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  • Investing in Health and Wellbeing

    When Prevention is Better than Cure

    by Prof Christopher Dye ...
    The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting and improving our health. Resolution of this age-old dilemma begins with a timeless truth: the benefits of good health come at a cost; prevention is not better than cure at any price. Protecting health should be appealing when a high-risk, high-value hazard can be averted rapidly, with ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Great Health Dilemma

    Is Prevention Better than Cure?

    by Christopher Dye ...
    The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident and yet we are reluctant to invest in staying healthy. Resolution of this age-old dilemma begins with a timeless truth: the benefits of good health come at a cost; prevention is not better than cure at any price. That logic leads to the testable hypothesis that prevention should be favoured when an imminent, high-risk, high-impact ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Population Biology of Tuberculosis

    by Christopher Dye ...
    Series Book 54 - Monographs in Population Biology
    Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the disease. Reenvisioning tuberculosis from the perspective of population biology, this book examines why the disease is so persistent and what must be done to fight it. Treating tuberculosis and its human hosts as dynamic, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Great Escape

    Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

    by Angus Deaton ...
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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  • Dead Epidemiologists

    On the Origins of COVID-19

    by Rob Wallace ...
    A history of COVID-19 and the sociopolitical crises that led to the 2020 global pandemicThe COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn’t have. Since this century’s turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost annually. But what of the epidemiologists themselves? Some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Textbook of Global Health

    by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, Timothy H. Holtz ...
    THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED "This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • Prioritizing Development

    A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Issues In Public Health

    by Fiona Sim, Martin McKee ...
    This book discusses the core issues of modern public health, its themes, foundations and evolution and the impact of globalisation. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman ...
    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... Read more

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  • The New Public Health

    An Introduction for the 21st Century

    by Theodore H. Tulchinsky, Elena A. Varavikova ...
    The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, The New Public Health distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students' understanding of applied public health in their own setting. Following the gold ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • HIV & AIDS

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Whiteside ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the outlook today is a little brighter. Although HIV/ AIDS continues to be a pressing public health issue the epidemic has ... Read more

    $7.99 USD