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“michaela benzeval”

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  • Health Action Zones

    Partnerships for Health Equity

    Edited by Marian Barnes, Linda Bauld, Michaela Benzeval, Mhairi Mackenzie, Helen Sullivan, Ken Judge ...
    Health Action Zones (HAZ) were one of the earliest and most prominent area-based initiatives launched by the New Labour government in England soon after it came to power in 1997. Written by members of the team undertaking the national evaluation of HAZ, this book examines the initiative’s development and impact from a variety of perspectives. It outlines important features of the social, policy ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Epic Measures

    One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

    by Jeremy N. Smith ...
    Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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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

  • The Health of Nations

    Towards a New Political Economy

    by Gavin Mooney ...
    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Saving Gotham

    A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

    by Tom Farley, MD ...
    The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Body Politic

    The Battle Over Science in America

    by Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and Scientific American Book Club selectionMoreno pulls apart the debates on eugenics, abortion, end-of-life decisions, embryonic stem-cell research, reproductive cloning, chimeras and synthetic biology, among others, carefully reassembling what’s at stake for each side. In graceful, sparkling prose, he illuminates intricate threads of history and complex ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform

    by Richard (Buz) Cooper ...
    Proof that high health care spending is linked directly to poverty.In Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform, Dr. Richard (Buz) Cooper argues that US poverty and high health care spending are inextricably entwined. Our nation's health care system bears a financial burden that is greater than in any other developed country in large part because impoverished patients use more health care, ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • A Town Called Asbestos

    Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

    by Jessica van Horssen ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers and the general public, but eventually, as the devastating nature of asbestos-related deaths ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Health Communication

    Strategies for Developing Global Health Programs

    Edited by Do Kyun Kim, Arvind Singhal, Gary L. Kreps ...
    Series Book 5 - Health Communication
    Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health communication scholarship and practice can substantially and strategically contribute to people living safer, healthier, and happier lives. This book represents a concrete step in that direction by establishing a strategic framework for guiding global and ... Read more

    $185.99 USD

  • Regulating Medicines in Europe

    Competition, Expertise and Public Health

    by John Abraham, Graham Lewis ...
    This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU. Based on penetrating documentary and interview research with the pharmaceutical industry, regulators and consumer organisations,it provides the first major critical examination of the new Europeanised systems of medicine regulation. The authors argue that the drive to produce and approve more drugs more ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Dementia and Subjectivity / Demenz und Subjektivitaet

    Aesthetic, Literary and Philosophical Perspectives / Aesthetische, literarische und philosophische Perspektiven

    Edited by Daniela Ringkamp, Sara Strauß, Leonie Süwolto ...
    This volume offers new perspectives on questions which are highly relevant in the context of dementia and the arts and the humanities. The issues concern the personal identity of dementia patients, their familial relationships, advance directives and the patients’ autonomy, the cultural representation of the subjective experience of dementia, and the patients’ stigmatization due to the disease. By ... Read more

    $58.99 USD