Public health and preventive medicine Books

Book SynopsisThis new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health. With chapters including biology, epidemiology, anthropology, politics and psychology, it is the only book to explore all the major disciplines and highlight how they can contribute to our understanding of health in one single volume.Comprehensive, accessible and written by leading experts in the different fields, this is the introductory text for all students of health studies.New to this Edition:- A whole new chapter on geography and health: it explores the relationship between people''s health and the natural and built environments - New example features in every chapter which apply each discipline to contemporary health issues -from the increase in obesity to the impact of changing social and welfare policies- along with bullet points that highlight the latest research in the field - A complete update on both the design and layout ensures an even more navigTrade Review"This text informs my teaching and underpins the learning outcomes that relate to a range of 'health' modules and courses. It is a text that I shall certainly recommend to students, as it is written in a user friendly style, encourages critical thinking and focuses on developing an appreciation of knowledge that underpins practice and the application of theory to practice. I welcome the changes as a positive development and look forward to the third edition." - Pauline Lilley, Coventry University, UK "[This] text helps students to construct an accurate and unbiased view of health and social care which is helpful in facilitating critical analysis [...] provides students with a framework to be critical of the information on health that they find in other sources, predominantly more web-based information. [...]Students that do not use this text tend to present overly descriptive essays and are reliant on web based information." - Peter Stuart, University of Northampton, UK "Excellent general text on health for use by midwifery students who need to gain a broader view of health related to women, pregnancy and childbearing." - Nicola Young, UEA "This is a good background read and affords a broad interpretation of health issues. This edition engages the reader and encourages them to uncover the broader issues of health." - Faith Muir, University of Wolverhampton, UK "A very comprehensive text which will be an invaluable addition to the existing resources for my students." - Dev Jootun, University of the West of ScotlandTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Human Biology and Health 2. History and Health 3. Epidemiology and Health 4. Health Psychology 5. Sociology and Health 6. Geography and Health 7. Cultural Studies and Anthropology 8. Politics and Health 9. Social Policy and Health 10. Organisation and Management of Health and Health Care 11. Health Economics 12. Ethics and Law

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Book SynopsisSustainability is not unique to health, yet sustainability is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order to enlighten leadership about the value of sustainability as we move toward a new paradigm of health.Fully updated for the second edition, the book now includes case studies about: Waste disposal and cost Chemicals of concern Cost of water Green building ratings This book is a unique resource for researchers, students and professionals working in health and healthcare management because the book connects key concepts of environmental sustainability with healthcare operations. Readers will gain an appreciation for translating leadership priorities into sustainability tactics with benTrade Review"Pursuing sustainability is core to modern healthcare leadership. Through water conservation, sustainable packaging, renewable energy, and reducing carbon emissions, we save money, improve the health of the planet, and compete in business efficiently." — Michael Sneed, Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs for Johnson & Johnson, USATable of ContentsForeword. Preface. 1. Hippocrates was right 2. From governance to operations 3. Saluting the captain of the ship 4. Waste not, want not 5. The long and winding road (leads me home) 6. Good-bye fried chicken, hello healthy, sustainable food 7. Through the looking glass 8. Before a baby’s first breath 9. Downstream without a paddle 10. Building brand, literally 11. Water changes everything 12. Environmental ethics in healthcare management

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Book SynopsisThe dermoscopic patterns of numerous dermatologic diseases have here been investigated and disseminated; this book collects the results, to help all those who want to improve their skills as clinicians and acquire additional knowledge on the submicroscopic morphology of skin diseases.Trade Review"In some ways, inflammatory diseases are more challenging than pigmented lesions diagnostically. This book does an admirable job of helping demystify the process."Patricia Wong, MD (Private Practice)Table of ContentsPrefaceContributorsIntroductionPART I: INFLAMMATORY DISEASES1. Papulosquamous disordersAimilios Lallas and Enzo Errichetti2. Other papulonodular disordersEnzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, and Dimitrios Ioannides3. Granulomatous noninfectious disordersEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas4. Connective tissue diseasesEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas5. Facial dermatosesEnzo Errichetti, Feroze Kaliyadan, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, Giuseppe Micali, and Aimilios Lallas6. ErythemasNicola di Meo, Paola Corneli, and Iris Zalaudek7. Hyperpigmented dermatosesEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios Lallas8. Hypopigmented dermatosesEnzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, and Dimitrios Ioannides9. MiscellaneousEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios LallasPART II: INFILTRATIVE DISEASES10. Lymphomas and pseudolymphomasZoe Apalla, Aimilios Lallas, and Enzo Errichetti11. Other infiltrative conditionsEnzo Errichetti and Aimilios LallasPART III: INFECTIOUS DISEASES12. Bacterial and parasitic infectionsIgnacio Gómez Martín, Balachandra S. Ankad, Enzo Errichetti, Aimilios Lallas, Dimitrios Ioannides, and Pedro Zaballos13. MycosesDionysios Lekkas, Francesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, and Giuseppe Micali14. Viral infectionsFrancesco Lacarrubba, Anna Elisa Verzì, and Giuseppe MicaliPART IV: HAIR AND NAIL DISEASES15. Hair disorders (trichoscopy)Adriana Rakowska and Lidia Rudnicka16. Nail disorders (onychoscopy)Michela Starace, Aurora Alessandrini, and Bianca Maria PiracciniPART V: SKIN OF COLOR17. Disorders of pigmentationSidharth Sonthalia, Atula Gupta, Abhijeet Kumar Jha, Rashmi Sarkar,and Balachandra Suryakant Ankad18. Inflammatory and infectious conditionsVishal Gupta, Sidharth Sonthalia, Yasmeen Jabeen Bhat, Sonali Langar, and Manal Bosseila19. Hair and nail disordersArshdeep, Mathapati Shivamurthy Sukesh, Prashant Agarwal, Deepak Jakhar, and Sidharth Sonthalia20. Monitoring of therapeutic response and other applicationsSidharth Sonthalia, Tejinder Kaur, and Sakshi SrivastavaAPPENDICES: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSESI. Erythematosquamous macules/papules on the trunk and/or extremitiesII. Erythematous macules/plaques on the faceIII. Palmar/plantar keratodermaIV. Sclero-atrophic patches on the trunk and/or extremitiesV. Hyperpigmented macules/papules on the trunk and/or extremitiesVI. Hypopigmented macules on the trunk and/or extremitiesVII. Itchy papules/nodules on the trunk and/or extremitiesVIII. Inflammatory papules along Blaschko’s linesIX. Purpuric macules/patchesX. Nonscarring alopeciaXI. Scarring alopeciaXII. Hair castsXIII. OnycholysisXIV. Pitting of the nail plateIndex

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Book SynopsisIt is written for both for A level and University students (who are considering a career in the NHS), and the general public.

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Book SynopsisPolicy and Practice in Promoting Public Health offers an up-to-date analysis of the key policy and practice issues involved in promoting public health - from local and community levels, to international settings. The book equips readers with a sound understanding of the policy process, and has a critical edge that encourages readers to reflect on how those involved in multidisciplinary public health can use and influence policy in order to inform practice. Key issues discussed in the book include:the impact of globalization on healthdevelopments of public health since New Labour, and the political tensions arising from the modernization of the NHSchanges in theoretical, conceptual and ideological perspectives on multidisciplinary public health, and the shift towards reducing health inequalitiesthe role of health workers, local authority workers, the voluntary sector, individuals, and families in public health practiceparticipatorTable of ContentsIntroduction - Stephen Handsley PART I: PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH THROUGH PUBLIC POLICY Introduction - Cathy Lloyd Promoting Public Health in a Global Context - Sarah Earle The Development of Healthy Public Policy - Jenny Douglas and Linda Jones Making and Changing Healthy Public Policy - Revised by Kythé Beaumont, Jenny Douglas and Tom Heller from an original chapter by Linda Jones (2002) Organisations and Settings for Public Health - Mark Dooris and David Hunter Partnerships and Alliances for Health - John Kenneth Davies and Pam Foley Addressing Poverty and Health - Tom Heller, Kythe Beaumont, Sarah Earle, and Jenny Douglas, incorporating original material from Linda Jones (2002) PART II: PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE LOCAL LEVEL Introduction - Stephen Handsley The Potential for Promoting Public Health at a Local Level: Community Strategies and Health Improvement - Stephen Handsley Community Involvement and Civic Engagement in Multi-Disciplinary Public Health - Stephen Handsley Developing Local Alliance Partnerships through Community Collaboration and Participation - Angela Scriven Working With Communities to Promote Public Health - Stephen Handsley Gauging the Effectiveness of Community-Based Public Health Projects - Stephen Handsley and Anita Noguera Promoting Mental Health and Social Inclusion - Stephen Handsley

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Book SynopsisDespite the common perception that black lung has been relegated to the dustbin of history, silicosis remains a crucial public health problem that threatens millions of people around the world. This painful and incurable chronic disease, still present in old industrial regions, is now expanding rapidly in emerging economies around the globe. Most industrial sectors-including the metallurgical, glassworking, foundry, stonecutting, building, and tunneling industries-expose their workers to lethal crystalline silica dust. Dental prosthodontists are also at risk, as are sandblasters, pencil factory workers in developing nations, and anyone who handles concentrated sand squirt to clean oil tanks, build ships, or fade blue jeans. In Silicosis, eleven experts argue that silicosis is more than one of the most pressing global health concerns today-it is an epidemic in the making. Essays explain how the understanding of the disease has been shaken by new medical findings and technologies, deveTrade ReviewAlthough the reader may think this could be a heavy read, the book is set out well and it was easy to read. The author enables the reader to understand. It is referenced well. Some books of this genre can be difficult to read, as politics, legal and medical terminology can feel beyond the reader- this was not the case.—Nursing TimesThe authors make a powerful case that history matters to any analysis of the persistence of this iconic disease of industrialization... This well-researched and insightful transnational analysis of silicosis opens up new directions for historians of silicosis and other occupational diseases. As the contributors to this volume so poignantly confirm, accountability for diseases that ravage workers worldwide has yet to be adequately addressed.—Lundy Braun, Brown University, Bulletin of the History of MedicineThis book embodies a fascinatingly diverse set of chapters that have been successfully integrated into a refreshing narrative of not only health and medical aspects of silicosis, but also important social, economic and public health aspects of this ultimately preventable condition. Respirable crystalline silica exposure at work remains common globally, and those interested in tackling the resulting current, and future, health risks would find significant interest and enjoyment in this book.—David Fishwick, Occupational MedicinePaul-André Rosental's edited collection Silicosis: A World History provides a full and nuanced understanding of the emergence of the concept of silicosis as an occupational disease . . . This is a comprehensive story of silicosis, dating back to the 1800s. It provides health practitioners, social historians, and scholars with a fascinating account of the discovery of the disease, the attempts of the mining companies to control and manage it (and, in some cases, hide it), and the people who cared enough to dedicate their lives to finding strategies for prevention and treatment . . . The authors have successfully imparted the history of silicosis beyond a narrow medical perspective, by acknowledging the strong influence of social forces on disease. In doing so, they have developed a framework for understanding responses to a range of other exposures such as asbestos and tobacco smoke.—Jill Murray, University of the Witwatersrand, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Silicosis? Paul-Andre RosentalChapter 1 Why Is Silicosis So Important? Gerald Markowitz and David RosnerChapter 2: The Genesis and Development of the Scientific Concept of Pulmonary Silicosis during the Nineteenth Century Alberto Baldasseroni and Francesco CarnevaleChapter 3: Johannesburg and Beyond: Silicosis as a Transnational and Imperial Disease (1900-1940) Jock McCulloch and Paul-Andre Rosental, with Joe MellingChapter 4: The Politics of Recognition and Its Limitations: Legislating on Silicosis in the First Half of the Twentieth Century-a National or Transnational Process? Martin Lengwiler, Julia Moses, Bernard Thomann with Joseph MellingChapter 5: Silicosis and "Silicosis": Minimizing Compensation Costs, or Why Do Occupational Diseases Cost So Little Paul-Andre Rosental and Bernard ThomannChapter 6: Silica or coal? Design and Implementation of Dust Prevention in the collieries in Western Economies (circa 1930-1980) Eric GeerkensConclusion: Silica, Silicosis and Occupational Health in the Globalized World of the Twenty-First Century Francesco Carnevale, Paul-Andre Rosental and Bernard ThomannBibliography

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Book SynopsisUltimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control, but as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity.Trade ReviewThis is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.—ChoiceGuillaume Lachenal's engaging body of work has long been on the radar of global scholars of public health and medicine in Africa. It is, then, both a true pleasure for readers and vital addition to Anglophone literature in the field that we now have his monograph, The Lomidine Files, in Noémi Tousignant's elegant translation from the original French . . . This is an innovative and sophisticated study that rewards sustained engagement. Though it will appeal to a wide audience interested in medical controversy or public health ethics, it is also an excellent addition to undergraduate and graduate syllabi in public health, the histories of science and medicine, world history, African studies, and development studies.—Mari K. Webel, University of Pittsburgh, Bulletin of the History of MedicineI urge medical scientists, health activists, public health experts, executives of multinational pharmaceutical companies, public officials of affected countries, and officials of international organizations, bilateral development agencies and philanthropic organizations—not to mention the sociologists, anthropologists, historians and others who study them—to read this book. And read it carefully. It cannot tell us how to avoid the catastrophic outcomes of bêtise, but it should have a humbling effect, as it offers a painful remainder of the costs to others—not of evil, but of simple passivity, stupidity and arrogance.—Nitsan Chorev, European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Wonder Drug2. Experiments without Borders3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine4. The Spectacle of Eradication5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 19548. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine10. The Swan Song of Eradication11. How the Drug Became Useless and DangerousEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe hidden problem of student hunger on college campuses is real. Here's how colleges and universities are addressing it. As the price of college continues to rise and the incomes of most Americans stagnate, too many college students are going hungry. According to researchers, approximately half of all undergraduates are food insecure. Food Insecurity on Campusthe first book to describe the problemmeets higher education's growing demand to tackle the pressing question How can we end student hunger? Essays by a diverse set of authors, each working to address food insecurity in higher education, describe unique approaches to the topic. They also offer insights into the most promising strategies to combat student hunger, including utilizing research to raise awareness and enact change; creating campus pantries, emergency aid programs, and meal voucher initiatives to meet immediate needs; leveraging public benefits and nonprofit partnerships to provide additional resources; changing higTable of ContentsForeword, by Sara Goldrick-RabAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKatharine M. Broton and Clare L. CadyChapter 1. Food Insecurity in Higher EducationKatharine M. BrotonChapter 2. If Not Us, Who? Building National Capacity to Address Student Food Insecurity through CUFBAClare L. CadyChapter 3. The American Federation of Teachers Local 212 / MATC FAST (Faculty and Students Together) FundMichael RosenChapter 4. Channeling Student Idealism and Energy through Campus OrganizingTalia Berday-Sacks and James DubickChapter 5. Student Action and Nonprofit Partnership: The Swipe Out Hunger StoryRachel SumekhChapter 6. The Trampoline of Public Benefits: Using Existing Resources to Fight Food InsecuritySarah Crawford and Nicole HindesChapter 7. Transformational Change for Student Success: The California State University Basic Needs InitiativeDenise Woods-Bevly and Sabrina SandersChapter 8. Research as a Catalyst for Positive Systemic ChangeJennifer J. Maguire and Rashida M. Crutchfield Chapter 9. Amarillo College: Loving Your Student from Enrollment to GraduationRussell Lowery-Hart, Cara Crowley, and Jordan HerreraChapter 10. Addressing Student Hunger through Policy Change: Leveraging Federal Food Benefits to Support College CompletionAmy Ellen Duke-Benfield and Samuel ChuConclusionKatharine M. Broton and Clare L. CadyIndex

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Book SynopsisAccepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation or abstinence is the best path for you. For decades, the standard treatment for people struggling with alcohol consumption has focused on convincing them to admit that they are an alcoholic, to stop drinking entirely, and to enter into a program, most commonly Alcoholics Anonymous. But in his more than thirty-five-year career as an addiction specialist working with people who want to change their drinking habits, Michael S. Levy has found that the routes to behavioral change actually vary. And although abstinence is the successful route for many people, others can moderate their drinking on their own or with professional help. In this practical, effective, and compassionate book, Levy helps people take control of their alcohol problem by teaching them how to think about and address their drinkingTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Making Sense of Your SituationChapter 1. Do You Have a Drinking Problem?Chapter 2. Why Does Drinking Cause You Difficulty?Chapter 3. Self-MedicationPart II. Before You Get StartedChapter 4. Getting Ready and Staying MotivatedChapter 5. Can You Really Help Yourself?Chapter 6. You May Need Medical HelpChapter 7. What to Do: Abstinence or Moderation?Part III. Moderating Your DrinkingChapter 8. Moderation: General TechniquesChapter 9. Your Personal Moderate Drinking ContractChapter 10. Bumps and Detours with Moderate DrinkingPart IV. Quitting Drinking and Staying SoberChapter 11. Managing Your Thoughts to Quit DrinkingChapter 12. What You Must Do to Quit DrinkingChapter 13. Managing Urges to UseChapter 14. Slips and Falls on the Path to SobrietyPart V. Other ResourcesChapter 15. The Need for Outside HelpChapter 16. Self-Help Groups and AppsChapter 17. Professional TreatmentChapter 18. MedicationsPart VI. Other Drug Use in RecoveryChapter 19. Can You Smoke Marijuana?AfterwordBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAccepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the latest edition of this bestselling book will help you assess your drinking and determine whether moderation or abstinence is the best path for you. For decades, the standard treatment for people struggling with alcohol consumption has focused on convincing them to admit that they are an alcoholic, to stop drinking entirely, and to enter into a program, most commonly Alcoholics Anonymous. But in his more than thirty-five-year career as an addiction specialist working with people who want to change their drinking habits, Michael S. Levy has found that the routes to behavioral change actually vary. And although abstinence is the successful route for many people, others can moderate their drinking on their own or with professional help. In this practical, effective, and compassionate book, Levy helps people take control of their alcohol problem by teaching them how to think about and address their drinkingTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Making Sense of Your SituationChapter 1. Do You Have a Drinking Problem?Chapter 2. Why Does Drinking Cause You Difficulty?Chapter 3. Self-MedicationPart II. Before You Get StartedChapter 4. Getting Ready and Staying MotivatedChapter 5. Can You Really Help Yourself?Chapter 6. You May Need Medical HelpChapter 7. What to Do: Abstinence or Moderation?Part III. Moderating Your DrinkingChapter 8. Moderation: General TechniquesChapter 9. Your Personal Moderate Drinking ContractChapter 10. Bumps and Detours with Moderate DrinkingPart IV. Quitting Drinking and Staying SoberChapter 11. Managing Your Thoughts to Quit DrinkingChapter 12. What You Must Do to Quit DrinkingChapter 13. Managing Urges to UseChapter 14. Slips and Falls on the Path to SobrietyPart V. Other ResourcesChapter 15. The Need for Outside HelpChapter 16. Self-Help Groups and AppsChapter 17. Professional TreatmentChapter 18. MedicationsPart VI. Other Drug Use in RecoveryChapter 19. Can You Smoke Marijuana?AfterwordBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTop policy experts offer Medicare reform solutions for the millions of seniors whose health care depends on America's fastest growing federal entitlement. In Modernizing Medicare, editors Robert Emmet Moffit and Marie Fishpaw bring together a rare combination of leading scholars and policy practitioners to outline a vision for Medicare reform and provide solutions for the millions of seniors whose health care depends on it. Contributors include a former Medicare trustee, a former Medicare administrator, and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office. Detailing Medicare's biggest problems, this team of top policy experts offer solutions based on personal freedom of choice, transparency of price and performance, and market competition among health plans and providers that will secure patients more affordable, more accountable, and higher quality medical care. They also address Medicare's reform needs and analyze the promising performance of the Medicare Advantage program. The

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Book SynopsisHealth in hard times is a vital and important review of the impact of austerity on the wellbeing of the UK. Case studies from Stockton-on-Tees, home to some of the starkest health divides, are combined with a holistic review of the repercussions of budget cuts and welfare reforms to provide a portrait of inequalities in the country's health today.Trade Review“The findings of this excellent research team regarding the political and economic impacts in the North East will chime with practitioners in other social contexts.” Paul Norman, University of Leeds“The combination of an interdisciplinary lens and quantitative and qualitative data creates a much needed but shocking depiction of the impacts of austerity on social and health inequalities at a local level. The book illuminates how austerity as a political discourse is being used to justify deeply pernicious and deliberate shredding of the public welfare fabric.” Jennie Popay, Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Jamie Pearce; Introduction ~ Clare Bambra; Austerity Then and Now ~ Michael Langthorne; Placing Health in Austerity ~ Ramjee Bhandari; How the Other Half Live ~ Kayleigh Garthwaite; Divided Lives ~ Kate Mattheys; Minding the Gap ~ Nasima Ahkter, Kate Mattheys, Jon Warren and Adetayo Kasim; Mothers in an Age of Austerity ~ Amy Greer Murphy; Conclusion ~ Clare Bambra.

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND This accessible, yet authoritative book shows how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. It argues that these inequalities are a political choice and we need to learn quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future.Table of ContentsForeword - Kate Pickett 1. Introduction: Perfect Storm 2. Pale Rider: Pandemic Inequalities 3. Collateral Damage: Inequalities in the Lockdown 4. Pandemic Precarity: Inequalities in the Economic Crisis 5. Pandemic Politics: Inequality through Public Policy 6. Conclusion: Health and Inequality Beyond COVID-19

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Book SynopsisUsing original data analysis from a wide range of sources, this book addresses the vital contemporary issue of regional inequality through the impact of COVID-19.Table of Contents1. North and South: Introduction 2. The Plague Year: Regional Inequalities Deaths From COVID-19 3. Parallel Pandemics: Regional Inequalities in Mental Health, Hospital Pressure and Long COVID 4. The Costs of COVID-19: Regional Economic Inequalities 5. Perfect Storm: Understanding the North South Pandemic Divide 6. Levelling Up and Building Back Better: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWith a public health crisis gripping the UK, this book examines the organisational and political barriers to an effective public health system and determines that a new social contract is needed, in which health policy is truly public.Table of Contents1. The Challenges of Public Health 2. Public Health in England, 2013 to 2020 3. Public Health and the Devolved Governments 4. Principles and Process in the New Public Health Settlement 5. A New Social Contract for Public Health

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Book SynopsisPublic Health is one of the fastest growing university programs in the United States today. At the same time, the challenges that face the practitioner continue to grow and become more complex. This Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion, 2nd ed covers more than 250 topics, taking a lifespan approach to the fields of public health and prevention. The encyclopedia is divided into four volumes: 1. Foundational Topics 2. Early Childhood and Childhood 3. Adolescence 4. Adulthood and Older Adulthood Within each volume, issues of illness prevention and health promotion (sometimes referred to as "positive psychology") are addressed in chapter-length entries arranged alphabetically. An international group of contributors synthesizes research focusing on improving the physical and mental health of the community as a whole. Each entry will have a structured format: Introduction, Definition of Terms, Prevalence, Theories, Empirical Studies, and Strategies (What Works, What Is Promising, What Doesn''t Work). Each entry concludes with a look ahead to the coming decades of Public Health - what are the next steps to primary prevention and health promotion - and a "See Also" box recommending books, films, or articles by the editors for further reading. The encyclopedia is designed for practitioners, students, and researchers working in prevention, public health, and psychology. It will also serve as reference for practitioners in sociology, social work, nursing and medicine. The second edition more than doubles the number of entries in the first edition by adding entries focusing on gender, African American and Latino issues, social support, social and emotional learning, and physical health and disease. All entries from the first edition will be rewritten and expanded, reflecting the most up to date thinking in the field.Trade Review“Editors Thomas Gullotta and Martin Bloom, who also collaborated on the first edition, bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the topics of primary prevention and well-being. … Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion is recommended for academic and special libraries serving practitioners, students, researchers or policymakers in the fields of mental health, public health, preventive medicine, social work or related disciplines in the USA or demographically similar countries.” (Sarah Hartman-Caverly, Reference Reviews, Vol. 29 (6), 2015)

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Book SynopsisIt is hard to think of a more timely and topical major contribution than Drs. Naparstek, Biegel, Spiro, and collaborators have provided in this volume. Their penetrating, comprehensive study and field tests give us mapping toward the goal of reifying the concept of community as applied to human services. The book will prove invaluable to those at the policy level-legislators, planners, and administrators. It will serve as an essential reference for community workers-professional provid ers, natural helpers, and citizens as a whole. A salient ideal of New Federalism-placing governance as close to the people as practicable-seems a prophetic match with the model of Neighborhood Empowerment. As the authors point out, conventional wisdom has seemed to offer government regulation, control, and pro gram evaluation as a panacea package for improving human services. This work suggests a rTable of ContentsOne.- 1 In Search of a Human Scale.- 2 The Need for a Micromodel.- 3 Alienation and Community: People, Policy, and Power.- 4 Cycles and Circles: An Overview of Federal Policies in Mental Health and Human Services.- 5 Achieving Human Scale: A Policy Framework for Building Partnerships.- Two.- 6 Preliminary Assumptions and Principles.- 7 The Model: A Community Mental Health Empowerment Model.- 8 First Stages: Methodology, Organization, and Evaluative Data Prior to Empowerment.- 9 The Model in Action — Baltimore.- 10 The Model in Action—Providence and Milwaukee.- 11 Advantages of a Neighborhood Support Systems Approach.- 12 Issues and Limitations.- 13 A Direction for the Next Decade.- Appendix: Survey Instrument—Community Leader and Helper Survey.- References.

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Book SynopsisUprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities. The special quality of uprooting is that the need to change is faced at a time of separation from accustomed social, cultural, and environ mental support systems. It is this separation from familiar supports that either renders the uprooted vulnerable to the destructive conse quences of change, or creates freedoms for their evolution into new and constructive patterns of life. Whether the outcomes will be destruc tive or constructive will be determined by the forces at work: the nature and power of the uprooting forces versus the personal and societal capacitiTable of ContentsI: Coping with the Inner and Outer Worlds of Change.- 1 Contemporary Uprootings and Collaborative Coping: Behavioral and Societal Responses.- 2 Change, Vulnerability, and Coping: Stresses of Uprooting and Overcrowding.- 3 Identity, Politics, and Planning: On Some Uses of Knowledge in Coping with Social Change.- 4 Stress, Strain, and Role Adaptation: Conceptual Issues.- II: Meanings and Impacts of Uprooting.- 5 The Uprooting of Meaning.- 6 Uprooting and Self-Image: Catastrophe and Continuity.- 7 Sociological Dimensions of Uprootedness.- 8 The Long-Term Sequelae of Uprooting: Conceptual and Practical Issues.- III: Stressful Situations of Children and Adolescents in Transition: The Role of Attachments and Social Supports.- 9 Young Children in Stressful Situations: The Supporting Role of Attachment Figures and Unfamiliar Caregivers.- 10 Relocation and the Family: A Crisis in Adolescent Development.- 11 Coming Home: Adjustment of Americans to the United States after Living Abroad.- 12 Running Away in America: The History and the Hope.- IV: Stressful Situations of Foreign Students: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Education.- 13 Stressful Experiences of Foreign Students at Various Stages of Sojourn: Counseling and Policy Implications.- 14 Role Learning as a Coping Strategy for Uprooted Foreign Students.- 15 Research on Students from Abroad: The Neglected Foreign Policy Implications.- V: Stressful Situations of New Settlers: Coping Strategies of Immigrant Women and New Ethnic Groups.- 16 Stress and Coping among Latin American Women Immigrants.- 17 Patterns of Adaptation of Indian Immigrants: Challenges and Strategies.- 18 New Immigrants and Social-Support Systems: Information-Seeking Patterns in a Metropolis.- 19 Making Friends in a New Culture: South Asian Women in Boston, Massachusetts.- VI: Stressful Situations of Uprooted Communities: The Role of Public and Government Bodies.- 20 Forced Migration: Its Impact on Shaping Coping Strategies.- 21 Integration of Immigrants: The Israeli Case.- 22 After the Fall: Indochinese Refugees in the United States.- 23 Relocation and Rapid Growth: Case Studies of the Effects of Federal Policy on Life in Rural Communities.

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Book SynopsisIn Histories of Dirt Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces and urban dwellers come to be regarded as dirty, as exemplified in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Newell conceives dirt as an interpretive category that facilitates moral, sanitary, economic, and aesthetic evaluations of other cultures under the rubric of uncleanliness. She examines a number of texts ranging from newspaper articles by elite Lagosians to colonial travel writing, public health films, and urban planning to show how understandings of dirt came to structure colonial governance. Seeing Lagosians as sources of contagion and dirt, British colonizers used racist ideologies and discourses of dirt to justify racial segregation and public health policies. Newell also explores possibilities for non-Eurocentric methods for identifying African urbanites' own values and opinions by foregrounding the voices of contemporary Lagosians through interviews and focus groups in which their responses to public health issues reflect local aesthetic tastes and values. In excavating the shifting role of dirt in structuring social and political life in Lagos, Newell provides new understandings of colonial and postcolonial urban history in West Africa.Trade Review"Stephanie Newell's Histories of Dirt does for this generation what Mary Douglas did with Purity and Danger several decades ago. Focusing on what seems ubiquitous and thus utterly banal—dirt—Newell shows how the phenomenon of dirt is interpretable from a variety of sometimes contradictory perspectives both by local Africans and by the team of researchers that set about investigating the phenomenon. This is a high-order interdisciplinary work, full of fresh insights and with a turn toward what Africans think about themselves that will provide salutary methodological and conceptual lessons for scholars in African Studies and well beyond." -- Ato Quayson, Stanford University“Brilliantly reading imperial discourse against the grain, Stephanie Newell offers compelling dissections of the perspectives, assumptions, privileged subject positions, and framings that characterize imperial thought. At the same time, she gives close attention and consideration to the range of voices of the people of Lagos, producing powerful arguments about the popular, cultural, and social structures that express urban values. With great ingenuity, Newell has constituted an archive of the present that provides local voices and views on subjects initially warped by colonial discourse. Histories of Dirt is an important and major contribution.” -- Kenneth W. Harrow, author of * Trash: African Cinema from Below *"Histories of Dirt is a work of great creativity and nuance, and its message is especially urgent today. 'Èkó ò ní bàjé,' goes a political slogan turned popular now—Lagos will not spoil." -- Samuel Fury Childs Daly * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"The book is noteworthy for its contribution to our knowledge of how modernity has evolved in African cities, in a period over a century, a process illustrated through the histories of dirt in the city of Lagos. It is certainly useful to all those interested in the political and social history of cities and urban planning in Africa." -- Carlos Nunes Silva * Planning Perspectives *"Newell's prose is lucid and not belabored with theoretical jargons.… The book is also a huge contribution to postcolonial studies and public health. The most recent example through which we can come to terms with Newell on this cutting-edge scholarship is in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which different world leaders and citizens invoke dirt rhetoric against Asian bodies." -- Olájídé Salawu * Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry *“Histories of Dirt is a helpful manual for how dirt, as a word, an object, and a discourse, can be used to constitute archives, influence public opinion, and spark imagination.” -- Ainehi Edoro-Glines * Journal of African History *"Histories of Dirt is a formidable accomplishment of interdisciplinary scholarship and storytelling. . . . The book is exemplary for the fluidity of its narrative arc, for its methodological reflexivity, for its detailed attention to vernacular language, and for its richly textured, polyphonic portrait of Lago as a (post)colonial metropolis." -- Fabien Cante * Africa *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations vii Author's Note ix Preface. The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa (Dirtpol) Project xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. European Insanitary Nuisances 16 2. Malaria: Lines in the Dirt 32 3. African Newspapers, the "Great Unofficial Public," and Plague in Colonial Lagos 43 4. Screening Dirt: Public Health Movies in Colonial Nigeria and Rural Spectatorship in the 1930s and 1940s 58 5. Methods, Unsound Methods, No Methods at All? 79 6. Popular Perceptions of "Dirty" in Multicultural Lagos 90 7. Remembering Waste 115 8. City Sexualities: Negotiating Homophobia 142 Conclusion. Mediated Publics, Uncontrollable Audiences 158 Appendix. Words, Phrases, and Sayings Related to Dirt in Lagos 169 Notes 175 References 215 Index 241

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Book SynopsisScientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China''s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health Trade Review“Readers will come away with a newly visceral understanding of the phrase One Health, as they journey with scientists and epidemiologists through the bodies and ecologies of animal viruses in China. This is a book that rearranges one's sense of scale and time, with a slow and massive build to the sharpness of crisis and the paradoxical enormous scale of the microscopic at play in every scene.” -- Hannah Landecker, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles“Virulent Zones tells an intricate story about ways the sciences interlace with geopolitics, with profound impacts on public health at many scales. Lyle Fearnley also provides new perspective on how the sciences advance, both geographically and conceptually, through displacement rather than discovery. This important book will be of critical interest to anthropologists and historians of science, scientists, and those working to build transnational scientific and governance capacity.” -- Kim Fortun, author of * Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones offers a gripping anthropological account of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in China…. Virulent Zones is an outstanding scholarly work as it unmasks the mechanism of virus hunting and disease control in China at a time of marketization and globalization. It allows for an alternative understanding of the interplay of science and everyday life. It is highly recommended reading not only for anthropologists but also for anyone interested in public health in contemporary China.” -- Qiliang He * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"[A] compelling argument for the move away from older microevolutionary theories of pathogenesis, based on competition of hosts and parasites, toward a more systemic and rigorous reckoning—a dynamic configuration—of how environments and animal populations (human and nonhuman) connect up to promote viral innovation. . . . We can read [it] with profit to learn more about our current predicament, to see how historical perceptions and responses are repeated or modified as we come to terms with the pandemic that confronts us today." -- Warwick Anderson * Public Books *“Virulent Zones reads like a detective novel uncanny in its timeliness to collective conditions today, as it follows the travails of scientists across continents, trying to locate the origins of viral pandemics.” -- Emily Ng * Somatosphere *“Virulent Zones would make an excellent addition to any course covering topics in global health, medical anthropology, the production of scientific knowledge, networks, and expertise, or the history of medicine and public health.... Those who want to know more about pandemic planning and viral surveillance in the wake of COVID-19 will also find this an invaluable resource.” -- Theresa MacPhail * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Virulent Zones shows how science and geopolitics intersect and how this has an important impact on global health. As such, it is a key text for medical anthropologists and sociologists, historians of science, STS researchers, and those working in global health.” -- Giulia De Togni * New Genetics and Society *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones . . . is a timely and reflexive ethnographic account of global focus on China as the ‘epicenter’ of new zoonotic diseases. . . . This book kicks off an important and enthusiastic discussion about global health and China.” -- Shao-hua Liu * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Virulent Zones is an impressively timely book. . . . [Some remaining] questions indicate the rich potential of the ideas articulated so lucidly by Fearnley in this excellent book.” -- Mary Augusta Brazelton * Journal of Asian Studies *“Virulent Zones is an excellent, informative book that serves as a welcome and valuable addition to the growing literature on the anthropology of epidemics. . . . It also serves as an important contribution to the anthropology of science, human-animal interactions, the environment, agriculture, and China.” -- Katherine A. Mason * Anthropological Quarterly *“[Fearnley’s] analysis goes beyond a classic medical anthropology approach; he navigates between different areas and topics of social studies (sciences, expertise, international relations, rurality, etc.) to forge alliances between different fields of knowledge, and to work across the classic divisions. This is crucial to address the complexity of emerging diseases.” -- Muriel Figuié * Review Of Agriculatural Food And Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Ecology 1. The Origins of Pandemics 27 2. Pathogenic Reservoirs 48 Part II. Landscape 3. Livestock Revolutions 65 4. Wild-Goose Chase 97 Part III. Territory 5. Affinity and Access 125 6. Office Vets and Duck Doctors 156 Conclusion. Vanishing Points 191 Notes 213 Bibliography 249 Index 271

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Book SynopsisA critical study of diabetes in the popular imaginationOver twenty-nine million people in the United States, more than nine percent of the population, have some form of diabetes. In Managing Diabetes, Jeffrey A. Bennett focuses on how the disease is imagined in public culture. Bennett argues that popular anecdotes, media representation, and communal myths are as meaningful as medical and scientific understandings of the disease. In focusing on the public character of the disease, Bennett looks at health campaigns and promotions as well as the debate over public figures like Sonia Sotomayor and her management of type 1 diabetes. Bennett examines the confusing and contradictory public depictions of diabetes to demonstrate how management of the disease is not only clinical but also cultural. Bennett also has type 1 diabetes and speaks from personal experience about the many misunderstandings and myths that are alive in the popular imagination. Ultimately, Managing DiTrade ReviewManaging Diabetes represents the best that medical humanities has to offer and is relevant to health care professionals, humanities and arts scholars, social scientists, medical educators, and patients. Bennett offers an analysis of a chronic disease that intersects with many socio-cultural practices and beliefs about individualization, governmentality, medicalization, and epidemiology while being attentive to the stratification systems (i.e., race, class, gender) that organize all social life. Given that half the population of the US experiences diabetes, it is conceivable that this disease touches everyones life. -- Monica J. Casper,co-editor of Critical Trauma StudiesReaders of Jeffrey A. Bennett's Managing Diabetes will find an astute analysis animated by buoyant prose and captivating images that illuminates the lived experience of diabetes by explicating how that experience is mediatedand, in many ways, made indecipherableby bio-politically articulated public discourses. Bennett wisely focuses his gaze beyond the clinic toward 'management' rhetoric as it circulates across mainstream contexts, and the result is an invigorating intervention lighting the way forward for critical health communication scholarship. -- Robin E. Jensen,author of Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative TermIf you’re at all interested in themes like TV and movie portrayal of diabetes, blame and shame in society, and how celebrity messaging impacts perception of the disease … check this book out. It certainly gets the mind going. * Healthline *The content of this book is relevant to strategic communication in terms of shaping public discourse on the topic and the ways in which we, as professionals of the field, can facilitate that. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Managing Diabetes complements a now growing anthropological literature that extends beyond the domain of the clinic to explore the impact of public narratives, racialized capitalism, legacies of coloniality, and the exigencies of global health science on the meaning and experience of diabetes and closely related conditions like obesity. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTHE PLAGUE YEARS Mankind has always been fascinated by origins, and biologists are no exception. In the last few years we have seen the emergence and spread of some apparently new viruses, such as HIV -1 and the virus causing bovine spongiform encephalomyelopathy.Table of ContentsThe Scope and Purpose of the Book. The Debate about the Contagiousness of Influenza. Epidemic Influenza, 19001932. The Effect of the Discovery of the Causal Organism. The Viruses that Cause Epidemic Influenza. Antigenic Variation and Recycling of Influenza A Viruses. The Necessity for a New Concept. The Influence of Season. The Explanation of Antigenic Drift. Antigenic Shift of Influenza A Virus. Hypotheses of Antigenic Shift. Some Other Epidemiological Hypotheses. Influenza in NonHuman Hosts. Experimental Studies. Influenzal Anachronisms. The New Concept in Detail. Some Tests of the New Concept. The Natural History of Human Influenza. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the complexity of preventing, diagnosing, and treating musculoskeletal pain and disability disorders in the workplace.Trade Review“Professors Gatchel and Schultz address a growing problem of chronic pain arising from job-related stresses. … This book is meticulously assembled, making it a valuable reference for those engaged in alleviating musculoskeletal pain in their patients as well as others engaged in evaluating and possibly reducing disability disorders in the workplace.” (J. Thomas Pierce, Doody’s Book Reviews, June, 2016)Table of ContentsPART I THE MOST COMMON OCCUPATIONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN AND DISABILITY DISORDERS.- Occupational Musculoskeletal Pain and Disability Disorders: An Overview.- Back Pain.- Cervical Pain.- Upper Extremity Pain.- Lower Extremity Pain.- Chronic Widespread Pain.-The Problem of Whiplash Injuries: Etiology, Assessment and Treatment.- New Trends of Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Military.- PART II CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES.- Search Engines/Resources Available to Obtain the Latest Prevalence and Cost Data for Occupational Pain and Disability Disorders.- Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Workplace Factors.- Acute, Postacute and Chronic Disorders: Differences and Potential Recovery Outcomes.- Psychological and Psychiatric Sequelae of Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Preemployment and Preplacement Screening of Workers to Prevent Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Medicolegal Issues Involved in Occupational Musculoskeletal Injuries.- Workers’ Compensation and Other Disability Insurance Systems Involved in Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Approaches to the Quantitative Physical and Functional Capacity Assessment of Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Current American Medical Association Guidelines for Evaluating Musculoskeletal Impairment and Maximum Medical Impairment.- PART III INTERVENTION APPROACHES AND TECHNIQUES.- Traditional Medical Intervention Approaches to Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Review.-The Biopsychosocial Approach to the Assessment and Intervention for Musculoskeletal Disorders.- The Interdisciplinary Treatment Approach: The Key Components for Success.- Early Intervention to Prevent the Development of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain and Disability Disorders.- A Review of Self-Management Techniques for Musculoskeletal Pain.- Work Accommodation Methods for Occupational Musculoskeletal Injuries.- Models of Return-to-Work for Musculoskeletal Disorders: An Update.- Vocational Assessment and Training for Patients with Chronic Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Real-effectiveness Medicine in Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Future Research Directions for Preventing and Treating Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders.

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Book SynopsisIn A History of Plague in Java, 19111942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia. Eager to combat disease, Dutch physicians and officials integrated the traditional Javanese house into the rat-flea-man theory of transmission. Hollow bamboo frames and thatched roofs offered hiding spaces for rats, suggesting a material link between rat plague and human plague. Over the next thirty years, 1.6 million houses were renovated or rebuilt, millions more were subjected to periodic inspection, and countless Javanese were exposed to health messaging seeking to rat-proof their beliefs along with their houses.The transformation of houses, villages, and people was documented in hundreds of photographs and broadcast to overseas audiences as evidence of the ethical nature of colonial rule, proving so effective as propaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Plague, Rats, and the House in Java 2. Colonizing the Home with Bamboo, Tiles, and Timber 3. The Spectacle of Home Improvement 4. Plague Propaganda 5. Plague, Malaria, and Vaccination Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEach year, billions of dollars are spent on global humanitarian health initiatives. These efforts are intended to care for suffering bodies, especially those of distressed children living in poverty. But as global medical aid can often overlook the local economic and political systems that cause bodily suffering, it can also unintentionally prolong the very conditions that hurt children and undermine local aid givers. Investigating medical humanitarian encounters in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care illustrates how child aid recipients and local aid experts grapple with global aid's shortcomings and its paradoxical outcomes. Rania Kassab Sweis examines how some of the world's largest aid organizations care for vulnerable children in Egypt, focusing on medical efforts with street children and out-of-school village girls. Her in-depth ethnographic study reveals how global medical aid fails to "save" these children according to its stated aims, and often maintains—or produces new—social disparities in children's lives. Foregrounding vulnerable children's responses to medical aid, Sweis moves past the unquestioned benevolence of global health to demonstrate how children must manage their own bodies and lives in the absence of adult care. With this book, she challenges readers to engage with the question of what medical caregivers and donors alike gain from such global humanitarian transactions.Trade Review"Medical humanitarianism has become the most prominent form of global health intervention. Based on the ethnographic study of several projects conducted with vulnerable children in Egypt, Paradoxes of Care uncovers, with tact and discernment, the complex and ambiguous effects of these benevolent actions as experienced by local aid workers as well as young recipients."—Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study and Collège de France"This lucidly written book brings the robust anthropological critiques of global medical humanitarianism to bear on international organizations' attempts to help children in Egypt. Rania Kassab Sweis' clear analysis demonstrates the inherent paradoxes of seeking to save the 'vulnerable,' while leaving unchanged the structural conditions that produce those very vulnerabilities."—Sherine Hamdy, University of California, Irvine"This vivid and groundbreaking ethnography elevates the voices of Egypt's at-risk children, while deftly portraying the struggles of humanitarian actors to deliver aid amidst precarity. Paradoxes of Care is a must-read for those interested in medical humanitarianism, gender activism, and childhood studies in the Middle East and beyond."—Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University"In [Paradoxes of Care]'s detaied ethnography of three nongovernmental organizations dedicated to providing medical care and health services to Egyptian children... Sweis illuminates both the global humanitarian industry and the lives of children in Egypt."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"[Paradoxes of Care] is a valuable contribution to the field of charity and medical aid and to the cross-cultural study of children. Recommended."—M. L. Russell, CHOICE

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to ‘problem publics’ who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.Table of ContentsIntroduction: publics and their health – historical problems and perspectives – Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth1 ‘Democracy trains its microscope’ on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots – Jennifer Gunn2 ‘Dumping grounds for… human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74 – Michael Lambert 3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany’s AIDS crisis – Johanna Folland4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980–92 – Jane Hand 5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health – Beatrix Hoffman 6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina – Martín Hernán Di MarcoAfterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 – the many publics of modern public health – Tom CrookIndex

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Book SynopsisPerhaps I should begin by saying that I am not, in terms of ethnic origin, English. My parents emigrated to England from the Irish Republic, and we have all lived in Britain for so long that no one can see the join - or can they? Some years ago, my mother was admitted to hospital for a routine operation. Award nurse saw her obviously foreign name on the admissions list, and concluded she must be Asian. Accordingly, she arranged for my mother to have a bed in the same bay as other Asian women, and ordered her a curry for lunch. Part of me was angry at the stereotypical thinking rhat every one with a strange name must be Asian, but I had to concede that I myself knew little about other cultures. My own patients came from a variety of cultural traditions, but neither I nor my colleagues knew very much about them. What information we had was culled directly from patients and their families in a haphazard ''do this'' or ''don''t do that'' basis. Because we had no understanding of the traditions, staff could become exasperated over what they interpreted as ''awkwardness''. Our inadequacies were further highlighted when patients did not speak English: there was always the question of who could translate for them, and whether they fully understood their illnesses and their treat ments. For some, the experience of being in hospital must have been frightening.

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to give health professionals a balanced and indepen dent overview of massage and aromatherapy. I have written it because, despite growing interest, there is a dearth of professional literature on this subject. This book aims to cover a number of topics which are under-represented in existing publications. These include: scientific research in massage and aromatherapy; the use of the therapies in medical settings; the knowledge base of massage and aromatherapy; professional and managerial issues; safety. Understanding of these subjects is essential for any reasoned evalu ation of massage and aromatherapy. Yet this book is probably the first to provide information suitable for this task. At the current time of writing, almost all books on massage and aroma therapy have been written with the lay public in mind. The texts recommended to students and practitioners by the foremost schools and institutions are exactly the same as those available in health food shops as general introductions for prospective patients. Not surprisingly, such books generally fail to include in-depth discussions of professional issues.

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10 years ago, the field of healthy community design has evolved significantly to address major societal problems, including health disparities, obesity, and climate change. Most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended how we live, work, learn, play, and travel. In Making Healthy Places, Second Edition: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability, planning and public health experts Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, and Howard Frumkin bring together scholars and practitioners from across the globe in fields ranging from public health, planning, and urban design, to sustainability, social work, and public policy. This updated and expanded edition explains how to design and build places that are beneficial to the physical, mental, and emotional health of humans, while also considering the health of the planet. This edition expands the treatment of some topics that received less attention a decade ago, such as the relationship of the built environment to equity and health disparities, climate change, resilience, new technology developments, and the evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on the latest research, Making Healthy Places, Second Edition imparts a wealth of practical information on the role of the built environment in advancing major societal goals, such as health and well-being, equity, sustainability, and resilience. This update of a classic is a must-read for students and practicing professionals in public health, planning, architecture, civil engineering, transportation, and related fields.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Dedication Foreword by Richard J. Jackson Preface by Nisha D. Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin) 1.An Introduction to Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Places by Howard Frumkin, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Nisha D. Botchwey PART I. Health Impacts of the Built Environment 1.Physical Activity and the Built Environment by Nisha D. Botchwey, M. Renée Umstattd Meyer, Meaghan McSorley 1.Food, Nutrition, and Community Design by Roxanne Dupuis, Karen Glanz, Carolyn Cannuscio 1.The Built Environment and Air Quality by Patrick Lott Kinney, Priyanka Nadia deSouza 1.Injury, Violence, and the Built Environment by Corinne Peek-Asa, Christopher N. Morrison 1.Water, Health, and the Built Environment by Charisma S. Acey, Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah 1.Built Environments, Mental Health and Well-being by Xiangrong Jiang, Chia-Ching Wu, Chun-Yen Chang, William C. Sullivan 1.Social Capital and Community Design by Kasley Killam, Ichiro Kawachi 1.Inequity, Gentrification, and Urban Health by Helen V. S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski 1.Healthy Places Across the Lifespan by Nisha Botchwey, Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, Jordana L. Maisel, Howard Frumkin PART II. Designing Places for Well-being, Equity, and Sustainability 1.Transportation, Land Use, and Health by Susan Handy 1.Healthy Homes by David E. Jacobs, Amanda Reddy 1.Healthy Workplaces by Jonathan A. Bach, Paul Schulte, L. Casey Chosewood, Gregory R. Wagner 1.Healthy Healthcare Settings by Craig Zimring, Jennifer R. DuBose, Bea Sennewald 1.Healthy Schools by Claire L. Barnett, Erika Sita Eitland 1.Contact with Nature by Howard Frumkin 1.Climate Change, Cities, and Health by José G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik 1.Community Resilience and Healthy Places by José G. Siri, Katherine Britt Indvik, Kimberley O’Sullivan PART III. Strategies for Healthy Places: A Toolkit 1.Healthy Behavioral Choices and the Built Environment by Christopher Coutts, Patrice C. Williams 1.Legislation, Policy, and Governance for Healthy Places by Eugenie L. Birch 1.Community Engagement for Health, Equity, and Sustainability by Manal J. Aboelata, Jasneet K. Bains 1.Measuring, Assessing, and Certifying Healthy Places by Carolyn A. Fan, Andrew L. Dannenberg PART IV. Looking Forward, Taking Action 1.Training the Next Generation of Healthy Placemakers by Nisha D. Botchwey, Olivia E. Chatman, Matthew Trowbridge, Yakut Gazi 1.Innovative Technologies for Healthy Places by J. Aaron Hipp, Mariela Alfonzo, Sonia Sequeira 1.Healthy Places Research: Emerging Opportunities by Andrew L. Dannenberg, Nisha D. Botchwey, Howard Frumkin 1.COVID and the Built Environment: Lessons Learned by Howard Frumkin 1.Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Built Environments for the Future individual contributions by Hugh Barton, Timothy Beatley, Rachel Hodgdon, Blessing Mberu, Charles Montgomery, Toks Omishakin, Tolullah Oni, Carlo Ratti, Sagar Shah, Mitchell J. Silver, Bruce Stiftel, Alice Sverdlik, Katie Swenson, Susan Thompson, Jason Vargo Glossary About the Editors List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThere can be no doubt that digital technologies are set to become ever more intrinsic to many areas of healthcare in the future. This book presents the proceedings of Healthcare of the Future 2022, held on 20 May 2022 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. This 2022 edition of the medical informatics conference has the subtitle and theme: Digital Health From Vision to Best Practice! The conference explores recent advances in the deployment of digital technologies in areas such as eHealth, mHealth, personalized health and workflow-based health applications. The overarching aim of the conference is to bridge or eliminate current gaps in information with regard to outpatient care, inpatient care and the interfaces between them. The conference invited submissions for a main track and a young researchers track, and 19 papers are included here; 10 from the main track and 9 from young researchers. All papers have been peer reviewed by 2 reviewers. The papers are divided into 8 sections: advancing interoperability; semantic interoperability; medical informatics for medical research; evaluation of it influence; apps for patients and healthcare professionals parts 1 & 2; workflow based support in patient care; and research in medicine and medical informatics. Presenting an overview of developments and research aimed at improving and accelerating healthcare processes, the book will be of interest to healthcare professionals from a wide range of disciplines.

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Book SynopsisDigital technology is now an indispensible part of modern healthcare, and this reliance is only likely to increase, with the healthcare of the future set to become ever more data-driven, decision-supporting, deep, and simply more digital. This book presents the proceedings of the 16th annual conference on Health Informatics Meets Digital Health (dHealth 2022), held on 24 and 25 May 2022 in Vienna, Austria. In keeping with its interdisciplinary mission, the conference series provides a platform for researchers and decision makers, health professionals and healthcare providers, as well as government and industry representatives, to discuss innovative digital health solutions to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare using digital technologies. The book includes 42 papers covering a wide range of topics and providing an insight into the state-of-the-art of different aspects of dHealth, including the design and evaluation of user interfaces, patient-centered solutions, electronic health/medical/patient records, machine learning in healthcare and biomedical data analytics. Offering the reader an interdisciplinary view of the state-of-the-art and of ongoing research activities in digital health, the book will be of interest to healthcare students and professionals everywhere.

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Book SynopsisThe aim of medical research has always been to gain scientific knowledge which will serve to improve the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of diseases. It is also becoming increasingly important to take account of the changing circumstances of medical care. Factors such as the ageing of society and the recent pandemic have not only led to greater use of medical care, but have also put the human resources and infrastructural basis of the health system under great pressure. Such developments call for science-based solutions which can better adapt medical action to the needs of patients to ensure that medicine remains affordable and accessible for all. This book is the 6th volume of the German Medical Data Science series in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics and presents the proceedings of the joint conference of the 67th Annual Meeting of the German Association of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology (GMDS) and the 14th Annual Meeting of the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF). The conference was entitled Medicine in Transition - More Precise, More Integrative, More Sustainable. It was due to be held from 21-25 August 2022 in Kiel, Germany, but was changed to an online event on the same dates due to an increasing surge in cases of coronavirus. The pandemic has not only disrupted the planning of many events, it has also impressively demonstrated the importance of technical and methodological aspects of digitization. The 13 papers included here address the challenges of and opportunities for the digitization so vital for the functionality of the modern healthcare system, and the book will be of interest to all those involved in the planning and delivery of healthcare.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and timely book draws on pioneering precedents, basic principles, current examples and international experience to capture the narratives, examples and ideas that underlie and demonstrate the exceptional potential of general practice:"If health care is not at is best where it is needed most, health inequalities will widen.""The unworried unwell are not hard to reach but they are easy to ignore and are often ignored.""With patient contact, population coverage, continuity, coordination, flexibility, long term relationships and trust, general practices are the natural hubs of local health systems.""… practitioners … are not only scientists but also responsible citizens and if they did not raise their voice who else should?"Written for family doctors looking to strengthen local collaboration, it brings together the traditional strengths of consultations, caring, continuity, coordination and coverage with the current and future challenges of building capacity, community, creativity, consistency, collegiality and campaigning. It highlights the critical importance of working with patients, maximising the use of serial encounters, integrating care, joint working between practices, social prescribing, community development and advocacy based on patient and practitioner experience.Drawing on the highly-regarded work of Deep End GPs serving the poorest communities in Scotland ̶ www.gla.ac.uk/deepend ̶ the book is an invaluable handbook for all primary care doctors, irrespective of health care system or country, seeking to provide unconditional continuity of personalised care for all patients, whatever problem or combination of problems a patient may have.Trade Review"The Exceptional Potential of General Practice is a book that I will certainly use for academic resources and to bolster the arguments I can make when once again the local Clinical Commissioning Group cuts funding to the sort of deprived area that I work in. But I suspect it’s Berger’s book that I will still give to my students to inspire them about general practice, even though it was written over 50 years ago."Aneez Esmail- The Lancet"The book itself serves to keep the torch of general practice burning bright and strong. Rather than provide another overarching academic critique of the value of general practice (community-based primary medical care), Watt provides us with a more illuminating constellation of contributions from GPs at the frontline, academics, and other health professionals who are seeking, through a variety of methods, to realise the exceptional potential that high-quality general practice can provide for those who it serves.For those already engaged in similar work in whatever form, it provides a useful summary of the founding principles that underpin their efforts, some examples of work elsewhere, and a reminder that they are very much part of a whole."Ben Jackson - British Journal of General PracticeTable of Contents1. The Exceptional Potential of General Practice. 2. Three Horizons of General Practice. 3. Traditional Strengths. Gatekeeping. Tolerating uncertainty. Knowing the patient. Consultations. Caring. Continuity. Coordination. Coverage. Clinical generalism in Scotland. 39 years in practice. 4. Pioneers. Pioneers in research. Edward Jenner. Sir James Mackenzie. William Pickles. Seizing opportunities. University-based research. Population medicine. Career advice for medical students. The example of Julian Tudor Hart. Advocacy. Lachlan Grant. Direct action for public health. Advocating for a National Health Service. Welfare reform. Alcohol in general practice. 5. Challenges. Confusing terminology. Multimorbidity. The challenges of multimorbidity. Assessing the quality of generalist clinical care. Competing for power and resource. Maintaining sufficient numbers of clinical generalists. The Inverse Care Law. GP views on health inequalities. 6. Practices working together in the Deep End. General Practitioners at the Deep End. Deep End Ireland. General practice at the Deep End in Yorkshire and Humber. Deep End Greater Manchester. 7. Addressing the Inverse Care Law. The Govan SHIP Project. The Deep End GP Pioneer Scheme. 8. Link Workers in General Practice. Best arrangements for link workers. Experience as a programme director. Experience as a host practice. Experience as a GP lead. 9. Community Practice. Drumchapel, Scotland. Dublin, Ireland. Brisbane, Australia. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ghent, Belgium. 10. Learning Health Systems. Learning health systems. Achievements in East London. Development in East London. 11. Core Topics. The dynamics of family life. The child in the consulting room - What does the future hold? Levelling up in Deep End practices. Mental health. End-of-life care. 12. Learning from Medicine at the Margins.Working with refugees in general practice. Homeless general practice. 13. International Perspectives. Key components of health systems. A general practitioner for every person in the world. Perspective from China. Perspective from Lebanon. Perspetive from Sub-Saharan Africa. 14. Working to Produce Evidence of Change. Rules of engagement. The Deep End Advice Worker Project. 15. Evaluation. Learnings from the Deep End. Towards a framework of learning. 16. Education and Training. Correction of social ignorance. A lifeline for a drowning man. The special needs of preactitioners working in deprived areas. GP training in the Deep End. The North Dublin GP Training Scheme. The South Wales GP Academic Fellowship Scheme. The Deep End GP Pioneer Scheme. 17. Preparations Ahead of Time. 18. Reflection. 19. Postscript. The virtues of the race. A philosophy of general practice. 20. Biographies. In Memoriam: Dr Julian Tudor Hart (1927-2018).

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Book SynopsisThe Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan Africa.Trade ReviewA brilliant and vivid ethnographic account of how people’s understanding and treatment of HIV/AIDS intersects with existing social and symbolic meanings around disease, death, witchcraft, healing strategies and everyday social interactions in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. * Alcinda Honwana, author of Youth and Revolution in Tunisia *Building on some three decades of experience, Niehaus offers a superb analysis of the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic. A necessary reminder of how anthropological questions of kinship and misfortune remain highly significant to any understanding of HIV/AIDS. * Julie Livingston, New York University *Niehaus returns us to the fundamentals of anthropology, offering a subtle but sharp critique of the Foucauldian turn in health. This is a superb ethnography – among its contributions the best critique of mainstream views on AIDS orphans I have seen. * Mark Hunter, author of Love in the Time of AIDS *Niehaus captures the diversity of experiences of those living with HIV/AIDS in Bushbuckridge, South Africa. He reminds us that effective community engagement and efforts to counter stigma must be at the forefront of the global response to HIV/AIDS. * Peter Piot, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *Table of ContentsMaps Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Death 3. Blame 4. Words 5. Knowledge 6. Dreams 7. Care 8. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisLeprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and permanent disability. But a diagnosis of leprosy can have consequences that go far beyond the disease's physical manifestations. The age-old stigma associated with leprosy can result in severe social discrimination that robs people of opportunities in life and condemns them to society's margins. This book is the most detailed account yet of Yohei Sasakawa's quest, over two decades as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, to work for a world without leprosy and the discrimination it causes. It chronicles his travels to remote communities around the world to hear directly from those affected by the disease, as well as his meetings with policy- makers, government leaders and heads of state to advocate for renewed commitment to the fight against leprosy, including measures to protect the human rights of those it affects. While much progress has been made, completing 'the last mile' in leprosy eradication is the hardest part of the journey. Making the Impossible Possible highlights the author's unflagging resolve to ensure that all involved stay the course.

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Book SynopsisCase studies and perspectives from around the globe illustrate examples of effective collaborations between clinical creative arts therapists and arts in health practitioners. Reaching beyond silos, these professionals can collaborate to deliver inspirational practice in a variety of settings. Leading experts explain how they have pioneered arts-based practice, developed successful partnerships and overcome difficulties in fostering relationships to offer better support and increase access to their services by the public. Discussions surrounding policy, funding and international initiatives towards integration offer a timely call to action. By working together, we reach collective goals of positively impacting clients' mental health, wellbeing and quality of life through the arts.Trade ReviewThis engaging collection lays out a compelling argument for the unique and exciting potential of the arts to improve health and well-being. -- Renée Fleming, soprano and arts & health advocateEveryone helping others through the arts - therapists, educators, artists, in hospitals and communities - are natural allies. Welcome to 'an idea whose time has come.' -- Judith A. Rubin, Art Therapist, Author and FilmmakerA timely book showing the role that the complementary sectors of arts and health and arts therapies can play together to improve health and wellbeing. -- Dr Daisy Fancourt, University College London & Director, World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Arts & HealthThis ground-breaking book shows just how much more of the vast potential of arts and health is revealed through collaboration between practitioners in the field, than when any of us attempt single perspective approaches. -- Dr Neil Springham, consultant art therapist and executive director of therapies at Oxleas National Health Service foundation TrustTable of ContentsForeword by Lord Howarth of Newport 1. Introduction Unifying and Promoting the Arts for Health and Wellbeing by Donna Betts and Val Huet2. Global Contributions of the Arts Therapies and the Arts to Health and Well-Being During the Pandemic: Embracing New Ways of Caring by Vicky Karkou, Nisha Sajnani, Felicity A Baker and Azizah Abdullah3. Mutual Support? What Do the Creative Arts Therapies and Creativity and Culture for Health and Wellbeing Bring to Each Other? by Victoria Hume4. Educating Artists and Administrators to Engage the Arts for Health and Well-Being in Healthcare and Community Settings by Patricia Dewey Lambert, Jenny Baxley Lee and Jill Sonke5. Navigating Identities within Arts in Health in Singapore: Reflections and Recommendations for Collaborative Art and Art Therapy Practices by Karen Koh and Sze-Chin Lee6. Creative Forces®: The Continuum of Clinical Creative Arts Therapies to Community Arts Engagement for Military-Connected Populations by Rebecca Vaudreuil, Hannah Jacobson Blumenfeld, and Melissa Walker7. Creative Arts Mentorship and Vocational Rehabilitation in a Forensic Psychiatric Community by Jaimie Peterson and Alison Etter 8. Studios of Life: Outsider Art at School by Pamela Whitaker 9. Exhibitions Through Arts and Arts Therapy: From Empathic Understanding to Advocacy by Rainbow T.H. Ho and Jordan S. Potash 10. Eudaimonia: Museum Programs as Agents of Change, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens by Elisabeth Ioannides and Marina Tsekou11. Exhibitions and Immersive Spaces as Therapeutic Settings that Promote Heath, Education and Well-being by Girija Kaimal, Susan Magsamen, Melissa S. Walker, Heather Spooner, Bani Malhotra and Stephen Legari12. Sowing the Seeds of Art Therapy in India: One Seed at a Time by Sangeeta Prasad, Susan A. Anand, Girija Kaimal and D. Sumathi

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Book SynopsisPlanetary Health - the idea that human health and the health of the environment are inextricably linked - encourages the preservation and sustainability of natural systems for the benefit of human health. Drawing from disciplines such as public health, environmental science, evolutionary anthropology, welfare economics, geography, policy and organizational theory, it addresses the challenges of the modern world, where human health and well-being is threatened by increasing pollution and climate change. A comprehensive publication covering key concepts in this emerging field, Planetary Health reviews ideas and approaches to the subject such as natural capital, ecological resilience, evolutionary biology, One Earth and transhumanism. It also sets out through case study chapters the main links between human health and environmental change, covering: - Climate change, land use and waterborne infectious diseases. - Sanitation, clean energy and fertilizer use. - Trees, well-being and urban greening. - Livestock, antibiotics and greenhouse gas emissions. Providing an extensive overview of key theories and literature for academics and practitioners who are new to the field, this engaging and informative read also offers an important resource for students of a diverse range of subjects, including environmental sciences, animal sciences, geography and health.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction and Key Concepts 1: Introduction to Planetary Health 2: Key Concepts in Planetary Health Part 2: Conceptual Frameworks for Planetary Health 3: The Evolutionary Biology Approach: a Natural Baseline for Human Health 4: The Natural Capital Approach: Opportunities and Challenges 5: The One Earth Approach: Planetary Health in an Era of Limits 6: The Transhuman Approach: Technoscience and Nature Part 3: Human Health in an Era of Global Environmental Change 7: Trends in Human Health 8: The Demographic Transition 9: The Epidemiological Transition 10: The Ecological Transition 11: Agriculture: Land Use, Food Systems and Biodiversity 12: Urbanization, Living Standards and Sustainability 13: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Global Warming 14: Environmental Protection: a Key Tool for Planetary Health 15: Conclusions: Equity, Distribution and Planetary Health Part 4: Case Studies of Planetary Health 16: Climate Change, Land Use and Waterborne Infectious Disease 17: Sanitation, Clean Energy and Fertilizer 18: Trees, Well-being and Urban Greening 19: Livestock, Antibiotics and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Book SynopsisCyberchondria has been defined as searching for health-related information online in an excessive or repetitive way that is driven by the need to reduce distress or anxiety about health but results in a worsening outcome. This condition, the level of education of the individual, and the reputation of the medical information sources can affect the ability and technological knowledge. This feeling causes a loss of confidence in modern medicine in some individuals and makes others excessively use healthcare and increase health-related labor and costs. Cyberchondria, Health Literacy, and the Role of Media on Society's Perception in Medical Information addresses the concept of cyberchondria through an interdisciplinary approach. This initiative, which combines social, humanities, and science on a horizontal plane, allows the meeting of different perspectives on the concept of cyberchondria at the international level. Covering topics such as digital literacy, knowledge gap, and internet usage, this book is an excellent resource for academicians, researchers, students, industry researchers, non-government organizations, professors, and government organizations.

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Book SynopsisSelf-tracking is a rapidly growing area of study and will play an important role in the future of how we understand health change and responsibility. Understanding the personal and social dimensions of tracking within households improves our understanding of health consumption and knowledge, particularly during significant global crises. Ignoring the household context of health or focusing solely on individual tracking behaviour is no longer an option. Household Self-Tracking During a Global Health Crisis provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of deeper health narratives managed through data tracking within households formed during a global health crisis. The book examines the contextual, personal, and social factors surrounding health tracking, including the commercialization of Covid19 health tracking, public data tracking, and health-surveillance issues, from a social science perspective. Inequalities in health, as well as expanded concepts of fitness and illness management, are highlighted as part of a significant shift in how we understand and integrate home health regimes, and how this is made possible by the incorporation of household biometric data tracking. Household Self-Tracking During a Global Health Crisis will assist researchers interested in self-tracking and health technologies, as well as postgraduate students studying psychology, medicine, social science, and business. Hardey explores several personal insights as well as research which may be unfamiliar to some social scientists, helping situate new perspectives and understanding.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Self-tracking construction of health Chapter 1. Description of household tracking study Chapter 2. Visualising tracking and responding to digital bodies Chapter 3. Tracking entangled with health expertise Chapter 4. Caring and tracking Chapter 5. Consuming with tracking: Food habits and eating Chapter 6. Intergenerational narratives with tracking Conclusion: Transformations with self-tracking Epilogue: Self-tracking with pets

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Book SynopsisThis unique, concise ready reference for daily use collates for the first time the most useful, practical and simple assessment scales used in geriatric settings. It provides tools to identify clinical conditions and health outcomes objectively and reliably. It is essential as a clinical primer and everyday reference guide for all practising and training members of multidisciplinary teams, including consultants and doctors in specialist training, career grade doctors and general practitioners, and medical students; nurses, health visitors, dieticians, and social workers; allied health professionals such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists; and managers of elderly care services.'Assessment is central to the practice of Geriatric Medicine. All members of the multidisciplinary team require a sound knowledge of the basic principles of measurement scales. We need to be competent in using and selecting appropriate scales, understanding which scales are valid and fit for purpose. Unfortunately, up to now, this has been a difficult task often requiring reference to original papers. Dr Gupta's scholarship has come to the rescue. He has trawled through the many hundreds of scales available selecting those most useful for the specialty.This book will be valuable to all members of the multidisciplinary team. Dr Gupta has done an excellent job outlining the theory and practice of measurement scales. He has put together an extremely useful compendium of scales. I congratulate him and wish his publication every success. I can foresee this publication becoming an essential text for every unit library and valuable book for individual clinicians.' - Dr Jeremy Playfer in his Foreword. 'This book summarises the most commonly used validated assessment scales which can be used by medical students, postgraduate trainees, consultants and the multi-disciplinary team members. I hope a copy of this book will be kept on every ward, outpatient department and GP practice for daily use and reference' - Professor Bim Bhowmick OBE in his Foreword.Trade Review'An excellent starting point for trainees from all disciplines in geriatrics and psychogeriatrics and a welcome addition to any departmental library.' INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICSTable of ContentsDefinition. Need for scales. Which scale. Useful properties. Who does assessment. Domains. Settings. Glasgow coma scale. Abbreviated mental test. Mini mental state examination. Clock drawing test. Clifton assessment procedure for the elderly. Barthel index. Nottingham extended activities of daily living scale. Rankin handicap scale. Modified Rankin scale. Structured interview for modified Rankin scale. FIM and FAM scale. Falls risk assessment tools. Balance tests. Stroke scales. National institute of health stroke scale. Geriatric depression score. Hospital anxiety and depression scale. Short form 36. Mini nutritional assessment. Parkinsons disease scales. Pressure sore assessment scales.

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