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Principles of medicine in Africa
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ISBN: 052180616X 9780521806169 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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For students of medicine and those who practice in the front-line of medicine in Africa, this fully revised edition combines classical internal medicine with a rich understanding of the major influences on health and disease in Africa. It puts disease into the context of family and culture and is not afraid to address the effects of inequality on health and the problems of limited resources for health care. There is a much expanded section on non-communicable diseases as well as comprehensive accounts of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other major infections in the continent. Forward-looking and evidence-based, this new edition reflects the emergence of new diseases and health risks in the region. Complied by the foremost international authorities, this is the one essential text for the medical student, medical officer, or postgraduate student wanting the most complete and up-to-date reference book on medicine in Africa.


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Key concepts in public health
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ISBN: 9780412948791 9780412948791 1412948797 0412948796 1780341458 9780412948791 1446255565 1280299630 9786613554543 0857025082 Year: 2009 Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE,

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This work identifies 50 key concepts used across the discipline of public health, and gives the reader a broad perspective on the core topics relevant to training and practice - from epidemiology to health promotion and from ethics to leadership.


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Public health perspectives on depressive disorders
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ISBN: 1421422816 9781421422817 9781421422794 1421422794 9781421422800 1421422808 Year: 2017 Publisher: Baltimore

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The third and longest part addresses the vulnerability of diverse groups to depressive illness and underscore best practices to mitigate risk while improving both the preventive and therapeutic armamentaria.


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Plague among the magnolias
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ISBN: 9780817382445 0817382445 9780817316532 0817316531 Year: 2009 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported the epidemic and upriver officials established checkpoints, but efforts at quarantine came too late. Yellow fever was developing by late July, and in August deaths were reported. With a fresh memory of an 1873 epidemic, thousands fled, some carrying the disease with them. The fever raged until mid-


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When people come first : critical studies in global health
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ISBN: 0691157383 1400846803 9780691157382 9780691157399 0691157391 9781400846801 9781299652187 1299652182 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ethnography as an empirical lantern in global health, arguing for a more comprehensive, people-centered approach. Topics include the limits of technological quick fixes in disease control, the moral economy of global health science, the unexpected effects of massive treatment rollouts in resource-poor contexts, and how right-to-health activism coalesces with the increased influence of the pharmaceutical industry on health care. The contributors explore the altered landscapes left behind after programs scale up, break down, or move on. We learn that disease is really never just one thing, technology delivery does not equate with care, and biology and technology interact in ways we cannot always predict. The most effective solutions may well be found in people themselves, who consistently exceed the projections of experts and the medical-scientific, political, and humanitarian frameworks in which they are cast. When People Come First sets a new research agenda in global health and social theory and challenges us to rethink the relationships between care, rights, health, and economic futures.

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World health. --- Public health --- Global health --- International health --- International cooperation. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization --- MEDICAL / Public Health --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural --- International agencies --- Medical assistance --- Public health laws, International --- World health --- Medical geography --- International cooperation --- Global Health. --- International Cooperation. --- Public Health Practice. --- #SBIB:39A9 --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Treaties --- Foreign Aid --- Aid, Foreign --- Cooperation, International --- Treaty --- International Health --- Worldwide Health --- International Health Problems --- World Health --- Health Problem, International --- Health Problems, International --- Health, Global --- Health, International --- Health, World --- Health, Worldwide --- Healths, International --- International Health Problem --- International Healths --- Problem, International Health --- Problems, International Health --- World Health Organization --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Santé mondiale --- Santé publique --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Coopération internationale --- Global Health --- International Cooperation --- Public Health Practice --- AIDS. --- Botswana. --- Brazil. --- Chile. --- Ghana. --- HIV infection. --- HIV. --- India. --- Mozambique. --- PEPFAR. --- President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief. --- South Africa. --- Uganda. --- antidepressants. --- antiretroviral drugs. --- asthma. --- biomedical science. --- cancer care. --- case studies. --- childhood. --- chronic diseases. --- clinical care. --- compliance. --- depression. --- developing countries. --- diabetes. --- disease control. --- disease eradication programs. --- domestic relations. --- epidemics. --- epistemology. --- ethnography. --- evidence-based medicine. --- experimental research. --- global health science. --- global health. --- guinea worm. --- health activism. --- health care. --- health policy. --- health research. --- health rights. --- human rights. --- humanitarianism. --- international aid. --- intervention. --- malaria. --- mental health programs. --- micropolitics. --- moral economy. --- neoliberalism. --- obesity. --- palliation. --- psychopharmaceuticals. --- public health care system. --- public health services. --- public health. --- publicаrivate collaborations. --- right to know. --- social factors. --- social networks. --- social theory. --- tuberculosis treatment.


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Haiti after the earthquake
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ISBN: 9781586489731 1586489739 9781586489748 1586489747 1283139332 9786613139337 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York PublicAffairs

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"On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake laid waste to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Within three days, Dr. Paul Farmer arrived in the Haitian capital, along with a team of volunteers, to lend his services to the injured. In this vivid narrative, Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake--the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster." Complementing his account are stories from other doctors, volunteers, and earthquake survivors. Haiti after the earthquake will both inform and inspire readers to stand with the Haitian people against the profound economic and social injustices that formed the fault line for this disaster"--Provided by publisher.

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Emergency medical services --- Earthquakes --- Relief Work --- Public Health Practice --- Socioeconomic Factors --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:327.7H44 --- #SBIB:327.4H74 --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Emergency health services --- Emergency medical care --- Emergency medicine --- Medical care --- Rescue work --- Factors, Socioeconomic --- High-Income Population --- Inequalities --- Land Tenure --- Standard of Living --- Factor, Socioeconomic --- High Income Population --- High-Income Populations --- Inequality --- Living Standard --- Living Standards --- Population, High-Income --- Populations, High-Income --- Socioeconomic Factor --- Tenure, Land --- Economics --- Humanitarian Assistance --- Assistance, Humanitarian --- Assistances, Humanitarian --- Humanitarian Assistances --- Relief Works --- Work, Relief --- Works, Relief --- Disasters --- Social Work --- Rescue Work --- Earthquake --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Specifieke internationale organisaties en samenwerking: gezondheid --- Ontwikkelingshulp en -samenwerking --- Social Inequalities --- Social Inequality --- Inequalities, Social --- Inequality, Social --- Economic and Social Factors --- Social and Economic Factors --- Socioeconomic Characteristics --- Characteristic, Socioeconomic --- Socioeconomic Characteristic --- Emergency medical services - Haiti --- Earthquakes - Haiti --- Earthquakes - Haiti - Autobiography --- Relief Work - Haiti - Autobiography --- Public Health Practice - Haiti - Autobiography --- Socioeconomic Factors - Haiti - Autobiography --- Haiti --- Politics and government


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European Union public health policy : regional and global trends.
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ISBN: 9780415516648 0415516641 9780203077245 9781135130404 9781135130350 9781135130398 9781138686113 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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"Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU's public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for those who want to understand the growth and impact of the EU as well as how states can affect their populations' lives and health. European Union Public Health Policy capitalizes on extensive new research, providing an introduction to the topic and indicating new intellectual directions surrounding the topic. An introductory section and extended conclusion explore the meaning of public health, the relationship of EU public health policy to health care policy, and the place of public health in the study of European integration and Europeanization. Divided into three substantive parts, focusing on health system transformation, global health governance and population health, the chapters each address: Relevant policy issues and EU policies; Effects of the EU policies on practice or outcomes; An explanation of the policy trajectory; Current issues and likely future directions or conflicts. Drawing together an international and multidisciplinary selection of experts, this volume is an important contribution for all those interested in public health policy, EU health policy and EU governance"--Provided by publisher.

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Public health --- Medical policy --- European Union. --- Health Policy --- International Cooperation --- Public Health Administration --- Public Health Practice --- #SBIB:316.334.3M50 --- #SBIB:35H436 --- #SBIB:327.7H231 --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Administration, Public Health --- Public Health --- Treaties --- Foreign Aid --- Aid, Foreign --- Cooperation, International --- Treaty --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policies, National --- Health Policy, National --- National Health Policies --- Policies, Health --- Policies, National Health --- Policy, Health --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medical care --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Sanitary affairs --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- trends --- Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid --- Beleidssectoren: welzijn, volksgezondheid en cultuur --- Europese Unie: sociaal-economisch beleid, landbouw-, milieu-, cultuur- en communicatiebeleid --- organization & administration --- Government policy --- Trends --- Healthcare Policy --- Healthcare Policies --- Policy, Healthcare --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care


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Toward integrated DoD biosurveillance
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ISBN: 0833084666 9780833084668 9780833081513 0833081519 Year: 2013 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA RAND

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Public health surveillance --- Bioterrorism --- Communicable diseases --- Population Surveillance --- Public Health Practice --- Public Health --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Biosurveillance --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Epidemiology & Epidemics --- Prevention --- Biosurveillances --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health --- Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health --- Health, Public --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- Surveillance, Population --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Population surveillance (Public health) --- Surveillance, Public health --- Community Health --- Health, Community --- Preventive Medicine --- Education, Public Health Professional --- Diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics --- Epidemiology --- United States. --- Rules and practice --- Evaluation. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Medical care. --- D.O.D. --- DOD (Department of Defense) --- Mei-kuo kuo fang pu --- Ministerstvo oborony SShA --- Министерство обороны США --- National Military Establishment (U.S.)

Searching eyes
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ISBN: 1282772287 9786612772283 0520941217 1435611489 9780520941212 9781435611481 9780520252028 0520252020 9780520253254 0520253256 1433708922 9781433708923 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley New York University of California Press Milbank Memorial Fund

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This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease to health authorities inevitably poses questions about the interplay between the imperative to control threats to the public's health and legal and ethical concerns about privacy. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove situate the tension inherent in public health surveillance in a broad social and political context and show how the changing meaning and significance of privacy have marked the politics and practice of surveillance since the end of the nineteenth century.

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Public Health Practice --- Privacy --- Health Policy --- Confidentiality --- Population Surveillance --- Privacy, Right of. --- Public health surveillance. --- Invasion of privacy --- Privacy, Right of --- Right of privacy --- Civil rights --- Libel and slander --- Personality (Law) --- Press law --- Computer crimes --- Confidential communications --- Data protection --- Right to be forgotten --- Secrecy --- Population surveillance (Public health) --- Surveillance, Public health --- Epidemiology --- Surveillance, Population --- Confidential Information --- Patient Data Privacy --- Privacy of Patient Data --- Privileged Communication --- Communication, Privileged --- Communications, Privileged --- Data Privacy, Patient --- Information, Confidential --- Privacy, Patient Data --- Privileged Communications --- Duty to Warn --- Disclosure --- Anonymous Testing --- Parental Notification --- Healthcare Policy --- National Health Policy --- Health Policies --- Health Policy, National --- Healthcare Policies --- National Health Policies --- Policy, Health --- Policy, Healthcare --- Policy, National Health --- Policy Making --- PL 93-579 --- PL93-579 --- Privacy Act --- Public Law 93-579 --- Act, Privacy --- Law 93-579, Public --- PL 93 579 --- PL93 579 --- Public Law 93 579 --- Health Practice, Public --- Health Practices, Public --- Practice, Public Health --- Practices, Public Health --- Public Health Practices --- history --- Law and legislation --- Health Care Policies --- Care Policies, Health --- Health Care Policy --- Policies, Health --- Policies, Health Care --- Policies, Healthcare --- Policy, Health Care --- 20th century american healthcare. --- 20th century american history. --- activism. --- aids. --- birth defects. --- cancer. --- conflict. --- controversy. --- democratic policy. --- detection. --- diagnosis. --- disease. --- ethical concerns. --- government and governing. --- health authorities. --- history. --- illness. --- immunization registry. --- legal concerns. --- medical. --- occupational disease. --- privacy. --- public health surveillance. --- public health. --- reporting. --- resistance. --- secrecy. --- surveillance. --- syphilis. --- united states of america.

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