Global Challenges in Cardiovascular Prevention in Populations with Low Socioeconomic Status

Global Challenges in Cardiovascular Prevention in Populations with Low Socioeconomic Status 2025-1

Tomás Romero • Carolina Nazzal Nazal Fernando Lanas Editors 2025 This book addresses the reality of cardiovascular prevention (CVP) in more than half of the world’s population with limited or no access to primary health care and thus, to CVP strategies. Although there are excellent books on the established and recent advances in CVP, they […]

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Neonatal Brain Injury

Neonatal Brain Injury

Gerda Meijler • Khorshid Mohammad Editors 2024 An Illustrated Guide for Clinicians Counselling Parents and Caregivers As Henrik Ibsen said in 1906 A picture is worth a thousand words, and this has been taken literally by the skilled illustrations and representations presented in this highly valuable illustrated guide to neonatal brain injury. The experienced editors […]

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Transforming Global Health Partnerships

Transforming Global Health Partnerships

Anna Stewart Ibarra A. Desiree LaBeaud Editors 2024 Critical Reflections and Visions of Equity at the Research-Practice Interface If you are reading this book, you may be a scientist, clinician, or public health practitioner engaged in global health partnerships, a student considering a career in global health, or someone who wants to learn about creating […]

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Heart Disease and Climate Change

Heart Disease and Climate Change-1

Simon Stewart 2024 It is becoming increasingly obvious that within the ageing populations of high-income countries that cardiac events do not occur randomly. This is also the likely case among younger, more vulnerable populations living in low-to-middle-income countries. Critically, such ‘random’ events are not benign given they include hospital admissions and deaths that could have […]

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Complications in Neurosurgery II

Complications in Neurosurgery II

Keki Turel • Ekkehard M. Kasper Editors 2025 Complications can be unfortunate parts of surgery, making the consequences of treatment at times worse than the original disease, possibly bringing great suffering to the patient and their family, and tarnishing the reputation of the surgeon, the hospital, and the specialty at large. Neurosurgery is an intricate […]

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Principles and Practice of Emergency Research Response

Principles and Practice of Emergency Research Response 2024-1

Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth S. Higgs 2024 The need for principled, practical guidance on ethical, scientifically sound infectious disease research preparedness and research response is clearer than ever following the COVID-19 pandemic. Ironically, during the COVID-19 pandemic progress on this book on emergency infectious disease research, then based largely on the Ebola experience in West Africa, came […]

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Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and Cancer

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and Cancer

Gail Garvey Editor-in-Chief 2024 Indigenous and Tribal peoples—from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cancer care. It considers cancer incidence, mortality, prevalence, survival, and inequities for Indigenous and Tribal peoples globally. Most importantly, it extends beyond issues and challenges, to offer an Indigenous-knowledges, strengths-based approach to successful health interventions, research projects, research translation, and living […]

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