Families Affected by Addiction
Gallus Bischof • Richard Velleman Jim Orford • Abhijit Nadkarni Marcela Tiburcio Editors 2025
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Secondary Use of Electronic Health Data
Fidelia Cascini 2025 Public Health Perspectives, Use Cases and Challenges I wrote this manuscript by considering those who dedicated their careers to public health to support their functions and activities through a harmonized and discussed collection of scientific developments and best practices reached in the secondary use of health data. I also considered colleagues who […]
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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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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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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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Maartje Schermer•Nicholas Binney Editors 2024
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Zisis Kozlakidis • Armen Muradyan Karine Sargsyan Editors 2024 Paradigm Changes in Healthcare and Biomedical Research
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Torstein Hole • Marit Kvangarsnes Bodil J. Landstad • Elise Kvalsund Bårdsgjerde Sandra Elizabeth Tippett-Spirtou Editors 2025 The Role of Health Literacy The 2030 Agenda, also known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), unanimously adopted in 2015 by all United Nations Member States, provides a comprehensive and collaborative framework for global peace, prosperity, and sustainability. […]
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Tina D. Purnat • Tim Nguyen • Sylvie Briand Editors 2023 Addressing New Public Health Challenges in the Information Ecosystem
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Michael Schlander • Ramon Schäfer Lorenz Selberg 2023 Die Frage nach dem Nutzen der Laboratoriumsmedizin in der Schweiz erscheint vordergründig entweder ganz einfach oder überhaupt nicht beantwortbar. Einerseits deshalb einfach, weil einem niedrigen Anteil an den Gesundheitsausgaben nach verbreiteter Expertenmeinung ein massgeblicher Anteil der Laboratoriumsmedizin an 70 Prozent aller klinischen Entscheide (Diagnosen, Spitalaufnahmen, Therapien usw.) gegenübersteht.
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