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  • Chronic Non-communicable Diseases in Low and Middle-income Countries

    by Richard Cooper, Anoop Mishra, Liz Grant, Daniel Boakye, William Midodzi, Ursula Read, Kofi Anie, Nigel Unwin, Juliet Addo, Ernestina Coast, Montserrat Mendez, Philip Onyebujoh, Kwadwo Koram, Shanthi Mendis, André Pascal Kengne ...
    Low and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America bear a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases. This book synthesizes evidence across countries that share similar socio-economic, developmental and public health profiles, including rapid urbanization, globalization and poverty. Providing insights on successful and sustainable interventions ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Understanding Stroke in a Global Context

    by Shanthi Mendis ...
    Stroke is one of the most debilitating diseases which poses a significant economic burden on society. Increasing exposure to behavioural risk factors for stroke (tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and excessive alcohol consumption) and air pollution are driving up the worldwide stroke burden. Although medical interventions to prevent and manage stroke have advanced considerably over ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Population-level Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases

    Edited by Mike Rayner, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Julianne Williams, Karen McColl, Shanthi Mendis ...
    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) kill more people than anything else in the world. They include cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes; cancers; chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma; and diabetes. In 2013, the World Health Organization published a global action plan for the prevention and control of NCDs which set a target to ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Understanding Stroke in a Global Context

    by Shanthi Mendis ...
    Series Book 2 - Current Developments in Stroke
    Stroke is one of the most debilitating diseases which poses a significant economic burden on society. Increasing exposure to behavioural risk factors for stroke (tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and excessive alcohol consumption) and air pollution are driving up the worldwide stroke burden. Although medical interventions to prevent and manage stroke have advanced considerably over ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

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    Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society

    by Nortin M. Hadler M.D. ...
    For those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Although aging and dying are not diseases, older Americans are subject to the most egregious marketing in the name of “successful aging” and “long life,” as if both are commodities. In Rethinking Aging, Nortin M. Hadler examines health-care choices offered to aging ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Textbook Of Occupational Medicine Practice (Fourth Edition)

    by David Soo Quee Koh, Tar-ching Aw ...
    'The text is generally very readable, the scientific quality of the content is above reproach, and the content is very comprehensive within the confines of the size of the actual book … In my opinion, the book meets the needs of the varied targeted audience, and I would regard it as good value for money. I would consider the book useful for occupational practitioners particularly those in training ... 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

  • ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

    Edited by David Snashall, Dipti Patel ...
    Series series ABC Series
    This new edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicine concentrates more on the newer kinds of occupational disease including those (like “RSI” and pesticide poisoning) where exposure and effects are difficult to understand. There is specific emphasis on work, health and wellbeing, with links to public health, health promotion, the value of work, disabled people at work, the aging workforce, ... Read more

    $43.00 USD

  • Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice

    by David Koh, Wee Hoe Gan ...
    Following the success of the fourth edition, which was highly commended in the primary health care category for the 2018 British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Awards, this fifth edition has been substantially revised and updated to reflect significant changes in health care practice and to incorporate the explosion of information since the advent of the fourth industrial revolution and ... Read more

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  • Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health

    Edited by Roger Detels, Martin Gulliford, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Chorh Chuan Tan ...
    Series series Oxford Textbook
    The Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health is the ultimate resource on the subject of public health and epidemiology. The sixth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, offering a global and comprehensive perspective on wide ranging public health needs and priorities in modern health care. The sixth edition retains its approach of dividing the complex, dynamic subject of public health ... Read more

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  • Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health

    Edited by Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Michael Selgelid ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including ... Read more

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