Niraj Kumar 2013 The WHO data on the burden of diseases suggest that approximately 80 % health problems in rural parts of the India are due to communicable diseases like diarrhea, typhoid, cholera and infective hepatitis etc. Only diarrhea kills approx. 6 lakhs children in India every year.

Manish K. Sethi • William H. Frist Editors 2013 A Primer for Physicians and Medical Students As the United States finds itself strapped with $16 trillion of debt, future generations of America ’s physicians can no longer enter their practices and clinics without a sound understanding of health care. In 2012, the total national health-care spending was $2.9 trillion, […]

Drue H. Barrett • Leonard W. Ortmann Angus Dawson • Carla Saenz • Andreas Reis Gail Bolan Editors 2016 Public health ethics can be seen both as the application of principles and norms to guide the practice of public health and as a process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues inherent in the practice of public […]

By Robert M. Doroghazi 2005 I met Bob Doroghazi when he dropped the first draft of his manuscript of The Physician’s Guide to Investing: A Practical Approach to Building Wealth at my office. I will have to admit I was a bit skeptical: a physician writing a book on investments?

Susan H. McDaniel Thomas L. Campbell Jeri Hepworth Alan Lorenz 2005 Much has happened since Family-Oriented Primary Care first was published in 1990. Many physicians and nurses wrote to us about their experiences with family-oriented care, in the United States as well as in England, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Finland, Spain, Japan, and South Korea, to name just a […]

Edited by CORRADO VIAFORA 2005 This book, final result of a long term effort who coincides with my scientific coordination of “Ethics and Medicine” Project of Lanza Foundation during its first ten years, collects most theoretically relevant papers of the International Meeting on Clinical Bioethics, held in Padua in 1999, October 19-23.

Richard O. Day Daniel E. Furst Piet L.C.M. van Riel Barry Bresnihan Editors 2005 Our goal for this book is to examine the contemporary therapy of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the increasingly important perspective of impact upon quality of life, costs and long-term health outcomes. For too long the focus has been on shortterm, symptomatic, and surrogate indicator […]

David W. Hursh  Camille A. Martina With Michael A. Trush and Hillary B. Davis 2011 An Interdisciplinary Approach No matter where we live, we are surrounded by manufactured and natural substances that can negatively affect our health. In the developing world two million people die every year from causes associated with exposures to smoke from cooking with […]

Alexander Kra¨mer l Md.Mobarak Hossain Khan l Frauke Kraas Editors 2011 Highly diverse driving forces, processes and actors are responsible for different trends in the development of megacities. Under the dynamics of global change, megacities are themselves changing on the one hand they are prone to increasing socio-economic vulnerability because of pronounced poverty, socio-spatial and political fragmentation, sometimes with […]