Paul A. Gaist Editor 2010 The Role of CBOs and NGOs in Global Public Health When it comes to modern, global health, we may think of community-based and nongovernmental organizations as a kind of fourth estate, following government, intergovernmental agencies, and philanthropic foundations. Nongovernmental and community-based organizations number in the tens of thousands and range from simple associations of neighbors […]

Antony Morgan ● Maggie Davies ● Erio Ziglio Editors 2010 Theory, Methods, Action Very few people argue with the need to address the social determinants of health. The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) affirms that the conditions in which people grow, live work and age have a powerful influence on health.

Crescentia Y. Dakubo 2010 A Critical Approach to Ecohealth Research and Practice The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report observes that about sixty per cent of the world’s ecosystem services are being degraded or used unsustainably. The report observes that over the past half a century, human activities have transformed natural ecosystems at a pace faster and extensive than in […]

Donna Hubbard McCree Kenneth Terrill Jones • Ann O’Leary Editors 2010 Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic Among U.S. racial and ethnic minority populations, African American communities are the most disproportionately impacted and affected by HIV/AIDS (CDC, 2009; CDC, 2008). The chapters in this volume seek to explore factors that contribute to this disparity as well as methods for intervening […]

Murli Desai 2010 Childhood is the foundational phase of human development and the most important target group for intervention. Most of the schools of human development and social work around the world have an elective course on children and some offer a concentration in this area.

Brian Stephen Budgell 2009 A Guide to Structure and Style All of us in biomedicine understand the urgency of getting experimental results into print as quickly as possible. Yet this critical step in the cascade from research conception to publication receives almost no attention in our formal training. It is as if we have been put to sea […]

Ahmad Wagih Abdel-Halim 2009 Clinical Knowledge Clinical medical science is an ocean of information. A good physician is one who can successfully figure out in which direction to swim when he faces a difficult medical problem. Acquiring that skill requires a strong grip on the basic facts behind each pathology, its most common presentation, what to look for […]