. Case Study: Smoking Bans and Secondhand Smoke.- Chapter 10. Conclusions: Environments and Smoking in China.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The AgeCap conceptual framework for research on capability in ageing.- Chapter 3. The ICECAP-O measure.- Chapter 4. The capability approach in epidemiological studies.- Chapter 5 – Good self-rated health as an indicator of personal capability in old age.- Chapter 6. Capability in research on cognition and well-being in ageing and retirement.- Chapter 7. The neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease: one of the most common causes of reduced capability in the adult population.- Chapter 8. The capability approach in research on ageing well at home for frail older people.- Chapter 9. eHealth literacy and capability in the context of the pandemic crisis.- Chapter 10. Increasing people’s capabilities by using design thinking in the decision-making process.- Chapter 11. The capability approach in social work with older people.- Chapter 12. A historical perspective on ageing and capability.- Chapter 13. The capabilities approach and the concepts of self-determination, legal competence and human dignity in social services for older people.- Chapter 14. Invisible or powerful? Ageing in a mediatised society.- Chapter 15. System and life-course perspectives on capability to work and capability through work.- Chapter 16. Organisational capability for delayed retirement.- Chapter 17. Capability and political participation among ageing populations.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the 2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.Revised and updated from the first edition are background and historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability, with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict, politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics, hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces, and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in salutogenesis methods and theory.With its comprehensive coverage, The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social sciences. Table of ContentsPARTS AND CHAPTERS (Revised Chapters Indicated by Δ)Part I Salutogenesis from its origins to the presentWhat is new in the 2nd Edition?Maurice B. MittelmarkThis is a two-page summary of the entire book, and explains the rationale for a new edition so soon after the 1st edition. It also brags a bit about the popularity of the 1st edition.Mileposts in the development of salutogenesis as a thriving academic arenaBengt LindströmThis new chapter gives Bengt a chance to tell the recent history of salutogenesis' development as a scientific arena, which only he can do justice to. It indicates names, places, events, and key developments that are the mileposts of our field’s development since the mid-1990’s.Δ Meanings of Salutogenesis: The Salutogenic Model of Health, The Sense of Coherence, and the broader salutogenic orientationMaurice B Mittelmark and Georg F. BauerThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ A profile of Aaron Antonovsky by two who knew him well (1923-1994)Avishai Antonovsky and Shifra SagyThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ Antonovsky’s development of the salutogenesis ideaEva LangelandThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing. Eva takes over as sole author, with a footnote thanking the original contributions of Hege Vinje and Torill Bull, both of whom are unavailable this time round, and both of whom have told us they are delighted that Eva is taking over the reins.Salutogenesis meeting places: The Society for Theory and Research on Salutogenesis, the Global Working Group on Salutogenesis, and the Center on Salutogenesis at the University of ZurichGeorg F. BauerThis new chapter gives Georg the opportunity to tell readers about our infrastructure to support salutogenesis’ development, and it is a sort of follow-up to Bengt’s earlier chapter. Georg promotes the Society and our web site.Part II Key concepts in the salutogenic model of healthSummary by Part Editor Monica ErikssonA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The Sense of Coherence: The concept and its relationship to healthMonica Eriksson and Bengt LindströmThis returning chapter plans to be lightly polished, but Monica may have more ambitious plans.Δ The Sense of Coherence: measurement issuesMonica Eriksson and Paolo ContuThis returning chapter plans to be at least lightly polished, but perhaps the updated version is to be more extensive, with Paulo coming on as an enthusiastic new co-author (Maurice is coming off from his co-author role in the 1st edition).Δ Salutogenesis: generalised resistance resourcesOrly Idan, Monica Eriksson, Michal Al-Yagon and Ruca MaassThis returning chapter aims to be lightly polished.Δ Salutogenesis: specific resistance resourcesMaurice B. Mittelmark, Marguerite Daniel and Helga UrkeThis returning chapter is lightly polished.Part III The sense of coherence in the life courseSummary by Part Editor Claudia Meier MagistrettiThis Part emphasizes the centrality of cultural contexts at all life course phases, and also the importance of learning in the life course.A one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.The development of the sense of coherence in pre-, peri- and early postnatal lifeClaudia Meier Magistretti, Soo Downe, Shefaly Shorey, Bengt LindströmThis new chapter proposed by Claudia has several interested, possible co-authors, but authorship and order is still not decided.Δ The sense of coherence in families and childrenOrly Idan, Orna Braun-Lewensohn, Bengt Lindström and Malka MargalitThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ The sense of coherence in adolescenceOrna Braun-Lewensohn, Orly Idan, Bengt Lindström and Malka MargalitThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing.Δ The sense of coherence in older peopleMaria Koelen, Monica Eriksson and Mima CattanThis returning chapter gets a very light polishing. Not sure if Mima is available this time.Effectiveness of interventions to enhance the sense of coherence over the life courseClaudia Meier Magistretti, Bengt Lindström, Monica ErikssonThis new chapter may have co-authors, but it is still TBD.Part IV Salutogenesis beyond healthSummary by Part Editor Shifra SagyA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Salutogenesis beyond health: interdisciplinary research advancesShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi ManCollective sense of coherence: advances of the concept from the individual to group levelsShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi ManaSalutogenesis, the sense of coherence and intergroup relationsShifra Sagy, Anan Srour and Adi SrourΔ Positive Psychology and its relation to salutogenesisStephen Joseph and Shifra SagyA very light polishing of the 1st-edition chapter.The application of salutogenesis in political settingsGeir Arild Espnes, Ruca Elisa Maass, Mathieu Roy, Delors Juvinyà Canal and Bengt LindströmThis is a new chapter proposed by Geir and with Ruca, Mathieu, Delors and Bengt expressing eagerness to contribute. Shall this chapter address only health politics, and/or political processes more generally? What about equity, social justice, equal opportunity? It should be more than just health if it is to in this Part. It is important for Geir and potential co-authors to discuss this thoroughly, in concert with Shifra, so we can decide where in the book it is really at home.The application of salutogenesis to preservation of the environmentTrevor Hancock is to be contacted by Bengt Lindström about taking lead author responsibility for this chapterPart V Salutogenesis and community-based health promotionSummary by Part Editor Maurice MittelmarkA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in communities and neighbourhoodsLenneke Vaandrager and Lynn KennedyA light polishing is in order, but maybe Lenneke and Lynn have more ambitious plans - TBD.The application of salutogenesis to communitywide mental health promotionVibeke Koushede and Robert DonovanThis new chapter is centered on the ABCs of mental health project in Denmark, and hopefully also the Act-Belong-Commit project in Australia if Robert is interested in participating… Vibeke needs to contact him about this. Both programmes are mental health promotion campaigns using a community approach. Nina Helen Mjösund from Norway might be a good addition to this chapter, but she has not been contacted about this as yet. It is up to Vibeke to decide whether to contact Nina or not.Δ The application of salutogenesis in cities and townsRuca Elisa Karin Maass, Monica Lillefjell and Geir Arild EspnesThis most likely gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in neonatal and infant care settingsSoo Downe (pending confirmation), Claudia Meier Magistretti, Bengt Lindström, Shefaly ShoreyThis new chapter is proposed by Claudia, and the other persons listed have all indicated great interest in this topic. Claudia plans to have discussions with Soo and Shefaly about their participation.The application of salutogenesis in early childcareBengt Lindström and Helga UrkeThis is a new chapter that Bengt and Helga are already in contact about, both ready and eager to collaborate on this.The application of salutogenesis for active, engaged ageing at homeMélanie LevasseurThis chapter and author is a suggestion by Mathieu, and Mélanie is quite happy to take the lead.Digital health promotion and the advancement of salutogenesisPauline Bakibinga, Luis Saboga-Nunes, Georg F. BauerThis new chapter was proposed some time ago (at our Zurich meeting) by Pauline, and Luis and Georg have indicated keen interest. Pauline needs to get a dialogue going between this author grouping to outline the contents of the chapter.Salutogenesis post-graduate education: Experience from the European Perspective on Health Promotion Summer courses, 1991 to the presentVaandrager, L. Bonmati, A., Contu, P., Ortiz Barreda, G., Masanotti, G., Hofmeister, A., Boonekamp, G., Kennedy, L., Pocetta, G., Juvinya, D., Garista, P., Lindstrom, B. & Wrzesińska, M.Maurice is delighted that this group has agreed to participate with a description of this capacity-building summer school on health promotion, in which salutogenesis has permeated every nook and cranny!Part VI Salutogenesis in health-promoting organisations and environmentsSummary by Part Editor Georg F. BauerA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in organisationsGeorg F. Bauer and Gregor J. JennyThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis at workGregor J. Jenny, Georg F. Bauer, Katharina Vogt and Steffen TorpThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in restorative settingsEike von Lindern, Freddie Lymeus and Terry HartigThis gets a light polishing.Δ Salutogenic architectureJan A. GolembiewskiThis gets a light polishing, but knowing Jan it might well be more than that.Salutogenesis for organisational leaders and decision makers: Case studies illustrating what is possibleMathieu Roy and Sally FergusonThis new chapter is under early discussion by Mathieu and Sally.Δ The application of salutogenesis in schoolsBjarne Bruun Jensen, Wolfgang Dür and Goof BuijsThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in universitiesMark Dooris, Sharon Doherty and Judy OrmeThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in the training of health professionalsLiv Hansen Ausland and Eva LangelandThis gets a light polishing. Liv has kindly agreed to take lead author responsibility as Hege Vinje is unable to do it.The Application of Salutogenesis in Military SettingsAvishai AntonovskyThis new chapter is enthusiastically proposed by Avishai; Maurice is unaware if Avishai plans to ask co-authors to contribute.Part VII The application of salutogenesis in health careSummary by Part Editor Jürgen M. PelikanA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The application of salutogenesis in hospitalsChristina Dietscher, Ulrike Winter and Jürgen M. PelikanThis gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in primary health careDaniela Rojatz, Peter Nowak, Jürgen M. PelikanThis is a new chapter, covering an area that was missed in the 1st edition.Δ The application of salutogenesis in mental healthcare settingsEva LangelandThis gets a light polishing by Eva, without Hege who was co-author in the first edition.Δ The application of salutogenesis in vocational rehabilitation settingsMonica Lillefjell, Ruca Elisa Karin Maass and Camilla IhlebækThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in residential care settingsViktoria Quehenberger and Karl KrajicThis gets a light polishing.Δ The application of salutogenesis in chronic care settingsIsabelle Aujoulat, Lawrence Mustin, François, Julie Pélicand and James RobinsonThis gets a light polishing.The application of salutogenesis in midwifery practiceSally Ferguson and Deborah DavisA very welcome new chapter!Sense for coherence: An emerging concept for salutogenesis practice?Claudia Meier MagistrettiAlso a very welcome new chapter; Maurice is not sure it belongs here and needs to hear more from Claudia about its main theme.PART VIII Salutogenesis in challenging social circumstances and environmentsSummary by Part Editor Bengt LindströmA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Δ The salutogenic approach to childcare in Sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on children who thrive in the face of adversityDickson Amugsi, Pauline Backibinga, Dennis MatandaThis offering is from three of Maurice's former PhD students, from Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, a real lift for participation in the book from Africa!Salutogenesis and migrationMarguerite Daniel and Fungisai Puleng Gwanzura OttemöllerThis is from two of Maurice's closest colleagues here in Bergen, whose research is centered right on this topic.Salutogenesis as a framework for child protectionGaby Margarita Ortiz BarredaGaby plans to recruit co-authors; she is a new, very productive member of Maurice's Department.Salutogenesis in Dementia CareJan Golembiewski, Lenneke Vaandrager, Monica Eriksson (pending her interest)Jan is doing a lot of work on this subject these days, and he is very enthusiastic to take this chapter on in addition to his returning chapter elsewhere in this book.Salutogenesis as a framework for social recovery after disasterMathieu Roy and Mélissa GénéreuxA new chapter proposed by Mathieu.Salutogenesis and the mental health of first respondersAvishai AntonovskyA new chapter proposed by Avishai; he may recruit co-authors.Salutogenesis in PrisonsJames Woodall, Nick de Viggiani, Rachael Dixey, and Jane SouthThis new chapter ‘replaces’ the 1st-edition chapter by Henning et al on correctional officers. It now covers prisons more comprehensively.Part IX Salutogenesis theory and methods: developments and innovationsSummary by Part Editor Lenneke VaandragerA one-page overview of the highlights of this part; really just an abstract of the Part.Evolution of the ‘health’ concept in salutogenesisJürgen M. Pelikan and Georg F. BauerA new chapter these fellows have been dying to write for ages!An Integrated Health Development Model: Interaction Paths of Pathogenesis and SalutogenesisGeorg F. BauerGeorg has written about this integration before, but we need it in our book!Theoretical issues in the further development of the sense of coherence constructJacek HochwälderMaurice recruited Jacek after reading some of his newer work on salutogenesis as theory. He has a forthcoming journal publication on this subject that is impressive.Qualitative approaches to the study of the sense of coherenceAvishai Antonovsky, Lenneke Vaandrager, Susana Arveklev Höglund, Ulla Hällgren Graneheim, Berit Lundman (Pending expressions of interest from the last four)This is Avishai’s proposal, supported enthusiastically by Monica and LennekeThe dynamic interrelatedness of the sense of coherence componentsLuis Saboga-NunesThis is Luis’ proposal, as a member of the Working Group.Context-sensitive evaluation of salutogenic interventionsLenneke VaandragerLenneke is tremendously excited about writing this chapter!Salutogenesis and health literacy – how do these concepts relate?Jürgen M. Pelikan, Luis Saboga-NunesThese two are already in contact about this chapter; they may ask other health literacy aficionados to participate.Fostering salutogenesis and Indigenous CommunitiesMargareth Santos Zanchetta, Melissa Stevenson, Joanna Anneke Rummens, Michelle Peltier and two collaborators, Jessica Sherk and Matthias Nunno.Maurice recruited Margareth and her team after reading her work on this subject; this chapter really adds depth and context to the book.Salutogenesis in academic literature other than English: A comparative analysisBengt LindströmBengt and Maurice had the idea to include other languages in this way, thinking that it might be too early to update the languages Part from the 1st edition. This analysis plans to use, among other material, the chapters in this Part of the 1st edition.

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to train graduate students across disciplines within the fields of public health and medicine, with the goal of guiding them in the transition to independent researchers. It focuses on theories, principles, techniques, and methods essential for data processing and quantitative analysis to address medical, health, and behavioral challenges. Students will learn to access to existing data and process their own data, quantify the distribution of a medical or health problem to inform decision making; to identify influential factors of a disease/behavioral problem; and to support health promotion and disease prevention. Concepts, principles, methods and skills are demonstrated with SAS programs, figures and tables generated from real, publicly available data. In addition to various methods for introductory analysis, the following are featured, including 4-dimensional measurement of distribution and geographic mapping, multiple linear and logistic regression, Poisson regression, Cox regression, missing data imputing, and statistical power analysis. Table of Contents1. Introduction to Quantitative Epidemiology.- 2. Characters, Variables, Data, and Information.- 3. Quantitative Descriptive Epidemiology.- 4. Causal Exploration with Bivariate Analysis.- 5. Confirmation with Multiple Linear Regression.- 6. Multivariate Analyses of Categorical and Counting Data.- 7. Multivariate Analysis of Time to Event Data.- 8. Simultaneous Analysis of Two Correlated Predictors.- 9. Special Issues with Quantitative Epidemiology.- 10. Power Analysis.

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to train graduate students across disciplines within the fields of public health and medicine, with the goal of guiding them in the transition to independent researchers. It focuses on theories, principles, techniques, and methods essential for data processing and quantitative analysis to address medical, health, and behavioral challenges. Students will learn to access to existing data and process their own data, quantify the distribution of a medical or health problem to inform decision making; to identify influential factors of a disease/behavioral problem; and to support health promotion and disease prevention. Concepts, principles, methods and skills are demonstrated with SAS programs, figures and tables generated from real, publicly available data. In addition to various methods for introductory analysis, the following are featured, including 4-dimensional measurement of distribution and geographic mapping, multiple linear and logistic regression, Poisson regression, Cox regression, missing data imputing, and statistical power analysis. Table of Contents1. Introduction to Quantitative Epidemiology.- 2. Characters, Variables, Data, and Information.- 3. Quantitative Descriptive Epidemiology.- 4. Causal Exploration with Bivariate Analysis.- 5. Confirmation with Multiple Linear Regression.- 6. Multivariate Analyses of Categorical and Counting Data.- 7. Multivariate Analysis of Time to Event Data.- 8. Simultaneous Analysis of Two Correlated Predictors.- 9. Special Issues with Quantitative Epidemiology.- 10. Power Analysis.

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Book SynopsisThe expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene. Similarly the growing role of health professionals as brokers of public safety means that the need for scholarly resources for developing knowledge and broadening theoretical positioning and questioning is becoming urgent and crucial. The fields of law enforcement and public health are beginning to understand the inextricable links between public safety and public health and the need to shift policies and practices towards more integrated practices. This book comes as a first, an utterly timely scholarly collection that brings together the views of multidisciplinary commentators on a wide range of issues and disciplines within the law enforcement and public health (LEPH) arena. The book addresses the more conceptual aspects of the relationship as well as more applied fields of collaboration, and the authors describe and analyze a range of service delivery examples taken from real-life instances of partnerships in action. Among the topics covered: ​Defund, Dismantle or Define Law Enforcement, Public Health, and Vulnerability Law Enforcement and Mental Health: The Missing Middle The Challenges of Sustaining Partnerships and the Diversification of Cultures Using Public Health Concepts and Metrics to Guide Policing Strategy and Practice Policing Pandemics Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing is essential reading for a wide array of professions and areas of expertise in the intersectoral field of LEPH. It is an indispensable resource for public health and law enforcement specialists (practitioners, educators, scholars, and researchers) and training programs across the world, as well as individuals interested in developing their knowledge and capacity to respond to complex LEPH issues in the field, including public prosecutors, coroners, and the judiciary. The text also can be used for undergraduate and postgraduate university policing, criminology, sociology, psychology, social work, public health, and medicine programs.Trade Review“This book is a collection of papers on topics where the law enforcement and public health industries intersect operationally and in a public policy sense. … This is an excellent reference work for police management, project and policy officers etc., who are interested in better aligning the efforts of policing with other public and private sector agencies, especially in complex policy spaces such as health and community wellbeing.” (APJ, Australian Police Journal, Vol. 76 (2), June, 2022)Table of Contents(Note that all chapters will feature case studies or vignette of approximately 500-750 words) Foreword: Safety and security: the shared space of law enforcement and public healthClifford Shearing, Scott Burris, & Jennifer Wood Law enforcement and public health are alike in many ways. Both are traditional government services that in modern times have been shared between public and private delivery systems. Both claim preventive roles in relation to social harms but devote considerable resources to responding to harms that have already occurred. Both are practiced within and as expressions of professional cultures. Both can create as well as alleviate harm. They share, to a considerable degree, the same operating spaces as they address specific ills like drug overdose, violence, road safety, and mental illness, and deeper social determinants of health and security like poverty and inequality. If we were organizing social services from scratch in 2021, we might well decide to organize law enforcement and public health services differently, but as things stand, the challenge is to consider how the two distinct projects can be better aligned for greater cooperation and effectiveness. The Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) Education Special Interest Group of the Global LEPH Association has initiated this collection of papers on the many and diverse facets of the LEPH intersection. In this preface, the authors briefly consider the evolution of the “LEPH” idea, its promise and limitations, and offer some thoughts about the state of the field today. Preface: Conceptual and practice tensions in LEPH: Public health approaches to policing and police and public health collaborations Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, James Clover, Denise Martin, Richard Southby, & Nick Crofts The Editorial Team will draft the Preface once the content of the textbook has been reviewed in its entirety. Chapter 1 – The historical public health and social work role of the police Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, James Clover, Denise Martin, Richard Southby, & Nick Crofts Drawing on the works of Maurice Punch, Egon Bittner, and others, this chapter provides a historical foundation to the interplay, or sometime the lack thereof, of law enforcement and health systems coordinating responses to protect and support people in the community. As described by Punch (2019, p. ix): The notion of Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) as a specified field for academic attention and professional practice is relatively recent (Anderson and Burris: 2017). It could be argued, however, that the issue of the interaction between the two “systems” – albeit in different ways and forms – is not all that new and is, in fact, a perennial one which long predates the formation of modern agencies of law enforcement and public health. This chapter also includes professional reflections from members of the Editorial team on their experience of the interplay, or lack thereof, between systems. Chapter 2 - Crime reduction and community well-being through community mobilization and leadership Norm Taylor, Cal Corley, Dale McFee & Matthew Torigian. In this chapter, two police executives and two executive advisors collaborate to share their informed perspectives and to explore new forms of police leadership that have emerged over the past decade, leading to broad systemic changes in criminal justice and human services delivery across Canada. Most of what Canadian police officers attend to daily has little to do with criminality. In fact, almost 74% of calls for service involve mental health and addictions, anti-social behaviour, and other social issues. And, the backgrounds of most criminals suggest problems earlier in life, including absent parenting, early development and education, mental health and addictions, inadequate housing, and continuing poverty. Recognizing that the police cannot ‘arrest their way out’ of these situations, and that the policing sector is itself faced with continuing economic pressures, Canadian governments, community-based organizations, the private sector, and academia have been thinking differently about how policing and related human services are organized and delivered to achieve improved outcomes for at-risk individuals, families, and communities. The clear consensus is that more integrated, multi-disciplinary approaches, focused both in the present and upstream, are essential if full capacity is to be applied and real improvements are to occur. Most of the vexing problems facing our communities do not fit nicely within the mandate or realm of any single organization. Traditional government structures do not align with most of the most pressing issues affecting individuals, families, and communities. Manoeuvring through the maze of siloed systems, processes, and procedures is time-consuming and duplicates energies that could otherwise be focused on achieving results. Many are content to work within the existing system. But there is a growing cadre of forward thinking, innovative, and results-oriented police leaders who are actively challenging the status quo and mobilizing action across sectors. In a historical analysis of policing since the mid-1730s, Kempa (2014) argues that policing is in a period of significant transition, shaped by a number of economic, social, and other drivers. History has shown that such periods of transition are marked by considerable experimentation and a challenging of traditional ways of doing things.The last to change are always the legislative and policy underpinnings across the range of human, information sharing, privacy, and criminal justice systems. But the first to change can be traced to innovative forms of leadership. Persevering and achieving results during such transitionary times is often not for the faint of heart. Conventional, hierarchical, and agency-specific leadership habits are most often inadequate for moving an entire complex and multidisciplinary system into action. This chapter traces recent experiences in Canada where results-oriented police leaders have been able to bend the system, to work across disciplines, and to effectively mobilize both traditional and non-traditional partners in the quest to markedly improve community safety and well-being outcomes. These stories can help others in shaping new pathways forward within each unique context. The chapter includes several case examples, framed by an analysis of the essential ingredients in leading for leverage. Chapter 3 – Police officers as public health interventionists and health practitioners as public safety brokers: are these really roles at the margin?Auke J. van Dijk & Jennifer D. Wood For most police officers, public health interventions are not seen as their core business but it probably is If only 20% of police time is spent on things that are related to crime, should we associate police work primarily with the criminal justice system? Public health practitioners in neighbourhoods are not primarily working from a medical perspective, their work is – or should be – community-based or at least community-informed and engaged with the overall public safety. In some cases it is public safety that defines the logic behind public health, like with acute high epidemic and pandemic risks. At the very least both professions have a considerable overlap, and what is needed at this intersection is a common perspective on that shared part of the profession. This chapter treats this overlap as if it were a profession in its own right – and follows the classical definition of a profession consisting of a body of knowledge, body of practice (skills), and a code of ethics. Ethics is a crucial issue in this context, especially the use of force and the potential friction between individual rights and population outcomes. This translates directly in decisions around e.g., information exchange. Part of shared ethics should be the prevention of crisis and coercion. Interesting enough both professions have a tendency to favor ‘crisis’ over ‘lack of clarity’, clearly at the detriment of individual persons as well as community safety and well-being. Chapter 4 – The challenges of sustaining partnerships and the diversification of cultures Denise Martin & William Graham Partnership working and the willingness of different service to collaborate is critical to the success of Law Enforcement and Public Health initiatives. While partnership approaches are not new and can be shown to operate successfully, there are continued challenges around sustaining partnerships in the longer term. Content explores the commonly cited contributory factors that can undermine longevity of collaborations. These factors include short-term planning cycles, limited resources, shifting priorities, and political pressures. This chapter proposes that these pressures often contribute to the reinforcing of siloed approaches and retreatism back into organisational cultures and norms as a way of managing hurdles that these challenges raise. Using examples from the experience of the authors, this chapter provides examples of partnership success and propose ways that using these success indicators might be useful when considering how to sustain partnerships to enable better working across the LEPH interface. Chapter 5 – Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle Stuart DM Thomas, Inga Heyman, Chris White & Nadine Dougall Commonly, in the course of their duties, the police will come into contact with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. It is acknowledged that these contacts can and do happen for a wide variety of reasons and in a broad range of circumstances. Increasingly, police have found that they are responding to call outs and situations involving people experiencing a mental health crisis. While there are ongoing tensions among the police, and community members, about whether this should even be considered ‘police work’ or not, the reality of this situation has required police, health, and social welfare services to develop both local and organisation-level partnerships to help articulate and delineate roles, functions, and professional boundaries. This chapter considers the development and function of these partnerships as they relate to responding to mental health-related situations. We argue that current partnerships are failing to meet the needs of the ‘missing middle’; this group represents a significant proportion of the population who have mental health-related needs but do not meet the threshold for admission to public mental health services, and for whom other community-based care and support are insufficient. The chapter authors exemplify these limitations by focusing on mental health presentations to Emergency Departments and look to pockets of innovation internationally that have sought to address what represents a significant unmet need. Chapter 6 – Violence as a public health issue, and its prevention Stan Gilmour, Richard Bent, Guy Lamb, Zara Quigg Violence and its prevention are of major relevance to overall public health and safety, and the necessary adjustment in how social policy responds to violence in the community calls for integrated partnership. Violence Reduction Units involving close collaborations have been critical in the development of public health approaches to violence prevention. Non-governmental groups such as Cure Violence, whose mission is to reduce violence globally using disease control and the support of behaviour change, are showing promise on the response to managing community violence. Equally there is evidence that governments are recognizing the overwhelming connection between violence and missing social determinants of health, as exemplified by the work being directed by the Mayor of London (UK) Sadiq Khan. This chapter informs the audience to the growing body of knowledge that supports the links between violence and public health. Chapter 7 – LEPH, ethnic minorities, and socio-cultural diversity Author(s) not yet confirmed Any social policy response, whether in policing, health, or similar disciplines, must take into account the uniqueness and the vulnerabilities that exist within and amongst our diverse communities within society. Ethnic and racialized minorities, including indigenous communities, are at often vastly increased risk of involvement with criminal justice and have very impaired health indicators. Chapter 8 - First responders' stress and resilience as a matter of the public health Katy Kamkar & Grant Edwards The nature of the policing requires regular engagement in traumatic events. Coupled with shift work, long hours, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, and at a ready state of continual hyper-vigilance, police are increasingly suffering psychological injuries. In this chapter, Commander Grant Edwards relates his personal experiences in how he developed and has dealt with mental health trauma. The health of our police organizations needs to be a consideration as part of the overall public health, and these stories and lessons are applicable to many sectors in society. Content includes the importance of healthy organizational culture and leadership, steps for police workplace mental health strategy including interventions at individual and organizational levels, and the topic of moral suffering in police work, compassion fatigue, and burnout, along with modifiable factors including all of the above mentioned to mitigate risk to psychological injuries. Chapter 9 – Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs: crimes vs. public health issues Author(s) not yet confirmed. Many communities struggle with the impact of substance use and addiction, whether of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. There is much tension between criminal justice approaches and public health approaches to issues around psychoactive substances, with a generally agreed role for police in regulation and reduction of harm related to the use of legal substances, but much contention about roles and responsibilities in relation to drugs currently classified as illegal. Chapter 10 – LEPH and vulnerability Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron & Nicole Asquith There is now widespread scholarly and practice agreement that vulnerability is at the very core of law enforcement and public health partnerships. Practitioners also agree that 'clients' are the same across sectors: police often encounter individuals who have been receiving the care of public health practitioners, or, at the very least, been on the radar of these practitioners. Legislation and policy have, however, remained shy in approaching joint definitions of vulnerability that would help disciplinary and practice collaborations in the field, despite calls for collaboration across sectors. As a result, siloed practices remain the norm and are quickly becoming outdated in terms of service delivery efficiency and appropriate care. This chapter identifies the reasons why seeking a better integration of practice across all sectors is a worthwhile pursuit. The content argues that the futility of debates around disciplinary specificity and fenced-in budgets are at the detriment of better-targeted, holistic service delivery for vulnerable people. It also goes against economic arguments that constantly ask for rationalisation. On the contrary: multidisciplinary practice in law enforcement and public health can show significant return on investment and timely recuperation of costs. Chapter 11 – Epidemiological Criminology Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Developing a National Training Model for Law Enforcement and Public Health Professionals from an Epidemiological Criminology Perspective Timothy A. Akers, Rodney Hill, Paul Archibald, Tina Billington-Hughes, & William Hervey “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” A well-known quote from The Wizard of Oz is very applicable to the topic of this chapter, Epidemiological Criminology (“EpiCrim”). EpiCrim is an emerging theoretical and practical framework that can bridge the knowledge gap between academies and professionals in law enforcement and public health. The emergence of new modalities, techniques, and approaches among the biological, psychological, sociological, and environmental determinants can further bring forth both the subtle and overt practices across these seemingly diverse professions. Law Enforcement has always seen the public’s health as their basic tenet while public health has teetered back and forth between enforcement and prevention. Epidemiological Criminology also integrates both the subtle and overt distinctions between the biomedical and behavioral disparities common to these perspectives while, at the same time, introduces new insights, models, and approaches to the centuries-old ways both professions recruit, train, and practice. Chapter 12 – Evidence-informed policing: Using public health metrics and evidence to shape policing strategy and practice. Brandon del Pozo As the challenges communities face become more complex, police are being asked to form closer partnerships with other institutions and agencies in all aspects of their work, from response to mental health and drug crises, to homeless conditions and addressing violent crime. To form the most effective partnerships, police leaders can benefit from a good grasp of the methods of public health. This chapter reveals how leveraging the concepts and measures within public health can allow police agencies to identify goals and problem-solving techniques that focus on concepts such as epidemiology and structural determinants of health to go beyond arrests, seizures, and crime rates, and to deliver public safety in collaboration with partners that minimizes negative collateral consequences for all. Chapter 13 - The role of police in the response to HIV Nick Crofts & David Patterson Police behaviours are the key determinants of the risk environment for many people at risk of HIV. This is especially the case for street-based communities of sex workers and people who inject drugs, but applies to other marginalised communities such as MSM and transgendered people, as well. The injurious impact of much police behaviour towards these communities has been well-documented. What is not so well-documented is how these behaviours can be changed, and how they are being changed, to make allies of police in the struggle against HIV rather than enemies. Police can play a vital role in facilitating access to life-saving services that seek to reduce the impact of HIV in their community. By ameliorating the potential harmful impacts of the application of criminal and administrative laws in some circumstances, and reducing stigmatization and discrimination to which key populations are exposed, police can play a vital leadership role in the fight against HIV and other harmful aspects of drug use. There is an increasing number and range of HIV prevention and care programs in which police are working as effective partners; this chapter critically evaluates the role of police in the HIV response and distills and learns from the experience of those working successfully with police against HIV and discrimination. Chapter 14 – Southern policing and the applicability of LEPH to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) Melissa Jardine & Auke van Dijk Explorations of law enforcement and public health (LEPH) issues have been concentrated in the global North (Punch & James, 2016) despite more than half of the world’s population being found in the global South and with much more diverse experiences. The utility of LEPH approaches as mechanisms for protecting public safety and enhancing community well-being are increasingly being examined with a view to developing a theoretical framework to analyse the multiple intersections of LEPH (van Dijk et al, 2019). Drawing on a Southern perspective (Connell, 2007; Carrington et al, 2016; Jardine, 2019), this chapter illuminates the importance of developing a LEPH framework that can account for the diversity of experience across both global North and South. We do this by drawing attention to a range of variables that shape knowledge of, or the design and implementation of, LEPH approaches – or their absence. These variables include examining the international environment, global information networks, and dissemination; political regimes and ideologies; national level/societal cultures; overarching policing paradigms; occupational cultures (i.e., police and health); individual conditions, vulnerable groups, and places; as well as tangible and intangible resources such as available infrastructure and levels of trust in public institutions, among others. The authors argue that these variables interact in myriad ways that are not necessarily unidirectional or linear, and subsequently have important implications for understanding the role of police services and other agencies in public protection in the global South. Chapter 15 – Emergency preparedness: law enforcement and health working together Karl Roberts (et al) The necessity for interoperability amongst health and law enforcement is at no time more relevant as it is now with the pandemic of COVID-19. Providing sufficient and appropriate support to manage the public’s health and safety requires close and effective collaboration. Chapter 16 – LEPH education Richard Southby, Inga Heyman, Isabelle Bartkowiak et al. Increasing expectations placed upon all sectors, including policing, will require each discipline to explore and reimagine what education and training is provided to current and future practitioners. This becomes further complicated when these sectors seek improved interoperability amongst each other. This chapter explores the challenges and opportunities that exist when developing and delivering LEPH education, and offers the audience suggestions and considerations for developing and delivering LEPH education within their respective area or discipline. These suggestions and considerations are drawn from the content of the chapters contained, as a conclusion to the textbook and encouragement for further research, collaboration, and action.Chapter 17 -- Policing PandemicsProfessor Karl Roberts, World Health Organisation, Western Sydney University and University of Johannesburg; Dr Victoria Herrington, Australian Institute of Police Management, Australia Currently the world is in the grip of a pandemic, COVID-19. This has presented many challenges to governments in general and to police in particular. Police have a significant role in a nation’s response to a pandemic carrying out a range of important functions. These might include enforcing quarantine, isolation, and travel bans; providing security to medical personnel; protecting and transporting medical equipment, vaccines, and medical samples; providing advice and reassurance to the public; supporting investigations into the source of an outbreak; identifying new cases of disease or who is at risk from it. In cases where a disease is suspected of having been started as a result of human action, law enforcement will likely take the lead in investigations to identify and bring the culprit to justice. All of these roles will be added to many of the usual policing duties required during a pandemic. There are, however, many challenges for police in responding to pandemics. They may be required to engage with agencies such as Public Health that they don’t normally work with. This can cause difficulties with lack of mutual understanding of processes, policies, and practices and lack of trust between agencies. Other challenges include protecting officers from infection, safe handling of samples, and effective management of stress, anxiety, and possible bereavement amongst police staff. All of this in a context of likely high staff attrition. This chapter explores policing during pandemics, the challenges faced by police, and potential solutions. Chapter 18 -- Role of Prosecutors in Achieving the Public Health Mission (TBD)Author(s) not yet confirmed.Abstract forthcoming

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Book SynopsisThe expanding remit of policing as a fundamental part of the public health continuum is increasingly acknowledged on the international scene. Similarly the growing role of health professionals as brokers of public safety means that the need for scholarly resources for developing knowledge and broadening theoretical positioning and questioning is becoming urgent and crucial. The fields of law enforcement and public health are beginning to understand the inextricable links between public safety and public health and the need to shift policies and practices towards more integrated practices. This book comes as a first, an utterly timely scholarly collection that brings together the views of multidisciplinary commentators on a wide range of issues and disciplines within the law enforcement and public health (LEPH) arena. The book addresses the more conceptual aspects of the relationship as well as more applied fields of collaboration, and the authors describe and analyze a range of service delivery examples taken from real-life instances of partnerships in action. Among the topics covered: ​Defund, Dismantle or Define Law Enforcement, Public Health, and Vulnerability Law Enforcement and Mental Health: The Missing Middle The Challenges of Sustaining Partnerships and the Diversification of Cultures Using Public Health Concepts and Metrics to Guide Policing Strategy and Practice Policing Pandemics Law Enforcement and Public Health: Partners for Community Safety and Wellbeing is essential reading for a wide array of professions and areas of expertise in the intersectoral field of LEPH. It is an indispensable resource for public health and law enforcement specialists (practitioners, educators, scholars, and researchers) and training programs across the world, as well as individuals interested in developing their knowledge and capacity to respond to complex LEPH issues in the field, including public prosecutors, coroners, and the judiciary. The text also can be used for undergraduate and postgraduate university policing, criminology, sociology, psychology, social work, public health, and medicine programs.Trade Review“This book is a collection of papers on topics where the law enforcement and public health industries intersect operationally and in a public policy sense. … This is an excellent reference work for police management, project and policy officers etc., who are interested in better aligning the efforts of policing with other public and private sector agencies, especially in complex policy spaces such as health and community wellbeing.” (APJ, Australian Police Journal, Vol. 76 (2), June, 2022)Table of Contents(Note that all chapters will feature case studies or vignette of approximately 500-750 words) Foreword: Safety and security: the shared space of law enforcement and public healthClifford Shearing, Scott Burris, & Jennifer Wood Law enforcement and public health are alike in many ways. Both are traditional government services that in modern times have been shared between public and private delivery systems. Both claim preventive roles in relation to social harms but devote considerable resources to responding to harms that have already occurred. Both are practiced within and as expressions of professional cultures. Both can create as well as alleviate harm. They share, to a considerable degree, the same operating spaces as they address specific ills like drug overdose, violence, road safety, and mental illness, and deeper social determinants of health and security like poverty and inequality. If we were organizing social services from scratch in 2021, we might well decide to organize law enforcement and public health services differently, but as things stand, the challenge is to consider how the two distinct projects can be better aligned for greater cooperation and effectiveness. The Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) Education Special Interest Group of the Global LEPH Association has initiated this collection of papers on the many and diverse facets of the LEPH intersection. In this preface, the authors briefly consider the evolution of the “LEPH” idea, its promise and limitations, and offer some thoughts about the state of the field today. Preface: Conceptual and practice tensions in LEPH: Public health approaches to policing and police and public health collaborations Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, James Clover, Denise Martin, Richard Southby, & Nick Crofts The Editorial Team will draft the Preface once the content of the textbook has been reviewed in its entirety. Chapter 1 – The historical public health and social work role of the police Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, James Clover, Denise Martin, Richard Southby, & Nick Crofts Drawing on the works of Maurice Punch, Egon Bittner, and others, this chapter provides a historical foundation to the interplay, or sometime the lack thereof, of law enforcement and health systems coordinating responses to protect and support people in the community. As described by Punch (2019, p. ix): The notion of Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) as a specified field for academic attention and professional practice is relatively recent (Anderson and Burris: 2017). It could be argued, however, that the issue of the interaction between the two “systems” – albeit in different ways and forms – is not all that new and is, in fact, a perennial one which long predates the formation of modern agencies of law enforcement and public health. This chapter also includes professional reflections from members of the Editorial team on their experience of the interplay, or lack thereof, between systems. Chapter 2 - Crime reduction and community well-being through community mobilization and leadership Norm Taylor, Cal Corley, Dale McFee & Matthew Torigian. In this chapter, two police executives and two executive advisors collaborate to share their informed perspectives and to explore new forms of police leadership that have emerged over the past decade, leading to broad systemic changes in criminal justice and human services delivery across Canada. Most of what Canadian police officers attend to daily has little to do with criminality. In fact, almost 74% of calls for service involve mental health and addictions, anti-social behaviour, and other social issues. And, the backgrounds of most criminals suggest problems earlier in life, including absent parenting, early development and education, mental health and addictions, inadequate housing, and continuing poverty. Recognizing that the police cannot ‘arrest their way out’ of these situations, and that the policing sector is itself faced with continuing economic pressures, Canadian governments, community-based organizations, the private sector, and academia have been thinking differently about how policing and related human services are organized and delivered to achieve improved outcomes for at-risk individuals, families, and communities. The clear consensus is that more integrated, multi-disciplinary approaches, focused both in the present and upstream, are essential if full capacity is to be applied and real improvements are to occur. Most of the vexing problems facing our communities do not fit nicely within the mandate or realm of any single organization. Traditional government structures do not align with most of the most pressing issues affecting individuals, families, and communities. Manoeuvring through the maze of siloed systems, processes, and procedures is time-consuming and duplicates energies that could otherwise be focused on achieving results. Many are content to work within the existing system. But there is a growing cadre of forward thinking, innovative, and results-oriented police leaders who are actively challenging the status quo and mobilizing action across sectors. In a historical analysis of policing since the mid-1730s, Kempa (2014) argues that policing is in a period of significant transition, shaped by a number of economic, social, and other drivers. History has shown that such periods of transition are marked by considerable experimentation and a challenging of traditional ways of doing things.The last to change are always the legislative and policy underpinnings across the range of human, information sharing, privacy, and criminal justice systems. But the first to change can be traced to innovative forms of leadership. Persevering and achieving results during such transitionary times is often not for the faint of heart. Conventional, hierarchical, and agency-specific leadership habits are most often inadequate for moving an entire complex and multidisciplinary system into action. This chapter traces recent experiences in Canada where results-oriented police leaders have been able to bend the system, to work across disciplines, and to effectively mobilize both traditional and non-traditional partners in the quest to markedly improve community safety and well-being outcomes. These stories can help others in shaping new pathways forward within each unique context. The chapter includes several case examples, framed by an analysis of the essential ingredients in leading for leverage. Chapter 3 – Police officers as public health interventionists and health practitioners as public safety brokers: are these really roles at the margin?Auke J. van Dijk & Jennifer D. Wood For most police officers, public health interventions are not seen as their core business but it probably is If only 20% of police time is spent on things that are related to crime, should we associate police work primarily with the criminal justice system? Public health practitioners in neighbourhoods are not primarily working from a medical perspective, their work is – or should be – community-based or at least community-informed and engaged with the overall public safety. In some cases it is public safety that defines the logic behind public health, like with acute high epidemic and pandemic risks. At the very least both professions have a considerable overlap, and what is needed at this intersection is a common perspective on that shared part of the profession. This chapter treats this overlap as if it were a profession in its own right – and follows the classical definition of a profession consisting of a body of knowledge, body of practice (skills), and a code of ethics. Ethics is a crucial issue in this context, especially the use of force and the potential friction between individual rights and population outcomes. This translates directly in decisions around e.g., information exchange. Part of shared ethics should be the prevention of crisis and coercion. Interesting enough both professions have a tendency to favor ‘crisis’ over ‘lack of clarity’, clearly at the detriment of individual persons as well as community safety and well-being. Chapter 4 – The challenges of sustaining partnerships and the diversification of cultures Denise Martin & William Graham Partnership working and the willingness of different service to collaborate is critical to the success of Law Enforcement and Public Health initiatives. While partnership approaches are not new and can be shown to operate successfully, there are continued challenges around sustaining partnerships in the longer term. Content explores the commonly cited contributory factors that can undermine longevity of collaborations. These factors include short-term planning cycles, limited resources, shifting priorities, and political pressures. This chapter proposes that these pressures often contribute to the reinforcing of siloed approaches and retreatism back into organisational cultures and norms as a way of managing hurdles that these challenges raise. Using examples from the experience of the authors, this chapter provides examples of partnership success and propose ways that using these success indicators might be useful when considering how to sustain partnerships to enable better working across the LEPH interface. Chapter 5 – Law enforcement and mental health: The missing middle Stuart DM Thomas, Inga Heyman, Chris White & Nadine Dougall Commonly, in the course of their duties, the police will come into contact with people who have a lived experience of mental illness. It is acknowledged that these contacts can and do happen for a wide variety of reasons and in a broad range of circumstances. Increasingly, police have found that they are responding to call outs and situations involving people experiencing a mental health crisis. While there are ongoing tensions among the police, and community members, about whether this should even be considered ‘police work’ or not, the reality of this situation has required police, health, and social welfare services to develop both local and organisation-level partnerships to help articulate and delineate roles, functions, and professional boundaries. This chapter considers the development and function of these partnerships as they relate to responding to mental health-related situations. We argue that current partnerships are failing to meet the needs of the ‘missing middle’; this group represents a significant proportion of the population who have mental health-related needs but do not meet the threshold for admission to public mental health services, and for whom other community-based care and support are insufficient. The chapter authors exemplify these limitations by focusing on mental health presentations to Emergency Departments and look to pockets of innovation internationally that have sought to address what represents a significant unmet need. Chapter 6 – Violence as a public health issue, and its prevention Stan Gilmour, Richard Bent, Guy Lamb, Zara Quigg Violence and its prevention are of major relevance to overall public health and safety, and the necessary adjustment in how social policy responds to violence in the community calls for integrated partnership. Violence Reduction Units involving close collaborations have been critical in the development of public health approaches to violence prevention. Non-governmental groups such as Cure Violence, whose mission is to reduce violence globally using disease control and the support of behaviour change, are showing promise on the response to managing community violence. Equally there is evidence that governments are recognizing the overwhelming connection between violence and missing social determinants of health, as exemplified by the work being directed by the Mayor of London (UK) Sadiq Khan. This chapter informs the audience to the growing body of knowledge that supports the links between violence and public health. Chapter 7 – LEPH, ethnic minorities, and socio-cultural diversity Author(s) not yet confirmed Any social policy response, whether in policing, health, or similar disciplines, must take into account the uniqueness and the vulnerabilities that exist within and amongst our diverse communities within society. Ethnic and racialized minorities, including indigenous communities, are at often vastly increased risk of involvement with criminal justice and have very impaired health indicators. Chapter 8 - First responders' stress and resilience as a matter of the public health Katy Kamkar & Grant Edwards The nature of the policing requires regular engagement in traumatic events. Coupled with shift work, long hours, poor nutrition, lack of exercise, and at a ready state of continual hyper-vigilance, police are increasingly suffering psychological injuries. In this chapter, Commander Grant Edwards relates his personal experiences in how he developed and has dealt with mental health trauma. The health of our police organizations needs to be a consideration as part of the overall public health, and these stories and lessons are applicable to many sectors in society. Content includes the importance of healthy organizational culture and leadership, steps for police workplace mental health strategy including interventions at individual and organizational levels, and the topic of moral suffering in police work, compassion fatigue, and burnout, along with modifiable factors including all of the above mentioned to mitigate risk to psychological injuries. Chapter 9 – Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs: crimes vs. public health issues Author(s) not yet confirmed. Many communities struggle with the impact of substance use and addiction, whether of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. There is much tension between criminal justice approaches and public health approaches to issues around psychoactive substances, with a generally agreed role for police in regulation and reduction of harm related to the use of legal substances, but much contention about roles and responsibilities in relation to drugs currently classified as illegal. Chapter 10 – LEPH and vulnerability Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron & Nicole Asquith There is now widespread scholarly and practice agreement that vulnerability is at the very core of law enforcement and public health partnerships. Practitioners also agree that 'clients' are the same across sectors: police often encounter individuals who have been receiving the care of public health practitioners, or, at the very least, been on the radar of these practitioners. Legislation and policy have, however, remained shy in approaching joint definitions of vulnerability that would help disciplinary and practice collaborations in the field, despite calls for collaboration across sectors. As a result, siloed practices remain the norm and are quickly becoming outdated in terms of service delivery efficiency and appropriate care. This chapter identifies the reasons why seeking a better integration of practice across all sectors is a worthwhile pursuit. The content argues that the futility of debates around disciplinary specificity and fenced-in budgets are at the detriment of better-targeted, holistic service delivery for vulnerable people. It also goes against economic arguments that constantly ask for rationalisation. On the contrary: multidisciplinary practice in law enforcement and public health can show significant return on investment and timely recuperation of costs. Chapter 11 – Epidemiological Criminology Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Developing a National Training Model for Law Enforcement and Public Health Professionals from an Epidemiological Criminology Perspective Timothy A. Akers, Rodney Hill, Paul Archibald, Tina Billington-Hughes, & William Hervey “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” A well-known quote from The Wizard of Oz is very applicable to the topic of this chapter, Epidemiological Criminology (“EpiCrim”). EpiCrim is an emerging theoretical and practical framework that can bridge the knowledge gap between academies and professionals in law enforcement and public health. The emergence of new modalities, techniques, and approaches among the biological, psychological, sociological, and environmental determinants can further bring forth both the subtle and overt practices across these seemingly diverse professions. Law Enforcement has always seen the public’s health as their basic tenet while public health has teetered back and forth between enforcement and prevention. Epidemiological Criminology also integrates both the subtle and overt distinctions between the biomedical and behavioral disparities common to these perspectives while, at the same time, introduces new insights, models, and approaches to the centuries-old ways both professions recruit, train, and practice. Chapter 12 – Evidence-informed policing: Using public health metrics and evidence to shape policing strategy and practice. Brandon del Pozo As the challenges communities face become more complex, police are being asked to form closer partnerships with other institutions and agencies in all aspects of their work, from response to mental health and drug crises, to homeless conditions and addressing violent crime. To form the most effective partnerships, police leaders can benefit from a good grasp of the methods of public health. This chapter reveals how leveraging the concepts and measures within public health can allow police agencies to identify goals and problem-solving techniques that focus on concepts such as epidemiology and structural determinants of health to go beyond arrests, seizures, and crime rates, and to deliver public safety in collaboration with partners that minimizes negative collateral consequences for all. Chapter 13 - The role of police in the response to HIV Nick Crofts & David Patterson Police behaviours are the key determinants of the risk environment for many people at risk of HIV. This is especially the case for street-based communities of sex workers and people who inject drugs, but applies to other marginalised communities such as MSM and transgendered people, as well. The injurious impact of much police behaviour towards these communities has been well-documented. What is not so well-documented is how these behaviours can be changed, and how they are being changed, to make allies of police in the struggle against HIV rather than enemies. Police can play a vital role in facilitating access to life-saving services that seek to reduce the impact of HIV in their community. By ameliorating the potential harmful impacts of the application of criminal and administrative laws in some circumstances, and reducing stigmatization and discrimination to which key populations are exposed, police can play a vital leadership role in the fight against HIV and other harmful aspects of drug use. There is an increasing number and range of HIV prevention and care programs in which police are working as effective partners; this chapter critically evaluates the role of police in the HIV response and distills and learns from the experience of those working successfully with police against HIV and discrimination. Chapter 14 – Southern policing and the applicability of LEPH to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) Melissa Jardine & Auke van Dijk Explorations of law enforcement and public health (LEPH) issues have been concentrated in the global North (Punch & James, 2016) despite more than half of the world’s population being found in the global South and with much more diverse experiences. The utility of LEPH approaches as mechanisms for protecting public safety and enhancing community well-being are increasingly being examined with a view to developing a theoretical framework to analyse the multiple intersections of LEPH (van Dijk et al, 2019). Drawing on a Southern perspective (Connell, 2007; Carrington et al, 2016; Jardine, 2019), this chapter illuminates the importance of developing a LEPH framework that can account for the diversity of experience across both global North and South. We do this by drawing attention to a range of variables that shape knowledge of, or the design and implementation of, LEPH approaches – or their absence. These variables include examining the international environment, global information networks, and dissemination; political regimes and ideologies; national level/societal cultures; overarching policing paradigms; occupational cultures (i.e., police and health); individual conditions, vulnerable groups, and places; as well as tangible and intangible resources such as available infrastructure and levels of trust in public institutions, among others. The authors argue that these variables interact in myriad ways that are not necessarily unidirectional or linear, and subsequently have important implications for understanding the role of police services and other agencies in public protection in the global South. Chapter 15 – Emergency preparedness: law enforcement and health working together Karl Roberts (et al) The necessity for interoperability amongst health and law enforcement is at no time more relevant as it is now with the pandemic of COVID-19. Providing sufficient and appropriate support to manage the public’s health and safety requires close and effective collaboration. Chapter 16 – LEPH education Richard Southby, Inga Heyman, Isabelle Bartkowiak et al. Increasing expectations placed upon all sectors, including policing, will require each discipline to explore and reimagine what education and training is provided to current and future practitioners. This becomes further complicated when these sectors seek improved interoperability amongst each other. This chapter explores the challenges and opportunities that exist when developing and delivering LEPH education, and offers the audience suggestions and considerations for developing and delivering LEPH education within their respective area or discipline. These suggestions and considerations are drawn from the content of the chapters contained, as a conclusion to the textbook and encouragement for further research, collaboration, and action.Chapter 17 -- Policing PandemicsProfessor Karl Roberts, World Health Organisation, Western Sydney University and University of Johannesburg; Dr Victoria Herrington, Australian Institute of Police Management, Australia Currently the world is in the grip of a pandemic, COVID-19. This has presented many challenges to governments in general and to police in particular. Police have a significant role in a nation’s response to a pandemic carrying out a range of important functions. These might include enforcing quarantine, isolation, and travel bans; providing security to medical personnel; protecting and transporting medical equipment, vaccines, and medical samples; providing advice and reassurance to the public; supporting investigations into the source of an outbreak; identifying new cases of disease or who is at risk from it. In cases where a disease is suspected of having been started as a result of human action, law enforcement will likely take the lead in investigations to identify and bring the culprit to justice. All of these roles will be added to many of the usual policing duties required during a pandemic. There are, however, many challenges for police in responding to pandemics. They may be required to engage with agencies such as Public Health that they don’t normally work with. This can cause difficulties with lack of mutual understanding of processes, policies, and practices and lack of trust between agencies. Other challenges include protecting officers from infection, safe handling of samples, and effective management of stress, anxiety, and possible bereavement amongst police staff. All of this in a context of likely high staff attrition. This chapter explores policing during pandemics, the challenges faced by police, and potential solutions. Chapter 18 -- Role of Prosecutors in Achieving the Public Health Mission (TBD)Author(s) not yet confirmed.Abstract forthcoming

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