Kaveh G. Shojania Kathryn M. McDonald Robert M. Wachter Douglas K. Owens Series Editors 2004 Volume 1—Series Overview and Methodology The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs), sponsors the development of evidence reports and technology assessments to assist public- and private-sector organizations in their efforts to improve the […]

Takashi Muto Toshitaka Nakahara Eun Woo Nam Editors 2011 This is a collection of papers written by eminent participants at the First Asia- Pacific Conference on Health Promotion and Education with the main theme “Asia- Pacific Perspectives and Evidence on Health Promotion and Education: Sharing Experiences, Efforts, and Evidence,” held in July 2009 in Chiba, Japan. This conference was […]

Neal Halfon • Christopher B. Forrest Richard M. Lerner • Elaine M. Faustman Editors 2018 Prior to 1900, the health of mothers and children was considered a domestic concern. Childbirth was often supervised by untrained birth attendants such as family members; basic care of sick children was rudimentary and undeveloped, with the unfortunate but all-too-real expectation that some […]

S. W. A. Gunn P. B. Mansourian A. M. Davies A. Piel B. McA. Sayers 2005 In today’s convulsively changing world, scientific advances, political mutations, profit maximizations, social interventions, and human interpretations are producing new, and often confusing, perceptions of health and disease, to the extent that one wonders if such primary human aspirations as equity, well-being, and freedom […]

Edited by Michael Boylan 2005 The U.S. based Institute of Medicine has set out the domain of public health as dealing with: epidemiology, health promotion and education, public health administration, international health, maternal and child health, biostatistics, environmental health, and nutrition. No single volume dealing with public health could hope to deal with all of these.

Edited by Seth C. Kalichman 2005 Reducing HIV Transmission among People Living with HIV/AIDS This book is meant to fill a gap in the HIV prevention literature. With few exceptions, behavioral scientists have conducted empirical studies on the sexual relationships of people living with HIV infection since 1996. Before then, such research was considered by some of the […]

Heiko Becher · Bocar Kouyaté (Eds) 2005 A collaboration between Burkina Faso and Germany The constitution of the WHO states in the first article: “The objective of the World Health Organization shall be the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health”. In few places of the world this aim has been achieved. For […]

Edited by Sandro Galea and David Vlahov 2005 Populations, Methods, and Practice