By Paolo F. Ricci 2006 This textbook is about the law, economics, practical assessment, and the management of risky activities arising from routine, catastrophic environmental and occupational exposures to hazardous agents. The textbook begins where emission and exposure analysis end by providing estimates or predictions of deleterious exposures.

Stephen J. Morewitz 2006 Twenty-five million Americans are victims of chronic disease, and approximately two-thirds of all deaths each year are due to cardiovascular disease (including stroke), cancer, and diabetes. This book evaluates new trends in epidemiology, health care costs, risk factors, treatment and rehabilitation outcomes, stress and coping strategies, social support, disability, patient education, and self-management for seven prevalent chronic […]

Sana Loue 2006

Maritt Kirst · Nicole Schaefer-McDaniel · Stephen Hwang · Patricia O’Campo Editors 2011 A Transdisciplinary Research Approach to Urban Health Problems

Cathy Banwell • Dorothy Broom Anna Davies • Jane Dixon 2012 An Intergenerational Study of the Rise of Obesity

Richard D. Urman ● Jesse M. Ehrenfeld Editors 2012 Many physicians are in search of opportunities to enrich their professional lives by obtaining additional experiences and education outside of their area of practice as a way to help their patients, provide leadership in healthcare, advance their careers, or perhaps pursue excellence in a new area or field. Some […]

David Fairman • Diana Chigas Elizabeth McClintock • Nick Drager 2012 Global Health Diplomacy in Action In our turbulent, interconnected and interdependent world, one person’s security impacts another’s, and one person’s health or ill health can affect another’s. Today’s global economy binds the prosperity of countries together like never before, as seen in the sharp rise in food […]

Anthony A Bavry Dharam J Kumbhani 2012 Coronary, peripheral, and structural heart disease This book is merely intended as a guide for performing percutaneous procedures. Proficiency in performing these procedures should be achieved through an accredited training program or by adequate proctoring.