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- Public Health
MMWR - Morbidity mortality weekly report
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat16075
- Available Online
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- Holdings
- Vol 31, 1982 -
- ISSN
- 0149-2195
- Specialty
- Public Health
- Statistics as Topic
- Format
- e-Journal
- Location
- Online
Social Capital and Health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29667
edited by Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Daniel Kim.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2008.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Other Authors
- Kawachi, Ichiro
- Subramanian, S.V
- Kim, Daniel
- Responsibility
- edited by Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Daniel Kim
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2008
- ISBN
- 9780387713113
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Status
- Public Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Environment
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The Health of Sexual Minorities : Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29714
edited by Ilan H. Meyer, Mary E. Northridge.
--Boston, MA:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2007.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Author
- Meyer, Ilan H.
- Other Authors
- Northridge, Mary E.
- Responsibility
- edited by Ilan H. Meyer, Mary E. Northridge
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2007
- ISBN
- 9780387313344
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Sexual and Gender Minorities
- Sexual Behavior
- Public Health
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Public health
- Sexual behavior
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Public Health Perspectives on Disability : Epidemiology to Ethics and Beyond
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29836
edited by Donald J. Lollar, Elena M. Andresen.
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2011.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Author
- Lollar, Donald J
- Other Authors
- Andresen, Elena M
- Responsibility
- edited by Donald J. Lollar, Elena M. Andresen
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2011
- ISBN
- 9781441973412
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Disabled Persons
- Public Health
- Social Medicine
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Public health
- Medical ethics
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health : Health and Climate
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat29871
edited by Madeleine C. Thomson, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Martin Beniston.
--Dordrecht:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2008.
- Available Online
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Author
- Thomson, Madeleine C
- Other Authors
- Garcia-Herrera, Ricardo
- Beniston, Martin
- Responsibility
- edited by Madeleine C. Thomson, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Martin Beniston
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2008
- Series Vol.
- 30
- Series Title
- Advances in global change research
- ISBN
- 9781402068775
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Weather
- Climate Change
- Public Health
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Environmental Medicine
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Handbook of Obesity Prevention : A Resource for Health Professionals
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30004
edited by Shiriki Kumanyika, Ross C. Brownson.
--Boston, MA:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2007.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Author
- Kumanyika, Shiriki
- Other Authors
- Brownson, Ross C
- Responsibility
- edited by Shiriki Kumanyika, Ross C. Brownson
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2007
- ISBN
- 9780387478609
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Obesity - prevention & control
- Public Health
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Metabolic diseases
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Public Health Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries : Epidemiology, Prevention and Care
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30449
edited by David D. Celentano, Chris Beyrer.
--New York, NY:
Springer-Verlag
, c2009.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Celentano, David D
- Other Authors
- Beyrer, Chris
- Responsibility
- edited by David D. Celentano, Chris Beyrer
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Date of Publication
- c2009
- ISBN
- 9780387727110
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - prevention & control
- HIV infections - epidemiology
- HIV Infections - prevention & control
- Public Health
- Developing Countries
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Subjects (LCSH)
- AIDS
- Public health
- Epidemiology
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Public health aspects of diagnosis and classification of mental and behavioral disorders : refining the research agenda for DSM-5 and ICD-11
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30551
World Health Organization, American Psychiatric Association.
(1st ed.)
--Arlington, VA:
American Psychiatric Pub.
, 2012.
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- Location
- Online
- Available Online
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- Corporate Author
- World Health Organization
- American Psychiatric Association
- Other Authors
- Saxena, Shekhar
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Arlington, VA
- Publisher
- American Psychiatric Pub.
- Date of Publication
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 273 p.
- ISBN
- 9780890423493
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed.
- International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. 11th revision
- Mental Disorders - classification
- Mental Disorders - diagnosis
- Public Health
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30854
Sana Loue and Martha Sajatovic (eds.).
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2012.
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- Online
There is increasing interest in the scientific literature on immigrant health and its impact on disease transmission, disease prevention, health promotion, well-being on an individual and population level, health policy, and the cost of managing all these issues on an individual, institutional, national, and global level. The need for accurate and up-to-date information is particularly acute due to the increasing numbers of immigrants and refugees worldwide as the result of natural disasters, p…
- Available Online
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- Other Authors
- Loue, Sana
- Sajatovic, Martha
- Responsibility
- Sana Loue and Martha Sajatovic (eds.)
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2012
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 1516 p.)
- Series Title
- Springer reference
- ISBN
- 9781441956590
- 9781441956552 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Emigration and Immigration
- Public Health
- Abstract
- There is increasing interest in the scientific literature on immigrant health and its impact on disease transmission, disease prevention, health promotion, well-being on an individual and population level, health policy, and the cost of managing all these issues on an individual, institutional, national, and global level. The need for accurate and up-to-date information is particularly acute due to the increasing numbers of immigrants and refugees worldwide as the result of natural disasters, political turmoil, the growing numbers of immigrants to magnet countries, and the increasing costs of associated health care that are being felt by governments around the world. Format and Scope: The first portion of the encyclopedia contains chapters that are approximately 25 to 40 manuscript pages in length. Each overview chapter includes a list of references and suggested readings for cross referencing within the encyclopedia. The opening chapters are: Immigration in the Global Context, Immigration Processes and Health in the U.S.: A Brief History, Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Culture-Specific Diagnoses, Health Determinants, Occupational and Environmental Health, Methodological Issues in Immigrant Health Research, Ethical Issues in Research with Immigrants and Refugees, Ethical Issues in the Clinical Context. The second portion of the book consists of alphabetical entries that relate to the health of immigrants. Entries are interdisciplinary and are drawn from the following fields of study: anthropology, demographics, history, law, linguistics, medicine, population studies, psychology, religion, and sociology. Each entry is followed by a listing of suggested readings and suggested resources, and also links to related terms within the whole book. Outstanding Features: The book adopts a biopsychosocial-historical approach to the topics covered in the chapters and the entries. Each entry includes suggested readings and suggested resources. The chapters and entries are written graduate level that is accessible to all academics, researchers, and professionals from diverse backgrounds. We consider the audience for the entries to be well educated, but a non expert in this area. The primary focus of the book is on the immigrant populations in and immigration to magnet countries. References are made to worldwide trends and issues arising globally. In addition to the comprehensive subject coverage the text also offers diverse perspectives. The editors themselves reflect the multidisciplinary nature of the topics, with expertise in psychiatry, law, epidemiology, anthropology, and social work. Authors similarly reflect diverse disciplines.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Encyclopedia
- Location
- Online
Jekel's epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat32236
by David L. Katz ... [et al.].
(4th ed.)
--Philadelphia, Pa. ; London:
Saunders
, 2014.
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- Registration required for PDF access.
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Katz, David L
- Jekel, James F
- Responsibility
- by David L. Katz ... [et al.]
- Edition
- 4th ed.
- Alternate Title
- Epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine, and public health
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Pa. ; London
- Publisher
- Saunders
- Date of Publication
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 405 p.)
- ISBN
- 9781455706563 (electronic bk.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Epidemiology
- Preventive Health Services
- Public Health
- Statistics as Topic
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Epidemiology
- Medical statistics
- Medicine, Preventive
- Preventive Health Services
- Public health
- Statistics as Topic
- Notes
- Formal title: Epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine.
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- Registration required for PDF access.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Neighbourhood structure and health promotion
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat32581
Christiane Stock, Anne Ellaway, editors.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
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- Online
It has long been theorized that people living in poor areas have more health problems than their more advantaged peers. More recently, science has been testing this hypothesis, concentrating on the impact of the built environment on well-being and its contribution to health inequities.Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion offers sociology-based theory and evidence-based findings so readers may better understand the effects of place on health choices, behaviour, and outcomes. This interna…
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- Other Authors
- Stock, Christiane
- Ellaway, Anne
- Responsibility
- Christiane Stock, Anne Ellaway, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 367 p. : 34 ill., 27 ill. in color)
- ISBN
- 9781461466727
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Promotion
- Public Health
- Physical Fitness
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medicine
- Regional planning
- Developmental psychology
- Abstract
- It has long been theorized that people living in poor areas have more health problems than their more advantaged peers. More recently, science has been testing this hypothesis, concentrating on the impact of the built environment on well-being and its contribution to health inequities.Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion offers sociology-based theory and evidence-based findings so readers may better understand the effects of place on health choices, behaviour, and outcomes. This international volume analyzes the complex relationships among neighbourhood conditions and characteristics, people's perceptions of where they live, and their everyday health lives, from eating habits and activity levels to smoking, drinking, and drug use. Chapters introduce innovative methods for measuring and monitoring links between place and health in terms of risks and resources, and employing objective and subjective data. Prospects for engaging neighbourhoods in prevention efforts, particularly involving young people, and policy implications for the future of health promotion and inequity reduction are discussed as well. Included in the coverage:The spatiality of injustice: area effects on behaviour.Qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing neighbourhood health resources.The potential of GIS and GPS in the health sciences.Green spaces and health: possibilities for research and policy.School neighbourhoods and obesity prevention in youth.Connecting gender, social environment, and health.Neighbourhood Structure and Health Promotion advances the study of this increasingly critical topic, making it a valuable reference for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and advanced students in health, health promotion, social epidemiology, and urban planning.
- Contents
- 1. Neighbourhood structure and health promotion: An introduction -- Part 1: Understanding health as a matter of place -- 2. Neighbourhood context and mortality: An overview -- 3. Area effects on behaviour and lifestyle: The spatiality of injustice -- 4. Sociological perspectives on neighbourhood context and health -- 5. People and place: The interrelated connections between interactions, behaviour, relations, perceptions and space -- Part 2: Measuring and monitoring neighbourhood structure -- 6. Methods to measure neighbourhoods and analyse their impact on health: An overview -- 7. Access to health promoting facilities and amenities -- 8. GIS: A spatial turn in the health science? -- 9. Using GPS to measure the interaction between individuals and their neighbourhood -- 10. Mathematical approaches to analyzing area level effects on health -- Part 3: Neighbourhood and lifestyle -- 11. Vitamin G - Green spaces and health: Potential mechanisms and policy implications, and ideas for further research -- 12. Socio-economic differences in physical activity: The role of neighbourhood factors -- 13. Building in prevention: Nudging towards physical activity and public health -- 14 .Rethinking exposure in area studies on social inequities in smoking in youth and young adults -- 15. Neighbourhood structure and alcohol and other drug use: Implications for prevention -- 16. Neighbourhoods and healthy nutrition -- 17. School neighbourhoods and obesity prevention in youth -- 18. Connecting gender, space and place: Are there gender differences in the relationships between the social environment and health-related behaviours? -- 19. From neighbourhood and health research to health promotion practice -- Index.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Global climate change and public health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33392
Kent E. Pinkerton, William N. Rom, editors.
--New York:
Humana Press
, c2014.
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- Location
- Online
Pulmonary physicians and scientists currently have minimal capacity to respond to climate change and its impacts on health. The extent to which climate change influences the prevalence and incidence of respiratory morbidity remains largely undefined. However, evidence is increasing that climate change does drive respiratory disease onset and exacerbation as a result of increased ambient and indoor air pollution, desertification, heat stress, wildfires, and the geographic and temporal spread of …
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- Other Authors
- Pinkerton, Kent Ed
- Rom, William N
- Responsibility
- Kent E. Pinkerton, William N. Rom, editors
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 406 pages)
- Series Vol.
- v. 7
- Series Title
- Respiratory medicine (New York, N.Y.)
- ISBN
- 9781461484172 (electronic bk.)
- 9781461484165
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Climate Change
- Global Health
- Public Health
- Respiration Disorders
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Environmental health
- Climatic changes
- Climate Change
- Respiratory Tract Diseases
- Environmental Health
- Climate Change Impacts
- Public health
- Abstract
- Pulmonary physicians and scientists currently have minimal capacity to respond to climate change and its impacts on health. The extent to which climate change influences the prevalence and incidence of respiratory morbidity remains largely undefined. However, evidence is increasing that climate change does drive respiratory disease onset and exacerbation as a result of increased ambient and indoor air pollution, desertification, heat stress, wildfires, and the geographic and temporal spread of pollens, molds and infectious agents. Preliminary research has revealed climate change to have potentially direct and indirect adverse impacts on respiratory health. Published studies have linked climate change to increases in respiratory disease, including the following: changing pollen releases impacting asthma and allergic rhinitis, heat waves causing critical care-related diseases, climate driven air pollution increases, exacerbating asthma and COPD, desertification increasing particulate matter (PM) exposures, and climate related changes in food and water security impacting infectious respiratory disease through malnutrition (pneumonia, upper respiratory infections). High level ozone and ozone exposure has been linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infection. Global Climate Change and Public Health is an important new volume based on the research, findings, and discussions of US and international experts on respiratory health and climate change. This volume addresses issues of major importance to respiratory health and fills a major gap in the current literature.
- Contents
- Introduction: Consequences of Global Warming to the Publics Health -- Climate Variability and Change Data and Information for Global Public Health -- Climate Change: Overview of Data Sources, Observed and Predicted Temperature Changes, and Impacts on Public and Environmental Health -- Eyewitness to Global Warming -- California and Climate Changes -- Heat Waves and Rising Temperatures: Human Health Impacts and the Determinants of Vulnerability -- Climate, Air Quality and Allergy: Emerging Methods for Detecting Linkages -- The Human Health Co-benefits of Air Quality Improvements Associated with Climate Change Mitigation -- Asthma, Hayfever, Pollen, and Climate Change -- Dengue Fever and Climate Change -- Impact of Climate Change on Vector-Borne Disease in the Amazon -- Climate Variability and Change: Food, Water and Societal Impacts -- Household Air Pollution from Cookstoves: Impacts on Health and Climate -- Biomass Fuel and Lung Diseases: An Indian Perspective -- The Effects of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Children and Mothers Health -- Climate Change and Public Health in Small Island States and Caribbean Countries -- Global Climate Change, Desertification, and Its Consequences in Turkey and the Middle East -- Assessing the Health Risks of Climate Change -- Federal Programs in Climate Change and Health Research -- Management of Climate Change Adaptation at the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Public Health and Climate Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- California's Cap-and-Trade Program.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Culture and health disparities : evaluation of interventions and outcomes in the U.S.-Mexico border region
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33455
John G. Bruhn.
--Cham, Switzerland:
Springer
, c2014.
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- Location
- Online
The sister cities of the southwestern United States border are challenged by widespread environmental and health issues and limited access to help. And while different initiatives have been set up to improve health outcomes and lessen inequities in the border region, evaluation data are scarce. Culture and Health Disparities provides a perspective on U.S.-Mexico border health with an evidence-based guide for conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating health interventions. Taking into account…
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- Author
- Bruhn, John G.
- Responsibility
- John G. Bruhn
- Place of Publication
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 83 pages)
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319064628 (electronic bk.)
- 9783319064611
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Healthcare Disparities
- Public Health
- Social Conditions
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Public health
- Migration
- Public health - Mexican-American Border Region
- Medical care - Regional disparities
- Other Subjects
- Mexico
- United States
- Abstract
- The sister cities of the southwestern United States border are challenged by widespread environmental and health issues and limited access to help. And while different initiatives have been set up to improve health outcomes and lessen inequities in the border region, evaluation data are scarce. Culture and Health Disparities provides a perspective on U.S.-Mexico border health with an evidence-based guide for conceptualizing, implementing, and evaluating health interventions. Taking into account the unique qualities of border life and their influence on general wellbeing, this important volume offers detailed criteria for creating public health programs that are medically, culturally, and ethically sound. The book identifies gaps in intervention research on major health concerns in the area, relating them to disparity-reduction efforts in the rest of the U.S. and arguing for more relevant means of data gathering and analysis. The author also asserts that progress can be made on both sides of the border despite concurrent social and political problems in the region. Included in the coverage: The border region as a social system. The development of health disparities: a life-course model. A social systems approach to understanding health disparities. A critique of U.S.-Mexico border health interventions. Evaluating interventions to reduce healthcare disparities. Ethical issues in health interventions across cultures and contexts. A text for researchers and practitioners working to promote border health and reduce service inequalities, Culture and Health Disparities asks pertinent questions and provides workable, meaningful answers.
- Contents
- 1. The Border Region: Its Culture and Health Disparities -- 2. Understanding Health Disparities -- 3. A Critique of U.S.-Mexico Border Health Interventions -- 4. Ethical Issues in Health Interventions Across Contexts and Cultures.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Risking your health : causes, consequences, and interventions to prevent risky behaviors
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat33961
Damien de Walque editor.
--Washington, D.C.:
The World Bank
, c2014.
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- Location
- Online
Behaviors that pose risks for an individual's health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer countries. Individual choices are an important part of the risky behaviors. Risking Your Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors explore how those choices are …
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- Other Authors
- Walque, Damien de
- Responsibility
- Damien de Walque editor
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C.
- Publisher
- The World Bank
- Date of Publication
- c2014
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Series Title
- Human Development Perspectives
- ISBN
- 9780821399071
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Developing Countries
- Public Health
- Health Behavior
- Health Status Indicators
- Poverty
- Risk Factors
- Risk-Taking
- Social Problems
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Risk-taking (Psychology) - Developing countries
- Health risk assessment - Developing countries
- Health behavior - Developing countries
- Public health - Developing countries
- Poverty - Developing countries
- Health status indicators - Developing countries
- Social problems - Developing countries
- Health behavior
- Abstract
- Behaviors that pose risks for an individual's health and that also represent important threats for public health, such as drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex, are highly prevalent in low income countries, even though they are traditionally associated with richer countries. Individual choices are an important part of the risky behaviors. Risking Your Health: Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors explore how those choices are formed and what are their consequences.
- Contents
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; References; Chapter 1: Overview of the Prevalence and Trends of Risky Behaviors in the Developing World; Introduction; Illicit Drug Use; Tables; 1.1 Annual Prevalence of Drug Use by World Region; Smoking; Maps; 1.1 Males Who Smoke Cigarettes, 2010 or latest available data; 1.2 Females Who Smoke Cigarettes, 2010 or latest available data; 1.2 Countries with Highest Percentage of Male Smokers; 1.3 Countries with Highest Percentage of Female Smokers; Figures 1.1 The Tobacco Continuum and the Four Stages of the Smoking Epidemic in Males; 1.2 The Tobacco Continuum and the Four Stages of the Smoking Epidemic in Females; Alcohol Consumption; 1.3 Total Adult Per Capita Consumption, in liters of pure alcohol, 2008 or latest available; 1.4 Countries with Highest Per Capita Consumption of Alcohol, liters of pure alcohol; 1.4 Alcohol-Attributable Deaths as a Percentage of Total Deaths, 2004; 1.5 Patterns of Drinking Score by Country, 2005; 1.5 Countries with Highest Patterns of Drinking Score (PDS); Overweight and Obesity 1.6 Male Overweight (BMI> 25) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.7 Female Overweight (BMI> 25) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.8 Male Obesity (BMI> 30) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.9 Female Obesity (BMI> 30) Prevalence by Country, 2008; 1.6 Countries with Highest Percentage of Obese Males, 2008; 1.7 Countries with Highest Percentage of Obese Females, 2008; 1.3 Trends in Overweight Males (BMI> 25) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa; 1.4 Trends in Obese Males (BMI> 30) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa 1.5 Trends in Overweight Females (BMI> 25) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa; 1.6 Trends in Obese Females (BMI> 30) in Brazil, China, Mexico, and South Africa; Risky Sex; 1.10 Adult HIV Prevalence by Country, 2011; 1.8 Countries with Highest HIV Prevalence; 1.11 Age-Specific Fertility Rate among Young Women Ages 15-19; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Determinants of Risky Behavior; Introduction; Education; Wealth and Income; Prices; Life Expectancy and Competing Risks; Information and Beliefs; Risk Compensation; Psychological Determinants of Risk-Taking Social Determinants of Risk-Taking; Biological Determinants of Risk-Taking; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: The Consequences of Risky Behaviors; Introduction; Individual Consequences; 3.1 Opportunity Costs of Smoking; 3.1 Calories That Can Be Purchased with the Cost of One Pack of Cigarettes; 3.1 Annual Per-Patient Spending for Diabetes Management; 3.2 Diabetes Expenditure in 2012; 3.3 Alcohol-Attributable Deaths; 3.4 Drug Use and Disease Prevalence, Selected Countries; Consequences to Immediate Peers; 3.2 Fraction of Youth Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home, Selected Countries 3.3 Alcohol-Attributable Deaths Due to Violence.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Registry of methods and tools
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat34642
National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT)
- Available Online
- View Database
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View Database
- Publisher
- National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Knowledge Management
- Public Health
- Public Policy - Canada
- Format
- Database
- Location
- Online
Place and Health as Complex Systems : A Case Study and Empirical Test
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39105
Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter, Michael Ball, Frederic Hafferty.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2015.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors. But the accelerating pace and mounting intricacies of our lives are challenging the field to find new scientific methods for studying community health. The complexities of place (COP) approach is emerging as one such promising method. Place and Health as Complex Systems demonstrates how COP works, making an empirical case for its…
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- View e-Book
- Author
- Castellani, Brian
- Other Authors
- Rajaram, Rajeev
- Buckwalter, J. Galen
- Ball, Michael
- Hafferty, Frederic
- Responsibility
- Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter, Michael Ball, Frederic Hafferty
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 82 p. : 8 illus.)
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319097343
- 9783319097336 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Environment
- Epidemiology
- Geography, Medical
- Public Health
- Social Medicine
- Spatio-Temporal Analysis
- Systems Analysis
- Abstract
- The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors. But the accelerating pace and mounting intricacies of our lives are challenging the field to find new scientific methods for studying community health. The complexities of place (COP) approach is emerging as one such promising method. Place and Health as Complex Systems demonstrates how COP works, making an empirical case for its use in designing and implementing interventions. This brief resource reviews the defining characteristics of places as dynamic and evolving social systems, rigorously testing them as well as the COP approach itself. The study, of twenty communities within one county in the Midwest, combines case-based methods and complexity science to determine whether COP improves upon traditional statistical methods of public health research. Its conclusions reveal strengths and limitations of the approach, immediate possibilities for its use, and challenges regarding future research. Included in the coverage: Characteristics of places and the complexities of place approach. The Definitional Test of Complex Systems. Case-based modeling using the SACS toolkit. Methods, maps, and measures used in the study. Places as nodes within larger networks. Places as power-based conflicted negotiations. Place and Health as Complex Systems brings COP into greater prominence in public health research, and is also valuable to researchers in related fields such as demography, health geography, community health, urban planning, and epidemiology.
- Contents
- 1. The Complexities of Place Approach -- 2. Definitional Test of Complex Systems -- 3. Case-Based Modeling and the SACS Toolkit -- 4. Methods -- 5. Places Are Complex -- 6. Places Are Emergent and Self-Organizing -- 7. Places Are Nodes within Larger Networks -- 8. Places Are Dynamic and Evolving -- 9. Places Are Nonlinear -- 10. Places Are Subjective and Historical -- 11. Places Are Open-Ended with Fuzzy Boundaries -- 12. Places Are Power-Based Conflicted Negotiations -- 13. Places Are Agent-Based -- 14. Conclusion.
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- e-Book
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- Online
A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39166
Stefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi, editors.
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, c2015.
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This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems,…
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- Boccia, Stefania
- Villari, Paolo
- Ricciardi, Walter
- Responsibility
- Stefania Boccia, Paolo Villari, Walter Ricciardi, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 289 p. : 39 illus., 25 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319136202
- 9783319136196 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Global Health
- Health Policy
- Public Health
- Abstract
- This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field, from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions. Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems, conducting health impact assessments, and working with decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health, and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A sampling of the topics covered : Health trends of communicable diseases; Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention; Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution; Public health gerontology and active aging; Migrant and ethnic minority health; Public health genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential future.
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- Introduction and Global Burden of Disease -- Health Trends of Communicable diseases -- Global Burden and Health Trends of Non-Communicable diseases -- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) -- Epidemiology of Cancer and Principles of Prevention -- Obesity and Diabetes -- Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and outdoor air pollution -- Public health gerontology and active ageing -- Some ethical reflections in public health -- Injury prevention and safety promotion -- Migrant and ethnic minority health -- Public mental health -- Urban public health -- Public Health Genomics -- Health Impact Assessment: HIA -- Health in all Policies.
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- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Review
- Location
- Online
Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39210
Louise Cummings.
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This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of these strategies during consideration of public health problems. Although these strategies are not deducti…
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- Cummings, Louise
- Responsibility
- Louise Cummings
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 242 p. : 15 illus.)
- ISBN
- 9783319150130
- 9783319150123 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Attitude to Health
- Logic
- Public Health
- Public Opinion
- Science
- Uncertainty
- Abstract
- This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of these strategies during consideration of public health problems. Although these strategies are not deductively valid, they are nevertheless rationally warranted procedures. Public health professionals must have a sound understanding of these cognitive strategies in order to engage the public and achieve their public health goals. The book draws upon public health issues as wide ranging as infectious diseases, food safety and the potential impact on human health of new technologies. It examines reasoning in the context of these issues within a large-scale, questionnaire-based survey of nearly 900 members of the public in the UK. In addition, several philosophical themes run throughout the book, including the nature of uncertainty, scientific knowledge and inquiry. The complexity of many public health problems demands an approach to reasoning that cannot be accommodated satisfactorily within a general thinking skills framework. This book shows that by developing an awareness of these reasoning strategies, scientists and members of the public can have a more productive engagement with public health problems.
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- 1. The Challenge for Public Health -- 2. Philosophy and Public Health -- 3. Argument from Ignorance -- 4. Argument from Authority -- 5. Argument from Analogy -- 6. Circular Argument -- 7. Fallacies in Public Health -- 8. Theory of Public Health Reasoning -- Appendices.
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- e-Book
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- Online
A Systematic Review of Rural Development Research : Characteristics, Design Quality and Engagement with Sustainability
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39275
Neus Evans, Michelle Lasen, Komla Tsey.
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, c2015.
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Rapid urbanisation, inequalities in income and service levels within and between communities, and population and economic decline are challenging the viability of rural communities worldwide. Achieving healthy and viable rural communities in the face of rapidly changing social, ecological and economic conditions is a declared global priority. As a result, governments all over the world, in both developed and developing countries, are now prioritizing rural and regional development through polic…
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- Evans, Neus
- Other Authors
- Lasen, Michelle
- Tsey, Komla
- Responsibility
- Neus Evans, Michelle Lasen, Komla Tsey
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 63 p. : 3 illus.)
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783319172842
- 9783319172835 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Public Health
- Social Change
- Social Planning
- Rural Population
- Abstract
- Rapid urbanisation, inequalities in income and service levels within and between communities, and population and economic decline are challenging the viability of rural communities worldwide. Achieving healthy and viable rural communities in the face of rapidly changing social, ecological and economic conditions is a declared global priority. As a result, governments all over the world, in both developed and developing countries, are now prioritizing rural and regional development through policies and programs aimed at enhancing the livelihoods of people living in rural regions. In recognition of the important roles that research can play in rural development, a range of systematic literature reviews have rightly examined key priorities in rural development including education, gender, economic development (especially agriculture), and health and nutrition (see Department for International Development [DFID], 2011). However, none of these works has systematically examined the extent to which rural development as a field of research is progressing towards facilitating sustainable change. This book evaluates trends in rural development research across the five continental regions of the world. Specifically, it assesses the total publication output relating to rural development, the types of publications, their quality and impact over the last three decades. Additionally, it evaluates the continental origins of the publications as well as the extent to which such publications engage with issues of sustainability. The aim is to determine whether the rural development field is growing in a manner that reflects research and policy priorities and broader social trends such as sustainability. Development policy makers, practitioners, those teaching research methods and systematic literature reviews to undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in general will find the book both topical and highly relevant.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction and Background -- 1.1 Rural Development -- 1.2 Sustainability -- 1.3 Evidence-Based Policy -- 1.4 Research Quality -- 2. Research Method -- 2.1 Research Output: Type, Region and Engagement with Sustainability -- 2.1.1 Data Sources -- 2.1.2 Classification of Publications -- 2.1.3 Research Type -- 2.1.4 Continental Region -- 2.1.5 Engagement with Sustainability -- 2.2 Research Approaches, Characteristics and Quality -- 2.2.1 Data Sources -- 2.2.2 Classification and Appraisal of Publications -- 2.2.3 Research Characteristics -- 2.2.4 Research Quality -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Research Output: Type, Region and Engagement with Sustainability -- 3.1.1 Number and Type of Publications -- 3.1.2 Continental Region -- 3.3 Research Quality -- 4. Discussion and Conclusion -- 4.1 Trends Relating to Quantity, Region and Engagement with Sustainability -- 4.2 Trends Relating to Research Approaches, Characteristics and Quality -- 4.3 Learnings from the Systematic Literature Review Process -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Effective Public Health Practice Project (EPHPP) Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies -- Appendix B: Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) Qualitative Research Checklist.
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- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Review
- Location
- Online
Tropical Hemato-Oncology
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39315
Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher, Catherine Thiéblemont, editors.
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, c2015.
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What should you do when you have restricted resources? Written by the most prominent experts from the North and the South countries, this book offers a unique complement to classical hematology and oncology textbooks focusing on specific issues concerning cancers in tropical areas. It presents a thorough review of the specific biological, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of cancers in tropical areas, including their background and epidemiology, public health consequences and transcultur…
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- Droz, Jean-Pierre
- Carme, Bernard
- Couppié, Pierre
- Nacher, Mathieu
- Thiéblemont, Catherine
- Responsibility
- Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher, Catherine Thiéblemont, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 562 p. : 54 illus., 34 illus. in color)
- ISBN
- 9783319182575
- 9783319182568 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Hematologic Diseases - prevention & control
- Hematologic Neoplasms
- Neoplasms - prevention & control
- Public Health
- Tropical Medicine - methods
- Abstract
- What should you do when you have restricted resources? Written by the most prominent experts from the North and the South countries, this book offers a unique complement to classical hematology and oncology textbooks focusing on specific issues concerning cancers in tropical areas. It presents a thorough review of the specific biological, clinical and therapeutic characteristics of cancers in tropical areas, including their background and epidemiology, public health consequences and transcultural mediation. As such, it will be a valuable resource for all hemato-oncology practitioners, students of oncology or tropical medicine, and other physicians involved in the care of cancer patients who live in tropical countries.
- Contents
- [publisher supplied] Introduction -- Foreword -- Introductive chapter: The context of tropical Medicine -- PUBLIC HEALTH ASPECTS -- Geography and socioeconomics of the tropical areas -- Epidemiology of cancer in the tropical areas -- Management of cancers in countries with limited resources -- Access to Expensive drugs and Ethical considerations -- Precarity, social organization and outcome on cancer management in the tropical areas -- Cancer screening and prevention in the tropical areas -- Pathology and cancer research -- Cancer perception in different cultures of the tropical areas; Cross-cultural mediation -- Cancer clinical trials in the tropical area -- BASIC SCIENCE BACKGROUND -- Spectrum of cancers due to micro-organisms (virus, bacteria, parasites) -- HIV and cancer; scientific background: Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of the retrovirus HIV -- HTLV1 and cancer; scientific background: Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of the retrovirus HTLV1 -- Hepatitis virus scientific background : Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of the virus HBV -- Hepatitis virus scientific background : Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of the virus HCV -- EBV and cancer; scientific background: Epidemiology of EBV and mechanisms of carcinogenesis -- HPV and cancer; scientific background: Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of the virus HPV -- HHV8 and cancer; scientific background: Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of the virus HHV8 -- Parasites and cancer: Epidemiology and mechanism of carcinogenesis of schitosoma -- Helicobacter and cancer: Epidemiology of Helicobacter Pylori and mechanisms of carcinogenesis -- HEMOPATHIES -- ATL (lymphoma et leukemia) -- Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type -- High-grade lymphomas: Diffuse large B-cells lymphomas (with a special paragraph on CNS lymphomas) -- High-grade lymphomas: Burkitt lymphoma; Physiopathology and treatment of EBV associated lymphomas -- Mantle cell lymphoma -- Indolent lymphomas, follicular lymphomas, HVC associated marginal zone B-cell lymphomas and Waldenstrœm disease -- Chronic myeloproliferative syndroms -- Myelodysplasic syndroms -- Acute leukemias -- CANCERS -- Breast cancer -- Cervix cancer -- Oesophageal cancer -- Gastric cancer -- Colorectal cancer -- Hepatocarcinoma -- Cholangiocarcinoma -- Pancreas cancer -- Lung cancer -- Head and neck cancers -- Bladder cancer -- Prostate cancer -- Renal cancer -- Cutaneous cancers (including melanoma) -- Ovarian cancer -- Endometrial cancer -- Cancer of the penis, anus and vulva -- Gestational trophoblastic tumors -- CNS tumors -- Thyroid cancer -- Uncommon cancers -- CANCER TREATMENT IN TROPICAL AREAS -- Pediatric oncology -- Geriatric oncology -- Surgery -- Radiotherapy -- Medical treatments (chemotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted drugs) -- HIV and cancer treatments -- Supportive cares -- Palliative cares.
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- e-Book
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- Online
