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Youth Mental Health Approaches to Emerging Mental Ill-Health in Young People

Health and the National Health Service

Environmental Policy and Public Health Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation Volume 1

Environmental Policy and Public Health Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation Volume 1

Written by environmental health experts with long teaching and professional careers in policy and public health the third edition of Environmental Policy and Public Health comprises two volumes addressing key physical hazards in the environment that impact public health. The first volume on Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation is complemented by the second volume Emerging Health Hazards and Mitigation. The health of the environment is inextricably linked to that of people. Thoroughly updated Volume 1 describes how the quality of air water and food is threatened by the presence of toxic substances and explains why climate change is a global health priority already impacting human health and the environment. The mitigations discussed in this volume are twofold: policies that are intended for control of specific hazards and suggested hazard interventions. The role of policy in addressing each of these key environmental health areas is extensively discussed in this volume as well. Each chapter explains step by step how new environmental health issues are translated into public health policies and concludes with practice questions to facilitate interactive learning for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in public health and environmental sciences. The step-by step approach as well as the case studies and practice questions allow for a diverse portfolio of in-person and hybrid pedagogical strategies and tools at the fingertips of faculty who not only teach policy courses but whose course topics such as climate and health have policy relevance. | Environmental Policy and Public Health Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation Volume 1

GBP 82.99
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Consumer Health Informatics Enabling Digital Health for Everyone

Consumer Health Informatics Enabling Digital Health for Everyone

An engaging introduction to an exciting multidisciplinary field where positive impact depends less on technology than on understanding and responding to human motivations specific information needs and life constraints. Betsy L. Humphreys former Deputy Director National Library of Medicine This is a book for people who want to design or promote information technology that helps people be more active and informed participants in their healthcare. Topics include patient portals wearable devices apps websites smart homes and online communities focused on health. Consumer Healthcare Informatics: Enabling Digital Health for Everyone educates readers in the core concepts of consumer health informatics: participatory healthcare; health and e-health literacy; user-centered design; information retrieval and trusted information resources; and the ethical dimensions of health information and communication technologies. It presents the current state of knowledge and recent developments in the field of consumer health informatics. The discussions address tailoring information to key user groups including patients consumers caregivers parents children and young adults and older adults. For example apps are considered as not just a rich consumer technology with the promise of empowered personal data management and connectedness to community and healthcare providers but also a domain rife with concerns for effectiveness privacy and security requiring both designer and user to engage in critical thinking around their choices. This book’s unique contribution to the field is its focus on the consumer and patient in the context of their everyday life outside the clinical setting. Discussion of tools and technologies is grounded in this perspective and in a context of real-world use and its implications for design. There is an emphasis on empowerment through participatory and people-centered care. | Consumer Health Informatics Enabling Digital Health for Everyone

GBP 44.99
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The Soil-Human Health-Nexus

The Soil-Human Health-Nexus

The term soil health refers to the functionality of a soil as a living ecosystem capable of sustaining plants animals and humans while also improving the environment. In addition to soil health the environment also comprises the quality of air water vegetation and biota. The health of soil plants animals people and the environment is an indivisible continuum. One of the notable ramifications of the Anthropocene is the growing risks of decline in soil health by anthropogenic activities. Important among these activities are deforestation biomass burning excessive soil tillage indiscriminate use of agrochemicals excessive irrigation by flooding or inundation and extractive farming practices. Soil pollution by industrial effluents and urban waste adversely impacts human health. Degradation of soil health impacts nutritional quality of food such as the uptake of heavy metals or deficit of essential micro-nutrients and contamination by pests and pathogens. Indirectly soil health may impact human health through contamination of water and pollution of air. This book aims to: Present relationships of soil health to human health and soil health to human nutrition. Discuss the nexus between soil degradation and malnourishment as well as the important links between soil plant animal and human health. Detail reasons oil is a cause of infectious diseases and source of remedial measures. Part of the Advances in Soil Sciences series this informative volume covering various aspects of soil health appeals to soil scientists environmental scientists and public health workers. | The Soil-Human Health-Nexus

GBP 74.99
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Routledge Handbook of Health Geography

Men’s Health An Introduction

Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of ‘securitizing’ health. In academic and policy terms the health security field is a timely and dynamic one and this handbook will be the first work comprehensively to address this agenda. Bringing together the leading experts and commentators on health security issues from across the world the volume comprises original and cutting-edge essays addressing the key issues in the field and also highlighting currently neglected avenues for future research. The book intends to provide an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the key topics and debates and is organised into four key parts: Health Securities: the fundamental conceptual issues historical links between health and security and the various ways of conceptualising health as a security issue Threats: those health issues which have been most frequently discussed in security terms Responses: the wide range of contemporary security-driven responses to health threats Controversies: the securitization of health its impact on rights and justice and the potential distortion of the global health agenda This book will be of great interest to students of global health security public health critical security studies and International Relations in general. | Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security

GBP 48.99
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Pig Health

Pig Health

Key features: Contains the contributions of international experts from the UK USA Australia Spain and Taiwan Includes over 1 500 high-quality illustrations Maintaining the health of pigs is vital in pig farming and production. This new book written by experts from around the world focuses on the health of pigs first with coverage of the disorders of pigs organised by clinical sign and body system. The book explores environmental medicine and then health maintenance. Treatment options are discussed emphasizing a reduction in antimicrobial use and an increased awareness of a holistic approach to treatment. The book includes over 1 500 high-quality illustrations to enhance the clinical description as well as a wealth of high-quality videos to test the reader in making differential diagnoses with treatment options. Quizzes at the end of each section also encourage reflective learning. Clinical examination of the individual pig and groups are covered along with environmental medicine making this the ideal reference for veterinary practitioners and students. Those interested in population medicine (poultry aquaculture cattle and small ruminant and apiaries) will particularly enjoy the holistic approach to veterinary medicine. All those who appreciate the many talents of pigs will enjoy the practical approach to managing the health of their animals. This book moves veterinary science forward promoting health rather than treating disease. It will be your number one reference for keeping your pigs healthy. | Pig Health

GBP 56.99
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Psychological Perspectives On Women's Health

Public Health Entomology

Public Health Entomology

In the struggle against vector-borne diseases it is critical that we bridge the gap among vector control workers on the ground (practitioners) public health planners and administrators and (academic) medical entomologists. This second edition of Public Health Entomology is designed to fit certificate courses in public health entomology offered by universities and U. S. Centers of Excellence. It comprehensively examines vector-borne disease prevention surveillance and control from a governmental and public health perspective with worldwide application. Divided into two sections the book begins with a historical account of the early beginnings of pest control and public health. Next it outlines the concepts design and implementation of a sound public health entomology program including issues associated with pesticide use FEMA and other disaster response entities and an adverse chemophobic public. The second section provides an overview of some of the most common public health pests that are found globally. Copious photos and line drawings accentuate the text along with text boxes and sidebars. The new edition addresses IPM and Alternative Control Methods in each section expands the Lyme disease section and includes other new and emerging tick-borne diseases (TBD). It provides enhanced discussion of working with local political figures and jurisdictions as well as partnerships with academia and is generally more worldwide in scope. Author Jerome Goddard designed and implemented the vector control program along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. His ability to communicate his knowledge and experience to public health students professionals and the general public make this book an essential resource for preventing disease from these vector-borne threats.

GBP 56.99
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Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing A Guide for Practitioners

Knowledge Management in Public Health

Knowledge Management in Public Health

Close collaboration across agencies and international borders is mandatory for public health officials. A powerful tool for sharing knowledge knowledge management (KM) can help public health professionals quickly collaborate and disseminate knowledge for solving public health issues worldwide. The latest initiatives for reforming healthcare have put the spotlight on the need for maximizing resources. In addition to providing a platform for sharing knowledge KM can help healthcare professionals do more with less. One tool two problems solved. Yet the sharing of knowledge and KM continues to be a major challenge in the public health field. Knowledge Management in Public Health provides a general introduction to KM and social networking in the public health arena. The book begins with coverage of basic principles components and methodologies as well as trends and key issues in public health. It includes ten case studies illustrating applications of KM and social networking in public health. The chapters are written by leading individuals from organizations involved in applying KM in public health worldwide. The editors and chapter authors explore the many elements of KM delineating how and why to start such an initiative. They provide specific examples of the development and value-added benefits of KM in a variety of public health environments. Tough or quick decision making has always benefitted enormously from knowledge based on the maximum amount of pertinent information available at the time—this has not changed. What is new in the present public health environment is the need to do this more often with fewer personnel available and increased expectations relative to the services expected by the public. Better use of information under a KM system is well suited to serve that purpose. This book explores the many ways to use KM to anticipate potential health issues and quickly resolve key incidents when they occur.

GBP 69.99
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Health and Medical Geography

Health and Medical Geography

Why are rainfall carcinogens and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space? The fourth edition of the leading text in the field has been updated and reorganized to cover the latest developments in disease ecology and health promotion across the globe. The book accessibly introduces the core questions and perspectives of health and medical geography and presents cutting-edge techniques of mapping and spatial analysis. It explores the intersecting genetic ecological behavioral cultural and socioeconomic processes that underlie patterns of health and disease in particular places including how new diseases and epidemics emerge. Geographic dimensions of health care access and service provision are addressed. More than 100 figures include 16 color plates; most are available as PowerPoint slides at the companion website. New to This Edition: *Chapters on the political ecology of health; emerging infectious diseases and landscape genetics; food diet and nutrition; and urban health. *Coverage of Middle East respiratory syndrome Ebola and Zika; impacts on health of global climate change; contaminated water crises in economically developed countries including in Flint Michigan; China's rapid industrial growth; and other timely topics. *Updated throughout with current data and concepts plus advances in GIS. Pedagogical Features: *End-of-chapter review questions and suggestions for further reading. *Section Introductions that describe each chapter. *Quick Reviews-within-chapter recaps of key concepts. *Bold-faced key terms and an end-of-book glossary.

GBP 58.99
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Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health

Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle

Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle

For Cuba's supporters health is the most commonly cited evidence of the socialist system's success. Even critics often concede that this is the country's saving grace. Cuba's health statistics are indeed extraordinary. This small island outperforms virtually all of its neighboring countries and all countries of the same level of economic development. Some of its health statistics rival wealthy industrialized countries. Moreover these health outcomes have resulted against all odds. Setting out to unravel this puzzle the author finds that Cuba possesses an unusually high level of popular participation and cooperation in the implementation of health policy. This has been achieved with the help of a longstanding government that prioritizes public health and has enough political influence to compel the rest of the community to do the same. On the other hand popular participation in decision-making regarding health policy is minimal which contrasts with the image of popular participation often promoted. Political elites design and impose health policy allowing little room for other health sector groups to meaningfully contribute to or protest official decisions. This is a problem because aspects of health care that are important to those who use the system or work within it can be neglected if they do not fit within official priorities. The author remains overall supportive of health achievement in Cuba. The country's preventive arrangements its collective prioritization of key health areas the improvements in public access to health services through the expansion of health facilities and the provision of free universal care are among the accomplishments that set it apart. The sustainability and progress of these achievements however must involve open recognition and public discussion of weaker aspects of the health system. | Social Relations and the Cuban Health Miracle

GBP 51.99
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Design for Mental and Behavioral Health

Assessment in Health Professions Education

Reindeer and Caribou Health and Disease

Reindeer and Caribou Health and Disease

This book is a comprehensive presentation of health and diseases in reindeer and caribou or just Rangifer a key Circumarctic species with broad social and ecological value. It is an essential reference for anyone interested in the biology and health of wild or semi-domesticated reindeer and caribou and is more broadly relevant for those with interests in other species of free-ranging and captive cervids. Beginning with a general introduction to Rangifer as a species it then focuses on Rangifer health as a concept and describes the determinants of health at an individual and population level. Chapters cover a range of topics from nutrition and feeding to stress non-infectious and infectious diseases meat hygiene capture and restraint diagnosis and treatment of health issues and finally potential impacts of climate change on health of Rangifer. Reindeer and Caribou: Health and Disease compiles extensive research and experience-based information on issues ranging from drug doses for chemical immobilization blood chemistry values and raising an orphaned calf. In addition it contains hundreds of high quality colour illustrations that contribute to its value as a diagnostic resource for recognizing various parasites pathogens and signs of disease both in live and dead animals. Each chapter is followed by a comprehensive list of references and a list of contact information for all the contributors identifying world experts in the different areas of health for this circumpolar and fascinating species. This book is compulsory reading and an indispensable resource for anyone dealing with health in reindeer and caribou including veterinarians wildlife biologists and managers reindeer herders/game ranchers zoological husbandry personnel and students with wildlife health. | Reindeer and Caribou Health and Disease

GBP 66.99
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Architecture and Health Guiding Principles for Practice

Fermented Meat Products Health Aspects

Introduction to Health and Safety at Work for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

International Health and Safety at Work for the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Risk Assessment for Environmental Health