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  • Consequences of COVID-19

    A One Health Approach to the Responses, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

    by Damola Adesakin, Sara Ali, Ernesto Amaral, Ph.D, Natalie Baker, Lillian Brannen, Rachel Paige Casey, Jordan Donop, M.Ed, Matthew Etchells, Moe Fazail, Richard Gelatt, Eleftherios Iakovou, Diara Malik, Candace McAlester, Erica Moorhead, M.Ed, Andrew S. Natsios, Susan Ngunijri, Erin Nguyen, Huyen Pham, Raymond Robertson, Leslie E. Ruyle, Lidia Azurdia Sierra, Erin A. Singer, Tamara Walderon, M.Ed, Soujin Wang, Ph.D, Vicki Weldon, Liliana K. Wolf ...
    No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Crudo Blackburn and Gerald W. Parker saw how many areas of society are impacted and how those impacts can ripple through to other sectors.Seeking to provide both warnings of these vulnerabilities and direction for future efforts to address them, Blackburn and Parker have assembled ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World

    by David M. Morens, Jonathan D. Quick, John W. Hellerstedt, Jennifer A. Shuford, Karin R. Hopkins, Leslie E. Ruyle, Gerald W. Parker, Lisa Koonin, Rebecca J. Fish, Richard Crespin, Andrew S. Natsios, Jeffrey K. Taubenberger ...
    The Black Death. Cholera. Spanish flu. Swine flu. HIV/AIDS. COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. Each of these pandemics has made (or, is making) a lasting impact on humanity. From the immediate mental image of the beaked masks worn in the Middle Ages (bubonic plague) and the birth of epidemiology (cholera) to recognizing the benefits of social distancing (1918 flu) and the harm of prejudice and misinformation ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling ...
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  • Lies My Gov't Told Me

    And the Better Future Coming

    by Robert W. Malone, MD, MS ...
    A WALL STREET JOURNALNATIONAL BESTSELLER*AS SEEN ON TUCKER CARLSON TODAY AND THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE*A guide for the times—breaking down the lies about COVID-19 and shedding light on why we came to believe them.When he invented the original mRNA vaccine technology as a medical and graduate student in the late 1980s, Robert Malone could not have imagined that he would become a leader in a ... ... Read more

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  • The End of Epidemics

    The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It

    by Jonathan D. Quick, Bronwyn Fryer ...
    "Jonathan Quick offers a compelling and intensely readable plan to prevent worldwide infectious outbreaks. The End of Epidemics is essential reading for those who might be affected by a future pandemic—that is, just about everyone."—Sandeep Jauhar, bestselling author of Heart: A HistoryThe 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the world--and revealed how unprepared we are for the next ... Read more

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  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen 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 ... Read more

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  • Global Health Law

    by Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Global Health In Practice: Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial Of Evidence, And Neo-dependency

    by Olusoji Adeyi, Dean T Jamison ...
    Series Book 6 - World Scientific Series In Health Investment And Financing
    The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world's vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global health? How do geo-politics, power dynamics, knowledge gaps, racism, and corruption affect global health? Is foreign aid for health due for a ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Pandemic

    Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19

    by John Ehrenreich ...
    Series Book 19 - Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The Making of a Pandemic provides a systematic account of how societal and psychological forces shaped the Covid-19 pandemic. The first part focuses on how biological and societal factors interact to create a pandemic. The second part explores how characteristics of the American economy, the American approach to public health, and domestic and international inequality combined to prolong the ... Read more

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  • Global Health Security

    A Blueprint for the Future

    by Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    With lessons learned from COVID-19, a world-leading expert on pandemic preparedness proposes a pragmatic plan urgently needed for the future of global health security.The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how unprepared the world was for such an event, as even the most sophisticated public health systems failed to cope. We must have far more investment and preparation, along with better detection, ... Read more

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  • Alberta

    A Health System Profile

    by John Church, Neale Smith ...
    Series series Provincial and Territorial Health System Profiles
    Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first detailed description of Alberta’s health care system and the underpinning political and social forces that have shaped it. Drawing on significant wealth from government revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta has been able to develop an extensive public health and health care infrastructure.Alberta has used its financial resources ... Read more

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  • Global Health

    Edited by Ann Allen, Judy McKimm, Brian D Nicholson ...
    The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Global health issues impact daily on local healthcare delivery and professional practice. This illuminating guide for healthcare students and practitioners introduces the major themes, challenges and debates relevant to global health that will equip the ... Read more

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